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Pending home sales surged in December: NAR

Housing Wire

It was the largest monthly jump in pending home sales since 2020. The trade group also predicts that rent growth will ease due to sizable growth in apartment construction over the past three years. Looking ahead Confronted with limited existing home inventory, many buyers have pivoted to newly constructed homes. in November.

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Can lower mortgage rates stop the housing recession?

Housing Wire

However, as we all know, after 2020, things are just more intense. . This is why I focused my readers on the years 2020-2024, because if home prices only grew by 23% over five years, we would be ok. We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining. Again, we aren’t there on rates yet. .

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Indiana’s housing market is primed to bounce back in 2024

Housing Wire

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” 23, 2024, the 90-day average for single family listings in the state was 9,927, down from 14,314 single family listings in late February 2020. “It Very few new construction homes are going up in our area,” Diamond said.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

I had a strict five-year price growth model for 2020-2024 that said the only thing that could ruin housing in 2020-2024 would be if prices grew above 23% in less than five years, a real risk in this period. However, I acknowledge that the housing dynamics have changed a lot since that forecast in June as new listing data declined.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

months of the supply is active listings, 68K 5 months of the supply is still under construction, 280K 1.6 When we look at active listings today, we are still at 980,000, near all-time lows, even with the recent massive hit to demand. To get more inventory you need more Americans to list their homes. When supply is 4.3

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Fannie Mae, and the housing market’s inflation problem

Housing Wire

” In March 2020, the fed began buying bonds – split between $80 billion in Treasuries and $40 billion in MBS – to keep the economy moving and make borrowing cheaper. million – an expected result of a market scrambling to get new builds up. Existing home sales pulled back in April by 2.7%

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A look at Knoxville’s hot housing market

Housing Wire

Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. According to the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors , the number of houses for sale in 2020 was down 47.5% The KAAR also said housing inventory dropped for six straight months to start the new year.