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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. They have to move as well, so a traditional seller is a buyer most of the time when it’s a primary resident owner.

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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.” Both buyers and sellers are coming back to the market,” Fischer said. 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

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that this new home sales report beat estimates, but I would say that in the future, if mortgage rates get back toward 6%, the homebuilders have creative ways to sell their homes that the existing home seller might not be inclined to do. They will build as long as new home sales are growing.

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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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December Real Estate Market Update

Listing Spark

Across the major markets in Texas, our December real estate market update shows clear data points that we are ending the year in one of the strongest seller’s markets we have seen in modern history. . Median Sales Price: $270,000 (up 12%) Closed Sales: 9,660 (up 28.1%) Active Listings: 29,948 (down 27% from this time last year) 2.2

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Texas Real Estate Trends: Q3 2023 Comprehensive Review

Listing Spark

From late summer of 2022 to now, the Texas real estate market has experienced one of the most unpredictable corrections in recent history, leaving a lot of home-buyers and sellers scratching their heads and trying to make sense of what is going on. The big twist? A sharp increase in interest rates.

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Real Estate Market Trends for 2023 – Real Estate Real Fast EP11

Listing Spark

Home sellers should focus on their local market and pull out all the stops when listing a house. 2022 Market Trends: Decrease in sales, values, and new listings in Austin, TX; median home value up 9.9% Prices have been falling in the market and it is becoming more normal to do a price drop on your listings.