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Mortgage rates fall as labor market normalizes

Housing Wire

Everyone was waiting to see if this week’s jobs report would send mortgage rates higher, which is what happened last month. The four-week moving average declined slightly by 750, to 212,250 Below is an explanation of how we got here with the labor market, which all started during COVID-19. Today, we are at 157,808,000.

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Job gains exceed expectations in December

Housing Wire

While this is below the job growth in 2021 and 2022, when the economy was rebounding from the sharp job losses in 2020, it is still a much higher pace of job growth than we had before the pandemic,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said in a statement. With December’s numbers in, a total of 2.7 million jobs were added to the U.S.

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Why mortgage rates fell with a stronger jobs report

Housing Wire

What a week this has been for the housing market , from the fireworks of Fed Chair Jay Powell’s Congressional testimony to an attempt to break over a critical line on the 10-year yield. Employment declined in information and in transportation and warehousing. recovery would happen in 2020 and I retired it on Dec.

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May jobs report complicates things for the Fed

Housing Wire

Even though the pace of layoffs has picked up, many businesses, particularly in transportation, healthcare, and hospitality, continue to have strong demand for workers,” Mike Fratantoni , the Mortgage Bankers Association’s chief economist, said in a statement. The unemployment rate has remained between 3.4% since March 2022.

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DataDigest: Construction costs easing for homebuilders

Housing Wire

However, as mortgage rates hit multi-decade highs , cooling demand and shrinking the pool of qualified buyers for new homes, homebuilders slowed their pace of construction, which settled at a plateau that is still well above pre-pandemic levels. after the initial lockdowns in 2020 before rocketing to almost 206 in June 2022.

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Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?

Housing Wire

The entire economic landscape, including mortgage rates, has changed this week, starting with the Fed’s talking points on Wednesday. The honey badger labor market is still going strong as we got another solid jobs report Friday, which pushed bond yields higher at first. However, the way the day ended showed that change is coming.

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Are we seeing cracks in the labor market?

Housing Wire

Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. 9, 2020: 1. Employment continued growing in government, health care, social assistance, and construction, while transportation and warehousing lost jobs. Does this mean the labor market is breaking?

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