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The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022

Housing Wire

After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. In July 2022, new listings volume per week dropped from 90,000 at the end of June to approximately 74,000 just after the July 4th holiday. We see the same pattern in the new listings rate each week.

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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. However, I knew the years 2020-2024 would see better demand from the bump in demographics.

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Pending home sales surged in December: NAR

Housing Wire

month over month in December, according to the newest data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). It was the largest monthly jump in pending home sales since 2020. Looking ahead Confronted with limited existing home inventory, many buyers have pivoted to newly constructed homes. But new listings activity grew by 9.1%

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 With the home-price growth we had in 2020 and 2021, my five-year price-growth model that I set for 2020-2024 of 23% was already smashed in just two years. Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 million to 1.28

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Existing home sales ended the year with a whimper in 2022

Housing Wire

million, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Friday. With the exception of May 2020, when the pandemic had virtually shut down housing market activity, this is the lowest level of monthly home sales in 12 years.” Despite the monthly drop, the unsold inventory at the end of December is up 10.2%

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Don’t get too excited about the jump in existing home sales

Housing Wire

Here are some charts reviewing today’s report with a host of data lines from the NAR existing home sales report: [link] A few critical glaring points: active inventory is still historically low, and so is monthly supply data. Cash sales rising year over year looks normal as mortgage demand is lower year over year.

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Redfin: Bidding wars drop slightly in June

Housing Wire

bidding-war rate Redfin saw in June 2020, when the housing market was starting to rebound from a temporary standstill triggered by pandemic shutdowns, said Laura Sechrist Molenda, a Redfin real estate agent based in Southern California. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52 in May and a peak of 74.1%

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