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The ugly side of housing: low inventory

Housing Wire

After eight months of consecutive gains, the consequences of low inventory finally caught up with the housing market in February. drop in the number of homes in contract from the prior month, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors. Tightened supply was largely responsible for a 10.6% and West (96.9)

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Low inventory stifles April’s pending home sales

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Like new and existing sales, pending home sales felt the strain of exhausted home inventory in April ? according to Thursday data from the National Association of Realtors. The upper-end market is still moving sharply as inventory is more plentiful there.”. from April 2020. dropping 4.4% higher year-over-year.

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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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Top markets for affordable renovated housing inventory

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from a year ago to $356,700, according to the National Association of Realtors. In the most recent month with data available on that follow-up question, 66% surveyed said that it was a bad time to buy a home because prices are too high, up from just 12% who said prices were too high in July 2020. Renovated Inventory to the Rescue.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Existing home sales are still savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Unsold inventory sits at a 3.0-month

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The savagely unhealthy housing market is now a nightmare

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales for April came in at 5.41 Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened.