Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

For the first time since September 2021, homebuilder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes has dropped below the 80-point mark, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), which was released on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. “The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.” and Austin.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

“The market has slowed down since mortgage rates increased and this has pushed many potential buyers back to the sidelines,” NAHB Chairman Carl Harris, a custom home builder from Wichita, Kansas, said in a statement. “We In May, 25% of builders cut prices, up from 22% in April.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A steady flow of new homes have hit the market this spring and summer, as homebuilders worked diligently to remedy the housing inventory shortage. At the same time, builders also adapted to the needs of today’s home buyers who are navigating higher mortgage rates. In doing so, it pushed Washington, D.C., out of the top five.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). Buyers have begun to adjust to the elevated mortgage rate levels, especially in areas where home prices have adjusted downwards to compensate,” Kelly Mangold, the principal of RCLCO Real Estate Consulting , said in a statement. This represents 7.6

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

New home sales in 2021 picked up right where they left off in 2020, near their highest levels in more than a decade thanks to low inventory. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales of new single-family houses in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 923,000 — 4.3% in the West.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

So much so, in fact, that Harrisburg is ranked seventh on Realtor.com’ s list of housing markets positioned for the most growth in 2021 — ahead of Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and Dallas. And it hasn’t slowed down through the first quarter of 2021. “It’s a great time to be in the city.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is focusing on launching initiatives to increase home supply, review existing rules in and ensure the agency is “getting the money out the door.“ “In Before joining HUD, Todman was the CEO of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) from 2017 to June 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The share of distressed property auction buyers who say they are owner-occupants nearly doubled over the last year, boosted by a game-changing government policy that took effect last August. That was nearly double the 8% of buyers who described themselves as owner-occupants in a February 2022 Auction.com buyer survey.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

The NAHB/HMI report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which homebuilders are asked to rate both current market conditions for the sale of new homes and expected conditions for the next six months, as well as traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. That share from 2000-2019 was a 12.7%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

growth for its top 20 city composite, and now you know why my most significant concern for housing was home prices overheating , not crashing like people have warned about from 2012-2021. million total housing inventory data as that is the level of inventory that would change my thesis that this is a savagely unhealthy market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

nationwide in the second quarter of 2021, a decrease of.01% During the second quarter 4,500 completed new builds came to market, increasing the affordable housing inventory by 0.4%. As for new construction, 2021 completions are projected to finish the year at over 40,000 units.”. 8% to $986.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. High mortgage rates and home prices quelled the surge in buyer demand, and time seems to have moderated the supply chain shocks.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

housing market is being driven in part by reaction to the COVID pandemic, as potential buyers move from urban apartments to suburban homes. Competition for home buyers is tougher than ever right now, as tightened housing stock supply continues to plague the housing market. Home prices rose 18% from May 2020 to May 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Of that $93,870, $41,330 is attributable to regulation during development, and $52,540 is due to regulation during construction. The study was filed out by 2,071 NAHB members and 57 developers, and nearly all of the builders — 98.9%, per the study — reported experiencing some type of regulatory cost during construction.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2021

Auction.com buyer and real estate investor Sue McCormick is ahead of the curve when it comes to President Joe Biden’s plan to revitalize underserved neighborhoods while also providing affordable housing for low- and moderate-income homebuyers. “My Markets with Most Qualifying Inventory. Identifying Underserved Neighborhoods.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

“Lack of inventory continues to be the overwhelming factor holding back home sales, but falling affordability is simply squeezing some first-time buyers out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. Total housing inventory at the end of May grew to 1.23 Unsold inventory sits at a 2.5-month

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors cited a combination of high demand and low inventory, which are making conditions more competitive and exerting upward pressure on prices. The faster price growth is leading to affordability challenges for certain segments of buyers, and particularly for first-time homebuyers,” Kan said. Presented by: Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The builders don’t like to see supply of existing homes growing for fear that their buyers might cancel on them. The growth of supply means demand is getting weaker, which will require builders to give more incentives to buyers. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent (±18.5 percent (±13.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Appleton, who currently serves as co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Housing Council and previously served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has a history of working across the aisle to deliver results, according to a press release from USMI.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

In 2019, they teamed up to make a $450 million equity commitment to develop 2,000 new “build-for-rent” homes. Tricon notes in announcing the latest joint venture with ASRC that it “has already invested $1 billion in developing new, high-quality rental housing and has a pipeline of over 7,000 new homes currently under development.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Second, because of the downtrend in inventory since 2014 and the demand pick-up we will see in the years 2020-2024, we had a risk of home prices accelerating too much. It’s also driven more by mortgage buyers who tend to be older and make more money than the new-home buyers. First, total home sales should be 6.2

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Experienced real estate investors often say that there are opportunities in every market — whether prices are rising or falling, whether the trends lean towards a buyers’ market or a seller’s market. in 2021, the lowest level of gross margin since the first quarter of 2011, during the Great Recession. million and 1.87 in 2020 to 33.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Housing starts had one last push in store to end 2021, rising modestly from November against expectations for a small decline — a fitting conclusion to a year of remarkable stability for housing starts,” Zillow senior economist Kwame Donaldson said in a statement. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. from a month prior and a 40% increase from the February 2021 level. Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. After dropping 4.5% Census Bureau on Wednesday. Year-over-year, new home sales were down 6.2%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. As September approaches, 2023 is already showing tighter housing inventory for new homes and boasting more new home sales than 2022, which could bode well for homebuilders. That total imputed a seasonally adjusted annual rate of new home sales of 714,000, up 31.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This development did not occur overnight: Over the past 20 years, we have “underbuilt” housing by at least 5.5 Low housing inventory. In 2021, the overall rental vacancy rate dropped to 5.8% , the lowest level since the mid-1980s. million Americans — 67% of potential first-time buyers. million homes. past six years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent) below the September 2021 estimate of 732,000. From Census: For Sale Inventory and Months’ Supply, The seasonally?adjusted Currently, the builders have buyers to occupy those homes, excluding those that cancel the transaction at closing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Owing to a historic inventory crunch, new construction is playing a more prominent role in the housing inventory landscape in decades. In December 2021, 34.1% The National Association of Homebuilders/Royal Building Products Remodeling Index ( RMI ) finished 2021 with a strong reading of 83. A year prior, only 25.4%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

in May to a 769,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. According to Dietz, entry-level buyers are the demographic most affected by higher prices. Sales of newly built , single-family homes fell to the lowest pace in a year, down 5.9%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

But like the rest of the country, low housing inventory has hit the city hard. The KAAR also said housing inventory dropped for six straight months to start the new year. ” Poveda said he usually discourages his buyers from waiving an appraisal — a popular tactic that has popped up during the housing craze of the last 18 months.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Housing demand weakened noticeably as growing concerns about affordability contributed to non-seasonal declines in sales, resulting in a slight increase in inventory and more moderate price appreciation,” states the Federal Reserve’s most recently released Beige Book report — based on data and reports current as of mid-July.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In December, all HMI indices, including current sales conditions, sales expectations and traffic of prospective buyers, also fell four points from their previous highest recorded readings in November. Though the index fell from it’s 35-year series high, it is still the fourth month in its history the score broke 80.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development showed sales of new single-family houses reached 590,000 in June, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, down 8.1% The MBA data indicates that, in comparison to the same week in 2021, the market index fell 63%, back to the lowest level since February 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2021

months and total inventory are collapsing again and we might see new fresh all-time lows before the spring of 2022. From Census: For Sale Inventory and Months’ Supply: The seasonally?adjusted family houses in November 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 744,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

But they do agree on one thing: Higher interest rates will quell housing demand, which will allow inventory to rebound and, eventually, spur the return of reluctant buyers. An improvement from the 6% mark, yet it’s still significantly higher than early 2021’s 3% level. through the rest of 2022. increase in April and a 20.6%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They don’t ever have to have the conversation about how low their total payment is in the new home they’re buying, unlike some of their buyers (which explains higher cancellation rates). Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. However, this isn’t how inventory grows in America. percent (±20.4

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