Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

Realtor.com’s Housing Market Recovery Index showed significant contract growth, specifically in Portland, Las Vegas, Denver, Los Angeles, and Boston. There is a high demand for housing and a great number of would-be buyers, and therefore sales should rise with more new listings,” Yun said. million in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. in 2021, Freddie Mac reports. in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. The show-me part of the housing market starts with this bounce from an extreme bottom. Weekly inventory change (Jan.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

Mortgage applications for new home purchases in June decreased 3% from May and 23.8% year over year, suggesting a slowdown in the housing market, according to a recent report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Last year was the strongest year in the housing market for new home sales in over a decade,” he said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16, but there are signs that housing market demand may be reaching its peak, according to a recent study from Redfin. Regional numbers also reflect the enormous difference in housing market demand from April 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

Many are eyeing scenic East Tennessee, where Knoxville and its surrounding suburbs have formed one the country’s hottest housing markets. Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. It’s like a horse race.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. months nationally.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

housing market saw dramatic changes in affordability as mortgage rates skyrocketed 500 basis points. After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. million in January 2021 (when mortgage rates were 2.7%) fell to 3.9 In the 24 months beginning March 2022, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. in 2021 to $330,745. “It

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

The other data line that is small but steady year-over-year is the new listings data, and if most sellers are buyers, that gives us more demand than in 2023, when new listings were trending at the lowest levels ever. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Both a pullback in demand and limited supply remain vexing problems for the housing market. Total housing inventory at the end of October was 1.22 months in October 2021. The median existing-home price for all housing types in October was $379,100, up 6.6% from October 2021. million units, which was down 0.8%

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

We all needed some rest from the crazy housing market we’ve experienced in recent years. Like most markets across the country, the Cleveland area housing market has been red hot for the past few years. How have the rapidly increasing mortgage interest rates impacted the housing market in Northeast Ohio?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the virus has had anything but a negative impact on real estate in El Paso. According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. Interest rates were so low, at 2.5%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Now, that extra little boost of demand seems to be gone from the housing market. See how the tan line of 2021 peaked right about on the same curve we’re seeing this year? Higher mortgage rates create greater holding costs for real estate therefore fewer people hold real estate, and there are more sales, more inventory.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There were nine new pending contracts for every 10 new listings, a slower rate than the 9.9 Usually, Merchant said the Sacramento housing market slows down after Labor Day, but doesn’t see that slowdown this year. Over the last four weeks ending on Sept.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 1.11 million active listings per the last report, we have 526,000 per our last Housing Market Tracker article.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

High-end buyers tend to be more immune to mortgage rate fluctuations and flock to the luxury housing market. A surge in new listings of luxury homes was not enough to curb the price growth associated with rising demand. New listings of luxury homes soared 18.5% During the three months ending Feb.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I’ve seen more homebuyers cancel deals in the last six months than I’ve seen at any point during my 24 years of working in real estate. They’re getting cold feet,” said Jaime Moore, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Reno, Nevada. Year-over-year new listings were down 14.4%. million in August, falling 1.1%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

fell to a four-month low in January as builders expressed concerns about higher house prices, COVID-related supply chain issues and construction costs. Builder confidence in single-family homes dropped to 83 in January from 86 in December, according to the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

What’s going on with housing inventory ? The last four weeks of new listings data have been the most volatile since mortgage rates breached 6% in 2022. One week, we had the biggest decline in new listings data all year, which might indicate Americans are giving up on listing their homes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But now this is a real risk. Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter. in 2021 and as high as 6.25% in 2022. It wasn’t the rate move that caught my attention — it was the new listing data. The parts of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

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

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most important housing market stories in recent weeks has been the decline in new listings , which has slowed the growth rate of total inventory. Once that happens, I can finally take the savagely unhealthy housing market theme off my talking points. What does this mean? million to 1.93

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Armed with data from HousingWire sister company Altos Research , we can see in minute detail how the housing market responded to the recent 7%-and-higher rate environment and what the market may see again soon. In the first week of March, for example, the share of listings with price cuts ranged 25-27.2% in 2019-2020, 16.9-17.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

On Tuesday the FHFA House Price Index hit an all-time high. In this article I’ll explain why this is happening and why we still have a savagely unhealthy housing market. The quick takeaway here is that total active listings in the U.S. This is also why we created the weekly Housing Market Tracker article.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

After mortgage rates spiked to 8% in October, causing a riot in the real estate industry, we had an epic move lower in mortgage rates last week. Six weeks ago, I talked about the new listings data and how we should have some flat to positive year-over-year prints on CNBC. Weekly inventory change (Oct.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

And 54% of homes sold above their asking price in May — another a record high, up from 26% a year ago, according to a new report from Redfin. The report also shows the housing market also set new records for home-selling speeds and competition, although seasonally adjusted home sales and new listings flattened from April.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

More than half of homes (51%) have sold above their listing price in the four week period ending May 23, 2021 — up from 26% one year ago, according to a recent study by Redfin. Numerous other sales records were also set, including the median home sale price ($354,250) and number of days on the market (17, down from 36 one year ago).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement. from 2021, which NAR attributes to the “rapidly escalating interest rate environment.” On a yearly basis, existing home sales were down 34% in December.

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Raleigh Realty

JULY 12, 2022

A healthy housing market indicates a healthy national economy. In fact, it’s estimated that owner-occupied real estate accounts for over a quarter of American households’ net worth. It’s no secret Raleigh is an up-and-coming city, but how’s the local real estate market doing?

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GoForrmz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Get ahead with real estate automation The real estate market has seen a lot of unusual trends in the past couple years, and it’s no surprise things have been pretty weird. In 2021 , we saw houses receive multiple offers and sell for thousands of dollars over asking price within hours.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s been a wild ride for Texas real estate this year! Navigating Texas Real Estate with Rising Interest Rates We’re heading into Q4 of a tough year for the real estate market. While many thought it’d spell bad news, the total meltdown hasn’t happened. At least, not yet.

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