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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. It facilitated a very unhealthy housing market in 2020-2021 that became savage in 2022. It facilitated a very unhealthy housing market in 2020-2021 that became savage in 2022. It wasn’t part of my forecast in 2020 or 2021.

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3 mortgage industry trends that will define the rest of 2021

Housing Wire

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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DataDigest: Boomers and the refi boom reckoning

Housing Wire

Incentivized by a 200 basis point decline in mortgage rates, 14 million homeowners in America refinanced their mortgages between the second quarter of 2020 and the fourth quarter of 2021, according to a recent research report by the New York Fed. If we’re going to see inventory unlocked, this is one segment it will have to come from.

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The savagely unhealthy housing market is over

Housing Wire

This facilitated the biggest decline in existing home sales for a single year that we will ever see in modern-day history due to the high level of sales in January of 2022. However, the second is that inventory is simply too low, with too many people chasing too few homes, which means too many bidding wars.

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

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. That was a huge red flag, hence all the statements in 2021 about unhealthy housing. . Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 Unsold inventory sits at a 3.2-month

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Home sales are going to nosedive in 2023, Fannie Mae says

Housing Wire

million units this year from 2021, a further downward revision from September’s projected 17.2% Given the ongoing tension between potential homebuyers and home-sellers at the moment, we believe the pace of sales is likely to slow even further, too,” he added. The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $1.6

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