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Even with low inventory, expect a strong 2021 housing market

Housing Wire

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. The divide between supply and demand is striking: compared to last year, total new listings increased.22%,

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The awesome power of high mortgage rates

Housing Wire

Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates. percentage points—sellers take notice. Facing these realities, many would-be sellers decide to stay put. This is clear in the chart below, which shows the year-over-year percent change in the four-week average of new listings.

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Buyers are getting cold feet as mortgage rates exceed 7%: Redfin

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“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 inventory defied all predictions in 2023

Housing Wire

Since I believe most home sellers are also homebuyers, once new listings created a new low level after mortgage rates reached over 6% in 2022, it added another layer of home demand falling off a cliff. What we want to see in 2024 is new listing data growing in the spring season. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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Prices for luxury homes soared in the first quarter 

Housing Wire

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% Luxury sales started to post year-over-year increases in January for the first time since August 2021. During the three months ending Feb. year over year.

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Are we seeing a mortgage rate lockdown?

Housing Wire

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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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

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. That is a real live talking point, but it will require a job loss recession. Confused by this?

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