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DataDigest: Construction costs easing for homebuilders

Housing Wire

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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Large Metro Suburban Single-family Construction Slows

Eyes on Housing

Recent developments in the first quarter of 2022 per NAHB’s Home Building Geography Index (HBGI), indicate single-family home building slowing in suburbs, with most other regional geographies following suit. Following the aftermath of COVID-19, home buyer preferences for the suburbs have eased. Read More ›

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Opinion: ADU buyers are adjusting to new landscape

Housing Wire

But the landscape is changing, and ADU buyers (and ADU builders and makers) are adapting to it. In early 2022, people were locking into 3% and 4% interest rates. The sharper focus on cost is now boosting interest in modular factory-built ADUs, which tend to be less expensive and faster to build than custom onsite construction.

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New home sales continue to climb in 2023

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. This marks the second consecutive month of increases and the strongest sales pace since March 2022. Many home builders are offering incentives to buyers, sweetening the deal just enough to bump sales from the month prior.” months in December.

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US housing market is now worth a record $52 trillion: Zillow

Housing Wire

After experiencing a temporary hiccup between July 2022 to January 2023, the U.S. Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3% At the same time, builders also adapted to the needs of today’s home buyers who are navigating higher mortgage rates. Over the past year, the value of the U.S.

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Are mortgage rates about to fall?

Housing Wire

But since 2022, the spreads between them have gotten worse, meaning mortgage rates are abnormally higher than they should be. This can be partly due to a higher percentage of cash buyers in the sales mix that purchase applicatoins won’t account for. The slope of the curve in 2024 is much slower than we saw in 2022.

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

Nevertheless, while we view the trends described below as the most likely path for the economy and mortgage market in 2022, this news highlights the elevated level of uncertainty we’ve all been living with the past few years. A silver lining is that we are expecting both 2022 and 2023 to be record years for purchase originations.

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