Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

“New home sales continue to be an outsized share of the housing market ,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement. The market for new homes is booming because the number of existing homes coming on the market has slowed to a two-decade low. compared to June 2022. from a month prior, but down 3.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2024

Mortgage rates and the bond market have fallen a bit recently and the spreads between the 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rate have improved over last year’s levels. To see mortgage rates drop and stay lower, the bond market needs to know the labor market is getting softer. That’s a 0.50% difference in rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Housing affordability hit a record low in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index released Thursday. The all-time high of $390,000 was set in the second quarter of 2022. In addition, Q4 also saw average mortgage rates reach a series high of 6.80%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2023

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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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Job gains came in lower than both the 278,000 monthly average for the first half of 2023 and the 399,000 average of 2022. since March 2022. Employment in the construction industry continued to trend up in July, adding 19,000 jobs, especially in the residential construction space. In June, job openings eased back to 9.6

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). in events to garner business. were from the Northeast 16.3%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to a survey released Tuesday by John Burns Research & Consulting , the top 50 MPCs sold more than 34,600 new homes in 2023, up 24% from the nearly 28,000 sales in 2022. With multiple builders offering an array of home types and floor plans, buyers can find homes that fit their life stage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This marks the second consecutive month of increases and the strongest sales pace since March 2022. The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 Looking ahead, experts are optimistic about the spring selling season for new construction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2022, rent growth rates spanned a much wider spectrum of 4.8% An abundance of new apartments recently hit the market, giving renters more options to choose from. Meanwhile, more apartments are under construction. Landlords have less pressure to fill vacancies in these markets, Redfin reported.

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Eyes on Housing

JUNE 7, 2022

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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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

In this HW+ Slack Q&A , Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami gives the inside scoop on where rates are headed, whether or not he has updates to his 2022 forecast and more. HousingWire: To begin, how has your 2022 forecast changed so far? HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? What has remained the same?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

. “The spread between mortgage rates and the 10-year Treasury has been abnormally wide since early 2022 — further narrowing of that spread is expected to put downward pressure on mortgage rates in the coming months.” Both trends will help some buyers regain purchasing power,” said Kan. Nik Shah, CEO of Home LLC.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. One such measure is who is entering the market. Today, the average is 2.7

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 2, 2022

The housing market has experienced a turbulent few years, so what can industry experts expect in the future? Construction Sites Will Stay on Schedule. After months of paperwork and organizing teams, many experts believe the allocated funding will start positively affecting the real estate market. construction sites.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

For the seventh consecutive month, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report rose month-over-month , gaining one-point to a reading of 56, according to a report released Tuesday. This is the index’s highest reading since June 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. To view the complete research, click here.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Credit standards for home-only applicants are much higher than for buyers seeking a mortgage, and this helps explain the high denial rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps early next year, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. The supply-demand imbalance fueling the housing market shows no signs of abating in 2022, even as homebuilders attempt to bridge the gap.

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Hank Miller Team

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s with a MASSIVE dose of “we think” that we offer our latest opinions (12/16/21) for the first quarter of the 2022 North Atlanta real estate market. It's not a rosy outlook; expect home buyer frustration to increase in 2022. So what's in store for home buyers and sellers that have to make a move this spring?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

High interest rates, coupled with a still-low supply of housing, have created price hurtles that are keeping many first-time homebuyers and lower-income borrowers locked out of the housing market. You can see that’s a really big impact for that first-time buyer, giving them the ability to kind of ease into that payment.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

I do a lot with new construction and homeowners’ insurance is cheaper on new builds because they are brand new,” Williams said. One of my recent new home buyers got their final quote on a property a 30-minute drive from the coast and it had gone up 40% from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While sellers of existing homes have struggled with rising rates and softening demand, homebuilders have not only survived, but thrived in this market thanks to the use of mortgage rate buydowns , a tool more widely used by builders since their business is selling homes and clearing inventory. 2022 to Dec.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Potempa had a joint venture with OneTrust from March 2022 to March 2024. But according to him, the firm has invested in new construction, land, and condominiums in a challenging mortgage market. Potempa mainly focuses on the government lending space, which represents 60% of his total volume, he said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

below its June 2022 peak.” Low inventory , maintained by an extremely low level of new listings coming onto the market, has fueled demand amongst the few buyers who can afford to stay shopping. increase in home prices in the first quarter of 2023 from the first quarter in 2022. compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

since March 2022. The construction sector also saw job gains in May, adding 25,000 positions, thanks to a large uptick in heavy and civil engineering construction, which added 10,700 jobs. Residential building construction added 2,400 jobs during the month. The unemployment rate has remained between 3.4%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Home starts forecasts, meanwhile, don’t offer much certainty about the pace of construction next year. Among all the experts’ forecasts for 2024, there is no number more tightly watched than mortgage rates, as those rates will undoubtedly impact sales, prices and construction as well.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

Some of the best performing stocks in America this year are from large, national homebuilders – strong consumer demand , limited competition from the existing home sales market , and an improving supply chain have boosted their outlooks. from May 2022, to 1.63 Both metrics are considerably better than May 2022. ”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This is done in advance of having a buyer in order to protect payments from going up in the current rate environment, Guaranteed Rate said in an announcement about the launch. billion in volume in 2022, down 56% from the previous year’s production of $78.13 Guaranteed Rate originated $34.38 About 71.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Young people make up a smaller share of recent homebuyers than in previous years most likely due to the increased market activity of baby boomers, a new Zillow report published on Thursday found. From 2009 to 2019, the share of recent buyers who are 60 years and old grew 47% , while the share of recent buyers ages 18-39 fell by 13%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

housing market for multiple reasons, Redfin said. Baby boomers who continue to make a mortgage payment are also doing so at a lower interest rate when compared with more recent homebuyers, making the prospect of buying another home less attractive than it would be if they entered the market again in the current rate environment.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As the end of the year approaches, housing market predictions for 2022 abound. Fortune reviews various 2022 housing forecasts, focusing specifically on home price growth. Redfin predicts a more balanced residential market in 2022. Predictions for the top housing markets of 2022 may surprise you.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

Mortgage rates rose slightly this week ahead of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee ‘s rate hike. The 25-basis point increase to the federal funds rate was widely anticipated and priced in by capital markets. The sideways trajectory of the 10-year Treasury which climbed lately, mirrored financial markets’ uncertainty.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

January’s pending home sales picked up right where they left off in 2022, posting the second consecutive month of increases, according to data released Monday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Instead, expect a bumpy road on the way to a more normal housing market in 2023.” After posting a 2.5% in 2024 to $474,000.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Pending home sales rose for the third month in a row in February, but at 0.8%, the uptick over January was less than is typically seen in the run-up to the spring housing market. from February 2022. from the prior month, though in-contract deals were still down 17% from February 2022. from February 2022.

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Quicken Loans

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Anyone keeping an eye on the real estate market watched for predictions in 2021. Along with the pandemic, 2020 brought a chaotic whirlwind for the housing market. So, it’s no wonder that a year like that left experts and new buyers guessing. Buyer demand continued. real estate market is hot.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

housing market is short by at least 6.5 After more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth, there are simply not enough affordable entry-level and first-time move-up options available for buyers. ADUs are one of the most effective ways to add density and rental properties in a higher cost market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. from the beginning of this year, but they may have not peaked, putting pressure on affordability challenges for most prospective buyers as the Federal Reserve vows to tame inflation.

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