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First-time buyers need to earn $64,500 to afford a typical starter home

Housing Wire

New listings of starter homes dropped 23% from a year earlier in June, the biggest drop since the start of the pandemic, the report found. from June 2022, according to Realtor.com economic researcher Hannah Jones. asking rent is just $24 shy of the $2,053 peak hit in 2022. Austin buyers must earn $92,000, down 3.3%

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Why are existing home prices rising when sales are still so low?

Housing Wire

Supply being near all-time lows is one thing, but existing home sales aren’t crashing like they did in 2022. The supply and demand equilibrium changed after November 2022, and that itself has kept prices rising even with existing home sales still trending at the lowest levels ever for the third calender year.

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5 The lack of sellers is also a demand problem and what we saw after June of 2022 is that sellers called it quits earlier and faster in the year than usual, resulting in total existing home sales totaling 5,030,000 to end 2022.

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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

Housing Wire

It was listed at (list price) and sold well above the asking price. There are still plenty of buyers interested in this area. In fact, we had (number) offers, which means there are still ready, willing, and qualified buyers eager to make an offer! If you don’t have active buyers, ask around the office.

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. This explains why total active listing inventory data has been stable over the decades, with the exception of 2006-2011, when those forced distressed credit home sellers couldn’t buy.

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Mortgage market affordability and inventory challenges

Housing Wire

2022 State of the Mortgage Industry: Affordability and Inventory. It was no surprise that affordability hit the top of the list in every interview. In Portland, Oregon, for example, one loan officer noted that new listings doubled in the second half of May from 800 to 1,900 new listings.

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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

Total inventory data started at all-time lows at the beginning of 2022, creating more bidding war action in January and February, peaking in March. Seasonal impacts are the norm with housing, and new listing data is negative 6% year to date. We saw new listing data decline when rates got to 6.25% the first time.

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