Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

Purchase application data was up 8% weekly, and the year-over-year decline was the lowest since September 2022. Weekly housing inventory Looking at the Altos Research data from last week, the big question is: Have we seen the seasonal bottom in Inventory? This is one reason housing inventory has taken so long to bottom out.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. One caution is that this data line took a waterfall dive, wiping out seven years of growth in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. at the end of 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. 30, 2022-Jan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. They increased the Federal Funds Rate from nearly 0% at the start of 2022 to 4.5% in September 2022. They eased below 6.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Also, the volume of active listings was higher in 2022 this week, even though we were working from a lower level. However, even with that, the labor market, while getting softer, hasn’t broken yet.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. But, in 2022, as prices in the metro rose to never-before-seen levels, things started to change.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Thanks to a boom in the housing market and a historic refinance market, the past two years have been a favorable period for the mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. According to Redfin’s analysis, Austin, Texas has experienced the most rapidly cooling housing market in the nation over the last year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. We are working from a shallow bar in this index – seven years of growth were taken away in one year in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

So, it shouldn’t be a shock that as soon as housing demand just stabilized, we ran into some negative year-over-year data. In addition, new listing data turned negative year over year after the second half of 2022. The data shows a noticeable decline year over year, and 2021/2022 were already working from all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. These are market-based decisions.” Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says. “As

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. New York City, New York In many ways the spring of 2022 marked the full return of New York City and for a real estate agent like Johnson Tsai, a lead agent at REAL, this meant a massive up-tick in rental demand. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. A traditional seller is a conventional buyer most of the time.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. What a year 2021 has been.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

of home sellers gave concessions to homebuyers in Q4 of 2022, through money for repairs and mortgage-rate buydowns. In Q3 of 2022 and Q4 of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales. Sellers realize they’re not going to get $80,000 over the asking price like their neighbor did last year,” he added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. 1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. And all of those prospective homeowners flocking to the city are fighting for the same small pool of houses.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

in the previous month… Nine of the 20 cities reported higher price increases in the year ending April 2022 versus the year ending March 2022. This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. – Housing demand has gotten better since Nov. Weekly inventory change (Feb.10-Feb.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. “A small offset or decline in home values, which we are starting to see, (…) can help that consumer who’s in the market for the first time,” Brown said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

Nominations for HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award are now open through Friday, April 21, 2023. For the past three years, the HW Marketing Leaders award has recognized elite marketing execs in housing who have pushed their businesses to the top via innovative marketing strategies, creative campaigns and purpose-driven programs.

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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? To downgrade it to a savagely unhealthy housing market caught some people by surprise.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Our local market feature spotlights five different areas across the country for each HousingWire Magazine. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers from each city share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. In March 2022, the median list price of a home was up 21.4%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. However, there are a number of attention-grabbing headlines, which unfortunately only compare today’s housing market to the very recent history of the last two years. However, in many areas of the country it does remain a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

HousingWire: How are existing home sales trends and inventory affecting the housing market right now? Logan Mohtashami: Existing home sales look about right to me this year; this was the pre 5% housing market. However, traditionally higher rates do their thing, and we are working from shallow levels in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Growing supply shortages are holding housing prices higher, and affordability constraints coupled with elevated rates lock potential sellers in place. percentage points below the 37% level reached in October 2022 when affordability hit a more than 35-year low. In 2022, about $2.4 As of the week ending Feb.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? This bond market is screaming at the Fed to cut rates.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2022

After months of tipping heavily in sellers’ favor, the scales of the housing market are finally balancing out, according to a new report from Redfin. Soaring housing costs caused many house hunters to drop out in recent months, which is now providing some relief for buyers who remain. The share of sellers slashing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. In some markets, more than 50% of active listings have experienced a price cut, according to Altos Research. According to the brokerage, 6.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

8, a slight increase from last week ’s figure of 6.63%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. The economy and labor market remain strong with wage growth outpacing inflation, which is keeping consumer spending robust,” Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said in a statement. “The

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

The housing market boomed in 2021 like few could have expected. What is on the horizon in 2022? This makes new home construction a continued challenge, even as demand exists to accelerate new housing. Things may be taking a turn for the better in 2022, though. Demand for New Homes Will Stay High.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

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. million in March.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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