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The 2022 housing market: A tale of two halves

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Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price.

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Spring housing market gets more inventory

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Here’s the new listings data for last week over the last several years: 2024: 70,665 2023: 63,236 2022: 72,009 Price-cut percentage In an average year, one-third of all homes take a price cut — this is standard housing activity. 2022: 19.2% When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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Opinion: The end of seller speculation in US housing market

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A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. metropolitan areas in February 2022, based on year-over-year growth in median listing price according to the residential real estate listing website, Realtor.com. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market.

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Is the spring housing market about to rebound?

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While it’s not as clear how long-lasting the rebound will be, it does still provide some much-needed good news for the spring and summer housing market. April was the third month with a year-over-year decline in national home prices , and home prices in March were down 9% from the peak in June 2022. million in April.

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Key housing markets are starting to buck national trends: Redfin

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That figure was up 5% year over year and was only 3% below the peak price of $432,496 in May 2022. In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. My advice to sellers is to price your home fairly,” Chen Zhao, economic research lead at Redfin, said in a statement. Redfin reported that among the 10 U.S.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

This level is still within my 2022 forecast sales range between 5.74 million and I am looking for more of the same in 2022, at the 5.74 To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 even for rental housing. even for rental housing.

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Home seller concessions reach pre-pandemic levels

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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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