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Labor market report is good news for mortgage rates

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The labor market isn’t tight anymore and that will eventually be good news for mortgage rates. The current state of the labor market results from a series of events, with COVID-19 being a significant catalyst. Today the labor market is less tight, but the Fed would love to see this number even lower, down to 7 million.

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Affordability boosts Indianapolis housing market 

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According to Zillow ’s annual predictions, Indianapolis will be the fourth-hottest real estate market of 2024, thanks to its solid economy, housing inventory, affordability and pent-up demand. The real estate market As of Jan. And the median days on the market was 56 in December , compared to the national median of 43.

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Mortgage rates fall as labor market normalizes

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For now, we can say the labor market isn’t tight anymore, but it’s also not breaking. The four-week moving average declined slightly by 750, to 212,250 Below is an explanation of how we got here with the labor market, which all started during COVID-19. Jobless claims show an expanding economy that has not lost jobs yet.

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Are we seeing cracks in the labor market?

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Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. We should get back all the jobs lost to COVID-19 by September of 2022. Employment continued growing in government, health care, social assistance, and construction, while transportation and warehousing lost jobs.

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Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?

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The honey badger labor market is still going strong as we got another solid jobs report Friday, which pushed bond yields higher at first. This will be important to think about going into 2023, especially if the labor market does what the Federal Reserve wants it to do, which is slow down enough to create a job loss recession.

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Job gains exceed expectations in December

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million increase of 2022. While this is below the job growth in 2021 and 2022, when the economy was rebounding from the sharp job losses in 2020, it is still a much higher pace of job growth than we had before the pandemic,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said in a statement. With December’s numbers in, a total of 2.7

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Local Housing Markets: Fargo, Bergen County and 30A, Florida

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Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. There are excellent schools and great transportation into Manhattan, but if you go a little bit north you can go hiking. Recently, Bergen County has been home to one of the hottest housing markets in the country.