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Midwest housing markets good for first-time homebuyers: Zillow

Housing Wire

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Millennials comprised 75% of this demographic, with older millennials and Generation X (ages 44 to 58) accounting for 44% and 24% of first-time buyers.

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Are mortgage rates about to fall?

Housing Wire

This can be partly due to a higher percentage of cash buyers in the sales mix that purchase applicatoins won’t account for. Since November 2023, when mortgage rates started to fall, we have had 12 positive prints versus nine negative prints and two flat prints week-to-week.

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Pending home sales surged in December: NAR

Housing Wire

The trade organization projects a 13% increase in existing home sales between 2023 and 2024 for an annualized pace of 4.62 The trade group also predicts that rent growth will ease due to sizable growth in apartment construction over the past three years. But new listings activity grew by 9.1% million and a 15.8%

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Home prices accelerated in March even as mortgage rates climbed

Housing Wire

The annual growth rate in March 2023 was up 0.7%. The modest increases in home prices we saw a month ago accelerated in March 2023,” Craig Lazzara, the managing director at S&P DJI, said in a statement. increase in home prices in the first quarter of 2023 from the first quarter in 2022. before seasonal adjustment.

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Study: Real Estate Hot in Hurricane Ian-Hit Areas

Empire Appraisal Group

In the two months after the devastating September 2022 storm, Cape Coral-Fort Myers saw 900 fewer new listings than there would have been had the storm not hit, according to Redfin projections. But in the six months after that, the area had 1,314 more new listings than projected, a number that more than offsetting the shortfall.

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Zillow and Redfin partner on new construction listings

Housing Wire

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. New single-family home sales rose 23.8% New single-family home sales rose 23.8%

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Fed’s Beige Book shows recent moderation in mortgage rates propped up demand for homes

Housing Wire

The spring homebuying season, which got underway a bit earlier than usual, was off to a good start in districts like New York and Dallas. The benchmark rate was last changed in July 2023, when it was raised to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%. Most expect their pipeline of contracts to keep construction busy through the year.

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