Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 17, 2023

New home sales are glowing right now in the midst of depressed volume in the resale market. Today I want to share some stats for new construction, but let’s also talk about pivoting when the market changes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is a notoriously expensive housing market and maintains an estimated population of more than 260,000 people, according to data from the 2020 U.S. Like many localities across the country, Marin County leaders describe a housing crisis in their area that they hope to alleviate through the construction of more ADUs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Existing home sales dropped to their lowest level in nearly 30 years in 2023, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), released Friday. In 2023, 4.09 Prospective homebuyers have been shut out of the market by a lack of inventory. Compared to a month ago, housing inventory was down 11.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. However, a silver lining in the subdued housing market is the strength in new-home sales. It’s a bifurcated market in that sense. So they are a policy buyer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Due to this reality, I have downgraded the housing market from unhealthy housing to a savagely unhealthy housing market. HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? Housing construction will be impacted if the monthly supply for new homes breaks above 6.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Chinese real estate investments extend beyond their borders and if those investors suddenly need to liquidate those assets to cover losses at home , many countries real estate markets could be negatively impacted. In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Despite high mortgage rates , master planned communities (MPCs) did well in 2023. According to a survey released Tuesday by John Burns Research & Consulting , the top 50 MPCs sold more than 34,600 new homes in 2023, up 24% from the nearly 28,000 sales in 2022.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s been striking to see sellers sitting back so far in 2023, and it’s really starting to create more competition for buyers. Sellers are hibernating. Let’s talk about it. Scroll by topic or digest slowly.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.9%, aligning with the Fed’s projection for 2023 of 3.8%. What to expect in the housing market ? In October, construction employment continued to trend up, adding 23,000 more jobs, aligning with the average monthly gain of 18,000 over the prior 12 months.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. 11, a decrease from last week’s 6.66%, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. 12 compared to a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2024

Mortgage rates and the bond market have fallen a bit recently and the spreads between the 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rate have improved over last year’s levels. To see mortgage rates drop and stay lower, the bond market needs to know the labor market is getting softer. That’s a 0.50% difference in rates.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And speaking of building, new construction has been glowing this year. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 9/26/23 Orangevale […] The post Pent-up demand & glowing new construction first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog | Real Estate Appraiser. Let’s talk about it.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.81% as of July 6, up significantly from last week ’s 6.71%. High rates combined with low inventory continue to price many potential homebuyers out of the market, added Khater.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2% Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 months in December.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Because of historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market, major insurance carriers like State Farm and Allstate are no longer issuing new homeowner insurance policies in California. Check out Han’s excellent feature here.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. Job additions and income growth will further help with housing affordability, but increased supply will be essential to satisfying all potential demand.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

I do a lot with new construction and homeowners’ insurance is cheaper on new builds because they are brand new,” Williams said. In announcing their departure from the Golden State, the two major insurers cited the increased wildfire risks in the state and rising construction costs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Economists believe that if the trend continues, the market will be able to improve in the second half of 2023. . “The latest data on the housing market show that homebuilders are pulling back the pace of new construction in response to low levels of traffic, and we expect this weakness in demand will persist in 2023, as the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Jacksonville’s housing market was propelled by strong tailwinds: affordability relative to the rest of the Sunshine State, Florida’s lack of income tax and the quality of life benefits of having a river and oceanfront, to name a few. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 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. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best. Quality Leads.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

It is shipped from the Boxabl manufacturing facility in Las Vegas and is “designed to unfold into a fully functional dwelling unit in just a few hours,” reducing construction costs and minimizing environmental impacts, according to a company news release.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

“The economic slowdown has resumed – whether the end result is a modest recession or simply a soft landing remains unanswered – although we continue to expect the former, as we have since April of last year, when we first made our 2023 recession call,” Doug Duncan , senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae, said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

The BLS jobs report data isn’t the best recession indicator, which we can all see since the recession of 2023 — forecast by so many — didn’t occur. Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. Does this mean the labor market is breaking? 9, 2020: 1.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

economy in 2023, an average monthly gain of 225,000, according to the BLS. Even though the headline jobs numbers beat estimates, the internals of the jobs report show that the labor market is slowing down,” HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami said. “We Economists were expecting an addition of 170,000 jobs. That’s less than the 4.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

New home sales among the “50 Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities” increased by 7% in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to a study by RCLCO Real Estate Consulting. This uptick in MPC sales represents a turnaround, pointing to the strength of the new home sales market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Job gains came in lower than both the 278,000 monthly average for the first half of 2023 and the 399,000 average of 2022. Employment in the construction industry continued to trend up in July, adding 19,000 jobs, especially in the residential construction space.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Since August 2023, the unemployment rate has hovered between 3.7% Job gains were most notable in the health care (+72,000), government (+71,000) and construction (+39,000) sectors. In March, employment continued to trend up in construction, adding 39,000 jobs month over month. month over month to $34.69 and were up 4.1%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate closed 2023 at 6.76%, more than one percentage point lower than its October peak of 7.9%, according to Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president and deputy chief economist. The share of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan activity decreased to 14.5% Mortgage applications decreased 9.4%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Despite recent data indicating a poor affordable housing situation in Texas , the city of Houston must return $45 million in unused affordable housing funds to the state after failing to use them for construction of new homes. Instead, the city failed to begin construction on the homes in a timely manner.

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DW Slater Company

JANUARY 30, 2023

What’s happening in the housing markets? Mortgage rates impact housing as they affect buying power. As we look at the housing market for 2022, a clear shift has occurred. Supply has increased, but is still very low as less than 3 months supply in any market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

in September despite significant affordability hurdles weighing on the market, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). in 2023, reaching an annual rate of 670,000. For those new construction units, the national median new home price is projected to drop by 5.9% in September.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

NAR expects the economy to continue adding jobs throughout 2023 and 2024, and the 30-year fixed rate mortgage to steadily drop to an average of 6.1% in 2023 and 5.4% year over year in 2023 to a total of 4.47 year over year in 2023 before posting a 19.4% in 2023 to $380,100 before rising 3.5% million units.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “The bond market is forcing the Fed to pivot.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are a few trends in financing that will continue to catalyze the construction of more ADUs: Expanded access to mortgage financing The Federal Housing Authority announced a new policy in October 2023 that has made it easier to finance construction of new ADUs, as well as making it more achievable to buy or refinance a house with an existing ADU.

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APRIL 9, 2024

David O’Reilly, CEO of Howard Hughes Holdings which constructs planned communities, describes the market being “at the cusp,” saying that the demand appears to be coinciding with more members of Gen X nearing a time where they will become “empty nesters.”

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