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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. The increase in new listings this spring, due both to new construction and to more homeowners choosing to sell, will give buyers more options and help to ease price growth.

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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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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

So where does all that drama leave us for 2023? My 2023 price forecast: As long as rates stay above 5.875% , my affordability index will see the pressure on home prices continue. For 2023, assuming rates stay above 5.875%, we should see a 5.9%-7.4% million in 2023. Buckle up as we look at each factor individually.

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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% million lost in Q1 2022.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2024 housing market and rate forecast

Housing Wire

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Here’s my forecast for 2024: 10-year yield and mortgage rates For 2024, the 10-year yield range will be similar to 2023, but with a few different variables to watch. Instead, they closed 2023 at 6.67%.