Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For iBuyer Opendoor , 2023 was all about moderation. “We We are excited about how we are set up for 2024 and beyond,” CEO Carrie Wheeler told investors and analysts listening to the firm’s Q4 2023 earnings call on Thursday evening. This strategy paid off for the firm, as its net loss of $275 million for 2023 is markedly smaller.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In January, the real estate market saw a 17.5 percent decline in net new listings and a 2 percent decrease in contract signings, driven by mortgage rate fluctuations, according to HouseCanary.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2023

2023 began as 2022 had ended, with U.S. Persistent challenges related to low inventory , however, will prevent home prices from falling dramatically. First, despite the fact that inventory has increased from a year ago, supply is still very low by historical standards. The annual growth rate in December was 4.4%. in January.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

More importantly, he said the current environment may even holdup into 2023. “We However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon. “That’s a lot of mortgages.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The lack of housing inventory is a major constraint to rising sales,” Lawrence Yun , NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. Looking ahead to the second half of 2023 and beyond, NAR said it expects that the economy will continue adding jobs , but at a slower pace.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

2023 Real Estate Forecast: Market to Regain Normalcy. Source: 2023 Real Estate Forecast: Market to Regain Normalcy (nar.realtor). But even though mortgage rates and home prices are expected to moderate, home sales may still sag under persistent inventory shortages, housing economists predict.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Opendoor continued to feel the market’s headwinds in the second quarter of 2023, which led to fewer homes sold and lower revenues in the period. The firm’s revenues came in at $2 billion in the second quarter of 2023, down 37% compared to the previous quarter and 53% related to 2Q 2022. in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

home prices continued to rise in August 2023,” Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P DJI , said in a statement. in August, which marks the seventh consecutive monthly gain since prices bottomed in January 2023. The August level was the highest recorded since the index began in 1987. Our National Composite rose by 0.4%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The red-hot housing market of the past 2 ½ years was characterized by sub-three percent mortgage rates, fast-paced bidding wars and record-low inventory. But relatively low inventory will be the primary driver of subdued transactions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September. On the bright side, housing inventory rose 1.8% lower than October 2022 when inventory was at 1.22 Meanwhile, unsold inventory sat at a 3.6-month

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

home prices continued their rally in September 2023,” Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P DJI , said in a statement.“Our in September, marking eight consecutive monthly gains since prices bottomed in January 2023. Low levels of existing home inventory contributed to keeping home prices elevated. by the end of September.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

In early 2023, however, as inventory in Austin has become more and more constrained, buyers have become accustomed to the higher mortgage rates and demand has ticked up. “It We are still seeing properties going under contract quickly, so long as they are priced properly,” he said. And the data supports Martirena’s assertion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Real estate agents are optimistic about the housing market and working to implement buyer agency agreement as we head into 2024, according to the RealTrends Q1 2024 AgentPulse survey. I was already using buyer broker contracts, but now use them 100% of the time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. in 2023 before increasing to 4.1% in 2023, settling at 4.38 Home prices will be influenced by how much inventory is brought to market. in 2023, to 720,000. from 2022 to 2023, to 1.47 this year and then decline to 6.0% million in 2024.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The home equity products involved include home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), closed-end second mortgages (CESs) and shared-equity contracts. That offering, Unlock HEA Trust 2023-1, is slated to close this week. The 5% overall increase in home prices since February [2023] means that the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“ Recovery year ” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales. For that reason, real estate prices are only going in one direction — and that’s up. economy remains hot.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Home price trends moderated in February 2023,” Craig Lazzara, the managing director at S&P DJI, said in a statement. However, despite the recent uptick, the continued low inventory conditions are expected to keep home prices elevated nationally. The national index came in at a reading of 293.17 in February. to a reading of 297.68.

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Listing Spark

MARCH 9, 2023

Episode Summary Aaron Jistel gives an update on the Texas Real Estate Market in Q1 2023 and recaps the 2022 market noting that it had been affected by a sudden increase in mortgage rates, with sales and home values declining. Things are starting to look up in 2023 with a break in mortgage rates. [00:05:15]-[00:05:31]

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The direction of mortgage rates – upward or downward – is the prime mover for home buying, and decade-high rates have deeply cut into contract signings,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. “If Presented by: Evocalize. All four major U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

In addition, just 16% of the homes in Austin went under contract within two weeks of hitting the market. That’s a significant decline from February 2022, when 38% of homes in Austin were under contract within two weeks of being listed. according to Redfin’s data. Pending sales also dropped by 40%.

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Hank Miller Team

JANUARY 23, 2023

Best advice as to what home buyers should expect in the spring of 2023.understand While rates were certainly favorable, the lack of inventory resulted in a punishing home buying experience. Listing inventory drops during the pandemic with the seasonal bump in '21. But note, there is NO flood of inventory here or expected.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From NAR Research : “Total existing-home sales notched a minor contraction of 0.4% Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 It doesn’t even look like we will breach the lower level of my inventory wish list of 1.52 I am a big fan of inventory to 2019 levels. Unsold inventory sits at a 3.2-month

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The MBA data shows the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) at 6.55% last week, compared to 6.43% the previous week. Altos Research data shows that inventory rose from 405,468 to 414,010 from April 14 to 21. Meanwhile, the peak for 2023 so far is 472,680.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

regions, only the West registered an increase in month-over-month contract activity. Unlike the surge in make-up demand we saw at the end of 2020, this recent outperforming data should moderate just due to traditional demand limits with the housing market at record low inventory levels. Of the four major U.S. This is critical.

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

CHICAGO – Homeowners who decline to use a real estate agent to sell their property are twice as likely to say they weren’t satisfied with the selling experience, according to a new survey from Clever Real Estate of 1,000 home sellers in 2022 and 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In August, Zillow ‘s 2023 Consumer Housing Trends Report proclaimed that half of all homebuyers are purchasing their first home, the highest share that Zillow has ever recorded. It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks. Let’s use $10,000 as an example.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) decreased to 7.06% on Wednesday from last week’s 7.16%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. . Tables have turned for some sellers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. New listings and new contracts both still show a bit of improvement over 2023, but the growth rates have slid back down. The state of California had 20% more contracts started last week than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Last fall when people were still expecting mortgage rates to be falling this year, it was common to assume rates would be in the low 6s or 5s this year and people asked me if lower rates would bring a flood of inventory. The only way inventory would grow in 2024 is if mortgage rates climbed. That’s 15% growth over the pace of 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates rose 15%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Ben Hunsaker, a Beach Point Capital Management portfolio manager who is focused on securitized credit, said that during the past year, nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) AAA bond spreads have actually contracted from 155 to 135, while agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) spreads have widened from about 118 to 134 over the same period.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

real estate housing market signals have been gradually building for a couple of months. The longer we stay with mortgage rates higher, the more inventory will build closer to where it used to be. Higher mortgage rates means more inventory. But as of now, rates are holding in the upper 6s and inventory is building slowly.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Based on the trends we can see after the start of the year, I’ll project 2024 will see about 15% home sales growth over 2023. 2023 started with recovery, but slowed down in Q3 as mortgage rates hit 8%. Inventory is inching up. Each week, inventory is increasing just a bit relative to last year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. Inventory is slowly but steadily increasing over last year, which means slightly more options for buyers this spring. The defining characteristic of 2023 was how few sellers we had.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

The funding has allowed the firm to grow exponentially, de-throning residential real estate’s two biggest brokerages— Anywhere Real Estate and Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices —in just over a decade. This meant slowing growth or contraction at a lot of previously high-flying proptech companies. Although it had $6.6

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 12, 2023

The first half of the Atlanta 2023 housing market shared many similarities with the first half of the 2022 real estate market. Atlanta Home Prices Q2 2023 The MSM was ebullient, just delighted when the housing market hit the brakes in the last half of 2022. Fewer buyers, fewer contract and sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. Of my initial expectations this year — rising inventory, rising sales rates, rising prices — only rising inventory remains clear at this moment as we finish Q1 with rising interest rates. They climbed starting Jan.

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