Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anywhere Real Estat e felt the brunt of slow home sales during the fourth quarter of 2023 as the company reported a loss of $107 million during the three-month period. The company produced these results amid “an incredibly difficult year for the housing market,” Schneider said during an earnings call on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Going more in-depth than a Fed meeting, our virtual Housing Market Update event provides you with the strategy-building insights needed to operate in 2024. It’s a savagely unhealthy housing market out there, and these economists unpack what that means for you. Register for the virtual event on Dec.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

My advice to sellers is to price your home fairly,” Chen Zhao, economic research lead at Redfin, said in a statement. Even though sellers are getting top dollar at the moment, they should price competitively to attract buyers from the start and avoid having to drop their price as stubbornly high mortgage rates eat into buying budgets.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

The brutal low origination volume and industry consolidation that occurred for lenders in 2022 isn’t expected to turn around, at least not drastically, in 2023, according to Fitch Ratings. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. 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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to avoid the start of the busy spring buying season and list their properties closer to the midpoint of the year, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. metro areas, homes listed for sale between the start of May and early July 2023 posted the highest sales prices.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. Here’s what that buyer behavior in the second half of 2022 is telling us about two key retail market trends in 2023: 1.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How long these low rates will last is still up to debate, but in September, 13 members of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee said they expect to keep the central bank’s benchmark rate near zero through 2023. As for home prices, CoreLogic’s Home Price Insights report revealed prices rising 6.7%

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2024

compared with February, but remain approximately 16% lower compared with March 2023. But unlike housing markets of the past, this market isn’t being driven by low mortgage rates or low home prices – the current trickle of sales is coming mainly from people who are facing life events that require them to sell their homes and move.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. 13, 2023): Rose From 471,349 – 472,688. This is good news for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov. So the fact that housing demand stabilized and inventory is now negative year over year needs the context that 2022 was a once-in-a-lifetime event. As you can see in the chart below, 2023 inventory growth is very slow compared to 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

Purchase application data rose again, with more positive than negative data in 2023. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory fell 5,383 last week, and new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023. This is one reason housing inventory has taken so long to bottom out.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. For agents and sellers looking to succeed in Austin’s current market, Redding says pricing is key. “We

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Buying a house was obtainable only for the haves in 2023 as home prices and mortgage rates soared. Homebuyers’ median household income increased by $19,000 this year from 2022, reaching $107,000, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? Those trends are likely to continue in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Does that mean we are heading back to all-time lows in inventory again for 2023? However, the year-over-year data is still critical to keep track of for the housing market. 6, 2023): Fell from 490,809 to 471,349 Same week last year: (Dec.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Weekly housing inventory Since new listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2023, some feared we wouldn’t see the typical spring inventory increase.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. According to Redfin’s analysis, Austin, Texas has experienced the most rapidly cooling housing market in the nation over the last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

But while rates have dropped, the housing market has continued to be challenged by low inventory levels. “Spring sellers should start getting their home ready for sale, keeping in mind that it took longer than expected to prep.” ” Surging rates ahead? Mortgage rates, directly correlated to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Given the current market, my business is at least about 60% renters and the other 30% to 40% is buyers and sellers,” Tsai said. But, home prices were still up over 15% year over year, ac-cording to Redfin.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. A traditional seller is a conventional buyer most of the time.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

The affordability hit with higher mortgage rates has impacted new listings data since most sellers are buyers, thus facilitating an all-time low in new listings data. More importantly, it showed that the days on market dropped back to the teenager level, which means we are once again in a savagely unhealthy housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. The show-me part of the housing market starts with this bounce from an extreme bottom. Weekly inventory change (Jan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

With the resilient but still slower housing market conditions of the second quarter of 2023, Zillow reported that traffic to its apps and site was at 226 million average monthly unique users, down from 234 million a year ago. Barton also touched on its fabled “ housing super app.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. These are market-based decisions.” Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says. “As

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. Mortgage rates hit 6.80%, marking the high point for 2023 so far.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Growing concerns of a recession, led by the Federal Reserve ’s continued interest rate hikes next year, will prompt mortgage rates to trend lower in 2023, according to numerous experts. by the end of 2023, according to fresh projections, up from an estimate of 3.9% by the end of 2023, dropping slightly from the projected 7.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Bright MLS released its National Housing Market Outlook on Wednesday, which shows that affordability will remain the biggest challenge for homebuyers next year. Here’s what homebuyers and sellers can expect in 2024, according to Bright MLS: Mortgage rates will fall, ranging between 6% and 6.5% million, up 12% from 2023’s 4.1

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The housing market is definitely heating up for the spring, but it still feels frozen with so many buyers and sellers sitting right now. I recently talked about sellers sitting out of the market, but today let’s look at buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ongoing affordability challenges are expected to limit buyers from entering the market in 2023, according to Fannie Mae , which will result in continued decline in home sales in coming months. On the seller side, 51% said it was a good time to sell, dropping from 54% in November. in the same period.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? I want to see how the 10-year yield acts this week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Armed with data from HousingWire sister company Altos Research , we can see in minute detail how the housing market responded to the recent 7%-and-higher rate environment and what the market may see again soon. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With the market heading into fall, sellers, on the other hand, proved more resilient as the percentage of respondents who said it was a good time to sell a home gained 8% to 56% in September. 1, mortgage rates hit their tenth consecutive week below 3% and the Federal Reserve expects low rates to remain through 2023. As of Oct.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 13, 2023

The housing market has likely peaked for the year. I’m focused on Sacramento, but this is likely showing up in many markets. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/20/23 SAR Market Update (in-person & livestream) 7/26/23 Fair Mortgage (details TBD) […] The post Did the housing market peak for the year?

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