Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The last two years of soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices have brought the fastest erosion in housing market affordability in modern history, and it’s hurt first-time homebuyers the most. buyer hovers around $2,866, an all-time high according to Redfin. In Newark, buyers need $160,000.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Insurance has been a glaring mess in California, and it’s really starting to affect the housing market. The goal is to give some perspective and advice to sellers […] The post The insurance crisis is affecting the housing market first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Among all the experts’ forecasts for 2024, there is no number more tightly watched than mortgage rates, as those rates will undoubtedly impact sales, prices and construction as well. Mortgage rates The experts unanimously foresee lower mortgage rates in 2024, although none expect rates to fall below 6%. to 6.05%. . million to 5.07

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Total inventory data is deficient, and this was my biggest fear in the years 2020-2024, and it happened. Inventory has been slowly falling since 2014, so if demand picks up in 2020-2024, it can collapse to shallow levels. As you can see from this NAR report, cash buyers as a percent of sales is slightly lower now than levels in 2016.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2024

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. Currently, First American is forecasting March existing-home sales will rise 1.7%

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Pulling comps in 2024 is tough. I also have some market recap visuals to unpack what’s been happening in 2024 so far. UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 2/19/24 Matt the Mortgage Guy YouTube […] The post The challenge of pulling comps in 2024 first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog. Think about it this way.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The baseline conforming loan limit for mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2024 will be $766,550, up 5.5% compared to the current limit of $726,200 , the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced Tuesday. These loans would normally end at the jumbo market , which is dominated by banks.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales for April’s housing market came in at 5,8500,000. housing market for 2020 to 2024 is that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level. The post Existing home sales data: A bad sign for housing market? Already a member?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. I developed a specific home-price growth model for the years 2020-2024 which said that if home-price growth grew at 23% for five years we would be fine, with total housing demand —both new and existing homes together — getting to 6.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The national real estate brokerage found that the nationwide median sale price reached $420,357 in March 2024. In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. “My Even as the median U.S. That’s according to a pair of reports released Thursday by Redfin.

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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. But somebody has to replace the Fed, and the Fed is not an economic buyer.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

The following Q&A comes from the HW+ exclusive Slack channel, where HousingWire’s Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami answered questions on what to make of the latest housing data, his forecast for the rest of this year, and whether or not the housing market is returning to normal. This was my big fear. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Homebuyers are getting some relief in 2024 as mortgage rates recede from their 20-year high point of last October. mortgage rate, the prospective buyer with a $3,000 budget can afford a $453,000 home. In October, a buyer with the same monthly budget and a 7.8% Indeed, with a 6.7% 25, according to Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. The real story in housing has been the price boom that we have seen since 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The self-employed homebuyer found an $800,000 home in Texas, but with the conforming loan limit for 2023 being $726,200, the buyer needed a jumbo loan or a bank statement loan. How higher loan limits might move the housing market needle Economists at Fannie Mae project home prices to increase by 2.8% on an annual basis in 2024.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. Cash buyers remain at a historically high level of 19%, the same as last year, while sales grew 26.6% The housing market is hot. You may be told that future moderation indicates “cracks in the housing market, but don’t buy into it.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

For the housing market, the COVID crisis started in earnest the week of March 23, as that is the last week we saw positive year-over-year data in 2020 before COVID-19 really took us for a ride. housing market has been that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level in the years 2020-2024. year over year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

While Fannie Mae expects mortgage rates to drop to below 6% by the end of this year, the government-sponsored enterprise also forecasts that if there isn’t significant supply growth and buyer demographics remain strong, home prices will rise once again. We have home prices increasing 3% in 2024.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Total housing inventory has collapsed to all-time lows since 2020 and because this happened during the years 2020-2024, it created forced bidding and drove prices well above my 23% five-year home-price growth model in just two years. Regarding the monthly supply for housing, we want this to get above four months as soon as possible.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 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. As a result, the local housing market is going to be subdued in 2023, especially in the first half of the year. most likely by mid-year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. Since the summer of 2020, I have believed the housing market could change in terms of cooling down, but it would require the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the current, not the waves, that will propel longstanding changes in the American housing market, said Logan Mohtashami , HousingWire’s lead analyst. The key is a demographic surge of Millennials reaching peak home-buying age from 2020 to 2024, Mohtashami holds, which will provide replacement buyers for housing during these years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. However, that hasn’t been the case so far in 2024. NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 1.11 This is never a good thing for housing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

year over year in the first quarter of 2024, with the median price hitting a record $1.225 million, according to data from Redfin. Redfin defined luxury homes as those estimated to be in the top 5% of their metro area based on market value, while non-luxury homes are those with estimated values in the 35th to 65th percentile.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But in 2024, industry analysts believe mortgage rates will be the primary focus for many firms. “I With mortgage rates trending downward in recent weeks and economists expecting them to further recede in 2024, analysts are feeling guardedly optimistic about how the publicly traded brokerages will perform in 2024. “I

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Although more agents are fielding questions about the commission lawsuits than they were a quarter ago , they also remain optimistic about where the housing market is headed in the second quarter of 2024, according to the RealTrends Q2 2024 AgentPulse survey.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The housing market experienced more volatility last week, with housing inventory dropping as mortgage rates moved higher. Weekly housing inventory continues to decline, as we saw a decrease of 13,238 units, double the amount we had this time last year. This means buyers have more say now in the home-buying process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. housing market; the 10-year is above 1.94%, something that didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021. million to 4.98 million in January 2019.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prospective home buyers experienced another difficult month due to the persistent lack of housing inventory and the highest mortgage rates in a generation,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. The median existing- home price for all housing types in October was $391,800, down from $394,300 in September but up 3.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

“With mortgage rates now lower and spring home buying demand already lurking, home prices will continue to rise, especially considering the outsized pent-up demand for homes coming from young buyers, those who have been waiting for lower rates, and huge influx of immigrants over the last couple of years.” in September to 7.8%

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 3, 2024

Amy Wallick Discusses 2024 Housing Market on NBC News Boston Amy Wallick was recently featured on an NBC News Boston segment, where she discusses what we can expect in 2024 for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Historically high rates harmed the housing market in October Annualized existing home sales remained below 4 million in October, the lowest rate since 2010. In today’s tough housing market, the rental market is cooling off, giving some relief to homebuyers. New home sales fell 5.6% above the previous year’s level.

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Inman

MARCH 19, 2024

As the first day of spring arrives, three economists shared with Inman why headwinds will continue to plague the housing market in 2024, long after a recovery was expected to revive U.S. home sales.

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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. Housing construction will be impacted if the monthly supply for new homes breaks above 6.5 To downgrade it to a savagely unhealthy housing market caught some people by surprise.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Buyers responded to better affordability from falling mortgage rates in December and January,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. 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% annual jump in 2024.

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