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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

With the home-price growth we had in 2020 and 2021, my five-year price-growth model that I set for 2020-2024 of 23% was already smashed in just two years. Existing home sales have more legs to go lower, especially now that new listing data is falling. However, the secondary negative impact was going to be more painful.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. One issue that has created a waterfall dive in purchase application data and sales is that new listing data is declining faster than usual. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Remove all bathtubs from home?

Appraisal Today

I’m always looking for something new = Shifting Tides in the Housing Market: A February 2024 Perspective By Kevin Hecht Excerpts: As we navigate through the early months of 2024, the U.S. A1: Back Half of 2024? – My wild guess is that rate cuts will be in the back half of 2024. Not in March. Not in June.

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29 Cutting-Edge Real Estate Marketing Ideas for 2024

Housing Wire

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. Advertising on Zillow can put your brand in front of millions of potential buyers and sellers.

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The savagely unhealthy housing market is over

Housing Wire

This facilitated the biggest decline in existing home sales for a single year that we will ever see in modern-day history due to the high level of sales in January of 2022. The housing market can still be very frustrating to buyers and sellers because mortgage rates can move fast up or down.

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

This doesn’t mean homebuyers don’t have something of an edge now: As inventory has increased and buying power has faded, the buyers who are available are dealing with a lot less competition as the bidding wars are ending. Well, that got destroyed in only two years. Now fast forward to 2022. for 2022 is going to be wrong and too low.

Sellers 504
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HOUSING ‘TRIFECT’ PUTTING SQUEEZE ON BUYERS

Will Springer Realtor

As the chart shows, a historically large segment of Millennials is inching toward 36, the median age of a first-time home buyer in the U.S. An index score of 100 means that a buyer with a median U.S. The national trend for new construction, however, is generally moving in the opposite direction.

Buyers 36