Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From late summer of 2022 to now, the Texas real estate market has experienced one of the most unpredictable corrections in recent history, leaving a lot of home-buyers and sellers scratching their heads and trying to make sense of what is going on. decline in home sales by the end of 2023, with a similar trend expected to persist in 2024.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And, despite the rise in new listings, the number of homes still on the market on Feb. The figures were promising from the single-family-home category as well, with new listings jumping 129% (1335) from December in King and up a negligible 0.5% in Q1 2024 (previous forecast: 7.0%) 6.2% in Q3 2024 (6.6%) 5.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 15, 2023

Sellers, too, are waiting for the easing of rates before looking for their next home, as estimates show 60% of today’s homeowners possess a mortgage with an interest rate of 4% or less. The single-family housing market is sluggish, as many prospective buyers and sellers have chosen to focus on enjoying the many weeks of beautiful weather.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 10, 2023

Unless the listed home is in a favorable location, priced competitively and move-in ready, activity has been somewhat muted as prospective buyers and sellers wait for economic conditions to improve. Sellers who priced their homes appropriately enjoyed busy open houses in their first weekend on the market followed by multiple offers.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 12, 2024

As a result, home buyers and sellers across Seattle/King County saw a mixed bag of activity in February, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). About two-thirds of all King County listings sold last month at the list price or above, signaling a competitive environment and extending this long-running sellers’ market.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. Only buyers and sellers who must move are doing so. fewer new listings, the rate of sales rose 1.7% fewer new listings (1998) compared to July and 5.0% by the end of 2024. While there were 5.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

Builders are trying to catch up and, according to federal officials , there are more housing units under construction today than at any time in the last 50 years. An annual survey released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said renters put the probability of ever owning a home at 40%, down from 44% last year.

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beyond labor strife, America’s home buyers and sellers appear to be on strike as well. October figures from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service strongly suggest prospective buyers and sellers are taking a wait-and-see approach. New listings in King were off 26% month-to-month (1583) and Active listings were down 9.4% (2296).

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

Others are specializing in the design and construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as detached backyard homes (also known as “ mother-in-laws ”). The national trend for new construction, however, is generally moving in the opposite direction. In the 1990s, one-third of new homes were smaller than 1800 sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 13, 2023

This means the negative YoY price decline – which is in a range of minus 7%-11%, depending on the submarket – will slowly return to positive territory, likely by early 2024. Supply of resale housing (as opposed to new construction) is shrinking across our region. In March, 33% of homes listed for sale in the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

just as Google opens another office building in Kirkland and Microsoft expands its 120-structure Redmond campus with plans for 17 new office buildings. All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Roughly 20 million Millennials will be entering their 30s, typically the time they purchase their first home, between now and 2024. Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. million individuals annually.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To a happy 2024! = What does 2024 look like for the national housing scene and across Seattle/King County? I offer two observations gleaned from a lot of reading and speaking with experts: Mortgage rates, falling for roughly the past two months, will likely start with a “6” in the first half of 2024. 19) at 10am PT.

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