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Are mortgage rates about to fall?

Housing Wire

Here’s the new listings data for last week over the last several years: 2024: 68,843 2023: 61,911 2022: 73,107 Price-cut percentage In an average year, one-third of all homes take a price cut — this is standard housing activity. The slope of the curve in 2024 is much slower than we saw in 2022.

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The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022

Housing Wire

After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. In July 2022, new listings volume per week dropped from 90,000 at the end of June to approximately 74,000 just after the July 4th holiday. We see the same pattern in the new listings rate each week.

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Get more real estate buyer leads in 2024

Housing Wire

Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. Your approach to connecting with buyers should be as diverse and dynamic as the market itself, adapting to changes and embracing new technologies.

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The Forecast for the Atlanta Real Estate Market in 2024

Hank Miller Team

What is the forecast for the Atlanta real estate market in 2024? We can however, develop supported opinions by combining recent data, extensive local experience and cautious interpretation of the variables mentioned above. This assumes that no new listings are added to the market. They cannot.

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Indiana’s housing market is primed to bounce back in 2024

Housing Wire

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” But as the calendar flipped to 2024 and as we inch closer to the spring selling season, Fischer said things have started to pick up. in mid-January 2024. as of February 29, 2024. According to Altos Research, as of Feb.

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Signs point to more inventory this spring: Altos

Housing Wire

Home sellers are starting to ease back into the market, new listings are finally exceeding the levels of a year ago. It’s a positive development. The number of homes for sale and the number that are being sold are both climbing into 2024 over last year. The market had about 49,000 new listings this week.

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Are you fighting margin compression with data or guesses? 

Housing Wire

The words “think” and “guess” have no place in your playbook for how to avoid margin compression and keep profits up in 2024. But, the really painful trend is new listings data. New listings data is trending at the lowest levels ever recorded in U.S. That took another downfall toward the middle part of last year.