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Why are existing home prices rising when sales are still so low?

Housing Wire

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in March was $393,500, an increase of 4.8%

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Why higher rates aren’t crashing home prices

Housing Wire

Home prices aren’t crashing, despite what the housing bubble boys are saying. In fact, home prices have firmed up higher recently. Well, it’s June 9, 2023, and home prices have been firm month to month, not showing anything that resembles the housing bubble crash years.

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Existing home sales now outperforming

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for October came in at a solid beat of estimates at 6.34 This number is above my trend sales peak of 6.2 million and that means we have had back-to-back existing home sales prints of over 6.2 million and 6.2 million in 2020.

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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. We needed to end this madness before we had prices escalate over 20% for another year.

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New home sales rebound, but builders are still wary

Housing Wire

Today the Census Bureau ‘ s new home sales report came in as a beat of estimates at 811,000. The bearish take on housing for the second half of 2021 didn’t really pan out, especially in the new home sales sector. months at the current sales rate. They will build as long as new home sales are growing.

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Logan Mohtashami: The 2022 housing forecast

Housing Wire

COVID was a veritable iceberg for our ocean liner economy, but the ship did not go down! For 2022, my range for the 10-year yield is 0.62%-1.94% , similar to 2021. This couldn’t happen in 2020 but should happen in 2021. With those two factors still very much in play, here is my 2022 forecast.

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The 2021 housing market recap by Logan Mohtashami

Housing Wire

What a year 2021 has been. However, not only did the U.S. economy continue to recover from the lows of April of 2020, but the 2021 economic data shows it has been one of the hottest years in many decades. However, not only did the U.S. A bullish housing market. We started the year with many pundits saying that the U.S.