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Housing Market Tracker: Still no spring inventory lift

Housing Wire

Last week was relatively calm for the housing market after the fiasco of the banking crisis. Housing demand grew and inventory levels fell again while mortgage rates rose. Active inventory fell by 3,141, and new listing data fell again and is still trending at all-time lows. Inventory is incredibly tight.

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Will we start 2022 with all-time lows in housing inventory?

Housing Wire

My biggest concern for housing in the years 2020-2024 was that if the demographic push in demand picks up and total home sales get over 6. 2 million , we could be at risk of housing inventory falling to such low levels that I would have to categorize this housing market as unhealthy. 2020 and 2021 easily each have over 6.2

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A closer look at housing markets across the country

Housing Wire

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. San Diego’s growing economic divisions come through in the city’s housing market.

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Here’s why new home sales are up along with prices

Housing Wire

From Census: New Home Sales Sales of new single-family houses in October 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 632,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 2005, when the housing bubble peaked in sales at around 1.4

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Appraisers and Local Market Analysis

Appraisal Today

Inventory levels. My comments: Read this article, including the case study. The house was built in 1988, so someone had bought the parcel that featured a deconstructed vault,” Maiser adds. Steve and his sweet wife, Renae, live in the wilds of Mississippi where he’s been an appraiser for 30 years. By Steve Sanders.

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Tips on appraising new construction homes

Appraisal Today

The other two characters, Hem and Haw, commiserate and complain that the cheese is gone. Read this article and the classic book. ‘Prairie House’ in Oklahoma with Swirling Cedar Shingles. Excerpts: The 1960 ‘prairie house’ in Norman, Oklahoma is an important piece of American architecture history.