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Why fewer homes are taking a price cut, even while inventory rises

Housing Wire

While weekly inventory is still falling, we have year-over-year growth in total active listing and new listings data. We might have an average year in housing compared to the past four years! Price-cut percentage Every year, one-third of all homes take a price cut before selling — this is a traditional housing activity.

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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. The housing bubble boys are a crew that from 2012 to 2019 screamed housing crash every year. 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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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory is negative YOY

Housing Wire

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. Since May 15, that trend has continued to the point that inventory in America is now negative year over year. We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov. However, I need to put some context into what happened in 2022.

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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

Housing Wire

But I need to explain why this level has more in common with 2014 housing data than the credit stress markets of 2005-2008, and why you should care. Credit growth in the previous expansion was going to be slow and steady until our household formation data got high enough to get demand higher. nominal per year at most.

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. The last two years have been a wild ride. MBA forecasts that the unemployment rate will dip below 4% next year, ending the year at 3.5%.

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Victoria Real Estate Market 5-Year Predictions

D Fritz Appraisals

What do Experts Think the Victoria, BC Housing Market Will Look Like by 2027? The state of Victoria’s housing market is never far from anyone’s mind, especially for first-time home buyers, those moving to a new area or for people looking to sell. Between 2021 and 2022, house prices in the Victoria, BC region rose by an average of 20%.

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Housing inventory crisis continues in 2022

Housing Wire

Early in 2021, when I was talking about how people should worry about home prices overheating, I had a glimmer of hope that maybe toward the end of 2021 we would be spared another seasonal collapse of inventory. Inventory always falls in the fall and winter, but I hoped it wouldn’t be a repeat of 2020.

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