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What’s pushing mortgage rates higher?

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates and bond yields kept rising Tuesday as the job openings unexpectedly increased more than anticipated. But is that job openings data legit today? And will job openings continue higher, pushing mortgage rates even higher in the future? What about the report itself?

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Housing Market Tracker: Still no spring inventory lift

Housing Wire

Housing demand grew and inventory levels fell again while mortgage rates rose. Mortgage rates rose to 6.57%. Purchase applications data rose for the fourth straight week, which continues the streak of 2023, having more positive weekly data than negative. Inventory is incredibly tight.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory is negative YOY

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates rose last week after the better-than-anticipated jobless claims data but even with higher rates, we also had a third week of positive purchase application data. A traditional seller is also a traditional buyer, and certain homeowners have refused to buy their next home with mortgage rates above 6%.

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Better inflation data won’t sway the Fed

Housing Wire

The Consumer Price Index data released Wednesday showed again that the breakaway 1970s-style inflation is not happening, even with an expanding economy and an unemployment rate under 4%. Pivoting doesn’t mean they’ll cut rates, it just means they’ll change their language describing the economy.

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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 pandemic, as well as policymakers, continue to have the ability to send shocks through the system.

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Value of a Pool for Homes?

Appraisal Today

More pools at higher prices Here’s a look at the percentage of homes sold with pools by price range in a few local counties. In short, the higher the price, the greater chance of having a pool. million, the French provincial pad is positioned on a sprawling quarter-acre lot in an exclusive neighborhood called the Strand.

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NAR Member Survey on Appraisal Data Collectors

Appraisal Today

Broker-Associates and Appraisal Licensees accounted for 13% and two percent, respectively, while the remaining two percent reported holding other types of real estate licenses. Not very positive. Read the full report. I am working on an article on Hybrid Appraisals for the November issue of Appraisal Today.