Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2023

The housing market has been wild the last few years, making weekly data more critical. This is why I’ve created the Housing Market Tracker — a weekly analysis of purchase apps, housing inventory and mortgage rates that will be published every Monday. We had some exciting data after the weaker CPI report in November.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Housing inventory is near all-time lows, but big institutional investors like Invitation Homes or BlackRock aren’t to blame. The 44% claim was made in the headline for a Medium article last week and then spread like wildfire all over social media. The answer is no — not even close. since 2000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

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.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2023

The recent growth broke that streak, but demand is still low. Active housing inventory grew while new listing data fell. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,041 weekly. But, last year we had the biggest waterfall collapse in purchase application data ever for a single year, and since Nov.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. Since May 15, that trend has continued to the point that inventory in America is now negative year over year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Active housing inventory , thankfully, saw some decent growth last week. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,914 week to week, even though new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023. We might get some short-term reprieve in bond yields and mortgage stress.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

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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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. We see this in the data. We see this in the data. Last year we had COVID-19 comps.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2023

Last week, mortgage rates hit a 21st-century high, the 10-year yield closed slightly higher than my peak forecast for 2023 , and housing inventory growth was still slow. Weekly housing inventory Mortgage rates have been near or above 7% for the last few months, and active listings growth has been slow during this tenure.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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. Understanding this data line and what it is trying to tell you will be more valuable than erroneously thinking the market is crashing and we’ll see a wave of foreclosures.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. They increased the Federal Funds Rate from nearly 0% at the start of 2022 to 4.5% in September 2022. They eased below 6.5% overnight.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. We might only be a few weeks into 2023, but these first weeks have been rich with informative data.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Today new home sales beat estimates , and new home median sales prices hit an all-time high. My job is always to be the detective, not the troll so let’s take a look at today’s data, as there is a constant theme here that I have talked about for some time. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

New home sales are up 20% year over year, and existing home sales are down 20% year over year; this is something we don’t see very often. Last year a theme of mine was that new home sales are historically low, and the builders know how to move products when needed. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

Tuesday’s report on new home sales came in as a miss of estimates and prior revisions were all negative. This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. “I don’t expect a boom in housing construction. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

In this HW+ Slack Q&A , Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami gives the inside scoop on where rates are headed, whether or not he has updates to his 2022 forecast and more. As a member of HW+, you can us join for regular 30-minute Slack Q&As, where we invite the HW Media newsroom to break down the hottest topics in the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Home prices are skyrocketing, housing inventory is at all-time lows and homebuyers have to contend with multiple bids. In time, markets always find balance and balance is a good thing. But, that doesn’t mean housing is going to crash. Can this last? No, it can’t.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Reports on housing data are headline-driven, and headlines are designed to cause folks to overreact in both positive and negative ways. But, we hadn’t seen that moderation in any meaningful way until today’s new home sales data. But, we hadn’t seen that moderation in any meaningful way until today’s new home sales data.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? Weekly inventory increased by 1,734. The economic data was OK last week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. We started the year with many pundits saying that the U.S. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. The housing crash addicts in America have now been wrong for a decade. What a year 2021 has been.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Most of the time, the economy is like a slow-moving ocean liner that changes direction gradually and without much effort. Even in the extreme conditions of COVID-19, my general premise on housing economics predicted that the two variables with the most influence — demographics and mortgage rates — would hold up the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

As a member of HW+, you get access to 30-minute Slack Q&As, where we invite the HW Media newsroom to break down the hottest topics in the industry. HousingWire: The best way to start is to talk about purchase application data, can you break that down for us? What have we seen this year?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. And what if those market conditions drive home prices up to new price peaks at the same time that mortgage rates are rising and inflation is at levels not seen in 40 years?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate loans averaged 2.96% in 2021, a record low annual average, and are expected to rise this year. for 30-year fixed-rate loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

In this HW+ Slack Q&A , Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami gives the inside scoop on where rates are headed, whether or not he has updates to his 2022 forecast and more. As a member of HW+, you can us join for regular 30-minute Slack Q&As, where we invite the HW Media newsroom to break down the hottest topics in the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

As a member of HW+, you can us join for regular 30-minute Slack Q&As, where we invite the HW Media newsroom to break down the hottest topics in the industry. HousingWire: To begin, how is the supply data looking this year now that we are in April? on a year-over-year basis, and we are in April!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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. Public health officials note that we have many more tools to address this latest — and likely not the last — challenge.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million and that means we have had back-to-back existing home sales prints of over 6.2 million, that would mean it’s a good year for housing demand. million, that would mean it’s a good year for housing demand. However, the key was to not overreact to that moderation and say that housing was crashing. million and 6.2

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. This article is part of our ongoing 2023 Housing Market Forecast series.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Below, Banosian answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article? Below, Banosian answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article?

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

I hope that you all had a nice time off over the past month. We all needed some rest from the crazy housing market we’ve experienced in recent years. Like most markets across the country, the Cleveland area housing market has been red hot for the past few years. Let’s talk about it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In his current leadership position, he oversees all residential operations for the company and is responsible for 48 offices and 1,600 agents in six regions of North and South Carolina. Below, Scott answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Arjun Dhingra, who serves as sales and business development at All Western Mortgage. Creating a large following on Instagram , he offers updates on the housing market, tips on the home-buying process and so much more. HousingWire: What is your current favorite HW+ article?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

The first Fed rate hike isn’t going to take us into a recession, it just raises the second of the six flags we would need to go into a recession. The low unemployment rate isn’t a recession factor, but all expansions end when the unemployment rate is at the lowest level. The implications for the U.S.

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