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Promising signs abound for 2024 housing market

Housing Wire

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market. New listings and home sales remain low this week while available inventory of unsold homes is finally falling across the country after rising with mortgage rates late into November.

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Altos: Sellers are coming back to the housing market, can buyers keep up?

Housing Wire

New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. But home sellers are gradually easing back into this housing market. New listings volume climbing I want to start today with the new listings volume, which is notably finally climbing over last year’s anemic levels.

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The 2023 housing market is at odds with itself

Housing Wire

All major housing market metrics point to a restrained housing market. The number of new listings coming on the market this spring is lower than it has been in more than a decade. Sales and new pending contracts are below pre-pandemic levels. What can we expect in 2023?

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Real estate momentum slows as interest rates rise again: Altos

Housing Wire

For several weeks, I’ve been reporting data that shows the housing market growing in 2024. Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. Our immediate sales metric of homes that get offers within a couple days of listing also slowed. There were just 1.4%

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Housing inventory is seeing unusual gains in November. Should we be worried? 

Housing Wire

It looks like this is evidence that housing markets are returning to normal rather than a case of sellers panicking, but it’s worth keeping an eye on. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. This week, the available inventory of unsold single-family homes crept up minimally.

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The strong spring real estate market will surprise you: Altos

Housing Wire

These are very clear trends as we start the new year. Could the housing market change and slow again in 2024? The data does not show any slowing on any of the active market metrics. There are now 247,000 single family homes in contract. That is 4.25% more homes in contract now than last year at this time.

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When it comes to home sales, August is the new May, keeping agents busy into the fall

Housing Wire

Rather than a typically busy spring home-buying season , the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the bulk of home-buying this year into the summer months, and real estate agents are busier than ever. Since homebuying season was pushed back from this spring, realtor.com ’s Housing Market Recovery Index reported that August is the new May.

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