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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

Existing home sales have more legs to go lower, especially now that new listing data is falling. A traditional primary resident seller is also a buyer, which means if they don’t list, they’re not just taking a potential home to be bought off the table — they’re taking a future sale off the books as well. million to 1.28

Inventory 458
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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 million Historically inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5 Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5% to a high of 7.37% — purely savage.

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Housing Market Predictions for 2022 and Other Appraisal News

McKissock

Plus, what will it take to modernize the appraisal process? Read on for this week’s appraisal news and insights. “Higher mortgage rates will end double-digit price growth and new listings will hit a 10-year high,” predicts Redfin. Opinion: The path to modernizing the appraisal process.

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

Inventory, which has been falling for years, broke to all-time lows in 2020. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. Of course, this has brought back some inventory, as demand weakness always creates inventory through accumulation. million active listings, but at just 1.28

Sellers 504
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The savagely unhealthy housing market is over

Housing Wire

This facilitated the biggest decline in existing home sales for a single year that we will ever see in modern-day history due to the high level of sales in January of 2022. However, the second is that inventory is simply too low, with too many people chasing too few homes, which means too many bidding wars.

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December Real Estate Market Update

Listing Spark

Across the major markets in Texas, our December real estate market update shows clear data points that we are ending the year in one of the strongest seller’s markets we have seen in modern history. . Months of Inventory (1.2 Months of Inventory (Compared to 3.3 Months of Inventory: (down 1.4 this time last year).

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Remove all bathtubs from home?

Appraisal Today

This outlook implies that 30-year mortgage rates will climb further to around 6.8% – exacerbating affordability headwinds for the housing market, especially for prospective first-time home buyers. Advice for residential real estate appraisers In summary, appraisers must strike a balance in today’s housing market. percent the previous week.