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Dave Stevens on understanding this housing market

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I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector.

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Millions will enter housing market in 2021: Zillow

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And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. Specifically, housing markets like Portland, Maine , Bay City, Mich. markets; by December 2020, prices were already up 23.6%

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Build-for-rent is a bet on the ‘new normal’ housing market

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Through much of 2022, however, build-for-rent housing remained a hot ticket, with supply continuing to increase, “even with the economy showing signs of volatility and capital costs increasing,” according to a November special report from Minneapolis-based Northmarq. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

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The nation’s housing market is on a correction course

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Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. Freddie Mac projects that home-price growth will average 12.8%

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Home equity is the bright gem of the housing market

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Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity.

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Opinion: CoreLogic’s Selma Hepp on the effects of ‘pandemic migration’

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cities, wage inequality and housing markets in general. As these workers and firms cluster in smaller cities, they develop their own agglomeration economies and positive knowledge spillovers, i.e. co-location of talent and creative workers results in economic and knowledge benefits to local economies and its residents.

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New home sales fell again in February

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month-over-month in January , new home sales were down again in February, decreasing 2.0% Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Year-over-year, new home sales were down 6.2% At the end of February, an estimated 407,000 new homes were still for sale, which at the current sales rate represents a 6.3