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Spring housing market gets more inventory

Housing Wire

Active weekly housing inventory growth slowed slightly last week, but it’s still running at a healthier clip than in 2023. I have a simple model with mortgage rates being above 7.25%: weekly inventory data should grow between 11,000-17,000 per week. When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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Here’s what you can expect from the 2024 housing market

Housing Wire

Going more in-depth than a Fed meeting, our virtual Housing Market Update event provides you with the strategy-building insights needed to operate in 2024. It’s a savagely unhealthy housing market out there, and these economists unpack what that means for you. Register for the virtual event on Dec.

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Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates and inventory fall together

Housing Wire

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.

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Will higher mortgage rates cool the housing market?

Housing Wire

Higher treasury yields have pushed mortgage rates higher, but will higher rates cool the housing market? HW+ includes weekly long-form digital content, HousingWire Magazine, access to HousingStack, and free admission to all HousingWire virtual events. The post Will higher mortgage rates cool the housing market?

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The Red-Hot Housing Market

Housing Wire

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register. But more recently, market conditions have done an about-face. at the end of 2022.

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Low mortgage rates impact on the housing market

Housing Wire

This is the third installment of our economist Q&A series of the top housing market forecasts for 2021 that focus on everything from home sales to mortgage rates. HW+ includes weekly long-form digital content, HousingWire Magazine, access to HousingStack, and free admission to all HousingWire virtual events.