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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory finally rises

Housing Wire

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory data. In 2022, home sales collapsed in a waterfall fashion.

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Housing Market Tracker: Purchase apps jump 25%

Housing Wire

Here’s the housing market rundown for the last week: Purchase application data had a solid week-to-week gain of 25%. Housing inventory decreased by 566 units, which is not a significant decline. Mortgage rates fell, but the bond market didn’t break what I see as a critical level, so for now, stabilization is more important.

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Red-hot US housing market begins to cool

Housing Wire

Though the demand for homes remained strong across the United States in August, there are clear signs that the housing market is past its peak. Why today’s housing market makes speed and agility crucial for lenders. Why today’s housing market makes speed and agility crucial for lenders.

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Homebuyers are extremely pessimistic about the housing market

Housing Wire

Despite continued home price appreciation and a volatile mortgage rate environment that has resulted in the least affordable housing market in decades, there remains a minority of consumers who still feel that now is a good time to buy a home. The housing market index fell 1.2 Presented by: Calyx.

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Single-family rents soar in tight housing market

Housing Wire

Profit margin compression and a tight housing market – What’s a lender to do? Black Knight Managing Director Rob Kessel explains how lenders can better price loans and remain competitive in today’s tight housing market. Presented by: Black Knight.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory drops by 11,000

Housing Wire

The housing market faced some serious obstacles last week as the 10-year yield broke over 4%, mortgage rates rose to over 7%, purchase apps fell again and we are still trying to find the elusive seasonal bottom for housing inventory. The week ahead We have some big things happening in housing market data this week!

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Opinion: The best way to honor our past is to protect borrowers in the present

Housing Wire

For some, their present lives are troubled, often through no fault of their own. After two years of a down housing market that followed on the heels of two years of an extremely hot market, everyone wants to know when the business will return. Like the cities they inhabit, many have had a troubled past.