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Opinion: Riding the wave

Housing Wire

In Denver in particular, new listings increased 29.12% month-over-month and 22.63% year-over-year. Active listings at month’s end rose 13.14% to 5,511 homes, an astounding 45.87% gain year-over-year. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. In 2024, the housing market is set to continue on.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory falls even lower

Housing Wire

The seasonal housing inventory bottom evaded us again last week as active listings fell and new listing inventory decreased. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory fell 5,383 last week, and new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023.

Inventory 535
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Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory falls

Housing Wire

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. New listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2021 abd 2022 and now it’s creating a new all-time low trend in 2023.

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

During that period, we saw new listing data decline. However, in 2020 new listing data came back, and we don’t want to see the new listings continue to decline this year — that would be a double negative for the housing market.

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Housing Market Tracker: Banking crisis is a new variable

Housing Wire

New listing data collapsed, but we are putting an asterisk on that data line for this week. Now the bad news: new listing data fell so much this week that I am putting an asterisk on this week’s data until we see if this is a trend or just a one-off in the weekly data that can occur from time to time.

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

Nor can we ever have a credit sales boom again with lending standards back to normal. Total Inventory had been growing from 2001-2005; total listings data in 2005 was at the higher historical range of 2.5 million listings. I don’t need to see total active listing get back to the historical range of 2-2.5 From Redfin.

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The housing market faces a three-pronged challenge

Housing Wire

in recent months due to a combination of falling demand and a weakening inflow of new listings. About 25% fewer homes were listed for sale in January than normal, which is why inventory fell last month, despite home sales hitting more than a seven-year low. Months of supply stagnated at about 3.1 With 30-year rates at 6.5%