Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Unfortunately, we also had a huge spike in mortgage rates as the chaos of tariffs roiled markets, making U.S. So the question is, will this little bit of market momentum be able to hold up? Unsold inventory of homes on the market has been rising for years and is already at the highest level since 2019 nationally.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Mortgage rates recently hit a year-to-date low, coinciding with ongoing market disruptions from tariffs. The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. Additionally, our weekly pending contract data and new listings are trending positively compared to last year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

housing market is experiencing its largest-ever imbalance between home sellers and buyers, with an estimated 1.9 Two years ago, the market favored buyers. housing market has shifted toward buyers, but a lot of sellers have yet to see or accept the writing on the wall,” Asad Khan, a Redfin senior economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2025

Mortgage spreads recently turned negative due to market volatility, which resulted in an increase of 20 to 25 basis points in mortgage rates. However, as the stock and bond markets have stabilized, mortgage spreads have improved. We’ll see how the markets react to this on Monday. That hasnt happened so far this year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Weve now been in the post-pandemic housing market recession market as long as we were in the pandemic boom. As we look into 2025, the question everyone is asking is: Do we have a new era starting? Does the housing market start to get back to normal? But, the market change isnt evenly distributed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2025

Earlier this year, when mortgage rates soared to 7.26%, a cloud of worry hung over the housing market many feared that home sales would tumble in 2025, fueled by concerns about inflation and tariffs. This unexpected turn of events breathed new life into the market, pushing purchase application data into positive territory for the year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Demand for “have-it-all” properties and the “forever dream home” will shape this spring’s luxury housing market, according to the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury 2024 Mid-Year Trend Report , which forecasts growing optimism among affluent consumers and an influx of desirable inventory. Among specialists, 32.8% elections. “A

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Housing markets across the country are getting a much-needed infusion of inventory, as the number of homes for sale and new listings are running well ahead of last years pace. Four of the six markets with the most inventory per capita are in Texas. San Antonio has the most, with just 208 people per available listing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the current focus is rightfully on containing the blazes and protecting residents, its worth taking stock of where housing markets stand in the affected parts of the Los Angeles metro area. LAs housing market has largely stabilized after the turbulence of the post-pandemic years and the rapid rise of mortgage rates beginning in 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Inventory, new listings, sales, and prices all dipped this week. The election took up a lot of peoples’ lives last week, and that obviously delayed some listing and sales activity, plus we’ve had spiking mortgage rates. We’re also at the seasonal decline time for the housing market.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

Home listings fell in neighborhoods hit by the wildfires, too. Listings slowed a bit in Februarybut not nearly as much as sales. There were 23 new listings in the Palisades, down 12% year-over-year, and 46 new listings in Altadena, down 6%. What Regional Markets Are Gaining Momentum?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The haunted house ride with the bond market and mortgage rates continued this week, but one housing data line hasn’t been spooked. New listing data appears unafraid of the mortgage rate ghost story over the last few months. In the same vein, the bond market is now very oversold.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2025

Let’s dig into the latest Housing Market Tracker data to see what last week brought us. However, recent market volatility has worsened the spreads, which is typically the case historically. Weekly housing inventory data The most encouraging development in the housing market for 2024 and 2025 is the increase in inventory.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. There’s still a lot of first-time homebuyers in the market too. They keep the market healthy.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

24): Inventory fell from 569,898 to 565,875 The all-time inventory bottom was in 2022 at 240,497 The inventory peak for 2024 so far is 739,434 For some context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 1,104,310 New listings data While active inventory didn’t rise, we did get a nice boost in new listings this last week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Prospective homebuyers have more options to choose from in the housing market, which could help spur sales this spring. New listings ticked up by 21% in February compared to last year, according to Zillow ’s February report. New listings ticked up by 21% in February compared to last year, according to Zillow ’s February report.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Zillow also reported that, after a tumultuous five years, many measures of the housing market are trending closer to historic norms. Notably, while the flow of new listings to the market is still nearly 14% lower than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, its much improved to compared to the deficit of 25% in March 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2024

One of my critical forecasts for 2024 was the growth of new listings data and active inventory, even with higher mortgage rates. However, the new listings data has slightly disappointed me. New listings data I am pleased that we’ve seen new listings data grow year over year — it’s a big step forward.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s get into the holiday spirit with this week’s Housing Market Tracker data! Oddly enough, it wasnt jobs week data that moved the bond market this week, but the ISM service index, which came in soft and sent bond yields lower more aggressively. However, like most housing data, this information is quite seasonal.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Despite the Florida hurricanes, and in the face of recently rising mortgage rates , unsold inventory of homes on the market climbed this week by about 1%. The seasonal changes in the housing market are very different from what they used to be with inventory peaking two or three months later in the year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

The New Years week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays fell on Wednesdays this year, which messes up two full weeks in terms of getting home sales done and tracking the numbers. fewer homes on the market that a week ago.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

While the housing market seems like the least of our financial worries right now as stock markets are melting down around the globe, we track housing here at HousingWire, so it opens the question: how quickly could we see impact in the housing market and in which data would we see it first? more new listings than last week.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2024

New listings data has been moving lower over the last few weeks. But, we need to see more growth in new listings data just to grow from 2023 levels. 2023 new listings data was the lowest ever on record, so it’s already a low bar.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. As a result, we’re now only 21% fewer homes on the market than this point in 2019.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. By the end of May there were 38% more homes on the market than the year prior. California and Arizona have 45% more homes unsold on the market now than a year ago. Texas only has 31% more homes on the market. Unsold new listings amount to 4.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Fluctuating interest rates have been a feature of the housing market over the last three years. Our 2025 housing market predictions are based on the assumption that lower mortgage rates will spur demand and boost the number of homes sales transactions. How will the housing market change as these economic assumptions change?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Since mid-2022 when mortgage rates headed higher , two facts have been apparent: new listings data has been trending at the lowest levels ever recorded in history and inventory has been able to grow from record low levels thanks to mortgage rates staying elevated. Let’s see what the data for last week tells us.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For Willoughby, founder of The Jaymes Willoughby Team with Keller Williams Realty , off-market listings are a gamble that rarely pays off for sellers. Youre artificially limiting your market. Lets be honest.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

This situation contrasts with the challenges the market faced in 2023, during the banking crisis when the Federal Reserve was still raising rates. However, this year, mortgage spreads are getting better, meaning that the damage from higher bond yields is getting limited compared to the market of 2023. Weekly inventory change (Jan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Boston-based negotiation platform Final Offer announced the launch of its new Private Exclusive Listings (PX) feature this week. The new platform will be available in all markets that Final Offer operates in. Matching listings appear on the client’s saved search channels, alongside MLS listings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. Some markets are much slower than others. Inventory is up There are now 632,000 single-family homes unsold on the market around the U.S. When will that be?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

There were 45,000 new listings for single-family homes across the country this week, which is a big jump. Unlike a lot of forecasters in the mortgage world, a few months ago our projection included the notion that with strong jobs data and some inflation fears, the bond market could indeed push mortgage rates over 7%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

According to the most recent credit data from the New York Fed , foreclosure data for the housing market is still below 2019 levels. Late-cycle lending risk is always a factor in every economic cycle we experience in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

There are three big trends in the spring 2025 housing market: Supply continues to build. This is measurable in both the total unsold inventory and the number of new listings each week. Thirty-five percent of the homes on the market have taken a price cut from the original list price. That implies price pressures.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

New listings were unchanged at 54,077. Redfin considers four to five months of supply as balanced, with a lower number suggesting ideal sellers market conditions. Days on the market increased by six days year-over-year to 45 days, indicating a less competitive market. points year over year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2025

The luxury housing market lost momentum in April as financial uncertainty prompted many high-end buyers and sellers to hold off on transactions, according to a new report from Zillow. Despite a slowdown in market activity, prices have continued to rise, with luxury home values increasing 2.7% is now valued at about $1.8

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