Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

The June housing starts data beat estimates with positive revisions, however, this doesn’t change the housing market recession call that I made last month. The housing completion data has been the most frustrating data line we have dealt with for years. One might even say this housing market is still savagely unhealthy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Talk to a real estate agent about expectations for the fall and they’ll likely mention that the housing market will be slow due in part to the election, a belief in the industry that’s become rote. But do these potential buyers have any bearing on overall home sales?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

In a sense, the gridlocked housing market has been feeding on itself,” Andy Walden , VP of enterprise research strategy at Black Knight, said. This is compounding the challenges for potential home buyers and the origination market alike, Walden said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Meanwhile, homeowners who bought in January 2000, January 2006 and January 2013 have received boosts of $414,000, $338,000, and $343,000, respectively. trillion in home equity at the end of 2023, up from $15 trillion in 2006, the previous peak of the housing cycle. Overall, U.S. homeowners held $31.8 Overall, U.S. homeowners held $31.8

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

The second occurred in October 2023 when mortgage rates peaked at their highest point since 2000. Data continues to reflect seller-friendly market conditions as the median sale price reached another record high of $439,716 — up 5.1% year over year. That was up from 13.2% in May 2023 and close to the record high of 21.7% in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

annual increase in nominal house prices , and a 0.3 For home buyers, holding prices constant, the only way to mitigate the loss of affordability caused by higher mortgage rates is with an equivalent, if not greater, increase in household income,” Fleming said. since January 2000. between February and March 2024 but increased 0.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

homeownership rate was close to a record high in census data going back to 2000. While rising interest rates affected all homebuyers, this impact was more pronounced among Hispanic households, many of whom are first-time buyers with lower median incomes and who live in higher priced markets,” according to NAHREP. of overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

Homebuilder confidence is continuing to trend upward this spring, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Lack of existing inventory continues to drive buyers to new construction,” Robert Dietz , the NAHB’s chief economist, said in a statement. “In

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash. metro areas going back to 2000. Although the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 25, 2024

Originally benchmarked to a level of 100 January 2000, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index has reached an all-time high of 320.42 percentage points slower than the prior month’s annual pace.” “This month’s indexes cover home sales in February, March, and April, in what is typically a seasonal ramp-up period for the housing market.

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Housing Market Collapse? Housing Market Collapse? The housing market has taken a few hits, such as a doubling of mortgage rates in 2022, but it remains solid even if legitimate news providers suggest doom and gloom. housing market is suffering some cracks, but an outright collapse is nowhere in sight.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

Housing permits aren’t collapsing by any means, but the permits data is backward-looking. As rates rise, this will impact the builders more as they try to find buyers for current homes in cancellation. From Census: Housing Starts Privately?owned owned housing starts in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,549,000.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The forecast for the housing market is expected to get gloomier next year before rebounding to 2022 levels in 2024. The mortgage market is projected to slip further, however, to $1.74 With rates at escalated levels, it is affecting home buyers facing affordability challenges. . million in 2022 before dropping to 4.42

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

As we can see in the data below, the days on the market fell back down to 29 days. NAR: First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in March; Individual investors purchased 17% of homes; All-cash sales accounted for 27% of transactions; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 29 days.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Inventory has remained low as sellers are locked into their low mortgage rates, even as many home buyers are turned away from this market due to affordability constraints amid volatile mortgage rates,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement. The 10-city home price index also posted a 0.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. Measuring the housing deficit. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Institutional real estate investors — often mammoth operators with ties to Wall Street — gobbled up record amounts of inventory in almost every corner of the pandemic-induced fever dream that was the 2021 housing market, with one notable exception: distressed properties sold at foreclosure auction. Bulk Buyer Bonanza.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How hot is the housing market? There is certainly no shortage of indicators, but three in particular were published in the last week: the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the All-Transactions House Price Index from the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency and the MSA-level “hotness” scores from Realtor.com.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cutting prices is one of several mechanisms homebuilders have employed to keep buyers interested since rates began skyrocketing. Homebuilders are also pacing the number of homes they bring to market. The median sales price for new homes likewise fell 3% to $409,300 from September.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

Weakening economic outlook, high inflation and affordability challenges took a toll on buyer demand, leading to a drop in both purchase and refi applications last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, declined 6.3%

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

Keeping stock of manufactured home supply According to 2021 American Housing Survey (AHS) , compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Census Bureau, the nation’s manufactured housing market provides affordable housing to nearly 6.7 million households own the land and unit, 1.8

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

As an Irish immigrant to the United States in 1996 who became a real estate broker in 2000, I can tell you this: The U.S. They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers. Home buyers like my mother and father outside the U.S. experience.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

The housing market is in a recession, something that the homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors now agree with me on, as this recent CNBC clip shows. Over the years, I have tried to emphasize that the housing market in the U.S. This is below the recession levels of 2000 and back to 1996 levels.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

New home sales are now below the recession levels of 2000 and have fallen all the way to 1996 levels, when interest rates were near 8%. Currently, the builders have buyers to occupy those homes, excluding those that cancel the transaction at closing. When rates do fall, we can see that the 5% level brought some buyers into this market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They don’t ever have to have the conversation about how low their total payment is in the new home they’re buying, unlike some of their buyers (which explains higher cancellation rates). They still have a lot of work to do here, so we shouldn’t expect anything good to come from the housing permits side of the economy in 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 12, 2024

Brian Cullen is CEO and Co-Founder of SingleSource (founded in 2000), a provider of property services supporting the U.S. housing industry. Brian’s responsibilities include daily oversight of all aspects of the company as well as various strategic sales and marketing initiatives. Q: What is the downside of vacant properties?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

The last time it happened was in August 2000, according to Freddie Mac. ” The housing market According to Ratiu, viewed from the perspective of the past 20 years, the current 30-year fixed mortgage has high watermark rates. “You would think that with rates going into the highest all of a sudden, buyers would stall.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates from 2000 to today. Another issue that led to the housing crash of 2008, was unqualified buyers who were able to secure mortgages on homes they couldn’t really afford. This created an even more severe shortage of available housing for buyers to choose from. And the saga continues.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 10, 2024

Allegations of collusion to inflate compensation paid to both buyer and seller agents in transactions prompted this landmark settlement, estimated at a staggering $418M. While the NAR denies any wrongdoing, the proposed settlement promises significant changes in how business is conducted in the real estate market.

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Empire Appraisal Group

APRIL 13, 2023

The surge in borrowing costs after years of soaring home prices pulled the housing market into a deep slump. At the expense of less healthy profit margins, homebuilders reduced prices and began offering incentives like covering buyers’ closing costs. Sales of new U.S.

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Birmingham Appraisal

AUGUST 14, 2024

An Interesting Trend Among New Homes As a residential real estate appraiser in the Birmingham, AL market for over 30 years I have seen many changes in new home construction. Census Bureau, home size steadily increased from 1999 through 2008/2009, which we all know was when the housing market crashed.

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Empire Appraisal Group

DECEMBER 16, 2021

That percentage of investor buyers is an increase from 16.1% With cash-rich investors taking the housing market by storm, many individual homebuyers have found it tough to compete,” Bokhari said. The good news for those buyers is that the housing market has started to cool. SEATTLE – Almost 1 in 5 U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 19, 2024

Economic Update: Housing Market Outlook With a presidential election only a few months away and the industry facing many questions and challenges regardless of who occupies the White House in 2025, we have assembled a panel of expert economists to share a forecast of what they anticipate for the remainder of 2024, and for the year to come.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The affordability question is becoming more difficult to justify too, as home prices and interest rates rise amid other challenges facing buyers.“That’s Buyers with the deepest pockets may wait, however. home buyers. For our housing market, it’s time to have that talk. It can often be trying and tiring.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If NAR’s prediction is correct, the space tech boom could also mean a housing boom, which would create opportunities for builders, buyers, and real estate agents alike. How Tech and Aerospace Are Already Impacting the Real Estate Market. The post Could the Race to Space Create New Housing Opportunities?

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is the season when buyers can take advantage of homeowners wishing to sell before the holidays and are showing a willingness to budge on price or make other concessions. We are starting to see all of those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). 1 and Oct.

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