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Mortgage rates surge to highest level since 2000

Housing Wire

Just before noon on Thursday, they were Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.31% as of Sept. 28, up 12 basis point from last week ’s 7.19%.

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FHFA Launches New Housing Market Data Resources

Appraisal Buzz

Each tracks quarterly price trends across the country since 2000 based on individual home repeat sales. FHFA’s new data resource on manufactured homes provides relevant, up-to-date information on an important but less-understood segment of the housing market,” said FHFA Director Sandra L. Thompson. “In

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House flipping hits lowest level since 2000

Housing Wire

of all home sales in the first quarter of 2021 were flips — or one in 37 transactions, the lowest level since 2000. homes flipped in the first quarter of 2021, 10 percent were sold to buyers using loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), down from 11.6% were flipped in the first quarter. Of the 32,526 U.S.

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Homeowners Have Zero Incentive to Upsize in This Current Housing Market  

Appraisal Buzz

Compare this to 2000-2022, when upgrading to a 25% more expensive home would have required the average homeowner to increase their principal and interest payment by only 40%, or about $400 per month, according to the report.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

This time the hit on demand is much more challenging as we are working from a savagely unhealthy rise in home prices since 2000, and mortgage rates have skyrocketed in the most prominent fashion in modern history. Also, I believed the risk to the housing market was if home prices grew more than 23% over the five years of 2020-2024.

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

Housing Wire

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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You can’t buy what’s not for sale in the housing market

Housing Wire

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.