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Are existing home sales showing a housing bubble?

Housing Wire

The second part of this story that folks seem to forget is that the existing home sales market only needs 4 million mortgage buyers a year to remain stable. Note too, that the housing market for the last many years has been composed of 15-20% cash buyers – that is a big chunk of buyers that don’t need a mortgage in order to purchase.

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Don’t be surprised if a 61-year-old white woman buys your house

Housing Wire

Newly released data from the annual profile of home buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows just how dramatically this trend has manifested since the financial crisis of 2008. While the median age of buyers gradually increased over the course of two decades, the COVID-19 pandemic sped it up.

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Existing home sales are still too hot

Housing Wire

Because housing demand is at pre-cycle highs, we can infer home prices are not an issue for most buyers. nominal home price growth every year for the next several years, affordability will be an issue for some buyers. However, this does not mean that real home prices may grow at an unhealthy pace in the years 2020-2024.

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. This is because the biggest buyers of homes are mortgage buyers.

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Wow — 6 million existing home sales! However, context is key with 2020 housing market data

Housing Wire

Because housing is becoming an outperforming asset, we may see an increase in cash buyers in 2021 as a percent of sales. The majority of home buyers in America buy homes to live in, not for an investment. This is the big difference between the housing market now and what we saw in 2002-2005, when we saw a lot of speculation going on.

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Copycat commission lawsuits continue as Illinois homebuyers take action

Housing Wire

In addition to the claims about artificially inflated agent commissions, the suit also alleges that NAR and its affiliated MLSs allowed agents to filter properties by commission amount, and that “NAR ethics rules allowed buyer-agents to show these filtered properties with higher commissions to buyers.”

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US home prices continued to rally in July 2023

Housing Wire

. “This is about the same rate of price growth that occurred during the 2002 through 2006 period when subprime lending drove exuberant housing demand. “But that is where the similarities end.

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