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Housing Wire
JUNE 28, 2022
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. Also, certain investors felt no fear post-2020.
Housing Wire
MARCH 18, 2022
However, a seller is also a natural homebuyer, unless they’re an investor. As you can see from this NAR report, cash buyers as a percent of sales is slightly lower now than levels in 2016. However, distressed sales are down a lot today compared to back then, and sales to investors are 19% today compared to 16% back then.
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Housing Wire
MAY 26, 2022
That’s not the case now because we have’t had a credit boom post-2010 as we did from 2002 to 2005. The Baby Boomers are not selling their homes en masse, and we have more investors providing shelter for renters than before. If you connect the lines, you can see where we are on a historical basis. What is going on here?
Housing Wire
JULY 19, 2022
real estate investors and affordable homes. Some buyers had to wait forever before they could lock in their rate, meaning they didn’t qualify for their homes as rates moved up so fast. We never saw the credit sales boom as we did from 2002-2005, so the builders themselves are in a better position to manage their future.
Housing Wire
JANUARY 20, 2023
From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. This means we don’t have enough housing inventory available because with lending standards back to normal we can’t replicate the credit demand we saw in housing from 2002-2005.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Then everyone went crazy on investors and iBuyers , suggesting that these people were holding up the entire housing market. I understand that grifters have to keep the grift going, but not even the Joker would say that the housing market lives off investors and not mortgage buyers.
Housing Wire
MAY 18, 2023
We don’t have a massive credit boom as purchase application data is at historical lows; we haven’t had the same run-up in credit as we saw from 2002-2005. This is why I always draw the black line on the chart below — to show people that we haven’t had a credit boom for many years.
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