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

Housing Wire

“First-time buyers face high home prices, high mortgage interest rates and limited inventory, making them a decade older with significantly higher incomes than previous generations of buyers. The trendline is startling.

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. That’s not the case now because we have’t had a credit boom post-2010 as we did from 2002 to 2005. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52 What is going on here? housing market.

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Low housing inventory a win for homebuilders

Housing Wire

If there’s one sector of the economy that benefits from the very low levels of total housing inventory , it’s the homebuilders , but for a reason you might not think. If national housing inventory were back to normal, we would have 2 to 2.5 That will be a much better environment for the builders. his represents a supply of 8.2

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Logan Mohtashami unpacks the slow train wreck that’s been happening in housing inventory

Housing Wire

HW+ Member: What’s the number one question you are getting from the real estate agent community on the economy and housing market? I always try to focus people on the total inventory data until we get inventory back into a range of 1.52-1.93 The big difference now than, let’s say, what we saw from 2002-2008.

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Dominion Financial launches third-party origination program for investment properties

Housing Wire

Dominion Financial Services , a Baltimore -based private lender with products tailored to real estate investors , has launched a third-party origination program for mortgage brokers, according to an announcement on Thursday. investors are “finding creative ways“ to acquire and redevelop real estate.

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Donald R. Horton, founder of the largest U.S. homebuilder, dies

Housing Wire

Horton, who was involved in the real estate and homebuilding industries since 1972, served as chairman of D.R. since 2002. At the end of March, the company had 45,000 homes in inventory. Horton , the largest homebuilder by volume in the U.S., has died at the age of 74, the company announced on Friday morning.

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Is the Dallas Fed right to label this a housing bubble?

Housing Wire

We aren’t anywhere close to the housing bubble dynamics we had from 2002 to 2008; that environment is simply impossible to replicate. Especially in a year when inventory has crashed to all-time lows and demand for those houses is still so high. This got smashed in two years, and inventory levels broke to all-time lows this year.