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New homes are selling like it’s 2006 again

Housing Wire

Low mortgage rates and incredible buyer demand won out over pressure from soaring lumber prices in March as single-family new home sales rose 20.7% This is the fastest sales pace since September 2006. With so many buyers snatching up new homes at the ready, inventory fell to 3.6 from February to a 1.02 Census Bureau.

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The last time houses were this unaffordable was 2006

Housing Wire

housing was the least affordable ever back in July 2006 when it took 34.1% Potential borrowers who’ve been priced out of the housing market need to be able to compete with an increasingly growing share of cash buyers and investors who are beating them in bidding wars. percentage points of the prior record,” Graboske added.

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Buyers viewed just eight homes before making their purchase

Housing Wire

Right after the Great Recession, between 2009 and 2011, buyers viewed a median of 12 homes before purchasing, as inventory was plentiful. From 2004 to 2006, during the housing boom years, even though homes were moving at a rapid pace, buyers typically looked at nine homes.

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MSR market is partying like it’s 2006

Housing Wire

Regardless, he said that hasn’t stopped buyers from paying “five times and greater multiples for certain agency offerings.”. The post MSR market is partying like it’s 2006 appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing starts are rising, despite cost to buyers

Housing Wire

More than a quarter of single-family homes for sale during the first quarter were new-construction homes — nearly 26%, and March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply. ” However, the U.S.

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Equity surge boosts homeowner net worth by $208K: John Burns 

Housing Wire

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

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How housing credit is shaping housing inventory

Housing Wire

You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. Demographics also play a role here.

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