Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Robert Dietz, chief economist for NAHB, said the issues that have limited housing supply in recent years, including land and material availability and a persistent skilled labor shortage, will continue to place upward pressure on construction costs. According to the NAHB, the price of lumber isn’t helping builder confidence either.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

And if three hikes in the federal funds target come to pass, initial rates on ARMs, HELOCs and construction loans (often linked to the bank prime) will likely increase from one-half to three-quarters of a percentage point. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

from its former high in July 2006. Home prices have continued to increase this year as a result of low inventory and high demand for homes. Larger homes have become more popular as more homeowners are working from home, becoming a main driver for construction. census divisions, reported an 8.4% The National Index is now up 24.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Housing demand weakened noticeably as growing concerns about affordability contributed to non-seasonal declines in sales, resulting in a slight increase in inventory and more moderate price appreciation,” states the Federal Reserve’s most recently released Beige Book report — based on data and reports current as of mid-July.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

May’s housing starts rate was actually the highest since April 2022, which was then the highest since 2006. Currently there are 695,000 single-family units under construction, which is actually 136,000 units below the peak in May 2022. Single-family construction deliveries, meanwhile, will likely be more muted.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Inventory is at a record low and homes are selling within a week of being listed – more than two weeks faster than they did in February 2020.”. “This points to potential for more homes being built later in the year, but the number of homes sold that are under construction fell 9.1% after a 10.4% drop in January.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

census divisions rose 7% in September from a year ago, the greatest year-over-year gain since 2014, and nearly 23% higher than its last peak in 2006. uptick reported in August, and represented the largest annual gain since May 2014 as record-low mortgage rates and a lack of inventory continued to put upward pressure on home prices.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. My biggest thing is getting total inventory back to 2018-2019 levels, which can range from 1.52-1.93 However, this isn’t going to help much because the existing home sales market has a different inventory channel. When supply is 4.4 When supply is 6.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Housing Inventory. Home price s. million in 2023. We are at 8.6

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Housing inventory remains persistently low, home prices are at all-time highs and affordability is becoming out of reach for more people with every passing day. Bill Dallas: As construction and labor costs have climbed, so, too, have home prices. HousingWire: What are the current challenges when it comes to affordable housing?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Housing went into recession in 2006 and prices weren’t collapsing that year either. This now goes into a subject matter that is a striking difference between 2022 versus 2008: Inventory and Credit. Housing inventory. Total housing inventory today — using the NAR data — stands at 1.14 Home sales.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. This means that the doors, windows, electrical all are done by contractors after the walls have been constructed.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. in first quarter to 27.5% Sector leaders are predicting more of the same for 2024.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The downturn in the LEI reflects consumers’ worsening outlook amid high inflation and rising interest rates, as well as declining prospects for housing construction and manufacturing. In addition, we have a lot of two-unit construction built, which will bring more supply online. NAR total inventory data: 1,220,000 listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The last time I had all six red flags raised was in late 2006. has dramatically fallen, used car prices are rolling over and we have seen a lot of big shops talk about discounting stuff to get rid of excess inventory. Job openings are still over 10 million today, and jobless claims are below 220,000 , a historically low level.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Single-family housing starts ended 2020 on a high note, rising 12% in December to a 1.338 million unit pace – the highest pace since 2006, according to the Census Bureau. Remarkably, most industry experts believe construction rates will climb even higher in 2021. That’s up 27.8%

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Empire Appraisal Group

APRIL 22, 2021

Between a wave of foreclosures, rising rents, and underbuilding of new homes, the housing market became much harder to crack into from 2006 to 2017. However, financing to invest in lots, land and inventory has been a significant challenge for private builders,” said Todd Pyatt, owner of Pyatt Builders. All rights reserved.

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On the supply side, a decade of underbuilding of homes, regulatory barriers, high construction costs combined with people staying longer in their homes have kept housing inventory low. The share of entry-level homes in overall construction declined from 40% in the early 1980s to around 7% in 2019. “A Stronger mortgage market.

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Scary times: builders are slashing home prices and slowing construction as buyers pull back, survey shows” (MarketWatch). The housing market is entering the ‘most significant contraction in activity since 2006,’ says Freddie Mac economist” (Fortune). “Homebuilder confidence suffers near-record plunge” (Newsweek).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Total housing inventory at the end of December totaled 1.07 To their credit, homebuilders and construction companies have increased efforts to build, with housing starts hitting an annual rate of near 1.7 The post 2020 home sales hit highest level since 2006 appeared first on HousingWire. million units, down 16.4%

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Clear Capital

AUGUST 30, 2021

Note that due to unprecedented conditions in spring 2020 (due to COVID restrictions) and tight inventory in spring 2021, the year-over-year numbers based upon paired sales in certain rapidly-rising markets (like Phoenix) may be overstated. Download the report , or read it below. They rose about 4.4%, and then rose another 5.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Of that $93,870, $41,330 is attributable to regulation during development, and $52,540 is due to regulation during construction. The study was filed out by 2,071 NAHB members and 57 developers, and nearly all of the builders — 98.9%, per the study — reported experiencing some type of regulatory cost during construction.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. >> The lack of inventory to keep real estate moving is confirmed with the latest data on U.S. We are on the right track. million units. existing home sales.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

Construction started in 2001 and took three years to complete with two bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a swimming pool. “Unlike in 2006, this market is underpinned by strong fundamentals and has been built on mortgages with sound credit, factors that won’t change in the near term.” Available to rent on Airbnb, of course.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A Another 1350 are under construction with delivery in the next two years, including the high-end Avenue Bellevue. BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq. million sq. That’s up from 2333 sq. a month ago.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 17, 2022

The way that we did that was through cantilevers and using structural engineers and steel to help us to construct the home that we absolutely wanted.”. Housing Market Is at the Beginning Stages of the Most Significant Contraction in Activity Since 2006’. To read more and see lots of photos, click here. ==. USPAP and the Contract.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

And, Seattle’s attempt to force building developers to incorporate more affordable homes within their new residential endeavors yielded only 21 units in 2020 out of a swell of 224 construction projects. Developers opted to pay fees to the city totaling $68M instead, funds that help construct affordable homes in other parts of the city.

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Movoto

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And inventory goes down. In the winter months, generally we see more homes go on the market than come off and inventory goes up. And so nationally, all of a sudden, we’re in this situation where housing inventory is starting to meaningfully increase. 9:55: And so inventory never caught up.

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