Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Homes remain much more affordable in 2021 than they were during the home price runup in 2005 and 2006, but the seven-month trend in deteriorating affordability is starting to gradually slow demand. Renovated Inventory to the Rescue. Top Markets for Renovated Inventory. Homebuyers Losing Heart. Home sales in August decreased 1.5%

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 2, 2025

Home price appreciation seems to be settling into a more comfortable pace, just as inventory levels pick up going into 2025: welcome news for prospective buyers who continue to face the headwinds of high mortgage rates. With that being said, the index also reached a new record high for the 17th month in a row. last month). Jul-06 134.00

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Real estate professionals throughout the state attribute the resilience of the state’s housing market to its perpetually low inventory problem. Inventory is almost nonexistent,” said Melissa Kingsbury , a Redfin agent who works in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. “If As of Feb. Across the state, as of Feb. year over year to $122,900.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Housing inventory is key Inventory is important in making the housing market more affordable, but it’s more complicated than just building more houses, McKeveny said. That is actually the highest market share since 2006, McKeveny said. There’s really no shortage of demand, Hale said. That hasn’t gone away.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2022

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. month’s supply of homes. month’s supply of homes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. Existing home inventory is also at all-time lows. Existing home inventory is also at all-time lows. Unsold inventory sits at an all-time-low 2.5-month Keep this rule of thumb in mind for the future, below 4.3 Existing Home Supply.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The claim by the authors that single-family rental home companies “swoop up much of the inventory” of homes from potential homebuyers is, in fact, not supported by the data in any way, shape, or form. of the nation’s total housing inventory. million) in the prime household formation years of 25 to 34 than there were in 2006.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Existing home sales came in at a whopping 6,850,000 , beating estimates with the highest print since 2006. Second, if the next existing home sales report misses expectations, you may be told that this is due to a lack of inventory. Unsold inventory sits at an all-time low 2.5-month Unsold inventory sits at an all-time low 2.5-month

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Added to this, the cash-out boom from 2003-2006 meant that many households had little to no nested equity when the crisis hit. Monthly supply data started to get bigger in 2006 two years before the recession hit in America. Shadow inventory refers to homes in foreclosure that banks are holding off the market.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 29, 2024

However, recent data shows a 21% increase in housing supply nationally, with 48 of the top 50 markets experiencing year-over-year growth in inventory. The distribution of this inventory growth is uneven. Notably, in Tampa, Florida, active inventory surged by nearly 62 percent, resulting in a 5 percent improvement in affordability.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

But housing is the least affordable it has been since the mid-1980s as mortgage rates rise and home values soar, driven by low housing inventory, a new Black Knight report suggests. in April marking the largest single-month deceleration since 2006. The annual home price growth index, measured by Black Knight, grew 19.3%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors cited a combination of high demand and low inventory, which are making conditions more competitive and exerting upward pressure on prices. Pending home sales looks specifically at contracts that have been signed but where the transaction has not closed on sales of already existing inventory. Presented by: Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2021

Even though inventory is grappling with the power that record low rates hold, borrowers are still racing to the end of the bidding line, as March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

. “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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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inventory, which has been falling for years, broke to all-time lows in 2020. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. Of course, this has brought back some inventory, as demand weakness always creates inventory through accumulation. million active listings, but at just 1.28

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Increased inventory of homes for sale, near historic low mortgage rates and favorable demographics means more housing demand, ” Odeta Kushi, the First American deputy chief economist said in a statement. This is a strong purchase market and the uptick in inventory is bringing back some buyers who pulled back during peak frenzy.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.” Housing inventory. Today, inventory is almost 900,000 active listings below the lowest level of the four-decade average between 2 million and 2.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Declining mortgage rates could have improved affordability for buyers in the housing market in February, but instead spurred a demand that, combined with a persistent lack of inventory across the U.S., “In many areas of the country, that dynamic – low inventory and a modest rise in demand – led to an uptick in home prices.”

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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. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index covering home prices of all nine U.S. census divisions, reported an 8.4% increase in October from a year ago, and a 7% increase from September.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. We were told that population growth is slowing, we were told that Americans would panic sell and that massive inventory would hit the marketplace once rates got to 4%. Wait, what? I use the 1.52-1.93

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Eyes on Housing

JANUARY 20, 2022

However, supply has continued to lag due to ongoing supply-chain disruptions and inventory fell to lowest level since January 1999, keeping home prices elevated and pricing out first-time and young buyers. Total existing home. Read More ›

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

trillion is up an astonishing 32% from the same time last year and nearly 90% higher than the pre-Great Recession peak in 2006,” said Ben Graboske, data and analytics president at Black Knight. In turn, Black Knight predicts that there will be an influx of cash-out refis in the months to come. The aggregate total of $9.4

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

It’s the third-highest number of housing starts builders have broken ground on in one month since May of 2006, a sign of strong buyer demand. In many cases, homebuilders have limited the sales of custom homes and capped volume so as to not burn through their existing inventory of materials. ” Privately?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The recent new home sales data is at levels last seen in 2006, with monthly supply data back down to the low levels when new home sales data was really good. A massive home-building plan to increase inventory in order to create better housing affordability would not be in their interest.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Even during the downturn of 2006-2010, this factor only hit a low of 3.84% (2010). Will that desire overcome the higher interest rate environment, higher home prices and the scarcity of inventory to move the level of homebuying back to historical averages? The factor for 2023 was 3.58%.

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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

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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Seattle is currently a hot market – in October, there was less than a month’s worth of inventory and pending home sales outpaced supply. Redfin said its real estate agents have helped clients in Seattle and the Bay Area buy and sell homes since 2006, with a listing fee as low as 1%.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

The finding was equally confounding on the other side of the distribution where house price growth was weakest; though home values dropped by at least 10% in each of the 10 coldest markets, the number of homes added to the for-sale inventory increased in eight of them. increase to 6.7% When put in context, this history makes sense.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

June saw both record-low home price appreciation and the largest single-month increase of for-sale inventory in 12 years, resulting in a cool down in the housing market. percentage points in the housing downturn of 2006, Black Knight said. The annual home price growth fell by nearly two percentage points to 17.3%

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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. Rates recently fell below 3% , and are nearly 30 basis points lower than they were a year ago.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market. With more supply from new construction and existing owners relocating, new and existing home sales are expected to rise about 1% to 7 million sales, the largest number since 2006.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

below its 2006 peak. For-sale inventory levels charted their fourth consecutive monthly increase in August, and sellers appear to be taking a less aggressive approach when putting their homes on the market. Home prices in 19 of our 20 cities now stand at all-time highs, with the sole outlier (Chicago) only 0.3%

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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. million in 2005.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Total Inventory had been growing from 2001-2005; total listings data in 2005 was at the higher historical range of 2.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

The 12% home price gain is the highest recorded increase since February of 2006. Those low rates, combined with low inventory , are driving insane bidding wars , said Zillow Economist Matthew Speakman. “Some recent signs suggest that the historically tight inventory pressures may finally be starting to ease,” he said.

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