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 February, the number of homes available for sale fell for the fifth consecutive month, and new listings ran 27% below pre-pandemic levels.

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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. Mortgage rates. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023?

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

metropolitan areas in February 2022, based on year-over-year growth in median listing price according to the residential real estate listing website, Realtor.com. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. Table 1, below, reports the 10 hottest U.S. Bellingham, WA 51.7% -8.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To top it all off, we started 2022 at all-time lows, forcing bidding action everywhere until mortgage rates rose. And we aren’t talking about your grandfather’s mortgage rates rising; we went from 2.5% However, with price growth and mortgage rates skyrocketing, the hit to affordability is historic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Steep competition stirred in part by low mortgage rates, demographic factors and an improving economy is pushing home prices up at the strongest pace in decades, with sales happening at lightning speed and often for well above list price, noted Zillow Economist Matthew Speakman.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

I don’t need to see total active listing get back to the historical range of 2-2.5 New listings are declining now. Inventory is always seasonal, but the decline in new listings this year was not what I wanted to see. This is not encouraging news at all, in my view. From Redfin.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. Moreover, 30% of El Paso shoppers are looking at local homes from out-of-state, with top views coming from New York, Albuquerque, and Los Angeles.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If the bond market’s long end can fall, we can get mortgage rates back down to 5%. If mortgage rates keep going lower and we get more weekly data growth, we do need to see a noticeable year-over-year decline to warrant talk of stabilization. However, getting mortgage rates lower with duration will help housing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

The Fannie Mae report projects “strong deceleration in home-price growth going forward” due to higher mortgage rates and the overall slowing economy affecting purchase demand. Overall, annual mortgage origination levels are expected to be $2.8 By comparison, home-price growth was 17.8% in 2021, Freddie Mac reports. The Beige Book.

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The housing market has taken a few hits, such as a doubling of mortgage rates in 2022, but it remains solid even if legitimate news providers suggest doom and gloom. NEW YORK – The rock-hard foundation of the U.S. Or to discourage mortgage brokers from lending. The number of home listings remains low nationally.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

With rates trying to reach equilibrium after their nosedive in 2020, everyone has had to accept that pandemic-era rates are a thing of the past and therefore higher monthly mortgage payments are here to stay. Therefore, we are in a market with the lowest amount of new listings since 1994. The opposite is happening now.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consequently, we’re witnessing the lowest number of new listings since 2000. The hesitation to lose rates in the 3% range, coupled with concerns about higher monthly payments upon buying again, has resulted in a scarcity of new listings. Will the 2024 Real Estate Market Improve? A lot to digest.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

The attempt to restore equilibrium in interest rates, following their drastic drop in 2020, brought about then of pandemic-induced rates, resulting in a sustained presence of higher monthly mortgage payments. It’s probable that we wouldn’t have witnessed the subsequent increase in inventory if not for the uptick in mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

As proof of the impact of the country’s low inventory and high cost of building materials , new listings fell 16% – the second-largest decline on record since Redfin’s data began in 2012, only passed by the drop in April 2020. And even with March well underway, mortgage applications are still in decline.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. home prices, up 14% year over year (YoY) by one measure, and escalating mortgage rates, which have risen about 2.1 The potent combo of rising U.S. home (about $400,000 vs. $880,000 in King County).

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2023

First a look at September’s numbers: A wave of last-chance listings for the year hit the market after Labor Day. That increased new listings by 7.5% (2884 units) and available homes on the market by 12% (3602) from Sept. Seattle alone saw a 29% (1213) monthly increase in new listings. bath , 5546 sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Home prices are overheating, mortgage rates are inching up from the start of the year and the supply of homes is in an unseasonable valley – far from its Mt. Today, 37% of all buyers are Millennials and they comprise about 54% of all mortgage applications. of mortgages underwater); Multnomah County (Portland), Ore. points at 34.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

The index showed a growing difficulty to afford a home even while household income and mortgage rates improved compared to last year. 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.

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