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The Week Ahead: Measuring Housing Market Dynamics

Appraisal Buzz

Cross-Sector Housing Monitor Webinar ” at 10:00 a.m. While the nation’s housing market remains tight, sales are tracking well below housing demand, and rental and homeowner vacancy rates are plummeting to multi-decade lows. economics, including the labor market, consumer spending, inflation, demographics, and many more.

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Low housing inventory a win for homebuilders

Housing Wire

However, with active listings now near all-time lows, the builders’ new homes still have more value in the housing market than what we saw in previous decades. Back in 2007 — after existing home sales got as low as we have seen in the recent data as the chart below shows — total active listings were above 4 million.

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The Week Ahead: Preparing for 2025

Appraisal Buzz

Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability. Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability.

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New home sales make it clear: Housing is in a recession

Housing Wire

This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. Since the summer of 2020, I have genuinely believed the housing market could change once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. percent (±15.0 percent (±11.6

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Employment gains could help housing inventory

Housing Wire

“The prime-age labor force participation rate fell in the aftermath of the Great Recession and it took a decade to return to the pre-Great Recession average (2001-2007) of 83%,” Kushi said. Despite increased rate of tech adoption, the mortgage industry still has room for continued development and processes.

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Only 70,000 new homes available for sale

Housing Wire

housing market. And with total active house listings in America near all-time lows, that is all we have for completed units for sale. From Census: New home sales: Sales of new single‐family houses in April 2023 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 683,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S.

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Don’t let COVID crisis mask affordable housing opportunity

Housing Wire

We simply cannot overlook the reality that there are not enough homes in the United States to house every American. Every year since 2007, the rate of household formations outstripped the number of housing completions, despite relative strength in both the overall housing market and U.S. consumer spending.