Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. In 2007, when sales were down big, total active listings peaked at over 4 million. We had high inventory levels while the unemployment rate was still excellent in 2007.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. In 2007, when sales were down big, total active listings peaked at over 4 million. but now U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. in December 2022, its highest level since 2007 and its fastest rise in more than 40 years. Inventory What does that mean for housing?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. I give more details in this interview on why I believe the housing market dynamics shifted on Nov. million units, down 1.7% from October but up 0.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

You need a buyer and seller,” Brown said. mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate. The sector outlook reflects expectations for a slowing economy in 2023, with a modest increase in unemployment and potential pricing corrections in the housing market. Fitch Ratings also expects the outlook for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

The affordability hit with higher mortgage rates has impacted new listings data since most sellers are buyers, thus facilitating an all-time low in new listings data. More importantly, it showed that the days on market dropped back to the teenager level, which means we are once again in a savagely unhealthy housing market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! Confused by this? I hear you; let’s dive deeper into today’s report.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. million, currently at 1,110,000 As you can see above, inventory grew at a healthy clip in previous decades and then had a parabolic run higher in 2006 and 2007 when active inventory reached 4 million. So you can see why we have so few stressed sellers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. million active listings per the last report, we have 526,000 per our last Housing Market Tracker article. million, and in 2007, it peaked at 4 million. million in March.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

As the spring selling season kicks off, many educated sellers know that buyers are experiencing spring fever and are tired of sitting on the fence watching home prices increase. As a result, sellers who are winning in this market spent time making sure their homes are in show-ready condition.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, we have entered a tricky period in housing economics where we might have to take this premise more seriously since mortgage rates recently got as low as 2.5% It all started when mortgage rates jumped from 5.25% to 6.25% this year and I saw how home sellers reacted to that move. Can you blame home sellers?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They have less competition as they are working from low sales levels in today’s housing market. The truth is that if mortgage rates fell below 5.875% and kept going lower, everyone’s housing predictions would need to be revised this year because the builders can sell their homes with lower mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

” “Higher priced” homes in hot housing markets in cities such as Los Angeles, Palm Beach and Phoenix are also increasingly in short supply, the report’s authors found. Prior to 2020, “higher priced homes” was generally considered to be anything over $1 million.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Three of the biggest topics in housing right now are mortgage rate movements tied to Federal Reserve policymaking, the day-to-day moves in key housing data and forward-looking trends for the housing market. But this means the labor market has to break. More home sellers are also starting to enter the market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

As we can see below, from 2000, total active housing inventory rose from 2 million to 2.5 million before we saw the massive stress spike in supply from 2005 to 2007. The NAR data looks a bit backward, so if you want more fresh weekly data, I write the Housing Market Tracker every week on Sunday night to give you that information.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

housing market. And with total active house listings in America near all-time lows, that is all we have for completed units for sale. Just like with the existing home sales market, all that is happening is that home sales stabilized from a low level.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2024

in 2021, hitting the worst level since 2007. “In Whether the overall market has soared or seen just modest gains in recent years, investors have missed out on the action.” ATTOM notes that margins for home flippers had already been declining during earlier years when the broader housing market was booming.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Homes that reach the market sell quickly, bidding wars are the new normal and the investor share of sales continues to rise.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The credit markets were toxic back then, featuring loans with big recast payments which meant that you could have two people working full-time and still be at a credit risk. As you can see in the chart below, the credit markets broke in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and then the job-loss recession of 2008 started, which made things much worse.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

What is happening with homebuilders and the new home sales sector as we head into the spring housing market ? This makes them much more efficient sellers than existing homeowners, who need to find another house once they sell. We have had some conflicting data points recently. months of supply.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. Geneva Financial, founded in 2007 by Aaron VanTrojen, has more than 130 branch locations in 46 states, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

As we can see in the chart below, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) data, which surveys homebuilders, is above 50 again. This means homebuilders are feeling confident enough to issue more housing permits , as we have seen growth in single-family permits the last few months. million, down year over year too.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

During the housing bubble crash years, active listings grew to more than 4 million in 2007 because most of the inventory in the U.S. comes from the existing home sales market. NAR active listings data (see chart below): 2007: 4 million active listings 2023: 1.08 months to 7.4 year-over-year sales growth for new homes.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

They have no emotional ties to houses and don’t need to sell a home to buy another one. They’re effective sellers and don’t want to create a backlog of completed units for sale because that would ruin their business model. Case in point: Today we have 69,000 new homes completed and ready to sell, as shown below.

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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. One of the issues with existing home inventory has been that, for the most part, a traditional seller is usually a buyer of a home. New listings are declining now.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

In its most recent annual report to Congress, November 2020, the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) published its “capital ratio,” a measure of capital reserves to insurance-in-force held within the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). By way of example, seller-funded down payment loans prevalent in the early 2000s had a $16.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

This trend is why we’ve called it a soft landing for the housing market. During the GFC, inventory rose in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. That tells us the housing market has more demand by buyers than supply from sellers. Sellers are in much better shape than they were last year.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JANUARY 11, 2023

A Look At The Housing Market in 2022. Over the past three years, the real estate market has seen unprecedented milestones. From record-high sale prices to record-low inventory, the market has shown us that just when we think we know what will happen it will show us something different.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 21, 2022

For the past few years, with inventory at historically low levels , sellers were coming pretty close to naming their price and buyers were paying. The low rates made it possible to offer more on a home as the cost of borrowing was lower and therefore, sellers weren’t the ones competing, buyers were. The same will be true for sellers.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Picture the residential real estate market as a massive funnel of consumers, with a collection of potential buyers – from serious to looky-loos – browsing their favorite search sites for homes. This is a national view and prices will likely vary in our region but it gives potential buyers and sellers an estimate as they plan their next moves.

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Listing Spark

JUNE 27, 2023

National Landscape: Indications of a Seller’s Market As detailed in a recent article by Matt Carter published on June 9, 2023, a national sentiment heavily favoring sellers prevails 1. “The housing market has tilted sharply in favor of sellers amid increasing demand and ongoing low housing inventory.”

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DataMaster

JUNE 16, 2021

From 1993 to 2007, over one million homes were completed per year, ranging from just 1,039,400 to over 1,654,500. If even a tiny percentage of that supply was made available in the housing market, we could find some relief. The building rate in the United States has dropped over the last few decades! Tax breaks can enact change.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 15, 2022

When Will the Housing Market Change? So if someone bought a house in early January of 2021 and put 20% down, they would have nearly 40% equity in the home by the end of December. Now all the above factors are finding a place to land, and everyone is asking: When will the market change? week supply of homes for sale.

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