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. In Denver in particular, new listings increased 29.12% month-over-month and 22.63% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The one thing that is positive this year which is different than last year is new listing data is rising year over year, nothing spectacular, but it’s a positive story for housing This means we have more sellers that will be buyers in 2024. million, and in 2007, it peaked at 4 million.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s according to Black Knight , which just released a white paper that studies how long it would take to sell all the homes currently listed for sale in a given market based on a prevailing sales rate, if no new listings are added (a metric it calls “months of remaining inventory”).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Seasonal impacts are the norm with housing, and new listing data is negative 6% year to date. We saw new listing data decline when rates got to 6.25% the first time. A traditional seller is primarily a homebuyer, so not only do we lose the inventory for sale when this happens, but we also lose a buyer. months to 3.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

However, the glaring difference today versus the recession of 2008, is that in 2007 the builders had to deal with over 4 million active listings as competition for their pricey new homes. The builders will pull back on construction when the supply is 6.5 months and above.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

However, the real positive story here is that even with new listing data trending at an all-time low, we are getting the growth in active listings we traditionally see in the spring and summer. In addition, new listing data turned negative year over year after the second half of 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

If we are trending below 4 million — a possibility with new listing data trending at all-time lows — then we have much weaker demand than people think. million before we saw the massive stress spike in supply from 2005 to 2007. We have a workable range for 2023 sales in the existing home sales market between 4 million and 4.6

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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. 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. This is not encouraging news at all, in my view. From Redfin.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

One of my biggest concerns for housing started at the end of June 2022: once mortgage rates got above 6%, the new listing data began to decline faster and earlier than normal. This is a problem for the existing home sales market since a traditional seller is usually also a buyer, so the lack of listing growth was a big hit to demand.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The median price of the new listings this week is $399,900. As the summer progresses, each subsequent week of new listings gets priced at a slight discount to the previous weeks. During the GFC, inventory rose in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Sellers are in much better shape than they were last year.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

The chart (below) puts it in sharp focus: Except for the pandemic year of 2020 when there were 2559 new listings that April, last month was the slowest April since at least 2008 when easy access to Northwest Multiple Listing Service data became available. Where are all the sellers? between May 2007 and January 2012.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

If you take 2007-2011 out of the equation, we have had only one year go negative; that was 1990, and that was only a 1% decline. To get a real price crash, we would need to see a surge of housing inventory and distressed sellers. In 2007, active inventory spiked to 4 million. million in September. Today, it’s only at 1.39

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Inventory of homes listed reached a record low by July of 2023 , and mortgage rates increased dramatically, diminishing buyer affordability. Many sellers are holding the line, and buyers continue to face competition. If a home has been listed and isn’t selling, that means the list price may be too high.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Further down the funnel are more engaged consumers applying for mortgages, followed by buyers and sellers reaching mutual agreement on a deal, and then happy homeowners moving in at the end of the funnel. Meantime, the number of contract listings – known as Pending sales – rose 6.1% The number of Active listings is another eye-opener.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 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) and available homes on the market by 12% (3602) between Sept. Seattle alone saw a 29% (1213) monthly increase in new listings. 1 and Oct.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

The sellers custom built the home between 2007 and 2009, using high-end materials and finishes, including a wall of windows and 26-foot-high ceilings in the great room. The seller wanted that to be a part of the home, and he didn’t want it down in a cellar. But the MLS is also finding new benefits in its partnership with RPR®.

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Listing Spark

JUNE 16, 2023

.” [00:04:36] Austin real estate sales volume and velocity in April 2023 Austin’s housing market in April saw a decline in new listings and sales volume, but the market remains a seller’s market. However, a decrease in new listings is helping to stave off even higher inventory.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 11, 2023

The county saw the combined number of single-family, townhome and condo listings increase in June by 4.4% While that percentage may appear strong, it’s nothing compared to the April-to-May rise of 18%, signaling a probable cooling of new listings in the future. New single-family-home listings rose 3.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

NAR total inventory since 1982: I prefer the Altos Research weekly single-family data to the NAR data because it gives us a fresh look at not only active listing data but new listing data. The Altos Research new listing data is essential in tracking the supply aspect of housing, which is why I include it as part of the Tracker.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Others – Meritage Homes (+20% YoY in 2021) and Tri Point Homes (+15-30% YoY in 2022) – expect tremendous growth of new communities. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past. That’s the most since 2007. Active listings as of Sept. The sellers are seeking $3.86M, $1222/sq. SMILE FOR THE CAMERA.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” That percentage was last seen in September 2007 – yes, at the start of the housing crisis (as the chart shows). ” The increased number of listings and slight slow-down of the market have helped boost inventory numbers.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

The excess of inventory that occurred in 2007, 2008 and ’09, was an anomaly,” said Marci Rossell, former chief economist for CNBC. The county saw new listings and end-month Active listings rise but Pending sales slip, suggesting buyers are no longer snatching every listing on the Northwest MLS as they become available.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

There are at least five factors that make this housing environment far different – and more stable – than roughly a decade ago: Low inventory and lack of supply – There were some 4 million homes on the market nationally in July 2007 compared with about 1.1 The average King County single-family listing sold in May 9.5% lodge home.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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. The new listings data we track with Altos Research is trending at the lowest levels ever during the past few years, while back then it was running at accelerated levels.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This year was mostly disappointing for buyers and sellers hoping to find a new home. Please have a look for a deeper dive and I encourage prospective buyers and sellers to discuss 2025 real estate goals with a seasoned broker (like me!) The number of new listings tumbled 48% from October and was down 2.7%

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 10, 2025

We built a new garage and completely did the heavy work with a $50,000 new roof, new drainage, new retaining walls, landscaping (including removal of alder trees), interior was completely redone, new lighting, new skylights, you name it. In fact, we had about 3,500 more new listings than 2023 in the region.

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