Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

Homebuilders with unsold inventory are feeling the pinch of high mortgage rates — and it’s showing up in new-home sales data. According to Bright MLS, the 481,000 new homes on the market is the most since January 2008, when homebuilders pulled back on production before the financial crisis. year-over-year drop and was 11.3%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 million , we could be at risk of housing inventory falling to such low levels that I would have to categorize this housing market as unhealthy. This type of sales growth — which couldn’t happen from 2008-2019, as I have often stated — is coming with a hefty price tag. 2020 and 2021 easily each have over 6.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

If there’s one sector of the economy that benefits from the very low levels of total housing inventory , it’s the homebuilders , but for a reason you might not think. If national housing inventory were back to normal, we would have 2 to 2.5 That will be a much better environment for the builders. his represents a supply of 8.2

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. Weekly housing inventory The numbers this week are unfortunate: inventory should be growing like it does at this time every year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. Total housing inventory fell in this report, the third report in a row that shows total inventory has decreased.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The fear of not having an increase in inventory this spring should be put to rest. Since 2020, the seasonal inventory bump has happened later than usual — not until March or April.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

The previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019 had the weakest housing recovery ever following the bust. The post Why aren’t builders creating more housing inventory? Homebuilders are navigating their housing stock well to make sure not to give up too much on the margin side of the business in the future. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Housing inventory increased by 1,339 homes nationwide. The weekly inventory data, which had fallen faster than I had anticipated the last few weeks, has now seen a slight uptick. As you can see below, the waterfall dive in existing home sales has taken us toward the level of 2007-2008 monthly home sales.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That means Americans are more bearish on buying a home than they were during the home price crash following the 2008 recession. Renovated Inventory to the Rescue. Top Markets for Renovated Inventory. The post Top markets for affordable renovated housing inventory appeared first on HousingWire. Among 75 U.S. in Las Vegas.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

There is a desperate lack of inventory in the housing market right now, which is driving up home prices at an unsustainably rapid pace, MBA’s senior vice president and chief economist Mike Fratantoni noted. March signified the highest number of residential construction workers since 2008. Presented by: CreditXpert.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. Inventory rising, historically low.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. Active inventory fell 1,109, and new listing data made a lovely comeback week to week but was still noticeably down year over year. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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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

JUNE 2, 2022

I always try to focus people on the total inventory data until we get inventory back into a range of 1.52-1.93 HousingWire: To add to that, since housing is in an inventory shortage, the market has changed, so the good news is inventory is growing. The big difference now than, let’s say, what we saw from 2002-2008.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2021

During the previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019, the housing market was subject to the constant refrain of build more homes. The previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019 was the weakest housing recovery ever. Because that period followed a housing boom and bust when inventory was overbuilt.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Active inventory typically decreases at this time of year, but in 2024 it did not drop below 1 million. For me, the highlight of 2024 was the growth in active inventory. That situation is not present in todays housing market as active inventory is almost 1 million, not 4 million like in 2007. Also, the monthly supply is 3.3

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

I have separated my work into two different time frames: 2008-2019 and 2020-2024. In the years 2008-2019 we saw the weakest housing recovery ever. 2012: What they said: Shadow inventory will cause prices to fall. The reality: Inventory broke down in 2012, and the monthly supply data got below 6.0

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People’s first reaction was to wonder if this was 2008 all over again. Well, it isn’t 2008, but this type of loan does have risk — and it’s the risk that is traditional among all late economic cycle lending in America when the loan requires low or no downpayment. That is what has happened here in the U.S.

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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 25, 2023

You know, the one that says we have too much inventory and millions of vacant homes in the U.S.? The truth is, it’s not 2008 all over again. I understand the lure of the housing 2008 story. This is where understanding how credit channels impact housing inventory would have helped. This represents a supply of 7.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

This typically happens in a recession, however, the notion that credit lending in America will collapse as it did from 2005 to 2008 couldn’t be more incorrect, as we haven’t had a credit boom in the period between 2008-2022. The short (and long) answer is no, not a chance. It really is that simple, folks.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. These buyers understand that more inventory is coming to the market and that they will have options. This scarcity in inventory acts as a safeguard against an imminent market crash, providing stability and support for continued price growth. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

million housing starts, not anytime from 2008-2019. The monthly supply of new homes was mostly higher every month in the previous expansion (2008-2019) than any period from 1996-2005. 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

MARCH 31, 2022

We aren’t anywhere close to the housing bubble dynamics we had from 2002 to 2008; that environment is simply impossible to replicate. Especially in a year when inventory has crashed to all-time lows and demand for those houses is still so high. This got smashed in two years, and inventory levels broke to all-time lows this year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2020

After all, the giant cohort of potential homebuyers now in their late 20s and early 30s was also the generation fresh out of college trying to find a job as the market was crashing in 2008.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

If we had a massive credit boom-to-bust, inventory would have skyrocketed in 2022. NAR Total Inventory Data going back to 1982. housing market inventory channels have changed due to how the U.S. This is not, nor can it ever be, like 2008. If it was like 2008, you’re about four to six years too early in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Home prices are skyrocketing, housing inventory is at all-time lows and homebuyers have to contend with multiple bids. The years 2020-2024 were always going to be different from 2008-2019. Inventory velocity. April 10, 2020: We needed a lot of inventory, fast. April 2022: Inventory has not recovered. Can this last?

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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. Case in point, purchase application data is already below 2008 levels today. million listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The housing market has not seen such a significant two-month drop in prices since shortly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in winter of 2008, Black Knight said on Monday. “Historically low inventory – along with record low interest rates – was one of the key drivers behind U.S. months of for-sale inventory to 3.1

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2024

Weekly housing inventory data For the third consecutive week, we haven’t quite reached my weekly target of inventory growth between 11,000 and 17,000 homes. However, we came close to our target with inventory growth of 9,726 and there’s a silver lining: mortgage rates have recently fallen.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For most parts of the country, home prices are holding steady since available inventory is extremely low,” Yun said. In turn, purchase inventory levels have stayed low in most markets. Housing inventory is about a quarter of what it was in 2008,” Yun said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Then we saw an uptick in people filing for foreclosures and bankruptcy during an economic expansion from 2005 to 2008. All my six recession red flags were raised toward the end of 2006, and the recession didn’t start until later in 2008. Total inventory in America grew from 2000 to 2005 while demand grew. Today, we are at 1.25

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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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