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. New listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2021 abd 2022 and now it’s creating a new all-time low trend in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Every Saturday I publish a weekly housing market tracker with forward-looking data and insights so you can adjust quickly to market conditions. If the 10-year yield gets above 4.25%, the U.S.

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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 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listing rose 8,260 week to week, down a bit from last week’s gain, but I’m not complaining — anything on the plus side is positive.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. Yes, we found the seasonal bottom for housing inventory on April 14, but this year’s rise in active listings has been tepid at best. Can you imagine the housing market at that point?

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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. How I look at rates is intertwined with how I look at the bond market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. 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

MAY 8, 2024

You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. On top of more legitimate buyers, we fixed the credit markets, meaning housing credit looks fantastic. Demographics also play a role here.

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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 Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. Days on market is also trending back to what is more normal for our market as well.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The days on market are back to a teenager level in the existing home sales market, which means I can officially say we are back to a savagely unhealthy housing market! Nothing good happens in the housing market when the days on market are at a teenager level or lower. What do I mean by savagely unhealthy?

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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! From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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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. Let’s start with the good news.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Also, I believed the risk to the housing market was if home prices grew more than 23% over the five years of 2020-2024.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. It wasn’t the rate move that caught my attention — it was the new listing data. As you can see below, that sharp move to 6.25% caused new listing data to stall at first.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is alarming because this was the moment last year when the market turned south. It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. There are now 519,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. This is good news for the housing market. NAR total inventory data is currently at 1.14

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

In Denver in particular, new listings increased 29.12% month-over-month and 22.63% year-over-year. Active listings at month’s end rose 13.14% to 5,511 homes, an astounding 45.87% gain year-over-year. 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

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. From the index : I know it seems strange, but existing home sales are falling, and the monthly supply of new homes is at 10.9 million listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

About a year ago, I started noticing a parallel between the housing market and the labor market. The conventional wisdom for almost three years has been that job market must weaken, unemployment must be rising. Compare that to the housing market. There are now 34% more homes on the market than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As I have stressed for months, the new home sales levels are historically low and don’t account for the cancellation rate. Just like in the existing home sales market, when sales are low, anything positive on the rate side can move the market in a positive direction. months and below, this is an excellent market for builders.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates were lower in late 2022 and early 2023 with a higher inflation growth rate and the Fed still hiking because the bond market anticipated a Fed pivot or a recession, neither of which happened. This data line can grow faster as long as people still list their homes weekly.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There is one simple reason for this: it’s not 2008. They have less competition as they are working from low sales levels in today’s housing market. This is why construction workers haven’t been laid off while other jobs in the housing market have been. months, and below, this is an excellent market for builders.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. Something notable about this report: Total active listings as the NAR tracks them almost broke under 1 million again. Our tracker articles have a lot more details about the current weekly market and we publish those each Saturday. from December 2022 ($366,500).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Underwater mortgages where borrowers owe more on their home than what it is worth pose a risk of foreclosure and hinder people from selling their homes, something that was rampant after 2008. However, the housing credit market has improved dramatically since then, empowering homeowners looking to sell and buy their next house.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Despite the population decline, Illinois’ housing market remains relatively strong. The state has an Altos Research Market Action Index score of 44, which is above the national score of 39. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market. It’s depressing,” Laricy said of the downtown market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2023

For my 2023 forecast , my range on the 10-year yield has been between 3.21%-4.25%, emphasizing that the bond yields can go lower than 3.21% only if the labor market breaks. The labor market breaking to me is if jobless claims on a four-week moving average go over 323,000 ; currently, that data is 231,000.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

All year, the strength of homebuyer demand and the tight supply of homes for sale has meant that the market pretty rapidly found a floor on the home-price correction of 2022. If you were looking at the market in the fall of 2022, you would have expected home prices to continue to fall further in 2023.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

How’s the market, you ask? The typical seasonal spring in its step has been replaced by a slow shuffle as the Seattle/King County residential market tries to find its rhythm in a challenging economic environment. Falling new inventory is constraining transaction volumes while also supporting higher home prices.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Now that the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates, home buyers should swarm the market with low-interest mortgages …. Yes, there are signs of greater real estate activity in Seattle/King County since the Fed trimmed its short-term rate by a half-percent, but Americans are not swarming the market in a purchasing frenzy. We now see 2.7

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 31, 2024

2023 FORT LAUDERDALE Real Estate Market Recap Fort Lauderdale home sales decreased by 19.8% The categorical breakdowns are listed in the infographic to the right. This is in spite of a decrease in new listings, and overall homes listed were at their lowest level since 2008 in South Florida.

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Cornerstone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There were analysts who expressed concern that once forbearance plans expired, the real estate market could see a foreclosure surge, similar to what followed the housing bubble 15 years prior. The housing crash of 2008 resulted in more than nine million households losing their homes to a short sale, foreclosure, or bank surrender.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

NEW YORK – The U.S. housing market is in an uneasy state of equilibrium. The start of the year, of course, is when homeowners and real estate agents start to bring new inventory to market. Clearly, the amount of supply on the market is still extraordinarily low relative to demand. It would take just 3.3

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

The real estate landscape witnessed significant developments in 2023, as the New Hampshire market saw a historic low in listings. Sales were also down in 2022 , which sparked concerns of a market crash , but as Anthony predicted, it didn’t happen , more thanks to reduced inventory rather than a decline in sales.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 22, 2022

Last year’s major increases were due to the market catching up from 2020 when everything stopped during the pandemic. Sales are down now due to major mortgage rate increases crushing buyer affordability, and other buyers are pulling out of the home search with concerns of buying at the top of the market. for singles, -14.7%

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