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New listings data is growing and prices still aren’t crashing

Housing Wire

Housing inventory is growing, but national home prices aren’t dropping dramatically, as the recent S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller index clearly showed. The rules of supply and demand economics always end up winning and weekly new listing data is key. Last week, we saw a positive inventory growth of 11,638 !

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How much will home prices climb over the next year?

Housing Wire

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. Inventory As a result, the seasonal inventory build is slow and on a normal cycle. Home prices declined subsequently.

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Expanding Supply, Easing Prices Bring Relief to King County Housing Market

Will Springer Realtor

The recent development of lower mortgage rates coupled with increasing inventory is a powerful combination that will provide the environment for sales to move higher in future months,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors® said in September. The number of Active listings is another eye-opener.

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King County Housing Activity Muted by High Purchase Costs

Will Springer Realtor

July was marked by an expanding inventory of for-sale homes, fewer Pending sales and mostly higher prices. Inventory of all King County homes for sale (excluding Pending sales) was up 40% Year on Year (YoY) in July. The figure sounds significant until you realize it is also down 20% compared to July 2019 (5538 active listings).

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Why are home prices rising with higher mortgage rates?

Housing Wire

To get a real price crash, we would need to see a surge of housing inventory and distressed sellers. As you will see below, inventory is growing, but it’s been a calm, healthy rise in 2024, not a flood of houses coming onto the market. Using the NAR data, the normal amount of active inventory since 1982 has been between 2 and 2.5

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Home Prices Rising Toward Record Highs – Again

Will Springer Realtor

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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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

Falling new inventory is constraining transaction volumes while also supporting higher home prices. Except for the pandemic year of 2020, last month was the slowest April since at least 2008 when easy access to Northwest Multiple Listing Service data became available.