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Here’s what you can expect from the 2024 housing market

Housing Wire

The number of home sales in 2023 will likely be at its lowest level since 2010, and while sales activity will pick up in 2024, transactions will still be below average. Consumers will reset their expectations, and as rates move lower, there will be both more buyers and more sellers in the market. In a typical year, there are about 5.2

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5 predictions for the 2022 housing market

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Sellers saw a market where their homes sold quickly and often above list price as multiple buyers competed to have the winning bid. . Even with this increase, fixed-rate loans will still be cheaper than they were before the pandemic: In the 2010-2019 decade the interest rate averaged 4.1% for 30-year fixed-rate loans.

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

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The big theme of my housing work since 2010 has been that the housing market would have its weakest recovery from 2008 to 2019 because we simply built too many homes versus the real demand curve, and monthly supply proves that. Then we had an 82% crash in new home sales, and the weakest new home sales recovery ever after 2010.

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The 2021 housing market recap by Logan Mohtashami

Housing Wire

Also, post-2010, the loans in American are very vanilla on the debt structure side of the equation. Housing permits are growing and this is a good thing for the economy and construction jobs. Currently, home-price growth is too hot, which is why I label this the unhealthiest housing market post-2010. These households got sub-3.5%

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Can first-time homebuyers afford homes today?

Housing Wire

In March of 2022, sellers received an average of 5.5 As buyers wanted to find the perfect property, before interest rates rose, they were willing to offer all cash to sellers so their offer was not contingent on financing. Homebuyers placed competitive offers on homes while inventory grew increasingly difficult to find.

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

Housing Wire

Part of the issue is that mortgage rates moved up so fast that many sellers quit this year as well. Key thing to remember: A traditional seller is also usually a buyer. When mortgage rates spiked up as much as they did this year, it wasn’t financially appealing to some sellers to purchase their homes at rates of 6.25%-7.37%.

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RE/MAX closes out fall months with new top-producers, franchisees

Housing Wire

Ruehrwein, who became a licensed agent in 2017 after working in the new construction industry for 28 years, serves clients in Rehoboth and surrounding Massachusetts towns, as well as East Providence and the Narraganset area of Rhode Island. “My The independent brokerage, which now has over 50 agents was founded in 2010 by Claude Blackman.

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