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Pending home sales up slightly in September: NAR

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Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement. Furthermore, inventory remains tight, which hinders sales but keeps home prices elevated.” Year over year, all four regions saw declining transactions.

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

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Housing inventory is growing, but national home prices aren’t dropping dramatically, as the recent S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller index clearly showed. The last time we had a stressed seller market was when national home prices crashed in 2008-2011 and even with more inventory , we’re nowhere close to those levels.

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Existing-home sales have nowhere to go but up in 2024? 

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Elevated mortgage rates and high home prices pushed sales of existing homes down again in October to the lowest monthly pace since August 2010. Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September. from September, with 1.15

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Pending home sales fell 7.1% in August

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An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Pending home sales, like new home sales, are based on contract signings. Existing home sales also fell in August, down 15.3% below the August 2022 level. The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell to a reading of 71.8

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CoreLogic projects low mortgage rates and high prices into 2023

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over the next three years – nearly a percentage point lower than the average of the 2010-2019 decade. However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon.

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Expensive regions see the biggest dip in home sales

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regions experiencing month over month contractions. Housing inventory also decreased last month, but just slightly, dropping from 1.25 Per the NAR, this drop in inventory was likely due, at least in part, to the seasonal inventory decline that typically occurs during December and January. million from 6.18

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The current challenges to increasing the homeownership gap

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The homeownership rate for Black Americans has actually declined between 2010 and 2020 and stands at 43.4%, while the homeownership rate for white Americans is 72.1%. The report used real time listing data to show the limited housing inventory and the repercussions to home buyers. While the homeownership rate in the U.S.