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Why are home prices rising with higher mortgage rates?

Housing Wire

When you ask the housing crash addicts why their home-price forecasts don’t work, they usually say we should adjust home prices to inflation, gold prices, or some other silly historical reference that doesn’t apply to modern-day economics. In 2010, when the new listings data was exploding, over 23% of homes in America were underwater.

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Signs of Inflation Expand Well Beyond Housing Prices

Will Springer Realtor

Here’s the key difference between now and 2008-2010: Homeowners have record levels of equity and should be able to tap into that to sell their homes – probably for a profit in this sellers’ market – and avoid foreclosure. The image was taken from a drone above The Parc, a condo in Belltown, where I am promoting one of my new listings.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

. >> The Puget Sound region suffered from a severe lack of new construction in the decade ending in 2020, according to U.S. Kitsap County had the fewest number of units built per household formed between 2010 and 2020 (0.55). And what a thoughtful listing video. It’s modernism in Medina! List: $21.5M ($3107/sq.

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100+ YEARS IN, ZONING LAWS INCH TOWARD HOUSING EQUITY

Will Springer Realtor

That median figure is the smallest measure for a home since 2010 and marks a reversal after a brief increase during the post-Covid building boom. >> First a look at September’s numbers: A wave of last-chance listings for the year hit the market after Labor Day. Seattle alone saw a 29% (1213) monthly increase in new listings.

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FED’S ACTIONS TAKE STEAM OUT OF HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

Waller went on to say this adjustment is in no way like the horrific housing/financial crises of 2007-2010. Counties in and near Chicago and New York City were seen as the most vulnerable to today’s economic headwinds. The number of new listings in the previous month and remaining on the market as of Oct. bath , 4550 sq.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

The narrow area known as Westlake, just west of Lake Union (and, notably, close to Facebook, Google and Amazon offices), has seen the number of people aged 25-34 double from 2010 to 2019 and now comprise 52% of its residents. Listed at $1,995,000 ($725/sq. for this piece of modern Seattle history (with outstanding views, by the way).

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IS THE HOUSING MARKET HEADED FOR A CRASH?

Will Springer Realtor

Memories of the Great Recession still linger for anyone linked to the real estate industry – including the estimated seven million households that lost their homes to foreclosures around 2008-2010. The average King County single-family listing sold in May 9.5% The listing agent calls it “modern farmhouse.”