Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. million — once that happens, I can take the unhealthy label off the housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

You think things are bad in the housing market now? Even the most battle-tested industry players are preparing for one of the strongest housing market corrections in decades. Probably, the housing market needs to go to a correction to get to that place.” ” Where is the housing market heading?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to the January 2024 survey for the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) , 90% of builders reported high interest rates as a significant issue in 2023, while 77% expected them to be a problem in 2024. In 2011, only 13% of homebuilders worried about the cost of labor, versus 87% in 2019.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued its downward spiral in October, hitting its lowest level since August 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Three other indices monitored by the NAHB also posted declines in October.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows. Existing home sales dipped below 5,000,000, and monthly housing supply rose. New Home Supply. Hard pass.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. My entire theme around the savagely unhealthy housing market is based on the premise of too many people chasing too few homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. Total housing costs for American homeowners versus their wages are meager, and most will buy a home right away when they sell. Looking at housing this way, the last four decades make sense. The days on market were too low.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Since 2011, the number of existing single-family homes for sale has declined more than 30%. By supplying more homes that are affordable, the housing industry can increase homeownership rates for everyone. ?. And 71% say that interested buyers are often unable to secure financing.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. I have never believed in this concept because of how the housing market credit channels work. I believe this is the wrong way to look at the housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

points, but has recovered more than half of its early pandemic-period decline when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. August’s HPSI survey revealed both a confident seller’s and buyer’s market, however, Fannie Mae reported September buyers showing more hesitancy.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

1 midsized housing market to watch in 2020 , according to Zillow, because of its draw for young professionals, families, and retirees alike. The demand is clear — the Boise housing market has just 0.3 months worth of housing inventory, which is the lowest ever, the report from Keller Williams said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

metropolitan areas since 2011. Meanwhile, buyers offer bigger down payments to lessen the cost of monthly payments In September, buyers were typically putting down 16.1% In those cities, the typical buyer put down 25% of the purchase price. and 20.3%, respectively. respectively. in April 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The housing market continues to cool amid high mortgage rates , affordability challenges and still-low inventory. “Fall could bring more declines in home prices as more buyers bow out.” Housing inventory remains tight heading into fall Meanwhile, total housing inventory at the end of August was 1.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Director Calabria has one goal and that is to fully privatize the mortgage market and leave the GSEs as nothing more than a counter-cyclical last choice for the housing market. Calabria has written, spoken, and testified for years on his view that the mortgage market should be fully privatized.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

As we can see in the data below, the days on the market fell back down to 29 days. For some historical context, back in 2011, this data line was 101 days. The NAR data looks a bit backward, so if you want more fresh weekly data, I write the Housing Market Tracker every week on Sunday night to give you that information.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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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. “One

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This contributes to fewer homes being listed , as well as fewer potential buyers, and may lead to a growing share of listings having to cut prices to meet the reduced demand.” This is the slowest quarter of growth since Q4 2011. We expect these trends to continue in the coming months,” Duncan said. in Q3 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage continues to remain just shy of 7% and is adversely impacting the housing market in the form of declining demand,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement. Buyers, builders and sellers take a step back as inflation persists . A year ago at this time, rates averaged 3.09%.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 16, 2024

homebuying season, Zillow’s latest monthly report finds that home listings are beginning to pile up as buyers step back from the peak of home shopping season earlier than usual. “A A growing segment of homes that aren’t competitively priced or well marketed are lingering on the market. elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default).elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default).elementor-drop-cap-lett

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Of course, housing starts today aren’t collapsing in the way they did from the peak of 2005 because we haven’t had a sales credit boom in recent years as we did from 2002-2005, which inflated new home sales toward 1.4 Currently, we are in a much different housing recession than what we had from 2005-2011.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2024

Moving the needle doesn’t take much since we all know we have buyers ready to go and home sales are at record lows. Weekly housing inventory data The positive story for housing in 2024 has been the inventory growth we have seen year-over-year. Yes, I know it’s not a lot of homes, but growth is growth, people!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2021

in the fourth quarter of 2020 to its lowest point since the second quarter of 2011. Regionally, house flipping was down in 70 percent of U.S. homes flipped in the first quarter of 2021, 10 percent were sold to buyers using loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), down from 11.6% Of the 32,526 U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On the other hand, investment-return decline during this year’s summertime home-selling season marked the largest quarterly downturn since 2011, with the third-quarter reversal also marking the first since 2010 that seller returns went down from the second to third quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

What does it mean for the housing market ? However, persistently high mortgage rates pose a significant affordability challenge to buyers and sellers (not to mention the workers of a trillion dollar-plus industry). In July, 26% of existing homes sold to cash buyers while 7% of new homes sold to cash buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 25, 2024

The Northeast is the best performing market for the previous nine months, with New York rising 9.4% Sustained outperformance of the Northeast market was last observed in 2011. growth in active inventory in the housing market in this period. from a year ago in April after rising 6.5% and 7.2%, respectively, each 0.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

housing market is short by at least 6.5 After more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth, there are simply not enough affordable entry-level and first-time move-up options available for buyers. Most recently, rising interest rates have intensified the fight for housing. million homes.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2024

Today, we will examine new listing data more extensively to provide a clear example of a stressed seller market and compare that to where we are today. 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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Experienced real estate investors often say that there are opportunities in every market — whether prices are rising or falling, whether the trends lean towards a buyers’ market or a seller’s market. It’s simply a matter of adjusting your investment strategy to optimize current market conditions. in 2020 to 33.2%

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

Keeping stock of manufactured home supply According to 2021 American Housing Survey (AHS) , compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Census Bureau, the nation’s manufactured housing market provides affordable housing to nearly 6.7 million households own the land and unit, 1.8

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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. One of the issues with existing home inventory has been that, for the most part, a traditional seller is usually a buyer of a home. New listings are declining now.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. I think you’ve got the independents [or mom-and-pops] taking the market share back. …

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s up to you to serve as their guide — some of these potential buyers are navigating these waters for the very first time. Don’t leave it up to them to translate the noise they’ll likely encounter on their voyage.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the new year draws near, Fannie Mae anticipates that many of the housing trends from 2024 will persist in 2025, with the lock-in effect of mortgage rates and housing affordability continuing to be major obstacles for countless Americans. Mortgage rates will still be a barrier to affordability.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Connie Kim: You had a long run at Wyndham Capital Mortgage dating back to 2011. How is the housing market in South Carolina and North Carolina? I think we’re certainly seeing that here in our local market – really low inventory, (and) any desirable home that hits the market, buyers definitely get into a bidding war.

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