Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

If I am wrong and mortgage rates go lower for longer and we don’t get more new listings in 2024, then home prices can grow faster in 2024 because we will have the same issue as before: too many people chasing too few homes. We haven’t had new listings data break over 90,000 in the peak seasons of 2021, 2022 or 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

To give you all some perspective, this data line dropped all the way to 14 days in the crazy period of COVID-19, while back in 2011, it was 105 days. In the CNBC interview, I stressed that we do have one positive on the inventory side of things: we are seeing new listings data growth.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Home purchase sentiment hit its lowest level since 2011 and home builder sentiment fell for the 10th consecutive month in September as construction activity slowed. Sellers are responding to the shift in the market and pulling back on listing activity, resulting in a 9.8%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

I have been forecasting since 2010 and I’ve only predicted price declines for 2011 and 2012. However, weeks after that call, the new listing data started to decline noticeably, which makes that call much harder to happen in 2023. months on a three-month average and new home sales are growing. million in 2023.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Others – Meritage Homes (+20% YoY in 2021) and Tri Point Homes (+15-30% YoY in 2022) – expect tremendous growth of new communities. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past. Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. New data show this subset of buyers accounted for 2.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. Read my real estate forecast blog post after you finish the newsletter to learn more!)

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sales activity across the county is at historic lows; no October has experienced fewer listings in King County – not even close – since at least 1992 when records were first archived online. New listings for all home types in King County stood at 2157, a whopping 25% drop from September to October. Closed sales fell 0.9%

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