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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 million Historically inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5 NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

Inventory, which has been falling for years, broke to all-time lows in 2020. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. Of course, this has brought back some inventory, as demand weakness always creates inventory through accumulation. million active listings, but at just 1.28

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 It doesn’t even look like we will breach the lower level of my inventory wish list of 1.52 I am a big fan of inventory to 2019 levels. Even though 2019 inventory levels were historically low, they were at four-decade lows before 2020; they’re a more effective pricing market.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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Why are home prices rising with higher mortgage rates?

Housing Wire

If you take 2007-2011 out of the equation, we have had only one year go negative; that was 1990, and that was only a 1% decline. To get a real price crash, we would need to see a surge of housing inventory and distressed sellers. The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report shows home sales dropped only 1.0%

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SFR with ADU or Two Units?

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, VA, flood and fires no insurance, retirement, few lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination $22M Modern Mansion on 130 Acres in Napa Has Its Own Cabernet Vineyard Excerpts: 6 bedrooms, 6.5+ percent, with points decreasing to 0.78

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

months of inventory. Inventories across the county for all home types now stand at 2.2 Single-family inventory is unchanged from October at 2.1 Exclusive neighborhoods such as Medina and Mercer Island have roughly 4 months of single-family inventory. A little more than a third of inventory is under contract.