Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? However, mortgage rates have fallen more than 1% since the recent highs, so it’s time to look at the data to explain how to interpret it.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

We didn’t see too much volatility in mortgage rates last week, but purchase apps declined in reaction to rates rising two weeks ago. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listings rose by 8,546 , and new listing data showed some growth. Again, I am a bit mindful here due to Easter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mortgage rates have more than doubled from the beginning of the year and homebuyers facing affordability challenges are increasingly turning to adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) to reduce their monthly payments. The Freddie Mac’s index compiles purchase mortgage rates reported by lenders during the past three days.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Here’s my forecast for 2024: 10-year yield and mortgage rates For 2024, the 10-year yield range will be similar to 2023, but with a few different variables to watch. Instead, they closed 2023 at 6.67%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The one period where this didn’t happen was from 2006-2011, when credit forced Americans to sell, to rent or to be homeless. From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. Mortgage rates spiked in March, and then the new listing data started to decline at the end of June. This is the biggest story in housing. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Mortgage rates. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. 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. . However, it’s not the market of 2002-2011.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

We don’t have any data that shows sales are crashing from this low level: this is key when looking at the future because it does give us a place to grow sales as long as mortgage rates fall. This sounds odd to people because mortgage rates went all the way to 8% , and price growth was picking up. Sales faded 6.2% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To top it all off, we started 2022 at all-time lows, forcing bidding action everywhere until mortgage rates rose. And we aren’t talking about your grandfather’s mortgage rates rising; we went from 2.5% However, with price growth and mortgage rates skyrocketing, the hit to affordability is historic.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

If we are trending below 4 million — a possibility with new listing data trending at all-time lows — then we have much weaker demand than people think. This is the reality of our world: total active listings are still near all-time lows and demand so far has been stable since Nov. Now if we get a few sales prints above 4.6

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is why we brought HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami, Kate Amor, senior vice president and head of enterprise products at Guaranteed Rate , and Arjun Dhingra, who lead sales and business development at All Western Mortgage , together for a preview of the information you can expect to hear at HousingWire Annual in Austin Texas, from Oct.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

I don’t need to see total active listing get back to the historical range of 2-2.5 New listings are declining now. Inventory is always seasonal, but the decline in new listings this year was not what I wanted to see. This is not encouraging news at all, in my view. From Redfin.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

With rates trying to reach equilibrium after their nosedive in 2020, everyone has had to accept that pandemic-era rates are a thing of the past and therefore higher monthly mortgage payments are here to stay. 2023 produced the lowest number of home sales since 2005 with the exception of 2011. The opposite is happening now.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

As interest rates sought to stabilize following their sharp decline in 2020, both buyers and sellers had to acknowledge the end of the era of historically low pandemic-induced rates, and the beginning of higher monthly mortgage payments. This hesitancy, spread over two years, has resulted in the lowest number of new listings since 2000.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can see this is the second year in a row that sales have been down since the 2020 COVID market, but now in 2023, sales are the lowest they’ve been since 2011. Consequently, we’re witnessing the lowest number of new listings since 2000. Will the 2024 Real Estate Market Improve? A lot to digest.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Why are home prices still rising even as mortgage rates have gone higher? A number of people predicted that home prices would experience a steep drop as mortgage rates rose, but that’s not what has happened. This is not a new idea — I’ve been dealing with people predicting a housing crash since 2012.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the chart below you’ll see that the number of single-family homes sold is the lowest it has been in South Florida since 2011. 2023 Sees the Lowest Number of Homes Listed in Fifteen Years There was a 10% decrease in the number of new listings compared to 2022, with 113,883 homes listed in South Florida, down from 126,545.

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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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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. Does this signal a peak in mortgage rates or a temporary blip? Prices declined 5.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

If you have access to emergency funds – a 401(k), pension, gift money from friends or family, or restricted stock units (RSUs) for some tech employees – consider using them toward a new home purchase. million mortgages in Q2, a 3% drop from Q1, marking the first time since early 2020 that the total number of home mortgages decreased.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

Between 2011 and 2019, the median household income in our area increased by about 34% but housing prices jumped 78%. That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. It has also set its sights on rezoning portions of the city to increase housing density.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Federal Reserve, which has been buying mortgage-related securities for more than a year to artificially keep interest rates low, has signaled a desire to taper its bulk purchases within the next month or so. A 30-year mortgage in our area could be had for about 3.125%, up from about 2.875% a month ago. New listings are up 6.3%

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 8, 2022

The King County housing market has seen inventory increase by 55% in the past month, while the number of homes going under contract fell 22% from May to the lowest June level since 2011. annualized for May – mortgage rates will remain high. annualized for May – mortgage rates will remain high. for 30-year conventional financing.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

That’s up from 36% of sales in 2022 but far from the peak this century of 45% in 2011, according to ATTOM. >> MAY HOUSING UPDATE Even after a few weeks of mortgage rate jumps, the Seattle/King County housing market is displaying surprising strength. .

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Not to sound like a broken record but, along with seasonal consumer habits in which school, raking leaves and Seahawks football occupy our attention, stubbornly high mortgage rates have kept many prospective home buyers out of the marketplace – except for one fleeting moment. More on interest rates in a moment.) since the Sept.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Home prices have remained firm over the last two months, even with higher mortgage rates and inventory data. I want to show you how the data changed with mortgage rates heading toward 6% so the next time this happens, we have a better idea of what to expect in the housing market. I have long believed that it’s rare in the U.S.

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