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Surging for-sale inventory turns Florida into a buyer’s market

Housing Wire

Florida was one of the hottest destinations during the pandemic, but the states housing market might be coming down to earth. At 172,209 homes, its the highest reading of any month dating to when Redfin started keeping records in 2012. year over year. Active listings landed at 212,437 at the end of January, a staggering 19.4%

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Rise in Mortgage Credit Availability Offers Buyers More Options

Appraisal Buzz

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), theMortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI)indicates that mortgage credit availability rose in Februarydespite economic changes and housing market uncertainty. In March 2012, the index was benchmarked at 100. In February, the MCAI increased by 1.4%

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Don’t be surprised if a 61-year-old white woman buys your house

Housing Wire

Newly released data from the annual profile of home buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows just how dramatically this trend has manifested since the financial crisis of 2008. While the median age of buyers gradually increased over the course of two decades, the COVID-19 pandemic sped it up.

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The housing market is hot, but not in a bubble

Housing Wire

Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. Cash buyers remain at a historically high level of 19%, the same as last year, while sales grew 26.6% The housing market is hot. You may be told that future moderation indicates “cracks in the housing market, but don’t buy into it.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. Housing is the cost of shelter to own the debt; it’s not an investment.

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This savagely unhealthy housing market needs higher rates

Housing Wire

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. We are not taking the unhealthy housing market theme off this marketplace.

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First-time buyers hampered as starter homes become much less affordable

Housing Wire

The national real estate brokerage analyzed household income levels and monthly housing payments to calculate its affordability metric. Buyers in August 2024 needed to earn $77,000 per year to afford a median-priced starter home of $250,000. When comparing income to the cost of monthly mortgage payments, the typical buyer now earns 8.9%

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