2012 Contracts Inventory 
Housing Wire
MAY 18, 2024
The moves haven’t been significant and our weekly pending contracts data picked up this week. Weekly housing inventory data For the third consecutive week, we haven’t quite reached my weekly target of inventory growth between 11,000 and 17,000 homes. When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.
Housing Wire
JUNE 29, 2024
Housing inventory is growing, but national home prices aren’t dropping dramatically, as the recent S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller index clearly showed. 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
JUNE 13, 2023
Mortgage credit availability dropped in May, a consequence of a tougher mortgage landscape that has resulted in lender consolidation as well as high rates and limited inventory that has stretched consumer budgets. The monthly Mortgage Credit Availability Index fell by 3.1% last month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Housing Wire
MAY 24, 2022
My biggest thing is getting total inventory back to 2018-2019 levels, which can range from 1.52-1.93 However, this isn’t going to help much because the existing home sales market has a different inventory channel. Now inventory is rising in the existing home sales market, and we just had some positive weekly year-over-year prints.
Housing Wire
AUGUST 31, 2022
After two record-setting years of mortgage origination volume, the mortgage industry is contracting, sharply. As lenders utilized more call centers and centralized processing facilities in the past decade, the average number of licenses per MLO has increased steadily from almost two licenses in 2012 to more than 4 licenses in 2022.
Miller Samuel
MARCH 19, 2019
Much of this speculation is being driven by two factors: sparse supply, due to the absorption of the inventory left over from the last boom, and fast-rising prices. January: The closing of the $238,000,000 Manhattan condo sale in January (2015 contract). November: Control of the New York State Senate flipped.
Lamacchia Realty
JANUARY 25, 2024
This created an extreme scarcity of inventory and contributed to elevated prices, but it also led to a 22% decrease in the number of sales, leaving buyers eager. The resilience can be attributed mostly to the decrease in inventory. The number of homes placed under contract (pending, just singles and condos) decreased by 18.9%
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