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Investor home purchases are sinking, and it’s most evident in Florida

Housing Wire

Real estate investors bought fewer homes in the fourth quarter of 2024, with purchases falling to the lowest level for any fourth quarter since 2016, according to a new report from Redfin. Investors purchased 47,004 homes during the quarter, marking a 3.9% Florida leads the investor pullback Investors accounted for 17.1%

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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. However, a seller is also a natural homebuyer, unless they’re an investor.

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

growth for its top 20 city composite, and now you know why my most significant concern for housing was home prices overheating , not crashing like people have warned about from 2012-2021. This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. Also, certain investors felt no fear post-2020.

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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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Is the savagely unhealthy housing market back?

Housing Wire

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. Instead, active listings are near all-time lows, which wasn’t the case from 2012-2019.

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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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What would it take to crash the housing market?

Housing Wire

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. million — once that happens, I can take the unhealthy label off the housing market.