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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? As you can see below, the inventory keeps falling from 2014 levels, and even with the weakness in demand this year, we are nowhere close to 2013 levels, let alone 2018 levels. housing market.

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

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Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Fewer housing permits equate to further inventory, affordability challenges

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Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2013 to 2023. Fewer homes under construction and falling permits mean dwindling options for future buyers, adding more pressure to a market already strained by tight supply,” Point2 said. Theoretically, new construction should be bolstered by the acute shortage of housing on the market,” Point2 said.

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

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months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. If supply goes over 6.5 Hard pass.

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New home sales make it clear: Housing is in a recession

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This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. We talked about this in March , and even last year, when I wrote about the problem with the housing construction boom premise. “I don’t expect a boom in housing construction.

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New-home mortgage applications surged nearly 40% annually in October: MBA

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Mortgage demand for new homes jumped in October as the inventory for existing homes remained depleted. FHA applications reached highest share of new-home applications since 2013 In October, FHA applications represented 26.3% of all new-home purchase applications as homebuyers turned to new construction for more housing options.

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