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Cash buyers are scooping up homes like mad

Housing Wire

Cash buyers are pouring into the housing market this year, and they’re picking off more than half of available inventory in certain areas in Florida and New York. That represents the largest share since 2014, when 30.6% That represents the largest share since 2014, when 30.6% As of July 14, nearly one-third of U.S.

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Homebuilders up the incentives to bring buyers to the table

Housing Wire

Homebuilder confidence slid again in September, hitting its lowest level since May 2014 with the exception of the spring of 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Monday. For 21% of respondents, however, “nothing” had improved.

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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

Housing Wire

But I need to explain why this level has more in common with 2014 housing data than the credit stress markets of 2005-2008, and why you should care. With the massive housing inflation since 2020 and higher mortgage rates, we are back to familiar territory with existing home sales and purchase application data: we are back to 2014 levels.

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Amy Stockberger explores her brokerage’s quest for ’lifetime home support’

Housing Wire

In the latest episode of the RealTrending podcast , Amy Stockberger — broker-owner of Amy Stockberger Real Estate — joins Tracey Velt for a tantalizing conversation that covers her teamerage’s unique “Lifetime Home Support” model and other ways that agents can provide value to home buyers and sellers. Stockberger: It’s very omnipresent.

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Total value of U.S. homes on the brink of $50 trillion: Redfin

Housing Wire

rise in total value compared to June 2023 and 120% higher than in June 2014. Mortgage rates have started falling , but many potential sellers and buyers are waiting to make a move, meaning we are likely to continue seeing a pattern where prices slowly tick up,“ Zhao added. That’s a 6.6%

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New home sales are at risk with rising mortgage rates ?

Housing Wire

Second, because of the downtrend in inventory since 2014 and the demand pick-up we will see in the years 2020-2024, we had a risk of home prices accelerating too much. It’s also driven more by mortgage buyers who tend to be older and make more money than the new-home buyers.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

In 2013/2014, when the economic data was improving, mortgage rates rose. As a result of the increase in rates, demand for housing fell in 2014. The new home sales market had an epic miss from sales estimates in 2014. For a while in 2014, purchase applications data were trending down 20%, year over year. Hard pass.

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