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Beware of gloom and doom housing market crash headlines

Housing Wire

I’m talking about housing market crash headlines. The housing data has been wild this year. These dramatic peaks and valleys in the data have fed the demons of greed and fear that infest the minds our extreme housing bulls and the fierce housing market bears – leading to equally wild speculations about the future of U.S.

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The Week Ahead: Measuring Housing Market Dynamics

Appraisal Buzz

While the nation’s housing market remains tight, sales are tracking well below housing demand, and rental and homeowner vacancy rates are plummeting to multi-decade lows. residential housing economy, which represents approximately 17% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). He began his career at T.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. New Home Supply.

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New home sales are at risk with rising mortgage rates ?

Housing Wire

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. As you can see below, the new home sales market from 2018-2022 doesn’t look like the housing market we had from 2002-2005.

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

Housing Wire

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. Since the summer of 2020, I have genuinely believed the housing market could change once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. In response, they stalled construction for 30 months.

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The West showing the most promise as builder confidence returns to record high

Housing Wire

The National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose six points to 78 in August – matching its previous high record set in December of 1998, according to a release from NAHB on Monday.

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

Housing Wire

That’s according to a new report from Redfin , which shows that housing has added $3.1 rise in total value compared to June 2023 and 120% higher than in June 2014. New construction has contributed heavily to the year-over-year rise, with the total number of homes increasing by about 800,000. That’s a 6.6%