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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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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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The housing market is 6.5 million units short: Realtor.com

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It is no secret that the housing market is suffering from an ongoing inventory drought. Existing housing inventory fell by 11,021 homes week over week for the week ending March 6, according to data from Altos Research. This resulted in the gap between single family home construction and household formation growing to 6.5

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Are mortgage rates about to fall?

Housing Wire

Weekly housing inventory data Last week was another week that missed my inventory growth model with higher rates. I am always looking for weekly inventory growth between 11,000 and 17,000 when rates are over 7.25%. Rates have fallen recently and inventory growth was higher last week than the previous week.

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Mortgage rates head lower, helped by better mortgage spreads

Housing Wire

Weekly housing inventory data This week’s data was hit with the July 4th bug. So, I will not make any statements about the decline in inventory week to week, except that it’s been affected by the holiday and we should get back on trend next week. have higher inventory data than the national data.

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Watchdog report: Institutional investors ‘may have contributed to increasing home prices’

Housing Wire

Large institutional investors typically emerged following a raft of defaults and foreclosures stemming from the 2007-08 financial crisis , putting inventory on the market from 2007-09. However, by 2015, institutional investors collectively owned an estimated 170,000-300,000 homes.

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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. 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.