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Housing Wire
DECEMBER 28, 2024
The most positive development in the housing market over 2024 has been the increase in active housing inventory , which is approaching the levels seen in 2019. Although those 2019 levels represent a five-decade low before COVID-19, the market was still functioning better than it did from 2020 to 2023.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell played the Grinch last week for the housing market, sending mortgage rates higher after his remarks at the Fed presser on Wednesday. Despite this, we had positive data on existing home sales , purchase applications, and our weekly pending contract figures.
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Housing Wire
JULY 6, 2024
This is precisely what the doctor ordered for the housing market. In March of 2022, we only had 240,000 active single-family homes available for sale, leading me to call the housing market savagely unhealthy as we simply had too many people chasing too few homes. Last week, we returned close to recent lows.
Housing Wire
MARCH 26, 2023
The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.
Housing Wire
MARCH 10, 2023
Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. Our previous best year for HELOCs was 2015, and that was about $320 million,” he added.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 7, 2024
We also see growth in our pending contract data compared to 2022 and 2023. Let’s get into the holiday spirit with this week’s Housing Market Tracker data! Weekly pending sales The weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers an insightful look into real-time housing demand.
Housing Wire
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
Weekly pending sales The Altos Research weekly pending contract data provides insights into real-time demand. Even today, the pending contract data remains resilient despite higher home prices and mortgage rates than last year. Last week saw 2% week-to-week growth but was down 1% year over year. Weekly inventory change (Nov.
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