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New listings data is growing and prices still aren’t crashing

Housing Wire

The rules of supply and demand economics always end up winning and weekly new listing data is key. New listing data is growing year over year, but it will be the second-lowest new listing data ever recorded in history. This contract data will grow if mortgage rates head lower and stay lower.

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New listings data falls for third week in a row 

Housing Wire

New listings data has been moving lower over the last few weeks. The moves haven’t been significant and our weekly pending contracts data picked up this week. But, we need to see more growth in new listings data just to grow from 2023 levels.

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New listings have peaked for 2024: It’s the second-lowest year on record

Housing Wire

One of my critical forecasts for 2024 was the growth of new listings data and active inventory, even with higher mortgage rates. However, the new listings data has slightly disappointed me. New listings data I am pleased that we’ve seen new listings data grow year over year — it’s a big step forward.

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Mortgage rates head lower, helped by better mortgage spreads

Housing Wire

The seasonal decline period is starting soon, so we should get accustomed to seeing a decline in new listing data as the year heads toward its end. It is a bit shocking to me that new listings this week are lower than even last year: This is the lowest new listing week ever recorded.

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Housing inventory fell last week. Have sellers called it quits?

Housing Wire

Since mid-2022 when mortgage rates headed higher , two facts have been apparent: new listings data has been trending at the lowest levels ever recorded in history and inventory has been able to grow from record low levels thanks to mortgage rates staying elevated. Let’s see what the data for last week tells us.

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Housing demand firming up with lower mortgage rates

Housing Wire

Housing demand is very seasonal, so the fact that our pending contract data is firming up lately just shows that lower mortgage rates have stabilized and firmed up demand recently. Weekly pending sales Below is the Altos Research weekly pending contract data to show real-time demand. Weekly inventory change (Sept.

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Why housing demand is now showing year-over-year growth

Housing Wire

We have had three weeks of positive year-over-year growth in both purchase application data and weekly pending contract data, with last week showing a noticeable jump from last year. Weekly pending sales Below is the Altos Research weekly pending contract data to show real-time demand. Let’s look at this week’s numbers.

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