Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the biggest questions in real estate right now is how rising interest rates will impact the housing market. More expensive money also meant fewer investors holding homes so inventory would climb too. Fortunately we have 2018 as a guide to understand the impact of rising interest rates on the housing market in 2022.

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JULY 20, 2021

year over year, suggesting a slowdown in the housing market, according to a recent report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Last year was the strongest year in the housing market for new home sales in over a decade,” he said. In 2018-2019, total housing market inventory was in the range between 1.52

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

increase above the revised June estimate in housing starts in July. This means we can add housing starts to our growing collection of V-shaped recovery charts for the 2020 housing market. From the report: Privately-owned housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,496,000.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

What’s going on with housing inventory ? In reality, the volatility in housing inventory is due to the Labor Day holiday, the start of school and the fact that new listings are trending at the lowest levels ever. According to Altos Research : Weekly inventory change : (Sept.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. But we have a housing shortage, right? Then in 2018, when mortgage rates got to 5%, we had a supply shock for the builders, which in essence stalled out construction for 30 months.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve all been wondering what 5% plus mortgage rates would do to the hot housing market, and now we’ve got that and a bag of chips. As a result, I’ve been rooting for mortgage rates to rise to create a balancing impact on this housing market. Inventory is still showing negative year-over-year data.

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MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. Inventory is always seasonal. Today inventory levels are at 1.02

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in 2021, when I was talking about how people should worry about home prices overheating, I had a glimmer of hope that maybe toward the end of 2021 we would be spared another seasonal collapse of inventory. Inventory always falls in the fall and winter, but I hoped it wouldn’t be a repeat of 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. The Federal Reserve wanted to see the bidding wars end and the days on the market grow.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. The housing market is heading toward an inflection point — a rebalancing that will mean the end of the record-high price appreciation we’ve seen over the past year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

My biggest concern for housing in the years 2020-2024 was that if the demographic push in demand picks up and total home sales get over 6. 2 million , we could be at risk of housing inventory falling to such low levels that I would have to categorize this housing market as unhealthy.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Forbearance will have to end at some point, and when it does, couldn’t all these homes flood the housing market at once, driving prices down and scaring would-be homeowners away from purchasing? . We know the current status of the housing market in America is vigorous, if not hot. Presented by: PropStream.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. But we have a housing shortage, right? Then in 2018, when mortgage rates got to 5%, we had a supply shock for the builders, which in essence stalled out construction for 30 months.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. Between 2018 and 2023, homeowners insurance rates in Louisiana jumped 24.9%, according to an analysis by S&P Global. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates jumped 21.2%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

This was the last thing we needed to see for the Housing Market , which went from unhealthy to savagely unhealthy. What I am hoping for is that higher rates create more days on the market, cool price growth down, and at some point this year, we stop being negative and be positive on a year-over-year basis.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Zillow also reported that, after a tumultuous five years, many measures of the housing market are trending closer to historic norms. Notably, while the flow of new listings to the market is still nearly 14% lower than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, its much improved to compared to the deficit of 25% in March 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

The last time we had 5% mortgage rates was in 2018. We only have three very mild negative year-over-year prints for all the hype of housing crashing back then. HousingWire: How are existing home sales trends and inventory affecting the housing market right now? Inventory is very seasonal.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Home prices are skyrocketing, housing inventory is at all-time lows and homebuyers have to contend with multiple bids. In time, markets always find balance and balance is a good thing. But, that doesn’t mean housing is going to crash. Inventory velocity. April 10, 2020: We needed a lot of inventory, fast.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With mortgage rates briefly topping 8% and home prices breaking records throughout the year, many would-be sellers simply decided not to bother listing their homes, exacerbating already tight inventories. This squeezed inventory even further throughout 2022 and 2023, pushing home prices to record highs month after month.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heading into the 2025 housing market, we havent had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. Available inventory of homes for sale fell each year as more and more borrowers had this cheap financing. 2016 ended with 14% less available inventory than the year before. of outstanding mortgages, around 8.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Price impacts could strengthen again if 30-year rates continue to climb, as they have through late February, although tight inventory will put a floor on how much prices will ease, the report noted. 25, purchase lock counts were 21% below the same week in 2019, and 30% below the levels during the same week in 2018.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Conway, Arkansas. Rochester, New York. Paradise, California.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Recently, Bergen County has been home to one of the hottest housing markets in the country. A lack of inventory still exists in Bergen County,” Stokes said. Bergen County, N.J. Charleston, W.V.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

I am going to do my best to try to make sense of what is happening with the housing market right now, since the years 2020-2024 have been a talking point of mine for years and my biggest concern since the fall of 2020 has been prices overheating — not having a deflationary collapse. . A short history of the housing crash narrative.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. Weekly inventory fell by 6201 , and new listing data is down noticeably from last year, which was different than last week. According to Altos Research data , housing Inventory fell by 6,201 over the last week; the decline is less this week than last.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

Altos Research tracks every home for sale in the country every week all the active inventory and pending sales as they happen as well as prices and supply and demand metrics Lets look at this weeks data. Inventory fell There are 635,000 single-family homes unsold on the market now. fewer homes on the market that a week ago.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market is continuing as we get closer to August. But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Buyers in this real estate market notice these affordability changes, and so we can see in the data fewer home purchase offers, slightly climbing unsold inventory, and slightly more price reductions for the homes that are on the market. Rising rates make more inventory. So how much inventory will we add this fall?

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JULY 13, 2021

bidding-war rate Redfin saw in June 2020, when the housing market was starting to rebound from a temporary standstill triggered by pandemic shutdowns, said Laura Sechrist Molenda, a Redfin real estate agent based in Southern California. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52

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JULY 13, 2022

Looking at the housing market in the years 2020-2024, one risk i identified early on was that home prices could accelerate more in this period than we saw in the previous expansion if inventory channels broke to all-time lows. housing market as savagely unhealthy. Over the last two and a half years of U.S.

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