Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

The housing market faced some serious obstacles last week as the 10-year yield broke over 4%, mortgage rates rose to over 7%, purchase apps fell again and we are still trying to find the elusive seasonal bottom for housing inventory. I discussed my theory on why inventory bottoms out later in the year on this HousingWire Daily podcast.

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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. Total housing inventory fell in this report, the third report in a row that shows total inventory has decreased.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Weekly Housing Inventory A few weeks ago, I was encouraged that we had a slight increase in inventory and a small decline the following week. This week inventory fell 8,664 units from the previous week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. For-sale inventory is now about 26% below the norms of 2018 and 2019, the smallest shortfall since September 2020.

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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. New data from the U.S. When inventory bounces back The extremes of the 2020s have dealt big blows to for-sale inventories.

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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

MARCH 14, 2022

More expensive money also meant fewer investors holding homes so inventory would climb too. The price of new listings continues to rise, which is a very bullish indicator for sales prices in the coming months. 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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

On housing inventory , new listings data saw a small decline last week, but active listings grew at a healthy clip. We have had some volatile weekly numbers in the new listings data recently, but even with the mortgage rate spike, the decline was orderly, as it has been all year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inventory, which has been falling for years, broke to all-time lows in 2020. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. Of course, this has brought back some inventory, as demand weakness always creates inventory through accumulation. million active listings, but at just 1.28

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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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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

history, and because of that, not even low inventory could prevent home prices from declining month to month in the second half of 2022. Now we can talk about the final stage: inventory in the U.S. Housing inventory The No. Housing inventory The No. This also means there will be no bubble crash in prices in 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Inventory levels broke to all-time lows and thus created massive housing inflation quickly, which broke my model. We saw this happen in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The glaring difference between now and 2014 is that total inventory levels are roughly 1 million lower now than the peak of 2014. nominal per year at most.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Inventory continues to grow faster than last year at this time. Higher rates equal more inventory, and lower rates equal less inventory. If mortgage rates were to fall between now and January, expect to see inventory decline again next year like it did for most of this year. That’s up a fraction from last week.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

An improving supply situation may also be making a difference, with new listings up 4% year over year — meaning more properties are hitting the market for buyers to bid on. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52 million and 1.92 million to 5.61

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

New listings are also up 4% year over year, meaning more properties are hitting the housing market for buyers to bid on. In 2018-2019, total housing market inventory was in the range between 1.52 million, and that level of inventory helped to drive real home-price growth in 2019 into negative territory briefly.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Realtor.com’s Sixth Annual “ Best Time to Buy Report ” examined listing prices, inventory levels, new “fresh” listings, time on market, homebuyer demand, and price reductions, revealing that the “Best Time to Buy” in 2024 will be the week of September 29-October 5. According to Zillow , the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Declining mortgage rates could have improved affordability for buyers in the housing market in February, but instead spurred a demand that, combined with a persistent lack of inventory across the U.S., “In many areas of the country, that dynamic – low inventory and a modest rise in demand – led to an uptick in home prices.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Weekly inventory fell by 6201 , and new listing data is down noticeably from last year, which was different than last week. The 10-year yield, already at a key critical level, couldn’t break higher but reversed and went lower Friday after the jobs report and the news around Silicon Valley Bank. million in 2023.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

points on average, with a corresponding cost of about $1,500, in 2018 through 2020. “On While buyers seem to be returning to the market early in 2023, purchase loans locked in January are still off by 13% compared to the 2018 and 2019 pre-pandemic levels. points paid, Ben Graboske, president of Black Knight Data & Analytics, said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Inventory There are now 479,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S. Each year, housing inventory typically peaks in the third quarter. If a year is a market slowdown, like 2022 or 2018, inventory might not peak until September or October. Our estimation is that inventory could peak as early as next week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. In 2018, sales trends fell from 5.72 We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining. Lower rates may pull some of these listings forward as people feel more comfortable with rates down; time will tell. NAR total inventory data.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

By October 2022, it looked like 2023 would have rising inventory and falling home prices. Inventory has fallen all year. The peak of inventory for 2023 so far was the week of the New Year — that is insane. We could see inventory from distressed sellers emerge in 2025. I grew pretty bearish again. is $450,000.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The median price of the new listings this week is $399,900. As the summer progresses, each subsequent week of new listings gets priced at a slight discount to the previous weeks. Inventory As a result, the seasonal inventory build is slow and on a normal cycle. Home prices declined subsequently.

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Inman

JUNE 15, 2023

New listings dropped 23 percent year over year, pulling the number of homes on the market down 39 percent compared to the same period five years ago, according to an analysis by Redfin issued Thursday.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 1, 2024

Even with the long-anticipated break in for-sale inventory, the surging cost of homeownership, further fueled by rising insurance and tax expenses, is holding potential home sales back, as is evident in the slow rise in sales compared with last year. Rapid market slowdowns, however, need to be seen in a larger perspective.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

While we still have a significant shortage of housing inventory in Cuyahoga County, we had more active listings last month than we had in December 2020 and 2021. The chart below reflects the total active single-family listings in Cuyahoga County. Something else to watch is housing inventory.

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 10, 2024

ResiClub analyzed September inventory data just released from Realtor.com. Lance Lambert Source: [link] When assessing home price momentum, ResiClub believes it’s important to monitor active listings and months of supply. Conversely, a rapid decline in active listings could suggest a market that is heating up.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

The goal of this type of letter is to promote a new listing in the neighborhood, to position yourself as the expert by providing information about the listing, and to find more business. Many of us are in sellers’ markets with very low inventory. Inventory is extremely low, and the competition is fierce.

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Hank Miller Team

APRIL 6, 2022

It's time to answer the nagging question…did housing inventory in Atlanta increase during the first quarter of 2022? Traditionally, the months of May and June see the most new listings as the school cycle hits – graduating families sell and rising families buy. The difference now is rising rates and even less inventory.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

year over year from March 2018. After estimating in late 2018 that 30-year mortgage rates could reach 5.1% This will be a relief for aspiring buyers burdened by dwindling inventory, high prices, and competition, particularly in hot markets like the Bay Area and Greater Boston. Index Points in April of 2019.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

year over year from March 2018. After estimating in late 2018 that 30-year mortgage rates could reach 5.1% This will be a relief for aspiring buyers burdened by dwindling inventory, high prices, and competition, particularly in hot markets like the Bay Area and Greater Boston. Index Points in April of 2019.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

The start of the year, of course, is when homeowners and real estate agents start to bring new inventory to market. As the thinking goes, buyers and sellers often want to get their transactions closed by summer, especially if they have children starting at new schools in September. It would take just 3.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

To get a real price crash, we would need to see a surge of housing inventory and distressed sellers. As you will see below, inventory is growing, but it’s been a calm, healthy rise in 2024, not a flood of houses coming onto the market. Using the NAR data, the normal amount of active inventory since 1982 has been between 2 and 2.5

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 2023

The number of new listings for all home types – single-family, townhomes and condos combined – in King (887) fell 47% from November and declined 36% from December 2021. The general softening of prices comes despite tight inventory, even when factoring out canceled and expired listings that typically take place in November and December.

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Listing Spark

JANUARY 12, 2023

2022 Market Trends: Decrease in sales, values, and new listings in Austin, TX; median home value up 9.9% New Construction: Slowing down due to an increase in inventory and a declining market; builders targeting first-time home buyers. ” [0:19:31] Builders Offer Incentives to Move Inventory in Slump Market.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The region’s real estate scene in 2023 will be remembered for rising home prices and scant new listings. As the year dims, all eyes fixate on 2024’s potential: a hopeful dance fueled by dreams of lower rates and a wave of new homes for sale. Buyers and sellers tiptoed through caution.

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