Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Clare Knapp, housing economist for the Austin Board of Realtors , counters the notion of a collapse “Austin is not the same Austin as it was eight years ago,” she said. That’s a factor too of higher inventory.” According to Zillow , the city’s median rent across all property types stood at $2,025 as of Nov.

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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. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates rose 15%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. The inventory put a cap on how much business Marquis’ team can do, which is one of the reasons why Marquis is now licensed in 22 states. In our market here in Boston, we have incredibly low inventory.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. Unsold inventory sits at a 2.0-month

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

In 2018-2019, total housing 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. million homes, according to the National Association of Realtors. million homes, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

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. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

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. million homes, according to the National Association of Realtors. million homes, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The report attributes this decrease to the normal seasonal slowdown, causing the shortage of inventory to slow as well. In 2018-2019, total housing 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. In August, 58.8%

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

“Although low and stable mortgage rates have kept the housing market booming over recent months, a deterioration in affordability and for-sale inventory has led to a market slowdown.”. The effect of higher mortgage rates, which in late 2018 crested at 5%, also contributed to more stability in housing prices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

million, according to the National Association of Realtors. At the current rate, unsold inventory sits at a mere 2 month supply, and it’s even lower than that in some of the country’s hottest housing market. Sales of existing homes fell 6.6% in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.22 month-over-month.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2018, Forbes ranked the city No. It’s not uncommon to hear that bids on homes are that high, according to Stacie Herrig, a Realtor with Epic Realty in Meridian, Idaho, and sometimes she can see 10 to 20 offers on a home. months worth of housing inventory, which is the lowest ever, the report from Keller Williams said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

It is no secret that housing inventory is low. As income levels increase, however, the disparity decreases between current inventory and the inventory needed for a balanced market. In April 2018, there were about 810,000 listings that middle-income buyers were able to afford, just 150,000 listings shy of a balanced market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 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

MARCH 5, 2025

SB: Some of the challenges are affordability, lack of housing inventory and slow sales. Home sales are going to increase, inventory is going to increase, and all of a sudden you’re going to have rates come down and all those things could theoretically happen all at the same time. We did more than we did in years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The spring home-buying season got off to a slow start in California , where sales of single-family homes declined from February to March, according to a report released Wednesday by the California Association of Realtors (CAR). And last month’s level of unsold inventory was up 23.8% From 2018 through 2023, effective rates jumped by 33.8%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A report by the Latino Donor Collaborative found that Latino GDP grew 72 percent faster than non-Latino GDP over the entire period from 2010 to 2018. The National Association of Realtors saw the median home price jump 8.5% While barriers, these goals are not unachievable.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released a report on Friday that found 88% of all first-time homebuyers in the U.S. Lautz said she is not surprised by the record -ow number of first-time buyers, attributing the reasons to housing affordability, high home prices, rising interest rates and lack of home inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Between 1981 and 2018, the median age of first-time buyers ranged between 28 and 32. These young buyers are not without headwinds, such as low affordable housing inventory, rising home prices and student debt. In the latest Realtors Confidence Survey , 88% of buyers purchased in a suburban, small town or rural area.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Last week the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales declined in June to an annual rate of 4.2 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. In 2018 it decelerated.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A panel of experts speaking at a recent California Association of Realtors (CAR) leadership conference laid out the scope of the problem — and some potential solutions being offered at the federal, state and local level. California [has been] the most inventory-constrained market for years.” What’s the solution?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Our mortgage business took a pretty tough hit,” said Ryan Schneider, who has been Realogy’s CEO since the start of 2018. Despite the acute inventory shortage, the National Association of Realtors estimated this week that 5.6 When inventory gets tighter, Schneider said, “Higher-end agents get a bigger share of the volume.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2018, Zillow and Redfin joined the fray with their own iBuying business segments. Shrinking share, continuing losses The leading iBuyers have accounted for more than 1% of existing sales in only one year: when Zillow was clearing its books of the ill-fated Zillow Offers’ inventory.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The 2021 real estate market was one for the ages: record low interest rates and housing inventory gave way to record high home prices and sales. Capitalizing on these market factors, brokerage firms in the 2022 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings broke records in market share, closed transaction sides (there must be inventory somewhere!)

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In November 2018, the deadliest fire in the history of California nearly destroyed Paradise, a 144-year-old town that sits in the Sierra Foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley. . We have had over 200 lots active on the market at one time since 2019, so we are a little low on inventory.”.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 3, 2025

In California alone, John Burns Research and Consulting pulled data from the California Department of Housing and Community Development that shows ADU construction went from 3,000 units per year in 2018, to 23,000 a year in 2023. During a difficult market, ADUs can provide a new space for lenders to enter that will benefit them financially.

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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. In November 2019 the percentage was around 20% and in November 2017 and 2018, it was around 17%. Something else to watch is housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

The housing market is in a recession, something that the homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors now agree with me on, as this recent CNBC clip shows. The builders are in a better position to manage their inventory glut than when they were working from a credit boom in 2005 that took new home sales up to 1.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

I hadn’t developed a network for mortgage lending with Realtors,” Woodward said about his work at Interfirst in Indiana. Profitability may resemble the market in 2018 , when around one-third of nonbank lenders failed to turn a profit. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I And the rates started to go the wrong way.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Other agents will be very appreciative that youre telling them about a new piece of inventory they can share with their buyers, especially if youre in a strong sellers market with low inventory. For those of you who dread making phone calls, let me assure you: these are the easiest calls to make.

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Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

Each month, Florida Realtors® publishes a bevy of housing statistics, but few are examined as often as the median sale price of homes. The National Association of Realtors® similarly publishes a median sale price number, though it rolls all the states together into one tidy number. ORLANDO, Fla.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Quite often, too often, in fact, REALTORS ® hear home sellers say that they want to take their home off the market for the holiday season.?Their because the inventory during that time is typically at a higher point for the year.?September This was proven true in 2021, despite inventory levels remaining well under pre-pandemic levels.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

Florida Realtors. The start of the year, of course, is when homeowners and real estate agents start to bring new inventory to market. Even if sellers don’t come out in quite their usual numbers this year, there may still be enough additional inventory to push home prices down. What Could Make Home Prices Drop in 2023?

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The inventory of homes for sale and the number of homes being listed for sale were not nearly enough to satisfy the buyer demand. In fact, our REALTORS had multiple properties that had over 30 offers! Even though the inventory of homes for sale at any given time all year stayed lower than ever, it did not decrease sales overall.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These days, buyers have access to the same information as REALTORS and are not fooled by an overpriced home; they will typically steer away from it if they believe the price is too high. If the market exhibited low inventory, the sale price may have been driven up because buyers likely competed for the home.

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 25, 2023

PRICE ADJUSTMENTS AND THE 2023 MARKET In March 2022, it was clear that the market was changing from a frenzied post-pandemic scene to one where it was assumed that rising mortgage rates would slow it down and help inventory finally rise back up. Inventory didn’t increase at the rate most assumed it would.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 21, 2022

In early March it was becoming clear that the market was changing from a frenzied post-pandemic scene to one where rising mortgage rates would slow it down and help inventory finally rise back up. For the past few years, with inventory at historically low levels , sellers were coming pretty close to naming their price and buyers were paying.

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On the supply side, a decade of underbuilding of homes, regulatory barriers, high construction costs combined with people staying longer in their homes have kept housing inventory low. It’s because homeowners look great financially, they live in their homes longer than ever and the inventory shortage is creating forced bidding,” he says.

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