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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. With more sellers who are buyers, we have a tad more demand this year.

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. Mortgage rates went up to 5% in 2018 , cooling down the housing market but nothing too dramatic for the existing home sales market. Home prices ebb and flow, pricing was working in the sense that sellers met homebuyers to a degree.

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Did home sales momentum fizzle in December?

Housing Wire

The New Years week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays fell on Wednesdays this year, which messes up two full weeks in terms of getting home sales done and tracking the numbers. Those will start rebounding in next weeks data.

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Even with low inventory, expect a strong 2021 housing market

Housing Wire

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. The divide between supply and demand is striking: compared to last year, total new listings increased.22%,

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Video: Mortgage rates continue to climb, deterring potential homebuyers

Housing Wire

Fewer sellers see the upside of listing now New listings volume each week remains very low, and there are very few sellers who want or need to sell into this market. And there is certainly no flood of sellers. The data shows that 58,000 new single-family listings hit the market this week.

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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

Housing Wire

We saw this happen in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. NAR total inventory data 1,250,000 One thing about purchase application data and demand is that a traditional seller is typically a buyer of a home. New listing data is down 5% year to date, as you can imagine. This means less demand for housing.

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What rising inventory means for the 2025 housing market

Housing Wire

While we have 27% more homes for sale now than last year, we have 22% fewer homes on the market than at the end of 2018. New listings When we look at the sellers entering the market, there were 45,000 new listings last week. We have a growing number of sellers each week compared to last year.

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