Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

Mortgage applications for new home purchases in June decreased 3% from May and 23.8% 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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. However, we are noticeably down from the 2019 levels.

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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

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. Active inventory rose by 823 single-family homes and new listing data is trending at all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year. On the supply side, new listings are slightly more than a year ago, but pulling back. If fact the “coming soon” pre-listings are now running behind last year by 5%. That’s up 1.3%

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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. My 2023 inventory forecast needs a lot of help, as new listing data isn’t growing at all still.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The purchase market is slower to respond, and the data now is still showing the positive impact of lower rates of recent weeks. Mortgage rates bounced back up over the last couple days, and it demonstrates how fragile this housing market recovery could be. Arizona has 70% more homes on the market now than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. That’s a big one-week change.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2024

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 is much different than what we saw in 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 9, 2024

June 2024 Housing Metrics – National Median list price per sq.ft: Change over June 2023: (+3.4%) Change over June 2019: (+52.6) Median listing price: (+0.0% June 2024 Housing Metrics – National Median list price per sq.ft: Change over June 2023: (+3.4%) Change over June 2019: (+52.6) vs. June 2019).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Attractive properties in hot markets are still selling quickly, but some metros — or neighborhoods within them — have flipped further in favor of buyers.“ Zillow reported that nationwide active inventory was up 22% year over year in August, although it remained 31% lower than the pre-pandemic level of August 2019. 29 to Oct.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. All major housing market metrics point to a restrained housing market. The number of new listings coming on the market this spring is lower than it has been in more than a decade.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last June, the Federal Reserve said it wanted a housing reset , which meant it wanted higher mortgage rates to destroy the housing market. Today, the Federal Reserve achieved its primary goal; the days on the market are now above 30 days, which was the most important data line to get housing back to somewhat normal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. This is good news for the housing market. The week ahead.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. Ten states have more inventory unsold than in 2019, which was the last sort of normal year before the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

In November of 2019 the number of single-family homes for sale was at 6,000. Lyons is optimistic about 2024, especially if mortgage rates keep declining and new listings keep hitting the market. Indianapolis is a very affordable market, which attracts people from more expensive places,” Lyons said. “We’re

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

Here’s the housing market rundown for the last week: Purchase application data showed positive weekly growth again — and the bounce from the bottom is more noticeable now. Housing inventory decreased by 6,468 units, a more pronounced decline from the previous week. housing market. Weekly inventory change (Jan.

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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. The market has been so hot, many worry that rising rates will finally be the catalyst to pop the bubble. The post Mike Simonsen: How rising rates impact the housing market appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. That’s even with home prices jumping to an average of $226,000 in September – an 18% jump from September 2019.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

During the four week period ending November 28, the number of active listings was a 23% decrease compared to the same time period in 2020 and a 42% drop compared to 2019. The number of new listings was also down compared to 2020, dropping 4%, but it was 12% higher than the number of new listing during the same time period in 2019.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. We are still below 200,000 of total jobless claims.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most important housing market stories in recent weeks has been the decline in new listings , which has slowed the growth rate of total inventory. Once that happens, I can finally take the savagely unhealthy housing market theme off my talking points. What does this mean? million to 1.93

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It looks like this is evidence that housing markets are returning to normal rather than a case of sellers panicking, but it’s worth keeping an eye on. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Housing inventory inches up There were 570,000 single-family homes on the market, or 0.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter. However, we have entered a tricky period in housing economics where we might have to take this premise more seriously since mortgage rates recently got as low as 2.5% The parts of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The seasonal changes in the housing market are very different from what they used to be with inventory peaking two or three months later in the year. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that the housing supply isn’t just the unsold inventory, it’s also a factor of new listings volume each week.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

from August 2019 levels, it is still improving. Similar to buyers, sellers reduced their offering in August as newly listed properties dropped 0.9% This reverses a nine-month trend of rising listing activity. Gains in new listings were observed in July (8.4%). The price of a typical listed home increased by 36.2%

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

The housing inventory shortage dominated much of the conversation surrounding the housing market in 2022, but thanks to softening homebuyer demand, the number of active listings finished the year up 54.7% compared to the year prior, according to Realtor.com’s December Housing Report. compared to December 2019.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Cooler fall temperatures have brought less intense housing market conditions to the once white-hot market of Bergen County , New Jersey. “We We are seeing some price drops start to happen and a little bit longer days on market.” 27, the county had a 90-day average of 909 active single-family listings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Looking at the chart above, inventory started growing late this year, but it seems normal compared to 2017-2019. This growth is a positive housing story in 2024, something I talked about on Yahoo Finance this morning. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me. million in April.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors Confidence Index Survey for April reveals how hot the housing market is. Per the report, homes that sold had five offers on average , and nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

million, something that couldn’t happen from 2008-2019 because we didn’t have the demographic profile to get to that level until household formation grew. However, the housing market did run into one problem in 2020. I knew housing would be OK as long as home prices only grew at 23% over five years — 4.6%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

Home prices aren’t crashing, despite what the housing bubble boys are saying. The housing bubble boys are a crew that from 2012 to 2019 screamed housing crash every year. In 2022, mortgage rates got as high as 7.37%, so the question was: how low do rates have to go for housing demand to get better?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

25, purchase lock counts were 21% below the same week in 2019, and 30% below the levels during the same week in 2018. We’ve seen a consistent theme of potential sellers – many with first-lien rates a full 3 percentage points below today’s offerings – pulling back from putting their homes on the market,” Walden said.

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Housing Wire

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 million and 1.92

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We have had two historic events that created a waterfall dive in demand recently; we now have precise data showing new listing data declining with those events, which shows how important that data line is to housing demand. This is the biggest story in housing. . economic history. . As we can see below, the U.S.

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