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. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Last fall when people were still expecting mortgage rates to be falling this year, it was common to assume rates would be in the low 6s or 5s this year and people asked me if lower rates would bring a flood of inventory. The only way inventory would grow in 2024 is if mortgage rates climbed. But the evidence is the opposite.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Housing inventory, which saw an excellent pickup a few weeks ago, has been slowing down and last week we saw a slight decline. Has seasonality finally kicked in or did back-to-back hurricanes slow things enough to influence inventory data? Since then, inventory growth has been slowing down and even declined last week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2024

Have lower mortgage rates already started to slow down housing inventory? I have a simple weekly growth model with the Altos inventory data: when rates are high, over 7.25%, inventory should grow between 11,000-17,000 weekly. Still, I would consider the last month of inventory growth healthy.

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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. Weekly housing inventory Some of the volatility with new listings data has also hit the active listings data.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 31, 2025

months in the previous year and the most since February 2019. Home Sales Slow as Prices and Inventory Rise Due to the high cost of purchasing a homemortgage rates are close to 7%, and housing prices are rising 4.8% Homes Selling at Slowest Pace Since 2019 first appeared on The MortgagePoint. The market had 5.2 year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? If you follow the trend of housing supply since 2014, it’s been falling every year — with a pause in 2018-2019 — and then collapsed lower post-2020. I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2024

Both existing housing inventory and home prices have been rising together year over year, which might seem odd at first glance since existing home sales are trending near all-time lows. Let’s keep it simple: total active listings are still below 2019 levels nationally, and the days on market are under 30 days today.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

in June compared to a year ago, indicating that rising inventory still needs further saturation before making a meaningful dent in affordability. While inventory nationally and in most markets is higher than one year ago, it remains low from a historical perspective,” First American chief economist Mark Fleming said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

That puts the national inventory up 31.9% Brokers and agents , mortgage officers and other housing professionals continue to compete for their share of tight volumes and would need major industry growth to get back to 2019 levels. Texas, for example, went from being about 10% of national listings in May 2019 to about 17% at present.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why I’ve created the Housing Market Tracker — a weekly analysis of purchase apps, housing inventory and mortgage rates that will be published every Monday. The Altos Research weekly inventory data looks ahead before the sales report inventory data. Weekly housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Does that mean we are heading back to all-time lows in inventory again for 2023? During the last four weeks and especially this past week, we are seeing inventory decline faster than expected. Weekly housing inventory. Weekly inventory change: (Dec.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Total available inventory is gradually climbing about 1% per week — last year it was still declining in April. As we roll into the second quarter, we should have accelerating inventory growth each week. The immediate sales don’t add to active inventory , they’re already pending. Inventory has now expanded for 20 weeks in a row.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

Housing inventory decreased by 6,468 units, a more pronounced decline from the previous week. Weekly housing inventory There is, again, another downside report on weekly inventory, as inventory has fallen noticeably again this week from the week prior. However, it has now fallen again, and inventory decreased by 6,468.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

Last week, housing inventory grew and the number of price cuts fell, which is expected at this time of the year. I hope the next thing we see is housing inventory grow at the level it typically does in January or February instead of being delayed until March or April. So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024.

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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. 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 20, 2023

Last week, I asserted that housing inventory growth had finished for the year. This week, the available inventory of unsold single-family homes crept up minimally. Housing inventory inches up There were 570,000 single-family homes on the market, or 0.5% Turns out I was wrong! After all, more sellers means more sales in 2024.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2025

In contrast, during the pandemic, the median-price peak jumped from $279,000 in 2019 to $319,000 in 2021 before falling to $310,000 in 2022. In order to alleviate some of the pressure on buyers, agents like JD Gieson would love to see more inventory come on the market. There is no inventory, McCormick said. As of Jan.

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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. Ten states have more inventory unsold than in 2019, which was the last sort of normal year before the pandemic. And 2025 is poised to continue the trend of rising inventory across the country.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. Of my initial expectations this year — rising inventory, rising sales rates, rising prices — only rising inventory remains clear at this moment as we finish Q1 with rising interest rates. As we started 2024, the signals in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Housing inventory increased by 1,339 homes nationwide. The weekly inventory data, which had fallen faster than I had anticipated the last few weeks, has now seen a slight uptick. Weekly housing inventory. Hopefully, we see a continuation of this inventory pick-up next week and this isn’t just a one-week blip.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

The previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019 had the weakest housing recovery ever following the bust. The post Why aren’t builders creating more housing inventory? Homebuilders are navigating their housing stock well to make sure not to give up too much on the margin side of the business in the future. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We being outbound. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The housing market experienced more volatility last week, with housing inventory dropping as mortgage rates moved higher. Weekly housing inventory continues to decline, as we saw a decrease of 13,238 units, double the amount we had this time last year. So, when I saw the slight inventory increase, I thought this was a good trend.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

That marks the first month since July 2019 (pre-pandemic) that housing inventory increased year over year. The home-inventory bump dovetails with other data indicating the nation’s housing market lost some steam this past month, according to a June housing-market report from Seattle-based Redfin.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As the housing market fluctuates, inventory levels are a critical factor for builders, developers and buyers. While low inventory might seem like a challenge, especially for buyers, it presents a unique opportunity for builders. In markets with low inventory and strong demand, the situation is different.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. This type of sales growth — which couldn’t happen from 2008-2019, as I have often stated — is coming with a hefty price tag. 2020 and 2021 easily each have over 6.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

So few single-family homes are for sale in America that just two months of inventory is available across the top 100 metro areas in the country, a historic low. In Dallas, listings under $2 million have less than three months of inventory. Historically, it took these thin markets anywhere from six to 12 months to sell listed inventory.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I According to Tiller, the tight inventory has caused homebuyers to spend up to six months searching for their new property, roughly double the time it took prior to the pandemic.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

But there may be some improvement on the horizon as newly listed home inventory grew 37.5% more homes were actively listed for sale on a given day in January, following a 15-month trend of higher annualized inventory levels. In total, inventory levels were 10.8% Only 14 metro areas surpassed pre-pandemic inventory levels.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

Demand for newly built homes has been strong amidst the historically low inventory of existing homes for sale ,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement. However, experts note that the existing home inventory trough won’t last forever. In April, the sales pace of new homes rose 4.1%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Will inventory levels skyrocket as federal workers leave? Weekly housing inventory ramps up What do we see in the data on housing inventory levels in the D.C. Weekly housing inventory ramps up What do we see in the data on housing inventory levels in the D.C. But inventory remains well below historical averages.

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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. In comparison, the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It was the 10th straight month of annualized growth and for-sale inventory is now at its highest level since May 2020. Notably, even as more sellers are entering the market compared to a year ago, for-sale inventory remains markedly below pre-pandemic levels. less than the average August from 2017 to 2019.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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