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Which metros are seeing a surge of home sellers?

Housing Wire

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. The signal that we watch for in the new listings count is whether there are too many sellers. So far, in the post-pandemic years, we haven’t had a lot of sellers.

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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. I talk about 2019 inventory levels a lot because in 2019 real home prices briefly went negative, showing that you don’t need to have six months plus of inventory to have pricing cool down. Image by Brandon Johnson/HW Media.).

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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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Sellers Slash List Prices as Buyers Face Record High Home Costs

Appraisal Buzz

Sales are sluggish because high homebuying costs are making both house hunters and prospective sellers skittish. Even though homes are selling for higher prices than ever before, many sellers are still having to drop their list prices after putting their properties on the market—one positive sign for potential homebuyers.

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Housing Market Slows as Buyers and Sellers Wait For Rates to Drop

Appraisal Buzz

Simultaneously, home sellers reduced the number of newly listed properties on the market, with a -0.9% In April we noted that rising for-sale inventory was likely to lead to more balance between buyers and sellers. from August 2019 levels, it is still improving. This reverses a nine-month trend of rising listing activity.

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Will 2025 finally be a “normal” housing market?

Housing Wire

What can the data today tell us about signals for growth or weakness after the new year? The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. Its now only 17% fewer homes on the market than at the end of 2019. In 2019, there were 850,000 unsold single-family homes on the market in December.

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Are we seeing a mortgage rate lockdown?

Housing Wire

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. It wasn’t the rate move that caught my attention — it was the new listing data. As you can see below, that sharp move to 6.25% caused new listing data to stall at first.

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