Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 31, 2025

We think mortgage rates will move even lower within the next quarter and ultimately close the year at approximately 6.3%, which could be low enough to generate some extra sales from any would-be buyers still waiting on the sidelines. However, many prospective buyers remain on the sidelines, as Zillow has found the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

This also closed the books on 2020’s housing market as we finished out the year at 5,640,000 total existing-home sales — a 5.6% The COVID crisis of 2020 was responsible for a lot of abnormal metrics in the housing market. We saw hints of this prime housing market period as early as February of 2020.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. Every state in the country has more homes on the market now than a year ago and, in many places, new construction is being completed and added to inventory, so it’s not just resale inventory that’s growing. Higher rates create more inventory.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

You can thank a rise in housing inventory for the gains. million in June 2020 as housing inventory has slowly improved in recent months. Total housing inventory at the end of June amounted to 1.25 from May’s inventory and down 18.8% ” Unsold housing inventory sits at a 2.6-month Sales climbed 22.9%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It’s official – housing inventory in America is at a crisis level. 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 post Housing inventory has never been lower appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Sinking sales, rapidly rising inventory and prices at all-time highs — this is the state of the market for existing homes. These two factors have caused unsold inventory to rise considerably, pushing months of supply to 4.1, the highest number since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020. It represents a 3.1%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory data. Still, we have some promising signs that we might have finally hit the inventory bottom for 2023. Again, I am a bit mindful here due to Easter.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The trend is most pronounced in Atlanta, Las Vegas, Houston, and parts of Florida , where increasing housing supply is leading to a buyers market. With less competition, some buyers are backing out during the inspection period, hoping for a better deal. Some buyers are getting cold feet with everything going on in the world.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In the most recent month with data available on that follow-up question, 66% surveyed said that it was a bad time to buy a home because prices are too high, up from just 12% who said prices were too high in July 2020. Meanwhile only 19% said it was a good time to buy because of low interest rates, down from 44% in July 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Economists point to the October surge in mortgage rates and the rise in existing-home inventory as some of the factors behind the disappointing results for new-home sales. ​​”Some of the dip in new home sales in October is partially explained by political uncertainty ,” Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2024

We finally have six weeks of numbers that hit my housing inventory growth model perfectly in 2024. Last year, with higher mortgage rates , we had zero weeks at this level so I am now giving 2024 inventory growth a grade of A. Yes, home prices are still rising in 2024, but the pace is significantly slower than in 2020 and 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

I have often said that both purchase applications and housing starts would be limited until we hit the period of favorable housing demographics from 2020 to 2024. Specifically, I said that purchase applications would not get to 300 in the MBA index until 2020 to 2024. The post Why aren’t builders creating more housing inventory?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The fear of not having an increase in inventory this spring should be put to rest. Since 2020, the seasonal inventory bump has happened later than usual — not until March or April.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

months’ worth of housing inventory in the U.S. NAR: First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in March; Individual investors purchased 17% of homes; All-cash sales accounted for 27% of transactions; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 29 days. We only have 2.6

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

We know inventory has been climbing all year. The northern cities have tight inventory and rising prices, some of the Sunbelt cities have the most inventory in many years, and some markets even have falling prices, too. Inventory is growing Lets start with supply. Inventory shrank every year for most of the decade.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. Since the summer of 2020, this has been my main talking point on what can cool down housing ; it’s a 10-year yield above 1.94% , meaning rates above 4%. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

annually since 2020 , led by markets in Florida, North Carolina, Southern California, and Arizona. San Francisco , the lowest-performing major market since 2020, saw prices drop by 4.5% “It is expected that we will see slower price growth in early 2025 as inventory increases and affordability continues to be a constraint.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

The team was brokered at Douglas Elliman since 2020 and works across all sectors of the real estate market, from multimillion-dollar mansions to starter homes. Leahy cited access to exclusive inventory through Compass Private Exclusives as a reason for the move. ” In 2023, Leahy and her team did $167.6

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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. This means buyers have more say now in the home-buying process.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

On Friday NAR reported that total housing inventory levels broke under 1 million in December, dropping to 970,00 units for a population of 330 million people. million in January down to about 4 million in December, We now have total inventory levels near all-time lows again. In one of the most historical years in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Inventory of unsold homes on the market ticked down fractionally this week. Its not uncommon for January to have a little up and down in the inventory numbers. If inventory were jumping each week, that would be notable, but its not. At this time, of year theres new inventory and new buyers are shopping.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Newly released data from the annual profile of home buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows just how dramatically this trend has manifested since the financial crisis of 2008. While the median age of buyers gradually increased over the course of two decades, the COVID-19 pandemic sped it up.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Inventory grew by almost 14,000 homes this week. Available inventory of unsold homes continues to grow but that growth in seems a bit less intense than it could be. He expects the second half of the year to see even more inventory growth. Inventory increases by 2.2% Sellers can just wait it out, and it looks like the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Demand at distressed property auctionsfor both foreclosure auctions and bank-owned (REO) auctionshas drifted lower to end 2024 as market headwinds such as rising retail inventory and higher-for-longer mortgage rates intensified for the local community developers buying at auction.

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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. Prior to 2020, “higher priced homes” was generally considered to be anything over $1 million. In Dallas, listings under $2 million have less than three months of inventory.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

properties sold at foreclosure auction, showed that this trend is being fueled by rising levels of inventory on the retail market. Data from Altos Research found that the inventory of single-family homes for sale was up 40% year over year at the end of July.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 14, 2025

month-over-month on a seasonally-adjusted basis, hitting the highest level since the early days of the pandemic (June 2020). Some homes are attracting bidding wars like its 2020 again, while others are sitting on the market for weeks with no action, said Desiree Bourgeois, a Redfin Premier Real Estate Agent in Detroit.

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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

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

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. However, I knew the years 2020-2024 would see better demand from the bump in demographics.

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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. Mortgage rates followed suit, walloping buyers’ purchasing power. New data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. Weekly housing inventory The numbers this week are unfortunate: inventory should be growing like it does at this time every year.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 24, 2024

year-over-year, the largest annual rise in a year and the highest share for any June since 2020. This trend is contributing to a glut of unsold inventory. The total number of homes for sale recorded its largest year-over-year gain in June, as listings remain on the market longer, causing inventory to accumulate.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Record-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are prompting buyers to back out of home purchase agreements at elevated levels. Redfin ’s newest housing market report shows that buyers backed out of 56,000 purchase agreements in June, which constitutes 14.9% of buyers canceled in June. of homes that went under contract.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

If homes are priced appropriately and marketed well, buyers will make offers. The buyer] got a deal,” Weinstein said of the $600,000 purchase price. According to data from CoreLogic, Denver’s average price per square foot has risen 35% since 2020. The buyers who are in the market are shopping for the usual reasons.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Weekly Housing Inventory A few weeks ago, I was encouraged that we had a slight increase in inventory and a small decline the following week. This week inventory fell 8,664 units from the previous week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024. “It Buyers are really struggling.” We are going to see an increase in inventory. Baby boomers are not moving.

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