Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My housing economic model started in 2010 and I separated my work into two different timelines. One was from 2008-2019 and the other was from 2020-2024. The weaker demographics for homeownership and the disappearance of exotic loan options meant that the market couldn’t maintain such high numbers for long. in Q2 of 2016.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. That is how fast things changed — a by-product of a sector where the prices of homes were getting out of control after 2020. Housing inventory. Home sales.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Housing recession. national home price decline.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory data. In 2022, home sales collapsed in a waterfall fashion.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the summer of 2020, I have believed the housing market could change in terms of cooling down, but it would require the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%. This was something that wouldn’t happen in 2020 and 2021, based on my forecast. Naturally, with those two variables in place, demand will collapse.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The days on market are back to a teenager level in the existing home sales market, which means I can officially say we are back to a savagely unhealthy housing market! Nothing good happens in the housing market when the days on market are at a teenager level or lower.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

“Let’s not mistake correlation for causation,” said researcher and Deputy Chief Economist for First American Financial Corporation Odeta Kushi , who publishes quarterly analyses of housing market data and trends. A housing recession does not necessarily kick things off.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2023

housing market and that they need to be pro-housing again. Even with all the drama we have dealt with in 2022-2023, the housing market stayed intact and never broke. However, one thing is sure: from 2020 to 2023 we never saw credit-stressed home sellers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. year over year, and nearly identical to the 2,492 homes sold in February 2020 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. recorded in mid-February 2020.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the housing market rundown for the last week: Purchase application data had a solid week-to-week gain of 25%. Housing inventory decreased by 566 units, which is not a significant decline. Mortgage rates fell, but the bond market didn’t break what I see as a critical level, so for now, stabilization is more important.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. This is why the days on the market are so low historically after 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

And that number includes a huge caveat as June 2020 was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The jump in sales gives the market momentum heading into 2025, which is expected to outperform 2024. The existing-home sales report comes as major real estate companies are releasing their forecasts for the 2025 housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In a housing market shaped by uncertainty, military veterans and service members are emerging as some of the most confident and prepared homebuyers, outpacing their civilian counterparts. This was driven by optimism about the housing market and economy. This marks a shift from last year when civilians were more bullish.

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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

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. From 2014 to 2016, housing inventory bottomed out in January.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff.

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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. Since 2020, the seasonal inventory bump has happened later than usual — not until March or April. Traditionally after May, volumes will fall; this hasn’t been the case post-2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Like the vast majority of the country, the city’s housing market has been stymied by high mortgage rates, low inventory and mismatched expectations between buyers and sellers. From March 2020 to July 2022, the median home price rose 23% before hitting a brief lull. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Fluctuating interest rates have been a feature of the housing market over the last three years. Our 2025 housing market predictions are based on the assumption that lower mortgage rates will spur demand and boost the number of homes sales transactions. As mortgage rates rose, homebuyer demand slowed and inventory grew.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

annually since 2020 , led by markets in Florida, North Carolina, Southern California, and Arizona. Home prices stalled during the second half of the year with markets in the West dropping the fastest. San Francisco , the lowest-performing major market since 2020, saw prices drop by 4.5% Home prices were up 3.9%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

To that end, Veterans United Home Loans conducted a study to find which housing markets are best for current and former military members in these two generations. It concluded that the most favorable markets are on the East Coast and in the Midwest. The city that topped the list is Tampa. and the quality of life score ranks No.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Although the Greater Boston area may still be plagued by persistently chilly temperatures, its housing market is still red-hot. According to data from Altos Research , the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH metropolitan area was the hottest housing market nationwide as of Feb.

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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. The week ahead We have some big things happening in housing market data this week!

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Warmer summer weather has brought cooler housing market conditions to Montana. The market right now just feels like it’s a bit lukewarm,” said Brian Huskey , a Billings, Montana-based ERA American Real Estate agent. This was the slowest June we’ve seen in many years in our market,” Durham, a luxury-focused agent, said.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 19, 2024

Meanwhile, pending sales – a more current gauge of demand that includes both existing and newly-constructed homes – fell to the lowest level of any month on record aside from April 2020, when the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt. They declined 2.9% from a month earlier and 5.8% year over year in July.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Despite that and other positives, the LA wildfires are still making an impact on the housing market at the local and national levels. Inventory reached its highest level since mid-2020, with Southern states leading the way. ” According to February’s report, annual home-price growth ended 2024 at 3.4%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Known for its rural communities, quaint towns, scenic lakes and mountain vistas, New Hampshire is probably not where you would expect to find one of the nations hottest housing markets but the data says otherwise. 18, with a market action index score of 55.77.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in a turbulent housing market , it may have been this innovation that ultimately ended Redfin’s run as a standalone company. They still have to bear the cost of those agents, despite production not being there in a terrible housing market.” Redfin responded by laying off agents.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the housing market like no event since the 2008 financial crisis, but some of the trends induced by the pandemic are starting to reverse. That’s evident in the annual profile of home buyers and sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which provides data on dozens of real estate trends.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The modest gains reflect a continuing slowdown in the rental housing market, which has struggled to regain momentum after surging demand in previous years. Since February 2020, single-family rents have climbed 30%, with some markets particularly in Florida seeing even steeper increases.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

In August, the median monthly rent in Miami was $2,944 a 42% jump since 2020. Homeowners now spend 35% to 45% of their income on housing costs, far above the recommended 28% threshold, Cotality explained. Cash buyers dominate the market, accounting for 42% of home purchases.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Auction.com has released its 2025 Distressed Market Outlook , which forecasts foreclosure auction volume decreasing 8% in 2025 as a baseline scenario. The forecast also incorporates two other less likely scenarios with differing macroeconomic and housing market assumptions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

The NAR data going back decades shows how difficult it has been to get back to anything normal on the active listing side since 2020. Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. Mortgage rates in a regular market should be 5.25% today but are at 6.5%.

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MARCH 14, 2025

month-over-month on a seasonally-adjusted basis, hitting the highest level since the early days of the pandemic (June 2020). Todays housing market is weird. February 2025 Housing Market Highlights: United States Prices Plummeting in Texas and Florida Prices fell in six major U.S. year-over-year, and 1.3%

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JUNE 20, 2024

On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their home. “A Despite the state’s tight inventory, the housing market is not as hot as one might expect.

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