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. Buyers think it’s a buyer’s market. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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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

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. 1, 2024.

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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

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. Altos considers anything above a Market Action Index score of 30 to be a seller’s market.

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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. million in May. million).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

With that in mind, I would like to revisit my 2020 thoughts on the U.S. housing market and compare those to where we are today — in the middle of one of the most epic years in our country’s history, due to COVID-19. No doubt about it, the COVID crisis has taken some juice out of the 2020 housing market.

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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

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. months shows how far we are from 2008 housing economics.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Total inventory data is deficient, and this was my biggest fear in the years 2020-2024, and it happened. Inventory has been slowly falling since 2014, so if demand picks up in 2020-2024, it can collapse to shallow levels. I thought creating the term forbearance crash bros in the Summer of 2020 would help educate homebuyers.

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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

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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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 31, 2024

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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. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023? Mortgage rates.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

The following Q&A comes from the HW+ exclusive Slack channel, where HousingWire’s Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami answered questions on what to make of the latest housing data, his forecast for the rest of this year, and whether or not the housing market is returning to normal. This was my big fear. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

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 As of June 14, the state had a 90-day average of 10,393 single-family active listings on the market. Again, agents attribute the cooler market to interest rates.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. The real story in housing has been the price boom that we have seen since 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

Because March 2020 sales were slightly weaker due to the start of COVID-19, the year-over-year growth in sales for March 2021 came in at 12.3%. For the housing market, the COVID crisis started in earnest the week of March 23, as that is the last week we saw positive year-over-year data in 2020 before COVID-19 really took us for a ride.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For one, it’s easier to qualify for more of the homes on the market now that mortgage rates are a bit lower. Attractive properties in hot markets are still selling quickly, but some metros — or neighborhoods within them — have flipped further in favor of buyers.“ “Buyers have more options to choose from for two reasons.

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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. However, even with that, the labor market, while getting softer, hasn’t broken yet.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Denver-based Realtor Bret Weinstein took on a client whose house had been on the market for 60 days. The deal is indicative of how details matter in a market like Denver where home-price growth has slowed dramatically after a surge in post-pandemic migration to the metro area caused valuations to rise sharply in a short period of time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16, but there are signs that housing market demand may be reaching its peak, according to a recent study from Redfin. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.). .” from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. 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%. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though the demand for homes remained strong across the United States in August, there are clear signs that the housing market is past its peak. Why today’s housing market makes speed and agility crucial for lenders. Why today’s housing market makes speed and agility crucial for lenders.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Despite several indicators of a slowing housing market, prospective home buyers should not get too excited – inventory remains limited and changes are in line with the traditional seasonal slowdown, according to RE/MAX ’s August national housing report. increase in median home sale price from August 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Total housing inventory has collapsed to all-time lows since 2020 and because this happened during the years 2020-2024, it created forced bidding and drove prices well above my 23% five-year home-price growth model in just two years. NAR Research : The median existing-home price for all housing types in May was $407,600, up 14.8%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The year 2020 was one of the most chaotic times in recent history. An often-forgotten turn of luck for the American economy is that the housing market entered a period of the best housing demographics ever recorded in history the same year that COVID grabbed hold of us. Yes, it was short; it ended in April of 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The housing market continues to be hot in most of the country, but there are signs that the party may be coming to an end. My biggest concern in 2021 was that home prices would take off in an unhealthy way, even after what happened in 2020. The post Is the housing market cooling down? Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. housing market; the 10-year is above 1.94%, something that didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021. million and 6.16 million to 4.98

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020 has been a remarkably strong year for the housing market. Incredibly, next year’s housing market outlook is poised to be much stronger. Incredibly, next year’s housing market outlook is poised to be much stronger. million homes sold in 2020, a solid 6% growth over 2019.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Despite continued home price appreciation and a volatile mortgage rate environment that has resulted in the least affordable housing market in decades, there remains a minority of consumers who still feel that now is a good time to buy a home. The housing market index fell 1.2 points in September to 60.8,

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. economy continue to recover from the lows of April of 2020, but the 2021 economic data shows it has been one of the hottest years in many decades. What a year 2021 has been.

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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 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. In a typical marketplace, the days on market are more than 30 days.

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