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COVID couldn’t stop the U.S. housing market in 2020

Housing Wire

Today the National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales for the month of December were at 6,760,000, a beat of estimates. 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% Mortgage demand picked up in 2020.

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New homes account for the highest share of sales since 2005

Housing Wire

The housing market in 2024 was about as frustrating for the real estate industry as you can imagine. And its a higher number than at any point since the financial crisis, other than 2020 and 2021 during the post-pandemic boom. Since the beginning of 2020, the average monthly change for existing-home sales is -0.27%.

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Existing-home sales take a sleigh ride to the sky with highest jump since 2021

Housing Wire

The housing industry is getting an early Christmas gift. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing-home sales in November rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.15 And that number includes a huge caveat as June 2020 was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. million, a 4.8%

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What’s next for the overheated housing market?

Housing Wire

According to the National Association of Realtors, March’s existing-home sales came in at 6.01 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%. We now have what I would consider to be the unhealthiest housing market in the last 10 years.

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Existing home sales data: A bad sign for housing market?

Housing Wire

According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales for April’s housing market came in at 5,8500,000. I have been saying we should expect home sales to moderate since the end of summer 2020, and that is what we see in this report. The post Existing home sales data: A bad sign for housing market?

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 Total inventory data is deficient, and this was my biggest fear in the years 2020-2024, and it happened. I thought creating the term forbearance crash bros in the Summer of 2020 would help educate homebuyers.

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Two years after fleeing to the suburbs, homebuyers have flocked back to cities

Housing Wire

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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