Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. In July 2022, new listings volume per week dropped from 90,000 at the end of June to approximately 74,000 just after the July 4th holiday. That’s a swing of 17% fewer sellers in just a matter of days.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Home prices escalated out of control after 2020 and when we look at why that happened, we can see that housing credit mattered more to inventory data than most people realize. On March 18, 2020, purchase application data broke out to pre-cycle highs in demand. So you can see why we have so few stressed sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

I like to point out that consumers are more sensitive to changes in mortgage rates than to the absolute levels, and since rates are now basically unchanged for the month, just easing down from the early March peak of 7.2%, sellers and buyers are tip-toeing back into the market. Inventory will cross over 2020 levels by July.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

The report also shows the housing market also set new records for home-selling speeds and competition, although seasonally adjusted home sales and new listings flattened from April. “Sellers are still squarely in the drivers’ seat, but buyers have hit a limit on their willingness to pay. . from April. .”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates. percentage points—sellers take notice. Facing these realities, many would-be sellers decide to stay put. This is clear in the chart below, which shows the year-over-year percent change in the four-week average of new listings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

While inventory is growing across the country, some markets are way more impacted and already have more homes on the market than in 2019 or 2020 just before the pandemic. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market. The takeaway? If mortgage rates continue to rise to 7.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. The divide between supply and demand is striking: compared to last year, total new listings increased.22%,

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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. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. From March 2020 to July 2022, the median home price rose 23% before hitting a brief lull.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

New listings healthy There were 70,000 new listings unsold for single-family homes this week. In fact, this is the first time in three years that we’ve had a “normal” number of new listings. There were 70,000 single-family homes listed unsold and another 10,000 immediate sales. Since 2020, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Mortgage rates spiked in March, and then the new listing data started to decline at the end of June.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. As we can see below, none of that is happening today because the seller isn’t stressed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2023

However, one thing is sure: from 2020 to 2023 we never saw credit-stressed home sellers. While inventory levels are still too low for my taste, it’s good that we are not at 2022 levels when we only had 240,194 total active single-family listings for Americans to buy. Weekly inventory change : (Dec.15-22)

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 27, 2024

According to a new Redfin study , the average U.S. Since the start of the epidemic in 2020, when the housing market all but collapsed, this is the first year that the average home has sold for less than list price during this time of year. That percentage is down from 36% a year ago and is the lowest for any June since 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Supply growth could also come from more sellers, such as investors or distressed borrowers unloading. However, in most of the country, we have no growth from the seller side. In Florida and Texas, we see the rising costs of insurance , taxes and climate risk driving some sellers. more sellers than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

By the end of the summer, it looks like inventory will finally be back above 2020 levels. In the video above, you can see in the inventory chart how this year’s trajectory is climbing and looks like it’ll cross the 2020 levels by July. More home sellers are coming back to the market each week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We had multiple refinancing waves in 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2021. The new listings data we track with Altos Research is trending at the lowest levels ever during the past few years, while back then it was running at accelerated levels. We had a lot of stressed sellers back then! Here is an example with our Nov.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

New listing numbers are low There were just 59,000 new listings unsold this week for single-family homes. There were another 10,000 new listings that immediately sold. This week saw 6% fewer sellers than even last year which was already super low. Both of those numbers are very low.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

What’s not measured in the FHFA paper is how by 2023, seller volume had already been declining for nearly a decade. In that period, we can see seller volume decreasing as more and more Americans had mortgages under 5%. We see the same pattern in the new listings rate each week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. 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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market. 70 towns, 90 new listings Local agents say the county’s tight inventory situation is largely to blame. “We As of March 6, 2024, there was a 90-day average of 570 active single-family listings in Bergen County, according to Altos. as of March 6, 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2024

Yes, home prices are still rising in 2024, but the pace is significantly slower than in 2020 and 2021. The seasonal decline in new listings will begin soon and we will see if we get fewer sellers in the second half of the year than the current trend. With more sellers who are buyers, we have a tad more demand this year.

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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. New data from the U.S. When inventory bounces back The extremes of the 2020s have dealt big blows to for-sale inventories.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

Weekly housing inventory Since new listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2023, some feared we wouldn’t see the typical spring inventory increase. After the last few weeks , we can put that fear aside: we are finally getting the seasonal increase in active listing. didn’t go into recession until 2008.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

New listings, meanwhile, grew slightly on a monthly and yearly basis but were 21% lower than the same month in 2019. million homes on the market, buyers have the most properties to choose from since September 2020. The share of listings that include a price cut is also sure to increase competition among buyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

” New listings of homes for sale were down 12% from the same period in 2019, and active listings — the number of homes listed for sale at any point during the period — fell 49% from the same period in 2019. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”. million annualized pace in the second half of 2020. “We are witnessing a true V-shaped sales recovery as homebuyers continue their strong return to the housing market,” said Yun. million, a 1.1%

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Measuring Inventory & New Listings MoM New listings decreased by 1.1% New listings increased by 0.8% New listings are 21.3% For-sale inventory (the number of listings active at any time during the month) in August increased by 0.2% home this month was listed at $362,143.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2024

We can’t have a functional housing market with the inventory levels we saw from 2020-2023. While I didn’t get my minimum target of 80,000 new listings during the peak seasonal weeks this year, it was good to see growth. With more sellers who are buyers, we have a bit more demand this year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The lack of sellers is also a demand problem and what we saw after June of 2022 is that sellers called it quits earlier and faster in the year than usual, resulting in total existing home sales totaling 5,030,000 to end 2022. During that period, we saw new listing data decline.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

bidding-war rate Redfin saw in June 2020, when the housing market was starting to rebound from a temporary standstill triggered by pandemic shutdowns, said Laura Sechrist Molenda, a Redfin real estate agent based in Southern California. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Remember that 2023 had the lowest new listings data ever and 2024 will have the second lowest. One of the reasons total inventory data hasn’t gotten back to 2019 levels is the lack of sellers in 2023 and 2024. Also, let’s remember that 2019 inventory levels were a four-decade low before 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With the home-price growth we had in 2020 and 2021, my five-year price-growth model that I set for 2020-2024 of 23% was already smashed in just two years. Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%. million in August.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Despite the decline, housing demand is still strong compared to one year ago, evidenced by existing home sales from this January to April, which are up 20% compared to 2020. from April 2020 as every region recorded a price increase. month supply and down from the 4-month supply recorded in April 2020. .” from April 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In response, Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant noted that while “declining rates are good for both buyers and sellers,“ rates are not yet low enough to alleviate the lock-in effect that has stopped many potential listings in their tracks. This rate gap has kept some homeowners from listing their home for sale.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s according to Black Knight , which just released a white paper that studies how long it would take to sell all the homes currently listed for sale in a given market based on a prevailing sales rate, if no new listings are added (a metric it calls “months of remaining inventory”). year over year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When I outlined my 23% five-year growth model for 2020-2024, it was to have a marker for when price growth got too hot. However, I knew the years 2020-2024 would see better demand from the bump in demographics. Seasonal impacts are the norm with housing, and new listing data is negative 6% year to date.

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