Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. Looking back on 2023, the inventory story was a big surprise even as mortgage rates headed toward 8%, as the data below will show. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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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. from December 2021 ($358,800), as prices rose in all regions.

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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. This squeezed inventory even further throughout 2022 and 2023, pushing home prices to record highs month after month.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The housing inventory shortage dominated much of the conversation surrounding the housing market in 2022, but thanks to softening homebuyer demand, the number of active listings finished the year up 54.7% Despite this sizable yearly increase, active housing inventory was down 33.4% from December 2021. compared to December 2019.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each week — for several months now — inventory levels of unsold homes on the market has been expanding compared to last year. Even as inventory declined this week, it’s relatively growing compared to a year ago. This week, inventory fell by half a percent. There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But it is growing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2021

Sellers, rejoice. in June 2021. However, low inventory remains an issue, and homes are still being snatched up as soon as they hit the market, he said. The post Fannie Mae: Sellers still thriving as home prices stay high appeared first on HousingWire. That’s up from 67% the prior month. points to 79.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Total housing inventory growth has been slow in 2023, but with rising mortgage rates over the last few months, inventory has grown a bit faster than average. The question now is: Have we hit the seasonal peak in inventory for 2023? Last year, according to Altos Research , the seasonal peak for housing inventory was Oct.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

However, the recent drop in housing inventory has more to do with seasonality factors than lower mortgage rates. Higher mortgage rates did push inventory higher during the seasonal period when it would normally be declining. The question now is what will inventory look like in the spring if mortgage rates keep falling?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

Last week, housing inventory grew and the number of price cuts fell, which is expected at this time of the year. I hope the next thing we see is housing inventory grow at the level it typically does in January or February instead of being delayed until March or April. So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

The seasonal housing inventory bottom evaded us again last week as active listings fell and new listing inventory decreased. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory fell 5,383 last week, and new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023. The answer is no!

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

in October — and since we are days away from December, we can officially label the 2021 housing crash bears as even worse than the 2020 housing crash bears. As we can see below, housing moderated, found a base and moved higher toward the second half of 2021. So far, 2020 and 2021 have come in as a noticeable beat in my eyes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? Now don’t get me wrong: demand is better in 2020 and 2021 than in any single year from 2008 to 2019. We had roughly 300,000 more existing home sales in 2020 than in 2019 and 800,000 more in 2021.

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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

JULY 2, 2023

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. Since May 15, that trend has continued to the point that inventory in America is now negative year over year. 9, 2022, and today you can see the final result of that dynamic shift as inventory is now negative versus the 2022 data — all before July 4th.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. While moving itself can be stressful, changing zip codes in 2020 and 2021 seems to be eliciting mostly happiness. and Austin.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

Will 2021 be more of the same? A buyer’s market in 2021? It’s not likely we’ll see a buyer’s housing market in 2021, at least according to experts. For example, home prices are still expected to rise in 2021, but at a smaller pace than we’ve seen this year. Is 2021 a good time to buy a house? Let’s take a look.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

That marks the first month since July 2019 (pre-pandemic) that housing inventory increased year over year. The home-inventory bump dovetails with other data indicating the nation’s housing market lost some steam this past month, according to a June housing-market report from Seattle-based Redfin. “The percentage points from June 2021.

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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. million in October 2021). NAR lists the current inventory at 1.22 million in October.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Summer is here, and housing inventory is finally growing! The spring housing inventory was like a zombie rising from the grave, very slow, but the summer is showing some promise and let’s hope it continues. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,886 weekly.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Available inventory of homes for sale is on the rise in late September, which is very unusual for this time of year. In fact, inventory is growing faster than this time a year ago. What’s happening with inventory? Normally by this point in September, available inventory is declining slightly each week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

And just like the bears who are starting to wake up from their long winter naps, homebuyers and sellers are coming out of hibernation… or at least they normally do. According to Mike Simonsen, the president of Altos Research , to see housing inventory fall throughout February, as it has this year, is pretty unusual.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fast forward to Thursday, and Opendoor reported losing $662 million in 2021. Opendoor’s losses came after iBuyer Offerpad announced it made $6 million in net income for 2021. billion revenue, which mostly stems from a 5% sales fee charged to home sellers and proceeds from flipping homes. billion in unsold real estate inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

The country was paralyzed amid the current health crisis and many borrowers and sellers alike are frightened to enter purchase contracts and move forward with transactions already in progress. The post 2021 means new challenges for mortgage lending appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

What a year 2021 has been. 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. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. A bullish housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. Things are different post-2020, and inventory is bottoming out later in the year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

Gerli cites data from a company called AllTheRooms to make the case that the Airbnb /short-term rental market is “crashing” and it will have a big impact on inventory. In some markets there are now 2-3x more homes listed on Airbnb than for sale, a situation that has robbed the housing market for inventory,” Gerli wrote in an email.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a result, the available inventory of homes for sale is slightly higher each week. With fewer transactions, inventory is building just a bit as we approach the end of the summer. When will inventory peak for the year? Inventory Inventory is still climbing just a bit each week as we approach the end of the season.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2023

Last week, mortgage rates hit a 21st-century high, the 10-year yield closed slightly higher than my peak forecast for 2023 , and housing inventory growth was still slow. Weekly housing inventory Mortgage rates have been near or above 7% for the last few months, and active listings growth has been slow during this tenure.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There’s no doubt we’re in a seller’s housing market. With inventory at record lows, demand surging and prices on the rise, buying — even just finding — a home in today’s market is quite the challenge. If buying a home is on your radar for 2021, there are still ways to do it. Will we have a buyer’s housing market in 2021?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Weekly housing inventory data We are near the end of the year, which means the seasonal decline in housing inventory will take hold until we find the seasonal bottom in inventory in 2024. However, one thing is sure: from 2020 to 2023 we never saw credit-stressed home sellers. Weekly inventory change : (Dec.15-22)

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

Homebuyers who offer all-cash improve their chances of winning a bidding war by 290%, per Redfin’s study of clients buying homes between June 2020 and February 2021. And don’t even think about making an offer below asking price in 2021, officials said. You won’t win the bidding war.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., “With buyer demand continuing to outpace the previous year’s levels amid historically lowest inventory of for-sale homes, the pressure on home prices is going to fuel home price growth in the first half of 2021,” Happ said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. The inventory put a cap on how much business Marquis’ team can do, which is one of the reasons why Marquis is now licensed in 22 states. In our market here in Boston, we have incredibly low inventory.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. 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.

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