Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

To keep pace with current construction demand, and account for attrition, 740,000 new construction workers are needed each year for the next three years , a report by the Home Builders Institute contends. From 2022 through 2024, this total represents a need for an additional 2.2 million new hires for construction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After experiencing a temporary hiccup between July 2022 to January 2023, the U.S. housing market is back on track , stronger than ever, with a total estimated value of $52 trillion, according to a new analysis by Orphe Divounguy, a senior economist at Zillow Group. housing market has surged by more than $2.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

It is no secret that the housing market is suffering from an ongoing inventory drought. Existing housing inventory fell by 11,021 homes week over week for the week ending March 6, according to data from Altos Research. In 2022, 2.06 million housing units were started , and 11.9 million households.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

housing market this year? If we stick to the facts, however, we can glean a few important take-homes as to what risks the housing market faces for 2021 and beyond. Following these years of doldrums, in the years 2020 to 2024 we have the best housing demographic patch ever recorded in history. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Both pose threats to access to capital, the cost of materials and labor, and future housing values. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

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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. The housing sector — especially real estate and mortgage — has seen significant layoffs , while the general economy will create more than 4 million jobs in 2022. Home sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

As the housing market cooled further during the fourth quarter of 2022, homebuilders also continued to pull back on single-family construction. However, growth began to slow drastically in the second quarter of 2022 as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to combat inflation. in Q4 2022.

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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

JUNE 18, 2023

9, 2022 , this data has been forming a bottom-end range. This dynamic changed the housing market from one where home sales were crashing to one that is now stabilized. 9 is a critical date because that’s when the housing market turned. I explain how this happened in this recent podcast. 6% for a year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. Of course, that’s until you look at the housing completion data, which hasn’t gone anywhere in years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Despite several rate hikes throughout the second half of 2022, the labor market finished the year strong. And that could spell trouble for the housing market in 2023 as the Federal Reserve looks to bring inflation down through aggressive interest rate hikes. million jobs in 2022, compared to 6.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

As a result, some homebuilders have doubled down on the construction of built-to-rent (BTR) homes. In 2023, a record 93,000 new single-family homes for rent were completed, up 39% from 2022, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, investors are flocking to the BTR sector.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Economists at Fannie Mae say the Federal Reserve ‘s fiscal policy is having its desired effect on the housing market – home price growth began to slow in the summer, and the GSE says the housing slowdown will continue through 2023. trillion in 2022. The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $2.17

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Even in the extreme conditions of COVID-19, my general premise on housing economics predicted that the two variables with the most influence — demographics and mortgage rates — would hold up the housing market. With those two factors still very much in play, here is my 2022 forecast. The 10-year yield and mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. However, housing affordability worsened.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Last year was a tough one for the Indiana real estate market. Sales from 2022 to 2023 were down 14%,” Mark Fischer, the CEO of the Indiana Realtors Association , said. “We With existing inventory down, Schuler said new construction has taken on a larger role in his market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Logan Mohtashami: Supply has gotten worse and worse this year, every single week in 2022 on a year-over-year basis. This was the last thing we needed to see for the Housing Market , which went from unhealthy to savagely unhealthy. This is not a positive for the housing market but a real net negative.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Zillow anticipates a more active housing market with more buyers obtaining the upper hand in 2025. A construction boom has eased pressure on rent prices, putting rent affordability on track to improve next year—that is, as long as wages continue to grow.” As 2025 draws near, mortgage rates are once again in the news.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. below the September 2022 rate of 1,463,000. However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% Indeed, privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,473,000, down from 1,541,000 in August.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Higher mortgage rates have increased recession risk by targeting the one sector that always falls before every recession: residential construction workers. And higher rates are also impacting the future supply of homes, as housing permits have been in a downtrend for a while. percent (±12.1 This is 10.1 percent (±10.6 percent (±12.6

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

David Meyer is thankful that his business is still plugging along during the wildest housing market in decades. With mortgage rates hovering around 7% and home prices still at record highs, buyers across America are calling off the house hunt and finding multifamily apartments. . Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New home sales have been one of the brighter housing stories since the home sales crash in 2022 — as we can see in the chart below, new home sales have been able to grow since then. This is one reason why the homebuilder stocks have done so well since November of 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

The loss of population has softened housing demand, as has the rapid rise in mortgage rates that began in the spring of 2022. In addition, a sizable amount of the inventory is new construction, and builders are able to offer better financing terms for buyers with their in-house mortgage businesses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

We’ve been a sellers’ market here for at least the past eight years, but probably closer to 10 or 11.“ While this is up from a record low of 7,336 listings set in late April 2022, it is still well below the 29,951 listings in early May 2019, about a year prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

This is one reason I raised my fifth recession red flag for Housing on June 16, 2022 as I saw that higher mortgage rates would impact new home sales and housing permits. 9, 2022, not only helped the housing market build more homes, but it also boosted the U.S. months , this is just an OK market for builders.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Homebuilders are also pacing the number of homes they bring to market. Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The rate of homes under construction has roughly plateaued since April 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. in June from a year ago while the market saw 28% fewer new listings added during the same period.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, Alabama’s population grew by 34,000 people, according to estimates published by the U.S. Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. New construction is backed up,” she said. We’ve got beaches.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. Since the summer of 2020, I have genuinely believed the housing market could change once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. In response, they stalled construction for 30 months.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

The Florida housing market faces an outsized risk from weather events and larger climate issues. John Rogers, chief innovation officer at CoreLogic , outlined the risks but also the positive developments he sees in the Florida housing market at an event held by the National Association for Real Estate Editors (NAREE) last week.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The recent surge in immigration to the United States has ignited discussions about its potential effects on the housing market, particularly concerning housing costs. Senior Research Analyst Riordan Frost from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, recently took a deeper dive into the impact of immigration on the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. million new single-family construction units in 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Many say housing leads the economy into a recession, which has been the case for decades since higher rates tend to put the U.S. However, the housing market dynamics changed on Nov. 9, 2022 , positively impacting new home sales. percent)* above the November 2022 rate of 1,427,000. economy into a recession.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps early next year, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. The supply-demand imbalance fueling the housing market shows no signs of abating in 2022, even as homebuilders attempt to bridge the gap.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A small but growing sector Cushman & Wakefield notes build-to-rent homes have become “increasingly attractive to the investment community,” with sales of build-to-rent communities reaching $3 billion in 2022. In 2022, build-to-rent transactions totaled about $2.1 Similarly, construction has slowed but remains elevated.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

The housing starts forecast was revised upward by a larger (though still modest) amount, primarily due to a more positive outlook for near-term single-family starts. in March and have generally trended upward since the fall of 2022. New home sales jumped 9.6% government on its debt obligations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

An analysis of the Census Bureau ‘s Survey of Construction 2022 microdata showed that builders started building smaller, attached homes – with more stories and fewer bedrooms — than they had in previous years. Compared to pre-pandemic levels, single-family home starts in 2022 exceeded 2019’s starts by 14.3%.

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