Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. However, the story of 2023 may be very different than what any of us expect due to the oncoming avalanche of inventory we may see and its implications. You have probably heard that low housing inventory got us into this mess.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The construction sector added a total of 31,000 jobs in November, on par with the two prior months. Specialty contractors showed the largest gains with an increase of 13,000 jobs, while persons employed in construction of buildings, and civil and heavy engineering rose by 10,000 and 8,000 jobs, respectively. While this is a 0.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We being outbound.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to a new Redfin research, in Q3 of this year, an estimated 28% of single-family homes for sale nationwide were newly constructed, the lowest percentage in three years. at the beginning of 2022 and 30.5% The total supply of inventory of single-family homes is up 22% over the previous year. in Q2 of 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

If there’s one sector of the economy that benefits from the very low levels of total housing inventory , it’s the homebuilders , but for a reason you might not think. If national housing inventory were back to normal, we would have 2 to 2.5 percent) below the February 2022 estimate of 790,00. percent (±15.3 percent (±12.9

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

As the housing market slowed from its frenzied peak in 2022 due to soaring mortgage rates, homebuilders pulled back. An estimated of 1.533 million housing units were started in 2022, down 3.0% Homebuilders closed out 2022 with an annual housing start rate of 1.382 million units in December, down 1.4% Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Industry economists attribute the uptick in housing starts and builder confidence to the low level of existing home inventory. In April, the inventory of existing homes for sale totaled just 980,000, far lower than the long-term average of about 2.3 million homes.” month over month to a pace of 1.416 million, thanks to a 9.7%

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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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

Homebuilders , whose sentiment hit the midpoint mark of 50 earlier this month for the first-time since July 2022, have yet another reason to celebrate. Demand for newly built homes has been strong amidst the historically low inventory of existing homes for sale ,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement.

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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? As you can see below, the inventory keeps falling from 2014 levels, and even with the weakness in demand this year, we are nowhere close to 2013 levels, let alone 2018 levels. What is going on here?

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In places like San Francisco ; New York ; Seattle ; San Antonio ; Rochester, New York; and Kansas City, permits dropped by more than 30% from 2022 to 2023. Fewer homes under construction and falling permits mean dwindling options for future buyers, adding more pressure to a market already strained by tight supply,” Point2 said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of homes permitted, started, under construction and completed all remain well above pre-pandemic levels but below the peaks reached in the last three years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

The relative pressure of supply vs. demand in the housing market is gauged by the level of active inventory. Like dropping barometric pressure, plunging inventory usually foretells stormy conditions: Faster price growth and faster sales. The post When will housing inventory recover? appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. Inventory rising, historically low.

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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. in Q4 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. million lost in Q1 2022. New single-family home sales rose 23.8% million net loss , an improvement on the $90.8

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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. Inventory was the theme last year and it is shaping up to be the theme this year,” Ellison said. Inventory was the theme last year and it is shaping up to be the theme this year,” Ellison said. “We

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

Large single-family rental investors didn’t have much of an appetite in the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. This uptick is a sign that more housing inventory is available for sale as more potential homebuyers are priced out of the market due to high interest rates and soaring housing prices.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market. More home sales and higher prices will lead to a rise in home-purchase originations in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. market share, while first-quarter 2022 saw a record high of 34.4%. The available inventory of existing homes rose by 22% year over year in Q3 2034.

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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. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

After a month of very little change in April , the construction sector had a solid month of job growth in May, according to the U.S. Construction gained 36,000 jobs in May, with residential building adding 5,000 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gain 11,700 jobs. The post Residential construction jobs now 7.6%

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

It boils down to two factors, according to housing-industry experts: a lack of housing inventory , or supply; and high demand for that limited housing stock — which also is fueling a jump in new-home sales. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.” through the first quarter of 2024.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Limited inventory, supply chain disruptions and concerns about inflation have led economists at Fannie Mae to lower their mortgage origination forecasts for the remainder of this year and into 2022. It also downsized its 2022 mortgage origination volume forecast by $55 billion to $3.25 trillion from the $4.36

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

in March and have generally trended upward since the fall of 2022. Existing home sales have been largely in line with the ESR Group’s recent forecast of further gradual declines throughout the year, which were expected due to affordability constraints and tight existing home sales inventory of existing homes for sale.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

With new-home sales growing since 2022, why are housing starts at recessionary levels? We had no growth in residential construction work hiring earlier in the year when rates were higher. I recently raised this concern about housing construction and new home sales in an interview on CNBC. Then mortgage rates fell from 7.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

You can thank a rise in housing inventory for the gains. million in June 2020 as housing inventory has slowly improved in recent months. Total housing inventory at the end of June amounted to 1.25 from May’s inventory and down 18.8% ” Unsold housing inventory sits at a 2.6-month Sales climbed 22.9%

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

One key data line that is flagging a path to recession is the loss of residential construction workers. A while back, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and I discussed the risk of recession due to a lack of construction labor. Let’s look at today’s residential construction report and see where we are. From 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In response, multifamily construction has skyrocketed over the last year, hitting a historic high of 841,000 units under construction nationwide in June of this year, according to research from the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2024

But since 2022, the spreads between them have gotten worse, meaning mortgage rates are abnormally higher than they should be. Weekly housing inventory data Last week was another week that missed my inventory growth model with higher rates. However, I anticipated a bit more kick than the increased inventory of 8,727 that we got.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

As existing home inventory continues to fall, builder confidence is on the rise, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Monday. This marks the first time since June 2022 that both of these components have risen to the 50+ range.

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