Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As we approach the end of another hot year for the market, homebuyers and sellers are eagerly looking ahead to the 2022 housing market. Will the market continue its streak of strong growth, or are we finally about to see a slow down? I’ll also highlight which variables we should be watching for unexpected market shifts.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. We have more homes going into contract each week now than we did a year ago — supply and demand are climbing together. There are millions of would-be homebuyers who are simply priced out of the market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Any sales growth momentum in the real estate market we might have had early in the year is gone. New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year — 4.9% Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2024

This is precisely what the doctor ordered for the housing market. In March of 2022, we only had 240,000 active single-family homes available for sale, leading me to call the housing market savagely unhealthy as we simply had too many people chasing too few homes. have higher inventory data than the national data.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

If we look at the housing market right now, sales are down, new listings are down and prices are decelerating. Good inflation data came in last week, the bond market rallied and mortgage rates took a notable dip below 7% for the first time in months. If so, how should we expect the housing market to react? Inventory is 38.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. 2022 marked a unique time for homebuilders. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. If we get lucky with mortgage rates, though, we might just be at the bottom of the housing market recession right now. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. of the homes on the housing market have had a price cut. Plus, 39.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market. Home prices will also be up and we have more homes under contract than we did at the end of 2022. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Inventory is 1.2%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

I got one good crumb from the Fed meeting that made me smile: Powell finally admitted that the labor market isn’t tight anymore, which is a beneficial statement for rates down the line if the labor data gets weaker. If mortgage rates head lower and stay lower, this contract data will grow, but we don’t see that growth in mortgage demand yet.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Pending home sales ended 2022 on a positive note. Mortgage rates are the dominant factor driving home sales, and recent declines in rates are clearly helping to stabilize the market.” “This recent low point in home sales activity is likely over,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. compared to December 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group dropped its projected 2022 real GDP to 1.3%, 0.8 It sees the second quarter of growth rebounding to 1.6%, despite the economy contracting 1.4% The post Fannie Mae reduces projected 2022 GDP to 1.3% percentage points lower than its previous forecast. from March and 8.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

2022 started insanely strong and weakened rapidly in the second quarter. Could the housing market change and slow again in 2024? The data does not show any slowing on any of the active market metrics. Sellers are coming back There are 499,000 single-family homes unsold on the market now. That’s certainly possible.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

of homes on the market in May had been listed for at least 30 days without selling. Since March, when new listings increased but buyer demand remained sluggish, the share of properties on the market for at least one month has increased year-over-year, as it has since mortgage rates began climbing in 2022. set in October 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2024

property/casualty insurers show that underwriting losses in 2023 resembled those in a challenging 2022. percent in 2022 to 101.6 Homeowners and auto insurance performed particularly poorly: in both 2022 and 2023, loss ratios exceeded levels not seen in more than 20 prior years. percent in 2022. percent in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

housing market could have a soft landing in 2023. The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. The froth is out of the market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

New pending sales are also on the rise, with the 60,000 homes going under contract last week representing a 9% increase from the same week last year and an 11% increase from the same week in 2022. For-sale inventory of single-family homes is up 33% from a year ago. With mortgage rates back above 6.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. As a result, we’re now only 21% fewer homes on the market than this point in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. The economy looks to be ending 2022 on a positive note, unfortunately, it doesn’t alter our view that we’ll likely enter a mild recession in the new year. Some of the late incoming 2022 data show significant slowing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. According to Redfin’s analysis, Austin, Texas has experienced the most rapidly cooling housing market in the nation over the last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. The Fed report shows HELOC balances nationwide stood at a total of $336 billion at yearend 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Housing demand is very seasonal, so the fact that our pending contract data is firming up lately just shows that lower mortgage rates have stabilized and firmed up demand recently. However, considering the affordability challenges with the housing market , it’s good to see a flip in the housing data without rates getting under 6%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Despite the Florida hurricanes, and in the face of recently rising mortgage rates , unsold inventory of homes on the market climbed this week by about 1%. The seasonal changes in the housing market are very different from what they used to be with inventory peaking two or three months later in the year. In fact, no.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. Every state in the country has more homes on the market now than a year ago and, in many places, new construction is being completed and added to inventory, so it’s not just resale inventory that’s growing. real estate market at the end of May 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

housing market as we’re now in the second half of the year. for the week There are now 646,000 single-family homes unsold on the market around the U.S. As we look at inventory for the rest of the year, expect that the market will peak in October with roughly 700,000 single-family homes in unsold inventory. Inventory up 1.8%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As a result, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel in this crazy market cycle. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. Inventory creeps up There are now 562,000 single-family homes on the housing market. This has been a supply-constrained market, and it’s not just a demand thing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I There is also some pent-up desire to sell being released by a steadier interest rate environment and an overall slower market. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates rose 15%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Inventory hit 566,000 homes on the market, meaning there are 0.5% There were 58,000 new listings this week, with 10,000 of those homes already under contract as immediate sales. A few more sellers appear to be braving the market each week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

The Fed met last week and we escaped dramatic changes in the markets. There are now 513,000 single family homes unsold on the market. We’ll finish the year with over 600,000 homes on the market unless rates reverse and fall quickly. We currently have 24% more homes on the market than a year ago. Now it’s on the rise.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is alarming because this was the moment last year when the market turned south. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. There are now 519,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S. There are 345,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

hits peak homebuying season, the signals across the country are mixed at best as some markets are accelerating while others are slowing quickly. All in all, you can see how effectively 7% mortgage rates have slowed the housing market. If you need to communicate about the real estate market with buyers and sellers, you should join us.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

Guild Mortgage ’s second-quarter earnings suggest that a high share of purchase loans won’t necessarily be enough to protect lenders from the most challenging and volatile mortgage market in years. But it went down 30% from the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2022, to $412.7 The nonbank lender reported a $58.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Nationally, the housing market indicators have been slow for several months now. There have been a few markets; however, that have defied the national trends where inventory has stayed tighter and demand keeps rolling in. is 40% more now than last year, but some markets are just now starting to lift beyond the pandemic lows.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The headline was an impressive 8% jump over December of 2022. We shared that sales growth data back in December as it was happening in the housing market. Homes in contract rises There are more homes in contract now than last year at this time. As the year progressed, most of 2023 saw 20-30% fewer home sales than 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market continues to look bleak for 2023. This year, RMBS issuance volumes are expected to contract further from 2022 due to the impact from elevated rates, high inflation and recession possibilities. . RMBS at DBRS Morningstar said in a report.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. The housing market won’t be like this forever.

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