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The 2023 housing market bent, but didn’t break

Housing Wire

housing market and that they need to be pro-housing again. Even with all the drama we have dealt with in 2022-2023, the housing market stayed intact and never broke. We never saw the Airbnb crash that dominated some of the housing headlines in 2023. Weekly inventory change : (Dec.15-22)

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2024 housing market and rate forecast

Housing Wire

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Now that we’re in 2024, the Federal Reserve ‘s rate hike cycle is over, so let’s look at what that means for housing demand and home prices. Let’s look at that dynamic.

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Will 2025 finally be a “normal” housing market?

Housing Wire

Weve now been in the post-pandemic housing market recession market as long as we were in the pandemic boom. Does the housing market start to get back to normal? That shortage reached its crisis peak in January 2022. housing market , because more sellers implies more sales can happen.

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Real estate’s strong 2023 housing market finish: Altos

Housing Wire

This implies that there are more than enough buyers at these prices and these mortgage rates to keep activity happening in housing. While a robust housing market is generally a positive thing, this is not all good news to every person. Inventory ends higher The year finished with 513,000 single-family homes on the market.

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Housing Market ‘Flirts With Recession’

Appraisal Buzz

“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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The housing market is better positioned for lower mortgage rates

Housing Wire

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. Last week, we returned close to recent lows.

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Spring housing market gets more inventory

Housing Wire

Here’s the new listings data for last week over the last several years: 2024: 70,665 2023: 63,236 2022: 72,009 Price-cut percentage In an average year, one-third of all homes take a price cut — this is standard housing activity. 2022: 19.2% When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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