Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The share of homes on the market with price reductions ticked up this week, which is unusual this early in the season. Potential home sellers notice weak demand, fewer offers and price reductions, prompting them to back away from the market. As such, housing inventory isn’t shrinking. Take a look at the chart above.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the current focus is rightfully on containing the blazes and protecting residents, its worth taking stock of where housing markets stand in the affected parts of the Los Angeles metro area. Data from Altos Research shows an area with expensive housing, rising inventory and conditions that lean favorable to sellers.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Zillow anticipates a more active housing market with more buyers obtaining the upper hand in 2025. In 2025, Zillow projects that buyer markets will expand to the Southwest as inventory continues to become stranded in reasonably priced cities. With more properties available to buyers, sellers will be under pressure to compete.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Data from Altos Research shows that higher mortgage rates aren’t necessarily keeping sellers from listing their homes. 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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Existing home sales ended the year on a positive note , which aligns with our weekly Housing Market Tracker data, but something surprising is that home prices firmed up late in the year as well. However, housing demand surged when mortgage rates fell in the early 1980s during a recession. Also, the monthly supply is 3.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The housing market in 2024 was about as frustrating for the real estate industry as you can imagine. Thats the highest share for new sales since 2005, which was during the building boom driven by cheaper housing, looser credit requirements and high demand for mortgage-backed securities. million and Bright MLS expecting 4.4

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

There are three big trends in the spring 2025 housing market: Supply continues to build. Because each week we have 815% more sellers than last year, the total inventory will continue to build unless and until demand shifts dramatically, which would require notably lower mortgage rates. Those do not seem imminent.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers. In total, it was another week with fewer home sellers that last year. Its hard to grow inventory too much when there arent many sellers. There are 28.7%

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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. Sales are coming in a little better each week compared to last year and 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the housing market like no event since the 2008 financial crisis, but some of the trends induced by the pandemic are starting to reverse. That’s evident in the annual profile of home buyers and sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which provides data on dozens of real estate trends.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2023

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. 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

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The spring housing market is still trying to spring. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. The unsold inventory of homes on the market across the country is 28% greater than last year at this time.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Starting this week, I will analyze weekly data in a Housing Market Tracker article every Monday to provide a status update on the U.S. housing market and economy. This weekly tracker will give you updates on the data lines that don’t need to wait for monthly housing data reports. . Housing market inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. From 2013 to 2022 I forecasted price growth every year.

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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. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. housing market in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

While it’s not as clear how long-lasting the rebound will be, it does still provide some much-needed good news for the spring and summer housing market. April was the third month with a year-over-year decline in national home prices , and home prices in March were down 9% from the peak in June 2022. million in April.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Mortgage rates recently hit a year-to-date low, coinciding with ongoing market disruptions from tariffs. The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. Notably, purchase applications show growth both year-to-date and year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Like the vast majority of the country, the city’s housing market has been stymied by high mortgage rates, low inventory and mismatched expectations between buyers and sellers. Buyers think it’s a buyer’s market. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. One caution is that this data line took a waterfall dive, wiping out seven years of growth in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. 30, 2022-Jan.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

That implies a continued slow down for home sales in the second half of the year — fewer buyers and fewer sellers, too. I wonder whether the 2024 housing market is beyond saving? housing market at the end of July 2024. Sellers seem to be backing off. Seller momentum has evaporated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

Purchase application data was up 8% weekly, and the year-over-year decline was the lowest since September 2022. Weekly housing inventory Looking at the Altos Research data from last week, the big question is: Have we seen the seasonal bottom in Inventory? This is one reason housing inventory has taken so long to bottom out.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2025

Profit margins for home sellers decreased in 2024 compared with 2023, despite rising home prices, a report from ATTOM shows. Home sellers made a $122,500 profit on typical sales nationwide last year, generating a 53.8% housing market mostly rebounded nicely in 2024, says Rob Barber, CEO for ATTOM, in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

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 Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

24): Inventory fell from 569,898 to 565,875 The all-time inventory bottom was in 2022 at 240,497 The inventory peak for 2024 so far is 739,434 For some context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 1,104,310 New listings data While active inventory didn’t rise, we did get a nice boost in new listings this last week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. When you include the 9,400 immediate sales, the total is 13% more sellers than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. The industry is in a deep housing recession this year. 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.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A History of Policy Change In mid-March of this year, NAR announced an agreement to resolve litigation over broker commission claims asserted on behalf of home sellers. Traditionally, sellers paid the buyer’s agent commission as well as their own agent’s commission.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates jumped 21.2%. He paid $4,700 in 2022, $11,500 in 2023 and received a quote of $28,000 for 2024.

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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. This marked the lowest market share for new homes in three years. market share, while first-quarter 2022 saw a record high of 34.4%. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. Current housing Inventory is still not suitable for a healthy housing market. but now U.S.

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