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

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

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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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. However, in most of the country, we have no growth from the seller side.

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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

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 10, 2023

of home sellers gave concessions to homebuyers in Q4 of 2022, through money for repairs and mortgage-rate buydowns. In Q3 of 2022 and Q4 of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales. Sellers realize they’re not going to get $80,000 over the asking price like their neighbor did last year,” he added.

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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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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

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

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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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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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

If youre thinking about buying or selling a house and wondering about the housing market, youre not the only one. The real estate market has seen a lot of unusual trends in the past couple of years, so it makes sense that youd want the latest market update before you make any major decisions!

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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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 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. They increased the Federal Funds Rate from nearly 0% at the start of 2022 to 4.5% in September 2022. They eased below 6.5%

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Since mid-2022 when mortgage rates headed higher , two facts have been apparent: new listings data has been trending at the lowest levels ever recorded in history and inventory has been able to grow from record low levels thanks to mortgage rates staying elevated. Let’s see what the data for last week tells us. Weekly inventory change (Oct.

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. We are working from a shallow bar in this index – seven years of growth were taken away in one year in 2022.

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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. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

It looks like we’re heading back to those conditions of the second half of 2022 where inventory grew rapidly, but any real downside correction was mitigated with a withdrawal of supply. Sellers can just wait it out, and it looks like the U.S. housing market is seeing that now. It’s been two years of waiting already.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their home. “A Despite the state’s tight inventory, the housing market is not as hot as one might expect.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2024

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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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

home sellers reaped slimmer profit margins on median-priced single-family homes and condominiums during the first quarter of 2024. Investment returns for sellers fell for the second straight quarter. We saw a similar downward pattern from late 2022 into early 2023, and then the market surged. Home Sales Report.

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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. Last week, we returned close to recent lows.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Denver has been one of the hottest markets in the country having absorbed considerable inbound migration from California, New York, Texas, and Chicago, among other areas. This gave sellers the upper hand, but the market has turned in recent months. year over year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Also, the volume of active listings was higher in 2022 this week, even though we were working from a lower level. While the labor market is getting less tight, it’s not broken yet.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

As of March 29, the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area was the fourth-hottest housing market in the country. The Bay Area metro had a 90-day average Market Action Index score of 61.19, according to data from Altos Research. Altos considers anything above a Market Action Index of 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

In the 24 months beginning March 2022, the U.S. housing market saw dramatic changes in affordability as mortgage rates skyrocketed 500 basis points. After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. That’s a swing of 17% fewer sellers in just a matter of days.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. million in November 2022) Here are some charts from today’s report: So is this a repeat of last year? from November 2022 ($372,700).

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. Yes, we found the seasonal bottom for housing inventory on April 14, but this year’s rise in active listings has been tepid at best. That is no longer the case after the second half of 2022.

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