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Housing inventory crisis continues in 2022

Housing Wire

Early in 2021, when I was talking about how people should worry about home prices overheating, I had a glimmer of hope that maybe toward the end of 2021 we would be spared another seasonal collapse of inventory. Inventory always falls in the fall and winter, but I hoped it wouldn’t be a repeat of 2020. million and 6.16

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Incomes are rising for experienced Realtors but falling for younger ones

Housing Wire

In a difficult housing market for Realtors, experience matters — a lot. That’s the conclusion of the 2024 Member Profile poll from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which shows a sharp divergence in income when comparing more experienced agents to their less experienced colleagues. million per agent in 2022 to $2.5

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Texas housing inventory jumps 40%, but prices stay flat

Housing Wire

They say everything is bigger in Texas — and apparently that includes housing inventory growth. According to a second-quarter 2024 report from Texas Realtors, the number of active listings from April to June of this year were up 40.8% Houston inventory was up 42.5% compared to the same period last year. and McAllen (6.8)

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Inventory of existing homes hits highest level since early in the pandemic

Housing Wire

Sinking sales, rapidly rising inventory and prices at all-time highs — this is the state of the market for existing homes. That’s according to June’s existing-home sales data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which reflect the problems that have hampered housing markets since mortgage rates began to rise in 2022.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory falls again

Housing Wire

This is why I’ve created the Housing Market Tracker — a weekly analysis of purchase apps, housing inventory and mortgage rates that will be published every Monday. This data had a historic year in 2022, with a waterfall collapse that wiped out eight years of the index in one year. Weekly housing inventory.

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New-home sales fall in May as inventory piles up

Housing Wire

Homebuilders with unsold inventory are feeling the pinch of high mortgage rates — and it’s showing up in new-home sales data. This inventory pileup could start to affect new-home prices. The new-home sales numbers contrast substantially with the existing-home sales report for May from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

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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