Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The combined share of millennials, both younger (ages 25 to 33) and older (ages 34 to 43), made up a combined 38% of the home purchase market last year, up from 28% in 2022, according to the 2024 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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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. While a robust housing market is generally a positive thing, this is not all good news to every person. There are millions of would-be homebuyers who are simply priced out of the market.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2025

Despite the frequency of departures, real estate agents in the state say the housing market remains strong. On the balance, there are still more buyers with their eye on a purchase than there are houses on the market. Statewide, the housing market has a 90-day average Altos Market Action Index score of 44.18 as of Jan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

Refinance activity last week hit its highest level since August 2022, when mortgage rates were closer to 5%. Compared to the third quarter of 2020 when the mortgage market faced a refi boom, the dollar volume of refinance applications was still down 80.1%, according to Fannie Mae data. But it’s far too early to celebrate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

For now, we can say the labor market isn’t tight anymore, but it’s also not breaking. The four-week moving average declined slightly by 750, to 212,250 Below is an explanation of how we got here with the labor market, which all started during COVID-19. Jobless claims show an expanding economy that has not lost jobs yet.

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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? The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. But, the market change isnt evenly distributed. Two and a half years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic turned a number of nontraditional cities into housing market hotspots. While some of those markets have since seen a reversal of fortunes, 2025 may bring a few more surprises. These are mortgages secured before mortgage rates began to rise sharply in 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In particular it’s created a glut of 30-plus-year-old units on the market, with few takers. According to Alt os Research , the median list price for a condo in Miami-Dade County last week was $505,000, down from the peak of $620,000 on July 1, 2022.

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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. Let’s delve into the details and find out. I discuss this in this episode of the HousingWire Daily podcast.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Today’s existing home sales report shows that the existing home market is now almost balanced. We are very close to getting this balance nationally and in some markets we’re already there. million as a balanced market, but this equation has a second variable tied to today’s housing economics: affordability.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Another plus is that the citys young adult population shot up 41% from 2012 to 2022. Phoenix has a really hot job market, says Stacy Miller, Real Estate Agent for The Miller Team at RE/MAX Fine Properties in Phoenix. markets for Gen Z homebuyers. Click here for more on the hottest U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

“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. And, reversely, when the Fed starts lowering rates, the housing market perks up and the general economic landscape follows course.

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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! Will Interest Rates Go Down in 2025?

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The median asking rent in the 50 largest metros registered at $1,753, down by $2 from last month and $7 lower than its August 2022 peak. Miami, FL, was the least affordable rental market in August 2024. Oklahoma City, OK, is the most affordable rental market in August 2024. Asking rents dipped by $5, or -0.3%, year over year.

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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

JULY 5, 2024

With today’s jobs report and all the reports we got during this jobs week, can we finally say the Federal Reserve is winning its war against the labor market? I believe the Fed won’t pivot until the labor market breaks. labor market in the past few months, something I talked about on a recent HousingWire Daily podcast.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Denver-based Realtor Bret Weinstein took on a client whose house had been on the market for 60 days. The deal is indicative of how details matter in a market like Denver where home-price growth has slowed dramatically after a surge in post-pandemic migration to the metro area caused valuations to rise sharply in a short period of time.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In 2022, I argued that the Federal Reserve won’t pivot until the labor market breaks. This means that the Fed will need to create such a slowdown in the labor market that nobody will question their action when they pivot. In the last three months, things have cooled down in the labor market.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As Baby Boomers age out of their homes, will it help create enough inventory to boost the housing market? As per a recent report from Zillow , it all depends on the specific housing market. In 2022, there were roughly 20.9 million familiesliving with non-relatives in 2022 that were likely in need of their own place.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Ironically, a strong employment situation in the country drives the bond market to higher rates. The purchase market is slower to respond, and the data now is still showing the positive impact of lower rates of recent weeks. The median price of all the homes on the market is now $440,000, that’s unchanged from last year.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to the Realtor.com September Rental Report, there remains a geographical gap in the rental market despite a national trend of overall rent declines. Despite a nationwide decline in rent, nine of the ten Midwestern markets included in the 50-metro survey experienced year-over-year increases in rent in September.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On Tuesday, the firm launched Compass Resort, a network for agents in vacation-home markets and clients searching for second homes. ” According to its announcement, Compass feels that now is the right time to launch a resort division as the market for second homes is growing. .”

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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. “The current pending sales got a boost from lower mortgage rates last month, but those mortgage gains are gone now.

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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. As the market gradually recovers, 2025 should bring more sales and relatively moderate increases in property values. Working with an excellent realtor to assist price and market a house listing will be more crucial than in previous years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Relatively cheap housing, low taxes, looser COVID-19 restrictions and an influx of major employers turned Texas housing markets into hotspots after the pandemic began in March 2020. The year-over-year median price change in baby San Jose turned negative at the end of 2022. There werent many metro areas that rivaled the boom in Austin.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

real estate market is marked by contradictions that are leaving many confused. It’s a complex landscape where the tension between renting and owning is more pronounced than ever, and regional differences in housing demand highlight the uneven nature of the market. As 2025 approaches, the U.S. reflect a growing divide.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. Social media posts have fueled speculation that Austin’s rental market is in freefall. Gerli told HousingWire in an emailed response that normalizing market conditions would be indicated by a slow and gradual decline in rents. by September.

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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 24, 2024

While there is no doubt that the Florida housing market has slowed since the height of the post-pandemic homebuying boom, the state’s condominium market has been especially hard hit, according to local agents. “It Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic turned previously sleepy cities into boomtowns.Expanded or permanent work-from-home policies gave people more flexibility in where to live, and those in uber-expensive markets like San Francisco and Manhattan took advantage by moving to areas where they could get more space for less money. Migration data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The 2024 housing market is shaping out to be one of the slowest in recent memory, but what can the industry expect in 2025? HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami and Altos Research Founder Mike Simonsen have compiled a comprehensive forecast for the 2025 housing market.

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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. LAs housing market has largely stabilized after the turbulence of the post-pandemic years and the rapid rise of mortgage rates beginning in 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The after-repair value is the estimated full market value of a property in fully repaired condition. In some cases, this capped credit bid is lower than the market-driven reserve price. Listening and responding to the market helps them sell faster, reduce holding costs and optimize their net proceeds from a sale.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2024

As we can see in the chart below, the 10-year yield and mortgage rates have made a massive move higher since 2022. However, whenever the 10-year yield falls with duration, as we saw toward the end of 2022 and into 2023, it sends mortgage rates lower, and we can grow sales from these record-low levels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Known for its rural communities, quaint towns, scenic lakes and mountain vistas, New Hampshire is probably not where you would expect to find one of the nations hottest housing markets but the data says otherwise. 18, with a market action index score of 55.77. 18, with a market action index score of 55.77.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

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%. We also had our first positive year-over-year print since 2022. Weekly pending sales Below is the Altos Research weekly pending contract data to show real-time demand.

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