Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Any sales growth momentum in the real estate market we might have had early in the year is gone. New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year — 4.9% Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What will the housing market look like in 2025? For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more. Frankly, it feels like the housing market is contracting a bit now in November. Find out more here.

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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? Those trends are likely to continue in 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The red-hot housing market of the past 2 ½ years was characterized by sub-three percent mortgage rates, fast-paced bidding wars and record-low inventory.

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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? Each week has very few sellers, but lower demand means longer time on market and growing inventory of unsold homes. Two and a half years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The purchase market is slower to respond, and the data now is still showing the positive impact of lower rates of recent weeks. Mortgage rates bounced back up over the last couple days, and it demonstrates how fragile this housing market recovery could be. There were very few buyers in the fourth quarter 2023.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The housing market will continue to slow down in 2023 , even though mortgage rates have declined recently. That’s the takeaway from a group of economists at Fannie Mae , who slashed their forecast for 2023 this week. . in 2023, a slight improvement from the previous forecast, which predicted a 0.6%

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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?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell played the Grinch last week for the housing market, sending mortgage rates higher after his remarks at the Fed presser on Wednesday. Despite this, we had positive data on existing home sales , purchase applications, and our weekly pending contract figures.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. According to Redfin’s analysis, Austin, Texas has experienced the most rapidly cooling housing market in the nation over the last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. There are 345,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. and imagining 5.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The forecast for the housing market in 2023 gets worse by the month, with the latest report predicting a million-plus decline in existing home sales. The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $1.3 trillion in 2023, according to the government-sponsored enterprise. million in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. For agents and sellers looking to succeed in Austin’s current market, Redding says pricing is key. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. That offering, Unlock HEA Trust 2023-1, is slated to close this week.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Today’s housing market suffers from affordability issues due to mortgage rates in the 7s and high home prices. People are quick to panic over any part of the housing market that looks stressed, fearing we’ll see 2008 levels of destruction all over again. Why choose 2011?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

More importantly, he said the current environment may even holdup into 2023. “We However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon. “That’s a lot of mortgages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This has been true all year long, starting in the fourth quarter of 2023. We’re also at the seasonal decline time for the housing market. There are 28% more homes on the market than a year ago. Inventory was still growing each week in November of 2023. We’re looking at the newly pending contracts here.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued its downward spiral in October, hitting its lowest level since August 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Three other indices monitored by the NAHB also posted declines in October.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

For several weeks, I’ve been reporting data that shows the housing market growing in 2024. Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. New listings and new contracts both still show a bit of improvement over 2023, but the growth rates have slid back down.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2024

We also see growth in our pending contract data compared to 2022 and 2023. Let’s get into the holiday spirit with this week’s Housing Market Tracker data! Weekly pending sales The weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers an insightful look into real-time housing demand.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023. trillion 2023, down from $4.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Economists believe that if the trend continues, the market will be able to improve in the second half of 2023. . “The latest data on the housing market show that homebuilders are pulling back the pace of new construction in response to low levels of traffic, and we expect this weakness in demand will persist in 2023, as the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

As a group, the trio originated about $80 billion in mortgages in 2023, down from nearly $218 billion the prior year – a $138 billion decline (63%). Wells Fargo, for example, shrunk its mortgage business dramatically in 2023, per filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). billion in 2023. billion from $4.2

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2022

According to a new report from Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Group (ESR), a combination of rising interest rates and elevated inflation will continue to weigh on the housing market and are now predicting a 1.2% full-year market growth. The post Slowing Housing Market Expected Soon appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This valuable information can significantly enhance our understanding of housing economics and what is coming next. The question is: How can we harness the data to give you more confidence when talking about the housing market? We have observed that pending contracts improved when mortgage rates dropped to around 6%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. in December, up from 71.6 in November. million units.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

“With many homebuilders feeling the impact of rising mortgage rates on new-home sales, delivering units for rent is expected to continue to become a larger segment of the overall single-family housing market.”. on an annualized basis, according to Fannie Mae , to as much as 20%, according to some market forecasts.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2% Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. January marked a surge of people signing contracts to buy new homes. from December to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 670,000 homes, according to data published by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Weekly pending sales The Altos Research weekly pending contract data provides insights into real-time demand. Even today, the pending contract data remains resilient despite higher home prices and mortgage rates than last year. During the housing bubble crash years, this data line was running between 250,000-400,000 per week for years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. Inventory creeps up There are now 562,000 single-family homes on the housing market. This would be the first inkling of a housing market where sales could start to post year-over-year gains. Don’t have time? That’s up 1.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million existing home sales in 2023, down 6.8% In addition to a further drop in existing home sales, Yun said he expects the annual median home price to remain relatively flat year over year in 2023, rising just 0.3% Fraud risk continues to rise even as the market contracts . from the 5.13 to $384,500.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Inventory (finally) peaks for the year Housing inventory was down by 0.7% There were 58,000 new listings this week, with 10,000 of those homes already under contract as immediate sales. Short on time? from last week.

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