Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

The New Years week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays fell on Wednesdays this year, which messes up two full weeks in terms of getting home sales done and tracking the numbers. Buyer competition led to all kinds of craziness.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

There are obviously fewer buyers who can afford these prices. In 2024, we saw a notable increase in buyer demand when mortgage rates got close to 6%. However, mortgage rates were climbing to their highest level of the year at this time in 2024. New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

This is measurable in both the total unsold inventory and the number of new listings each week. Thats up a smidge from last week and remains just a hair above this point in 2024. September 2024 was the moment when mortgage rates hit their lowest point of the last year. Can the pace hold up? A little bit of growth.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s take a look at the data as we’re already in November 2024. The unsold supply of homes on the market has now passed its peak for 2024. New listings rise There were just under 61,000 new listings unsold this week. So, the new listings volume last year was low and dropping.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

New contracts for home purchases are coming in very low this month. In the fourth quarter of 2024, sales were coming in at 5% to 10% more than the year prior. Buyer activity has been dropping for several weeks and there are now fewer homes in contract than a year ago. more of those new listings unsold than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

This is after Q4 2024 was 5% above the year prior. But we didnt really see any change in the buyer demand metrics until rates got closer to 6%. In fact, as of the end of February, the sales and home price data continue to look very weak, even compared to the lows of 2024. In this chart were looking at the unsold new listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We already see many signals for what to expect, including last week’s data on inventory , new listings and price reductions, which I analyze below. Mortgage rates continue to move higher and that’s impacting buyers. Last week there were 52,000 new listings for single-family homes unsold.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

New listings volume is trying to grow with its biggest week since September. List prices inched up for the week, though sales prices did not advance. This year still has fewer home sales than 2024 at this time. See the purple line for 2025 keeps coming in just below 2024. These sales are not yet closed. Thats up 1.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Let’s take a look at the data for the end of October 2024. Florida had an uptick in inventory with a bit of a rebound in new listings now that the storms are over. New listings go up This year continues to have slightly more sellers than last year but fewer than we used to get in past years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

What had previously been a surprisingly mild 2024 hurricane season closed with two devastating storms that hammered Florida and North Carolina. In the Asheville metropolitan area — located in the Western North Carolina region that was hammered the most by Hurricane Helene — new home listings sat at 120 on Sept.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 31, 2025

Prospective buyers have been cautious because theyve seen homes sitting on the market and theyve heard interest rates and prices may drop. When the market isnt competitive, some buyers think they should wait for costs to go down, said Jordan Hammond, a Redfin Premier agent in Raleigh, NC. The market had 5.2 year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The hope is that a potential cooling of interest rates will contribute to a stronger market in 2024, according to Florida Realtors President Gia Arvin, a broker-owner with Matchmaker Realty in Gainesville. “New listings of single-family homes were up 16.7% ” Closed sales of single-family homes grew 0.6%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2024

The rules of supply and demand economics always end up winning and weekly new listing data is key. New listing data is growing year over year, but it will be the second-lowest new listing data ever recorded in history. 2024 has a much healthier inventory level.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

annually in December 2024, up from a 3.7% during the last six months of 2024. New York City continued to demonstrate strength in home prices, up 7.2% “Mortgage rates nearing 7% in January seem to have affected buyers more than sellers,” Zillow senior economist Kara Ng said. Home prices were up 3.9% ”

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 13, 2025

in December 2024 when compared to the same period the previous year. metro areas, Miami (45.4%), San Diego (42.4%), and Denver (41.9%) had the biggest annual rise in active listings. 2019 Median listing price -1.8% (to $402,502) +34.2% Active listings +22.0% -15.7% New listings +0.9% -11.0% pp South 26.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Notably, the median sale price in the Pacific Palisades jumped by 32% since February 2024. While sales tanked and prices shifted, new listings slowed. In the Palisades, there were 23 new listings in February 2025, down 12% year over year. Altadena, meanwhile, posted a 6% decline in new listings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

But nationally, home prices are still higher year over year, and some places like New York state had significant home-price gains in 2024 due to persistently tight inventory. Following that, 2024 started a bit higher still. Home sellers and listing agents know where demand is for homes. At this time last year, it was 31%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We regard this metric, the percentage of homes on the market with price reductions from the original list price, as a leading indicator for future sales prices. Looking backward at the housing market , we can see sales prices are not appreciating compared to 2024. At this time, of year theres new inventory and new buyers are shopping.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A substantial drop in new listings is a contributing factor. 1, weekly new listings were at 410 but have since dropped to 186, although new listings tend to drop in December as the holidays approach. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

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. On the supply side, new listings are slightly more than a year ago, but pulling back. If fact the “coming soon” pre-listings are now running behind last year by 5%. That’s up 1.3%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

We are once again expecting mortgage rates to get better gradually, and opportunities for buyers should follow, but be prepared for plenty of bumps on that path,” Zillow chief economist Skylar Olsen said in a statement. Zillow says that 2024 will finish with 4.06 “There’s a strong sense of dj vu on tap for 2025.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Manchester, New Hampshire is Zillows most popular city of 2024. Manchester has garnered particular attention from potential buyers outside of its metro area, suggesting a strong interest in relocating there. Buyers are seeking out locations that offer the right mix of affordable living and lifestyle amenities.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Have we seen the bottom in mortgage rates for 2024 after a crazy roller coaster ride so far this year? My 2024 forecast had a mortgage rate range of 7.25%-5.75%. With the 10-year yield at 3.74% as of Friday, we have some room left to reach the very bottom of the 2024 forecast before the year is out.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024? It’s not what I wanted to see in 2024, but I have to be realistic since we are already in February. Weekly housing inventory data One substantial positive story for 2024 is that we have more housing inventory year over year. But at least it’s positive!

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Active listings of homes for sale rose to the highest level since early in the pandemic. New listings hit the highest level since July 2022, increasing 1.9% Buyers should know that they have a bit more negotiating power because there are more homes hitting the market. They climbed 0.3% year-over-year. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

real estate market as we’re now in the second half of 2024. will be significant enough move in rates to move the needle for buyers. New listings rise This week saw 69,000 new single family listings unsold. So that’s a total of 84,000 total new sellers for single-family homes this week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Lets take a look at the data as were now in December 2024. New listings on trend Nationally, there were just 31,000 new listings for single-family homes from the last week which included Thanksgiving weekend. During this period, there were fewer sellers and many more buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Home sellers are returning to the market, but buyers are hesitant, according to a recent Zillow market report. In May, new property listings exceeded sales, allowing buyer competition and price rise to slow—and more price relief is expected. Inventory, New Listings and Pending Sales Overview New listings increased by 7.9%

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to a recent Redfin report , the first eight months of 2024 saw the lowest turnover rate in decades, with only 25 out of 1,000 U.S. homes changed hands in the first eight months of 2024. The rate of home sales and home listings are both down at least 30% from 2019. homes changing hands. homeowners have obtained.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

“I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. Buyers are really struggling.” We couldn’t even see it.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 30, 2025

Sacramento, CA (+31.7%), Phoenix (+27.3%), and Seattle, WA (+24.7%), saw the biggest increases in newly listed homes this month compared to the same period last year among the top 50 metro areas. The number of newly listed houses was 10.8% more homes for sale on an average day in January than at the same time in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At as of March 6, 2024. There is nothing to show.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” But as the calendar flipped to 2024 and as we inch closer to the spring selling season, Fischer said things have started to pick up. in mid-January 2024. as of February 29, 2024. According to Altos Research, as of Feb.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 9, 2024

The market is trending slightly in the direction of becoming more buyer-friendly thanks to these factors. While the quantity of homes on the market still trails pre-pandemic levels, home buyers are seeing more options to choose from as inventory increases,” said Danielle Hale, Chief Economist for Realtor.com. and 48.7%, respectively.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Buyers today are facing many of the realities of a hot market even though few homes are changing hands,” said Elijah de la Campa, Senior Economist at Redfin. And with so few homes for sale, buyers in some markets are getting into bidding wars, which is helping push home prices to record highs.” Ongoing U.S. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

The median list price of homes in the US is $435,000; the median price of new listings is $435,900. The price per square foot is $216, increased from $213 in March 2024. Visit Altos Research Sources: Altos Research Buyer statistics Part of being a great buyers agent is getting inside the mind of a buyer.

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