Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 3, 2025

According to Zillow s most recent market research, the erratic and abrupt changes in mortgage rates that had a significant impact on the housing market in 2024 will undoubtedly be a significant factor in the upcoming year. By 2025, that figure ought to increase somewhat to 4.16 28 New York $680,934 7.0%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Inventory, new listings, sales, and prices all dipped this week. The election took up a lot of peoples’ lives last week, and that obviously delayed some listing and sales activity, plus we’ve had spiking mortgage rates. I’m now looking forward to 2025 when the data comes in each week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2025

Weekly pending sales The latest weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers critical insights into real-time trends in housing demand. For some time now, its been showing positive growth versus both 2022 and 2023 data, and, in the first few days of 2025, versus 2024 data as well. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

The new year has arrived, but little has changed regarding the direction of mortgage rates and their impact on the U.S. housing market. However, the labor market for those working in in the existing home sales market isnt substantial enough to impact an economy, since it is a sector that revolves around a transfer of commission.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

People seeking more space to accommodate working from home led to a minor outflow of residents that put the housing market on pause. The current market has largely normalized and is experiencing a pause for the same reasons as many other markets across the country.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

There were 45,000 new listings for single-family homes across the country this week, which is a big jump. This is the trend that will be the theme for 2025. Over time, our job at HousingWire will be to help everyone understand the market and financial impact that we can measure. Home prices could fall. That means 4.2

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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. fewer homes on the market that a week ago.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. Job additions and income growth will further help with housing affordability, but increased supply will be essential to satisfying all potential demand.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. Some markets are much slower than others. Lets look at the Altos Research data for this week, the middle of January 2025. When will that be?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2024

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. However, like most housing data, this information is quite seasonal. Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When we released the HousingWire 2025 forecast paper earlier this month, we discussed how we assume continued inventory growth in 2025, but at a slower pace of appreciation than we saw this year. The 2025 lines will trend higher, even closer to the old normal levels. This level of new listings will lead to inventory growth.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

24): Inventory fell from 569,898 to 565,875 The all-time inventory bottom was in 2022 at 240,497 The inventory peak for 2024 so far is 739,434 For some context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 1,104,310 New listings data While active inventory didn’t rise, we did get a nice boost in new listings this last week.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Shoppers, who are out this fall, are likely to face lower competition than is expected in spring 2025 as more shoppers anticipate better mortgage rates.” Similar to buyers, sellers reduced their offering in August as newly listed properties dropped 0.9% This reverses a nine-month trend of rising listing activity.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2024

So, what does this all mean for the housing market and the future of mortgage rates? Remember that even though we are showing growth year over year — 2023 was the lowest levels of new listings ever recorded in history. It’s a big week for housing with reports on the labor market, the economy and mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“Given inflation continues to decelerate and the Federal Reserve Board’s current expectations that they will lower the federal funds target rate next year, we likely will see a gradual thawing of the housing market in the new year,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. There were another 9000 new listings/immediate sales this week.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

17, total active listings were at 806,701, down 16.2% However, new listings have stabilized, ticking up slightly since the beginning of September. “In one week, we had the biggest decline in new listings data all year, which might indicate Americans are giving up on listing their homes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. New listings rise There were just under 61,000 new listings unsold this week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Although I don’t have any capacity to predict interest rates, I do know what happens to the housing market if rates rise or fall from here. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market. It was not that long ago that we had 70,000 or 80,000 new listings each week in March.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Specifically, when housing inventory is 25% greater than a year ago, the supply/demand balance is obviously very different than it has been. So while we can see currently the prices of home sales holding up, the signals for the end of 2024 and into 2025 seem to suggest we’re heading for flat home prices. A year with 5.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

We’re on the lookout for these subtle shifts in the market because that has implications for home price appreciation and for home sales volumes for the year. There’s nothing in the data that says 2024 is going to accelerate, so the most optimistic scenario we’re watching for is stability and maybe poised for a sales recovery in 2025.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Mortgage markets could cause mortgage rates to jump even if the Fed cuts. New listing numbers are low There were just 59,000 new listings unsold this week for single-family homes. There were another 10,000 new listings that immediately sold. Both of those numbers are very low. It’s that time of year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Over the past two years, housing demand has improved when the 10-year yield falls enough to get mortgage rates near 6%. Mortgage spreads I cannot emphasize enough how positive this year’s mortgage spreads have been for the housing market and the general economy. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

According to Altos Research , there are 40% more homes on the market at the end of August 2024 than there were last year at this time. That means currently just over 700,000 single-family homes are unsold, with about 10% of those going into contract each week, and another 75,000 new listings.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 12, 2024

More Good News for Buyers: More Homes to Shop Around Growing inventory is encouraging for purchasers as well: The number of properties for sale is almost at its highest point since late 2020, with new listings up 7% year-over-year. less than what it was listed for at the beginning of July. overall and by 7.3%

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Listing Spark

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Texas housing market has been a focal point of attention for potential buyers and sellers alike, especially as we approach 2025. The shifting dynamics within this local real estate landscape raise critical questions about home prices, inventory levels, and overall market trends. How Are Home Prices Changing in Texas?

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

That’s the lowest level in records dating back to 2012, with the exception of May 2020, when the pandemic brought the housing market to a standstill. Pending sales—a more current gauge of housing market activity that includes both existing and newly constructed homes—fell to the lowest level on record aside from April 2020.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

housing market could have a soft landing in 2023. The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. We could see inventory from distressed sellers emerge in 2025. Price The median price of all single-family homes on the market in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

If an uptick in housing inventory and more favorable interest rates materialize in 2025, you’ll still need to find creative ways to generate buzz for your listings and expand your client network. Listing and marketing properties is a complicated process. But what exactly is the right approach?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For buyers, you may want to link to new listings that fit their must-haves. Graphics and statistics NAR.com Detailed market insights, research, and statistics from the real estate industry, legal news, marketing tips, and tools. RealTrends.com Housing market data by city and state, agent news, and advice.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Yes, there are signs of greater real estate activity in Seattle/King County since the Fed trimmed its short-term rate by a half-percent, but Americans are not swarming the market in a purchasing frenzy. Consumers considering a change of address are holding out amid forecasts for lower mortgage interest rates in 2025. was up 27% YoY.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 14, 2025

House buying and selling? The rate of new listings, actively listed homes and pending sales for all home types in King County fell by about a third from November, which was also a slow month for the market. Its too early to tell but 2025 could shape up to be more of the same slow progress on all fronts.

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Conversely, a rapid decline in active listings could suggest a market that is heating up. Generally speaking, local housing markets where active inventory has returned to pre-pandemic levels have experienced softer home price growth (or outright price declines) over the past 24 months. Active listings (i.e.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The brief and unseasonal spurt in October activity across the Seattle/King County residential real estate market ended abruptly last month. November new listings fell by about half of the previous month’s rate while home prices saw a welcome decline. The number of new listings tumbled 48% from October and was down 2.7%

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Seattle/King County housing market appears to have come through the worst of times with a slightly stronger showing in January than in previous months. And, despite the rise in new listings, the number of homes still on the market on Feb. in Q1 2025 (6.3%) 5.6% in Q2 2025 (6.2%) 5.6%

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 9, 2024

Despite a challenging financing environment, the Seattle/King County housing market is moving forward. New listings (+17%), available homes at the start of April (+5.0%) and listings going under contract – also known as Pending sales – (+24%) were solidly higher when comparing month to month. above the list price.

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