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. However, we need lower mortgage rates to grow sales in a bigger fashion in 2025. Chairman Powell’s statements created a ripple effect in the market.

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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 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. We are optimistic that later in the year, the economic news relaxes a bit and rates fall closer to 6% or even under that. Thats exactly what happened quickly.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2025

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. We will begin tracking the purchase application data again next week, even though this last week was New Year’s. We have a slight single-digit increase in demand year over year.

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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 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. Market observers believe that the cuts will be paused when the Fed meets again at the end of January. At HousingWire s Mortgage Rates Center on Tuesday, the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.09%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Inventory is moving down There are now 719,000 single-family homes unsold on the market around the U.S. There are just over 27% more homes unsold on the market than last year. The 2025 lines will trend higher, even closer to the old normal levels. New listings climb There were 53,000 new listings unsold this week.

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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. There are 177,000 condos on the market.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

17, according to a new report from Redfin. This is pushing many prospective homebuyers to the sidelines until the market becomes healthier. 17, total active listings were at 806,701, down 16.2% However, new listings have stabilized, ticking up slightly since the beginning of September. New listings are down 6.7%

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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. According to an NAR outlook, home sales are projected to rise significantly in 2024 and 2025 as the housing market steadily returns to normal.

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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 regional housing market was slower to recover from the financial crisis of the late 2000s than other parts of the country, and it had been reeling from a general decline of the region for years before that.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s get into the holiday spirit with this week’s Housing Market Tracker data! Oddly enough, it wasnt jobs week data that moved the bond market this week, but the ISM service index, which came in soft and sent bond yields lower more aggressively. However, like most housing data, this information is quite seasonal.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

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. The Fed met last week and we escaped dramatic changes in the markets. There are now 513,000 single family homes unsold on the market. Now it’s on the rise.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mortgage rates fell below the 7% threshold this week as markets prepared for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s announcement on Wednesday. 14, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Meanwhile, new listing activity also inched up slightly in recent weeks, another good sign for homebuyers who have more options.

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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 60,000 new listings unsold this week for single-family homes.

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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? If we witness more softness in the labor market, the 10-year yield and the labor data will eventually force the Fed’s hand. If we witness more softness in the labor market, the 10-year yield and the labor data will eventually force the Fed’s hand.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. At the time, I observed that even if mortgage rates stayed flat, the momentum seemed to be in the cards for broad, slow growth in the market. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market.

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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. Another tricky part of communicating this news is that home sales aren’t suddenly great. The market is different now.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 10, 2025

Now that the holidays are gone and the new year has begun, some people are leaping into the market, and others are taking advantage of the fact that there are more properties available than there have been in previous years. New listings are down 2.5% The post New Year New Home? The post New Year New Home?

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Compass also said it is not seeing any changes in new listings with regard to commission offers, whether on the Compass platform or on multiple listings services (MLSs). It’s launching a beta version of its client dashboard in October, with full rollout finishing at the beginning of 2025.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Both of those states ticked up this week with more unsold homes on the market than a week prior. real estate market as we roll into September 2024. real estate market as we roll into September 2024. Inventory lower than last week There are 704,000 single-family homes unsold on the market across the country now.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

Recently unsold inventory would rise later in the year, especially in the last two years as the market slowed when inventory climbed up to November. Slower growth of unsold homes on the market is a result of too few sellers on the supply side and stability on the demand side. The price of the new listings this week is $400,000.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

With the total number of homes on the market at its greatest point since May 2020 and interest rates about to start declining, buyers will have more options this autumn. Simultaneously, home sellers reduced the number of newly listed properties on the market, with a -0.9% Gains in new listings were observed in July (8.4%).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

“It will also allow us to achieve our goal of supplying 10,000 homes outside of Japan by fiscal year 2025, ahead of our initial expectations.” Data from Altos Research shows that just over 505,000 single-family homes are on the market across the U.S. ” Sekisui claims it has delivered over 2.62 That’s a 1.2%

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2025

After inching downward at the beginning of the month, mortgage rates reversed course halfway through December and have been rising sincein part because the Federal Reserve projected fewer 2025 interest-rate cuts than anticipated. New listings fell 1.6% In the meantime, a lot of house hunters are opting to rent. Just 25.1%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Mortgage spreads I cannot emphasize enough how positive this year’s mortgage spreads have been for the housing market and the general economy. Its important because one key factor that could push rates below my forecasted 5.75% threshold is a potential downturn in the labor market. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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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. The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. The froth is out of the market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Unsold inventory of homes on the market has been climbing in the U.S. 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. But still, there are about 300,000 fewer homes on the market now than in August of 2019. When demand slows, inventory grows.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

In down markets, the best agents and the best brokerages gain market share,” Reffkin, the CEO of Compass, told investors and analysts during his firms first-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday evening. “We Year over year , Compass gained 26 basis points of market share, bringing its total share of home sales in Q1 2024 to 4.76%.

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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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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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

MARCH 8, 2024

million and that funds will be only distributed to “qualifying settlement class members who submit an approved claim form,” which much be submitted by May 9, 2025. The emails and postcards also note that the settlement total is $208.5 Recipients are also given the option to “opt out” or object to the settlement.

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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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