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What rising inventory means for the 2025 housing market

Housing Wire

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Ten states have more inventory unsold than in 2019, which was the last sort of normal year before the pandemic. Inventory is still very tight in places like Chicago and New England, but it is rising in these markets.

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Pending Home Sales Climb to Highest Level Since March

Appraisal Buzz

Jones explained that pending home sales, also known as contract signings, measure the first official stage of a home sale transaction—when a buyer and seller have reached an agreement on terms and price. Further gains are expected if the economy continues to add jobs, inventory levels grow, and mortgage rates hold steady.”

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What Fed rate cuts in 2024 will mean for homebuyers

Housing Wire

For 2026, Fed officials projected rates to fall below 3% by the end of 2026 through three more quarter percentage point reductions. We’re probably at an inflection point where rates have come down enough that more buyers are coming back into the marketplace,” said Melissa Cohn, regional vice president of William Raveis Mortgage.

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Boomers struggled more than millennials to buy their first homes: Realtor.com

Housing Wire

The analysis of historic home prices, income levels and mortgage rates found that baby boomers — Americans between the ages of 60 and 78 this year — “arguably faced the toughest housing market ever for first-time buyers.“

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Zillow, Fannie Mae diverge on 2025 housing market predictions

Housing Wire

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. For-sale inventory is now about 26% below the norms of 2018 and 2019, the smallest shortfall since September 2020.

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Compass CEO Reffkin believes agents will still be valued in a post-settlement world

Housing Wire

We have brought down expenses and continue to grow our agent count and inventory advantage,” Reffkin said. First, more buyers are using agents in 2023 than in 2003. Second, buyer agreements are not new. Compass has the best value proposition for buyers of any brokerage firm,” Reffkin said. million to 5.6

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Overblown rumors of demise? NAR has lost only 45K members since December

Housing Wire

Details of the latest membership count comes as the trade group works to implement a series of major rule changes stipulated by the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit settlement agreement, as well as fewer market opportunities for members due to historically low levels of existing-home sales inventory.

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