Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

On the balance, there are still more buyers with their eye on a purchase than there are houses on the market. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a sellers market. I would say there are more buyers out there now than there were pre-pandemic when the rates were lower. There is no inventory, McCormick said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

At the same time, seller volume dried up. But now sellers are coming back into the market. Total available inventory is gradually climbing about 1% per week — last year it was still declining in April. As we roll into the second quarter, we should have accelerating inventory growth each week. That’ll feel like a lot!

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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% Even though August’s inventory is still down 26.4%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rising housing inventory levels in 2024 may not be the positive sign of market health that they appear to be. High inventory levels contribute to another problem as active listings are remaining unsold for longer periods. Redfin refers to these listings as “stale inventory.” ” According to the report, 54.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. Every state in the country has more homes on the market now than a year ago and, in many places, new construction is being completed and added to inventory, so it’s not just resale inventory that’s growing. Higher rates create more inventory.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

There have been a few markets; however, that have defied the national trends where inventory has stayed tighter and demand keeps rolling in. Available inventory of unsold homes in the U.S. Inventory rose just over 1% this week Available inventory of unsold single-family homes rose by just over 1% this week to 653,000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2024

Active weekly housing inventory growth slowed slightly last week, but it’s still running at a healthier clip than in 2023. I have a simple model with mortgage rates being above 7.25%: weekly inventory data should grow between 11,000-17,000 per week. We have now seen it for two weeks as inventory grew by 13,247. 2022: 19.2%

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2024

We finally have six weeks of numbers that hit my housing inventory growth model perfectly in 2024. Last year, with higher mortgage rates , we had zero weeks at this level so I am now giving 2024 inventory growth a grade of A. have higher inventory than the national data. So far the weekly high print in 2024 is only 72,329.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Despite the Florida hurricanes, and in the face of recently rising mortgage rates , unsold inventory of homes on the market climbed this week by about 1%. We’ve been expecting inventory to climb, and to tick up again next week before seasonal inventory declines start in November. Last year, inventory rose by 1.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2024

The mortgage rate lockdown premise says that if rates rise, inventory can’t grow meaningfully. Let’s take a look at the inventory data this year to test this premise, since for many months it has been a working theory of mine that new listings data behavior last year marked a bottom and even going into 2024 we should see more sellers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Housing credit channels directly impact housing inventory channels. Home prices escalated out of control after 2020 and when we look at why that happened, we can see that housing credit mattered more to inventory data than most people realize. This matters because inventory was already heading toward all-time lows before COVID-19.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. In this week’s Altos Research video, I look at how home sellers and sales are up, but that doesn’t mean prices will climb in 2024. Housing inventory climbed late in the year as mortgage rates rose.

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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. 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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Inventory is rising across the country as home-buying affordability takes another hit. As demand slows, inventory grows. Last year at this time, we were seeing surprising home buyer demand with rates having fallen to the low 6s. We still see more sellers than last year. This the first inventory increase of the year.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In markets across the South, increased multi-family inventory is easing competition among renters and driving down prices. The post Buyers and Sellers Embrace Market in Wake of Mortgage Rate Dip first appeared on The MortgagePoint. The balance between housing supply and demand is a key factor shaping regional rent patterns.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Sinking sales, rapidly rising inventory and prices at all-time highs — this is the state of the market for existing homes. These two factors have caused unsold inventory to rise considerably, pushing months of supply to 4.1, Homes are sitting on the market a bit longer, and sellers are receiving fewer offers. It represents a 3.1%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

With the Easter holiday last week, data for housing inventory , new listings and the pace of new contracts started all took a breather from their growth pace. Here’s how 2024 is shaping up: There are now more listings, more active inventory and more sales than a year ago. Inventory will climb again with this week’s data.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Unsold inventory in the two biggest housing markets in the country, Texas and Florida, declined this week. Inventory seems to have peaked for the season and is slowly inching down. This probably reflects seller discouragement in a low-demand market, pulling their listings to wait until next year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

However, there are two big trends that stand out as we launch into 2025 affordability and sellers in the market. There are a few markets in the South where home prices have inched down recently and every bit helps buyers but those prices have not adjusted much, and theres no sign of any major correction in the works.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As real estate practitioners adjust to the practice changes that took effect in August, and the industry waits for final approval of the NAR settlement from the court in November, questions continue about seller offers of compensation. In a bidding war, cash buyers and investors will win, and first-time buyers will lose.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“Homebuilders are still benefiting from very low inventory of existing homes for sale, which has driven more buyers to consider new construction,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said. At the current sales rate, this represents a supply of 7.8

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 24, 2024

This trend is contributing to a glut of unsold inventory. The growing number of homes sitting on the market without finding buyers is attributed to record-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates in the 7% range, which are deterring potential buyers. The rise in stale inventory is most pronounced in Texas and Florida.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

However, the recent drop in housing inventory has more to do with seasonality factors than lower mortgage rates. Higher mortgage rates did push inventory higher during the seasonal period when it would normally be declining. The question now is what will inventory look like in the spring if mortgage rates keep falling?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

Last week, housing inventory grew and the number of price cuts fell, which is expected at this time of the year. I hope the next thing we see is housing inventory grow at the level it typically does in January or February instead of being delayed until March or April. So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024? In the last four years, we have had abnormal seasonal inventory data, meaning that the spring inventory bottom happens later in the year. This is due to demand rising late in one year, pushing through the early part of the next year and preventing inventory growth.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Demand for “have-it-all” properties and the “forever dream home” will shape this spring’s luxury housing market, according to the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury 2024 Mid-Year Trend Report , which forecasts growing optimism among affluent consumers and an influx of desirable inventory. of responding specialists agreed. Among specialists, 32.8%

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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. Of my initial expectations this year — rising inventory, rising sales rates, rising prices — only rising inventory remains clear at this moment as we finish Q1 with rising interest rates. As we started 2024, the signals in the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

With buyer demand notably slow this year, the inventory of unsold homes is expected to continue its climb through the end of Q3, and possibly into Q4, according to a recent study from Altos Research. Looking forward, the real estate market is likely to remain challenging for sellers as inventory grows and buyer demand stays muted.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs will soon release a circular that “bridges the gap” on an agency law that prohibits a VA buyer from paying their real estate agent compensation, a VA official announced on Tuesday. NAR has also advocated for the VA to change its rule around buyer broker compensation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For what felt like a moment in time, buyers enjoyed the luxury of being incredibly picky, carefully selecting what felt like their dream homes in a market that had shifted towards more favorable conditions. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Those too young to remember the wild west of real estate believe that real estate commissions have always been evenly split between seller’s and buyer’s agents, with each receiving a portion of the sale price. This misconception obscures the reality that, historically, buyers lacked formal representation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

The market continues to grapple with insufficient inventory , Redfin reported. New listings have risen approximately 8% compared to last year, yet overall inventory remains below typical spring levels.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

If homes are priced appropriately and marketed well, buyers will make offers. The buyer] got a deal,” Weinstein said of the $600,000 purchase price. This gave sellers the upper hand, but the market has turned in recent months. This has taken power away from sellers, who now face a shortage of potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2024

Housing inventory, new listing data and mortgage rates are all rising, but the price cut data percentages are falling. Weekly housing inventory data Here is a look at the first week of the year: Weekly inventory change (Jan. 12-19) : Inventory rose from 505,223 to 506,414 Same week last year (Jan. So far, so good in 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

How will homebuyers and sellers react and how quickly can we measure it? Higher mortgage rates have forced available inventory to climb all year. Housing inventory There are now 526,000 single-family homes active unsold on the market. jump in unsold inventory in a week is very notable. This concept is counter-intuitive.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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