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Altos: Sellers are coming back to the housing market, can buyers keep up?

Housing Wire

New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But home sellers are gradually easing back into this housing market. There were 66,000 new listings this week, of which 14,000 are already in contract. It’s not a ton of sellers.

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Sellers Listing Their Homes … But Buyers Aren’t Biting 

Appraisal Buzz

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. more new listings compared to last year. since pre-pandemic.

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Sellers Slash List Prices as Buyers Face Record High Home Costs

Appraisal Buzz

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. Sales are sluggish because high homebuying costs are making both house hunters and prospective sellers skittish. the previous year and just short of the 21.7% Ongoing U.S.

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New listings have peaked for 2024: It’s the second-lowest year on record

Housing Wire

One of my critical forecasts for 2024 was the growth of new listings data and active inventory, even with higher mortgage rates. However, the new listings data has slightly disappointed me. New listings data I am pleased that we’ve seen new listings data grow year over year — it’s a big step forward.

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Median home prices, new listings move higher in Florida

Housing Wire

Mortgage interest rates above 6% continued to impact potential homebuyers’ purchase power, while also contributing to a lock-in effect among would-be home sellers who bought their homes years ago with a mortgage rate of 3% to 4.5%,” the association explained in an announcement. “New listings of single-family homes were up 16.7%

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Which metros are seeing a surge of home sellers?

Housing Wire

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that the housing supply isn’t just the unsold inventory, it’s also a factor of new listings volume each week. The signal that we watch for in the new listings count is whether there are too many sellers. So far, in the post-pandemic years, we haven’t had a lot of sellers.

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More home sellers are withdrawing listings

Housing Wire

We’re also seeing more home sellers withdrawing their listings to try again next year. In fact, for every two sales, there is another listing withdrawn from the market. Let’s look at how these dynamics will impact home sales , prices, and buyer opportunities for the rest of the year and into the first quarter.

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