Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. New home sales , another measure of contract signings, rose 8% in December on the back of declining mortgage rates. The Northeast was the only region to see a decline in contract signings, with a drop of 3% month over month and 3.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our upcoming State of the Residential Construction Industry (SORCI) Report will reflect how builders have braced for impact: Despite the rate of new contracts slowing, margins didn’t decrease. of builders showed profitability with $1 million plus contracts on average. Homebuilding Contract Values.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 30, 2024

increase in the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a measure of future home sales based on contract signings, to 75.8, The amount of contract activity in 2001 is represented by an index of 100. Year-over-year, contract signings grew in the Northeast and West and were unchanged in the Midwest and South. September saw a 7.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2023

“Pending home sales recorded the second-lowest monthly reading in 20 years as interest rates , which climbed at one of the fastest paces on record this year, drastically cut into the number of contract signings to buy a home,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Census Bureau released their new residential construction report for April, showing a miss on the estimate and a negative revisions data line, which I believe is lagging behind the current market reality. Housing starts came in at 1.724 million , and housing permits came in at 1.819 million — both are still very healthy numbers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

New home applications are down as well, as builders are still suffering from missing construction crews and the skyrocketing price of lumber and building materials. Rates have jumped north of 3% , with most recent reports showing it hovering around 3.5%. Home prices in general are staying high , as well.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

focuses solely on the financing of new construction homes for PulteGroup homebuyers. Pulte Mortgage, a wholly owned financial services subsidiary of PulteGroup Inc.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s not the safest business model either because builders take a contract to buy a home and then, from start to finish, hope that mortgage rates don’t jump on the buyer by the time the home is ready. months , the builders will pause construction. Why so low? Well, builders are in business to make money, they’re not a charity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The builders will pull back on construction when the supply is 6.5 When rates rose back in March, there was a considerable risk to the business model with many homes under construction. months of supply is still under construction 2.1 months of homes haven’t even started construction. When supply is 4.4

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Zillow will keep trying to sell existing home inventory, plus renovate and try to resell homes it has purchased under contract, according to a company press release. Pausing new contracts will enable us to focus on sellers already under contract with us and our current home inventory.”. construction workers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon. Especially when contract interest rates for refis are below 3%. On average, CoreLogic predicts mortgage rates to sit closer to 3.2%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In contract, single-family housing starts were up 15.8% Slowdowns in new single-family construction over the summer reflected sagging builder confidence, but homebuilders appear to be more confident as mortgage rates have fallen over the past few weeks and as the Federal Reserve gets set to cut interest rates. monthly and 6.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

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. There were 72,000 new listings unsold and another 18,000 listings that are already under contract (i.e., immediate sales).

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

A new home sale occurs when a sales contract is signed or a deposit is accepted. The home can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction or completed. Supply-side challenges remained a persistent issue, with the count of new homes sold that had not started construction, up 76% over the last year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

“Sales continued to trend lower in June as some builders slow sales contracts to manage supply-chains, amidst longer delivery times and higher construction costs,” said NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke. While lumber prices have shown some improvement in spot markets, these declines take time to translate into lower construction costs.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

However, construction is still facing headwinds given permits for new developments by homebuilders dropped 3%, largely because lumber and building material costs kept prices high. In that data, new home sales are recorded at contract signing, which typically occurs with the mortgage application. Censes Bureau releases each month.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The panelists also shared that they think speeding up construction permitting processes, increasing density around transit corridors, and allowing more “missing middle’-type housing are the local and state policy reforms likeliest to increase housing production. million homes. from the same period last year. Notably, total inventory is up 28.7%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program designed to allow for the construction of rental housing units is getting a new participant: the Cherokee Nation. They are one of the first tribes to be approved for the program, according to the announcement. The program’s initial roll-out will take place in Ochelata, Okla.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

A new home sale occurs when a sales contract is signed or a deposit is accepted. The home can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction or completed. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of February was 312,000. This represents a supply of 4.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Housing starts fell again in December, but there are hopeful signs that builders will see a boost in buyer traffic in the coming months and new housing construction may have bottomed,” Lisa Sturtevant, BrightMLS’ chief economist, said in a statement. Builders watched inventories rise as buyers canceled contracts and new orders dried up.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

New pending sales are also on the rise, with the 60,000 homes going under contract last week representing a 9% increase from the same week last year and an 11% increase from the same week in 2022. ” Last week, following the release of construction data for September from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

If the fed were to tighten policy, Fannie Mae’s ESR Group expects this to drag on upcoming housing market growth and even stifle home sales, house prices, construction and mortgage originations. inflation jumped from 1.68% in February all the way up above 5% by June, per last week’s PMMS report from Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

More than a quarter of single-family homes for sale during the first quarter were new-construction homes — nearly 26%, and March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin. Existing home sales were 9% higher than a year ago with just two months supply to choose from.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2024

Here are the price-cut percentages for last week over the previous few years: 2024: 38% 2023: 33% 2022: 33% Pending sales Below is the Altos Research weekly pending contract data year-over-year to show real-time demand. These are live weekly contracts, compared to the purchase application data, which looks out to 30-90 days.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

If the fed were to tighten policy, Fannie Mae’s ESR Group expects this to drag on upcoming housing market growth and even stifle home sales, house prices, construction and mortgage originations. Fannie Mae’s economic group said its outlook on mortgage rates will remain the same: 30-year fixed contract rate at 3% in 2021 and 3.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As housing inventory remains low and buyers are continuing to face strong competition with one-third of homes going under contract within a week , many are becoming discouraged and have started looking for alternative options. This will spur more construction and help ease upward pressure on home prices.”.

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Eyes on Housing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Elevated mortgage rates, high construction costs for concrete and other building materials, and weakening demand stemming from deteriorating affordability conditions continue to act as a drag on single-family housing production. Overall housing starts decreased 4.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.43

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In an odd twist of fate, the delays due to COVID-19 are currently an infrastructure and jobs program for Americans in the construction industry. As you can see below, housing completions are slowly moving along; the homebuilders have more new homes under construction that they haven’t even started yet than active new homes for sale.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

It sees the second quarter of growth rebounding to 1.6%, despite the economy contracting 1.4% Fannie expects a slowdown in homesales for the second and third quarters of 2022, followed by a softening in construction activity and a large deceleration in home price growth. percentage points lower than its previous forecast.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2025

Our weekly pending contract data has shown year-over-year growth for some time now, even with elevated mortgage rates. Weekly pending sales The latest weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers critical insights into real-time trends in housing demand. Has the spring home-buying season already begun?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Philadelphia — Homebuilders reported that contract signings for new homes continued to fall modestly. Cleveland — Demand for residential construction and real estate remained well below levels experienced earlier in the year. Contacts attributed softer demand to high construction costs and rising interest rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. The group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index remained unchanged at 124.6 last month, still hovering near levels previously seen in 2014.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Month-over-month, contract signings increased in three U.S. Overall, contract signings were down 21.1% After nearly a year, the housing sector’s contraction is coming to an end,” he said in a statement Wednesday. from the prior month, though in-contract deals were still down 17% from February 2022. from February 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With construction costs up more than 30% since inflation began to take off at the beginning of the year, there is little room for builders to cut prices,” NAHB chairman Jerry Konter said in a statement. Looking ahead, Dietz recommended that builders plan one year or more out when thinking about land and construction timelines.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. For this to work, we would need to prevent NIMBY lawsuits from delaying construction projects. If supply goes over 6.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

She expects a market contraction this fall in the housing sector. In many markets, renting has become more affordable than owning The balance between renting and owning in many markets has shifted toward renting as more new apartment construction comes online, noted Sturtevant.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

Last year, while the Census Bureau was reporting the new home sales numbers and the builders were having high cancellation rates, the monthly sales report didn’t account for the cancellations of contracts. months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. The Inventory for homes under construction is 263,000 = 4.6

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