Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

New homes are an attractive alternative for many buyers as existing inventory is still tight in many markets around the country and a newly constructed home provides additional customization options. In that data, new home sales are recorded at contract signing, which is typically coincident with the mortgage application.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Existing home sales have been largely in line with the ESR Group’s recent forecast of further gradual declines throughout the year, which were expected due to affordability constraints and tight existing home sales inventory of existing homes for sale.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Tight housing inventory, obstacles to a faster rate of new construction, and rapidly rising home prices continue to hold back purchase activity,” Kan said. The overall housing index hit its lowest point since February, said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2024

Weekly housing inventory data This week’s data was hit with the July 4th bug. So, I will not make any statements about the decline in inventory week to week, except that it’s been affected by the holiday and we should get back on trend next week. have higher inventory data than the national data.

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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. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. If supply goes over 6.5 Hard pass.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The builders will pull back on construction when the supply is 6.5 From Census: For Sale Inventory and Months’ Supply, The seasonally?adjusted 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

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement. Furthermore, inventory remains tight, which hinders sales but keeps home prices elevated.” Year over year, all four regions saw declining transactions.

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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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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. Notably, total inventory is up 28.7% million homes. HouseCanary Inc.’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. With inventory tight, the slowdown in demand has yet to impact prices, meaning the summer will likely remain a strong seller’s market.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Moderation in mortgage rates led to a pickup in demand for residential real estate, but limited inventories across the country hindered actual home sales , the Federal Reserve reported in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts that was published Wednesday. Residential construction costs started to moderate this period.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The lack of housing inventory is a major constraint to rising sales,” Lawrence Yun , NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. In the new construction sector , NAR predicts sales to increase 4.5% year over year. year over year to 4.56 million for all of 2023.

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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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Additionally, our pending contracts are still reflecting double-digit year-over-year growth. Weekly pending sales The weekly pending contract data from Altos Research gives us a great peek into real-time housing demand. Weekly housing inventory data We are experiencing a seasonal decline in housing inventory , which seems normal.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year we had monthly existing home sales collapse back to 2007 levels, except this time around, NAR has total inventory at 970,000 and not over 4 million. 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. months of supply.

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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

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 completed is at 70,000 = 1.23

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Despite sluggish pending contract signings, the housing market is resilient with approximately three offers for each listing,” Lawrence Yun , the chief economist of NAR, said in a statement. The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell to a reading of 76.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“Higher interest rates further dented home sales, which declined at a moderate pace overall but fell steeply in some Districts,” the report states, noting that “residential construction slid further at a modest pace” and “home prices grew less rapidly or declined outright amid weak demand.”. Existing home sales fell steeply in most markets.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

So, the author tried to use new construction prices from back in April to describe the whole U.S. New contracts dipped as affordability is out of reach for so many. Inventory is very low and just inching up now week over week late in the summer. Before that change, it looked as though inventory had peaked for the year.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

She expects a market contraction this fall in the housing sector. MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit is of the same opinion: “The housing market appears to be stuck heading into autumn, with sales activity likely to stay stagnant until housing inventory increases and mortgage rates decline to more affordable levels,” he said in a statement.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

With the coming together of interest rate drops, the persistent, continued low inventory levels and 2023 being recorded as the slowest year for U.S. Well into January, we are already seeing properties go under contract in the first weekend with multiple offers. Will we get more inventory? The strategy has changed for buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

While some economists pointed to harsh weather as a likely deterrent of February home sales, others noted the plague of rising home prices, limited inventory and the uptick in mortgage rates. A new home sale occurs when a sales contract is signed or a deposit is accepted. As for the West, new sales dropped 9.3% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Remember, with median sales prices and inventory, it’s very seasonal. However, remember, the dive in inventory is normal at this time of the year. Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

For prospective home buyers and sellers, that could mean a gradual decline in mortgage rates , which would unlock inventory and—dare I say—sales activity. In much of suburban New Jersey, where new construction is rarer than cheap Bruce Springsteen tickets, the pandemic-era conditions never left. I mean very little inventory.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Since the spring, inventories were substantially lower in Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont, but moderately higher in Massachusetts (including Boston proper) and New Hampshire. In New York City, as well as across most of the district, homes sales tapered off, and the inventory of available homes, though still very low, edged higher.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Homebuyers flocked to what little inventory existed in January, with existing-home sales rising 6.7% Homes went under contract in just 19 days on average, down from 21 a year ago. from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.5 January sales fell 2.3% from a year earlier, though the median existing-home price rose 15.4%

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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. “With inventory tight, the slowdown in demand has yet to impact prices, meaning the summer will likely remain a strong seller’s market.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“The gain in existing home-sales in September reflects contracts signed earlier in the summer,” Mike Fratantoni, MBA SVP and chief economist said in a statement. Year-over-year, inventory of unsold homes decreased 13% in September to 1.27

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