Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

housing market. And according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, the average rate inched closer to 7% this week. Fannie Mae, however, remains optimistic that housing market activity will pick up as existing home sales and new single-family housing starts are expected to grow modestly in 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. While the market share of [single-family] BFR homes is small, it has clearly been trending higher,” the NAHB report continues. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Going more in-depth than a Fed meeting, our virtual Housing Market Update event provides you with the strategy-building insights needed to operate in 2024. It’s a savagely unhealthy housing market out there, and these economists unpack what that means for you. Register for the virtual event on Dec.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Rent prices have fluctuated alongside home prices in this year’s housing market. More inventory can bring down prices, but some renters still struggle to meet the rental price hikes found in new construction. increase in asking rents for newly constructed apartments in 2024 the biggest spike in 18 months. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2023

This dynamic changed the housing market from one where home sales were crashing to one that is now stabilized. As you can see in the chart below, the collapse of the purchase application data has stalled out, and if this didn’t happen, we would be having a different conversation about the housing market today.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. Index values for most construction inputs are down from 2022 but remain above pre-pandemic levels. That could set the backdrop for a slower pace of construction.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

I mean, how can you go wrong when relating the housing market to nachos? UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 3/19/24 WCR Gold Country (details here) 3/21/24 2024 […] The post The housing market is like nachos first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog. It made me chuckle, and I hope you like it too.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Zillow is predicting a more active housing market in 2025 , but those hoping to buy — or even refinance — should buckle up for a bumpy ride and be ready to move when conditions are right. Zillow is forecasting that housing market activity will pick up in 2025 – but the big wildcard is mortgage rates, which will remain unpredictable.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

With existing inventory down, Schuler said new construction has taken on a larger role in his market. New construction has typically averaged around 10% of active listing inventory and in our area right now, new construction has ranged anywhere between 30% to 40% of inventory,” Schuler said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The White House announced that President Joe Biden will call on lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate to address a series of housing issues in his State of the Union address, which will be delivered to a joint session of Congress and televised nationally on Thursday night.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Zillow anticipates a more active housing market with more buyers obtaining the upper hand in 2025. A construction boom has eased pressure on rent prices, putting rent affordability on track to improve next year—that is, as long as wages continue to grow.” As 2025 draws near, mortgage rates are once again in the news.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according to monthly data on new residential construction from the U.S. But housing completions rose 14.6% month over month.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

As a result, some homebuilders have doubled down on the construction of built-to-rent (BTR) homes. The momentum is continuing as another 99,000 BTR homes are under construction in 2024, although the breakneck pace is expected to ease in 2025. Meanwhile, investors are flocking to the BTR sector.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Higher mortgage rates have increased recession risk by targeting the one sector that always falls before every recession: residential construction workers. And higher rates are also impacting the future supply of homes, as housing permits have been in a downtrend for a while. This is 10.1 percent (±10.6 percent (±12.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% Indeed, privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,473,000, down from 1,541,000 in August. Could multifamily construction stall?

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2024

While the nation’s housing market remains tight, sales are tracking well below housing demand, and rental and homeowner vacancy rates are plummeting to multi-decade lows. residential housing economy, which represents approximately 17% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Affordability has been a chief topic of concern in the housing industry for the past several years, and the lack of affordable options in the state of Colorado is pushing that state’s school districts into action. Rents also remain challenging according to data the Post cites from Zillow.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is a notoriously expensive housing market and maintains an estimated population of more than 260,000 people, according to data from the 2020 U.S. Like many localities across the country, Marin County leaders describe a housing crisis in their area that they hope to alleviate through the construction of more ADUs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. However, a silver lining in the subdued housing market is the strength in new-home sales. It’s a bifurcated market in that sense.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The increase in new listings this spring, due both to new construction and to more homeowners choosing to sell, will give buyers more options and help to ease price growth. The housing train is slowing down just enough to give more first-time buyers an opportunity to hop on board,” Divounguy said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the third quarter of 2023, single-family and multifamily home construction grew in outlying areas instead of urban centers. Released quarterly, the HBGI gauges housing construction growth in various regions using county-level information about single- and multifamily building permits. in Q3 2023 from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. In Birmingham, ERA King Real Estate agent Anna-Maria Ellison said that even without lower mortgage rates, she is seeing buyers return to the market. New construction is backed up,” she said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Anyone who thinks we are on the verge of a housing construction boom is kidding themselves, with the policy still this restrictive. Now, over time, the falling Fed funds rate can create better demand for apartment construction, but that’s not today, my friends. recession isn’t far away.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

In addition, a sizable amount of the inventory is new construction, and builders are able to offer better financing terms for buyers with their in-house mortgage businesses. This has taken power away from sellers, who now face a shortage of potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

9, 2022, not only helped the housing market build more homes, but it also boosted the U.S. The new home sales sector employs construction workers and stimulates the purchase of goods and services to build those homes: everything from windows to garage doors, flooring and more. months , this is just an OK market for builders.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

If things play out the way they did in other areas hit with natural disasters, there may be a whiplash effect in the housing market where activity pauses, followed by a rush of pent-up demand. While the two executive orders were met mostly with approval, significant uncertainty remains around the situation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2025

The 10-year yield is projected to be between 3.80% and 4.70% For mortgage rates to go lower, we need to focus on the labor market, which has been critical to every economic cycle in recent history, and particularly the labor market for residential construction and remodeling.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

“The CoCBuilds competition further advances the administration’s commitment to boosting housing supply and ensuring homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring,” she added.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

housing market. For mortgage rates to go lower, we need to focus on the labor market, which has been critical to every economic cycle in recent history, and particularly the labor market for residential construction and remodeling, Mohtashami wrote. That was up 2 basis points (bps) from a week ago.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. Job additions and income growth will further help with housing affordability, but increased supply will be essential to satisfying all potential demand.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

The construction sector showed little month-over-month change, adding just 8,000 jobs. Residential building construction added 3,500 jobs from November, while residential specialty trade contractors added just 500 positions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Most of the job gains in September occurred in food services and drinking places (+69,000 jobs), health care (+45,000 jobs), government (+31,000 jobs), social assistance (+27,000 jobs), and construction (+25,000 jobs). Over the past 12 months the construction sector has averaged a gain of 19,000 jobs per month.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. million new single-family construction units in 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This situation poses a risk to construction labor in 2025. I wrote about why this presents a housing recession risk for the Federal Reserve. As mortgage rates keep increasing along with supply, this doesnt bode well for housing starts growing meaningfully. Is 2025 the first year we start losing residential construction jobs?

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The recent surge in immigration to the United States has ignited discussions about its potential effects on the housing market, particularly concerning housing costs. Senior Research Analyst Riordan Frost from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, recently took a deeper dive into the impact of immigration on the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The construction activity is likely to place the housing industry and its financing partners on a “collision course” with insurers, the outlet said. The construction figure in Florida far exceeds the next most prominent states. million built in total in that period, the First Street analysis found.”

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