Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

David Meyer is thankful that his business is still plugging along during the wildest housing market in decades. With mortgage rates hovering around 7% and home prices still at record highs, buyers across America are calling off the house hunt and finding multifamily apartments. . Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. Measuring the housing deficit. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This is the reason construction workers still have jobs, and that backlog needs to be finished; this is a positive outcome. The bigger story here is that if we want to see mortgage rates fall, we need more rental units, and right now we have a massive backlog of 2-unit homes under construction — over 900,000. When supply is 4.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The residential construction industry is facing a crisis as builders manage the critical shortage of building materials and labor. Explosive supply and labor costs are forcing long delays and leaving builders out of pocket, as the United States’ property fervor drives insatiable demand. . I had a roofer locked in six weeks in advance.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Limited inventory, supply chain disruptions and concerns about inflation have led economists at Fannie Mae to lower their mortgage origination forecasts for the remainder of this year and into 2022. Fannie Mae dropped its projected origination volume for 2021 to $4.33 trillion from the $4.36 trillion it projected in August.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

above where they were a year ago, when COVID-related procedures froze the new home market in place. Related supply chain issues have resulted in a big jump in the price of a new home over the past year. The home can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction or completed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Due to this reality, I have downgraded the housing market from unhealthy housing to a savagely unhealthy housing market. HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? Housing construction will be impacted if the monthly supply for new homes breaks above 6.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

Housing completions were at a rate of 1.045 million in April, just 0.1% million — proof that builders are delaying housing starts due to the marked increase in costs for lumber and other materials, said Mike Fratantoni, Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s chief economist. above the March rate of 1.04

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Construction of new homes took a dip in October, with housing starts declining month-over-month by 0.7% Department of Housing and Urban Development this week. Year-to-date, housing starts were up just 0.4%. . One issue is a shortage of construction workers and muted productivity,” she said. “One

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

builder confidence, housing starts, homebuilder, builder, lumber, construction costs. Auld said the homebuilder started construction on 24,800 homes this quarter and homes and inventory “increased 30% from a year ago with only 600 unsold completed homes across the nation. per diluted share.” That’s up from $2.53 billion to $36.1

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2021

Homebuilder confidence remained unchanged in the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report , holding steady at 83 for newly built single-family homes in May. ” High prices won’t be going away any time soon, either.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 2, 2022

The housing market has experienced a turbulent few years, so what can industry experts expect in the future? Construction Sites Will Stay on Schedule. construction sites. About $17 billion will be used to strengthen ports that have suffered due to inflation, improving the supply chain for building and construction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The housing market over the summer of 2021 appears to have settled at a level lower than the surge in the second half of 2020 into early 2021,” Ben Ayers, a senior economist at Nationwide , said in a statement. Nearly 80% of homes sold in August were either under construction or yet to be built. Sales of new homes were down 24.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

“This transaction volume is taking place against a backdrop of continuous supply chain and labor disruptions.”. months supply. Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. This is an increase of 3.3% after a 10.4% drop in January.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Homebuilder confidence continued to rise in October despite increasing affordability issues due to rising material prices and ongoing shortages, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report released on Monday. Treasuries and mortgage-backed debt.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2021

Housing starts in the U.S. in July compared to the prior month, an indication that construction supply lines are still choked and near record-high home prices are shutting out scores of buyers. “There are now almost 690,000 single-family homes under construction – the largest number since 2007. million units. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fewer homes under construction and falling permits mean dwindling options for future buyers, adding more pressure to a market already strained by tight supply,” Point2 said. The total number of homes under construction fell by 9% in 2023 while the number of permits dropped 11% year over year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Skyrocketing mortgage rates and a slowdown in new home constructions led to a drop in home purchases in April. With the supply of existing homes on the market still at extremely low levels, the new home market is an important source of housing supply. Homebuilders constructed about 1.23

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Despite this, the NAHB is optimistic that the recent drop in mortgage rates over the past two months might signal that affordability conditions may have reached their low point for this cycle of the housing market. On the other end of the spectrum, Salinas, California was the least affordable small housing market, with just 5.0%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

“A low unemployment rate and a high participation rate signals a healthy labor market.”. After months of growth, the construction sector lost 5,000 jobs in January from December, due to the loss of 9,500 jobs in heavy and civil engineering construction. Residential building construction employment is up 5.3%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

Tuesday’s housing starts data does show some promise on the front of attacking inflation and helping lowering mortgage rates, so let’s look at the report and find out what I am talking about. First, however, remember that the housing market is still in a recession, which I wrote about on June 16, 2022. percent (±13.3

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

For the first time since September 2021, homebuilder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes has dropped below the 80-point mark, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), which was released on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

And Lennar completed construction of a company record 14,493 homes in the past three months, while starting construction on 17,157 abodes. Despite the drop in wood costs, Lennar executives said they’re cautious with ramping up with building, due to overall concerns with the material supply chain. The business reported $6.4

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Permits for future construction also jumped 1.1% Indeed, privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,487,000, up from 1,471,000 in September. Census Bureau data. from September.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Because of historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market, major insurance carriers like State Farm and Allstate are no longer issuing new homeowner insurance policies in California.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Temperatures are slowly starting to rise in many parts of the country as we head into spring — and so is homebuilder sentiment, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday. Builders are continuing to offer a variety of incentives.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. What are you expecting to see next year in terms of supply chain issues?

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

“Policymakers at all levels of government need to enact policy changes that will allow builders to construct more homes, such as speeding up permit approval times, providing resources for skilled labor training and fixing building material supply chains.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite the volatile mortgage rate environment and overall economic uncertainty, homebuilder confidence slowly continues to rise, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday. The existing home sales market is significantly bigger than new homes.)

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In previous expansions, builders’ housing completion data would move in line with housing starts and permits. However, for the first time in recent modern-day history — due to supply chain issues and other factors — housing completion data has lagged behind housing permits and starts. When supply is 4.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Today, escalating real estate costs—particularly in high-cost areas—are pricing millions of Americans out of the housing market. This could provide the financial flexibility needed to make homeownership achievable for those priced out of the current market. In the 1970s, home prices aligned more closely with income levels.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Closing the housing supply gap will not happen overnight because it has taken some time to get where we are today. The construction industry has yet to fully recover from the 2008 financial crisis when it lost a big segment of its skilled construction workforce. The good news.

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