Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, the story of 2023 may be very different than what any of us expect due to the oncoming avalanche of inventory we may see and its implications. You have probably heard that low housing inventory got us into this mess. Increased inventory from short-term-rental gone wrong , aka the Airbnb bust.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, construction labor is another issue facing the market. We’re worried about construction labor,” Mohtashami said. Inventory has also grown in recent years, with single-family housing supply at 650,000 units last week, according to Altos Research data.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Homebuilders are still benefiting from very low inventory of existing homes for sale, which has driven more buyers to consider new construction,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said. However, mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 4% between July and August, the strongest pace of sales in three months.

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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. Index values for December published last week.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 18, 2024

Despite the construction boom that happened shortly after pandemic restrictions began being lifted—that has since slowed—the U.S. The pandemic-era housing frenzy sparked a construction boom, but thus far, that boom has fallen short. The post A Closer Look at the Housing Market’s Inventory Deficits first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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. . Rent prices have fluctuated alongside home prices in this year’s housing market.

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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

JULY 24, 2024

The drop in sales is causing a rapid rise in unsold inventory. The surge in mortgage rates earlier this spring softened housing demand, leading to a slowdown in sales and an increase in both resale and new home inventory levels,” Zillow senior economist Orphe Divounguy said in a statement. That represents a decline of 7.4%

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

“A national secondary market for construction financing could allow lenders, like state housing finance agencies and banks, to provide the investment capital needed to get multifamily housing projects built and keys in families’ hands.” This could make the overall cost to entry — which is already low — more digestible.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

After a month of very little change in April , the construction sector had a solid month of job growth in May, according to the U.S. Construction gained 36,000 jobs in May, with residential building adding 5,000 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gain 11,700 jobs. The post Residential construction jobs now 7.6%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

housing market continue to present challenges for the entire housing system: chronic inventory shortages and an alarming number of destructive natural disasters stemming from climate change. Advanced robotic construction is the most promising path forward.” Two ongoing stories that have rattled the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters. This would act as an equivalent to reducing the mortgage rate by more than 1.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million, which will go toward organizations aiming to boost housing inventory and availability through methods including off-site construction and office-to-residential conversions. “As We need to think creatively, from innovative construction methods to office-to-residential conversions.

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MAY 23, 2023

Demand for newly built homes has been strong amidst the historically low inventory of existing homes for sale ,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement. However, experts note that the existing home inventory trough won’t last forever. In April, the sales pace of new homes rose 4.1%

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MAY 17, 2023

Industry economists attribute the uptick in housing starts and builder confidence to the low level of existing home inventory. In April, the inventory of existing homes for sale totaled just 980,000, far lower than the long-term average of about 2.3 million homes.” month over month to a pace of 1.416 million, thanks to a 9.7%

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JULY 6, 2023

It boils down to two factors, according to housing-industry experts: a lack of housing inventory , or supply; and high demand for that limited housing stock — which also is fueling a jump in new-home sales. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.” through the first quarter of 2024.”

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2023

However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% “Slower construction activity in the Northeast could reflect cooler demand as well as challenges builders face in finding availability lots,” she said. Could multifamily construction stall? Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. They were 23.3%

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Housing experts expect that a boost in apartment inventory in 2024 will dampen rent growth. About 900,000 units are currently under construction , and 440,000 new units are expected to be completed in 2024, according to the report. Construction completions have already peaked in Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas.

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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

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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OCTOBER 7, 2024

The housing market is poised for modest appreciation over the next year amidst falling mortgage rates and increasing inventory, Veros says in its Q3 report. On the supply side, inventory levels are expected to remain relatively unchanged over the next year, Veros says.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While Alabama agents might feel good about their state’s prospects as a migratory hotspot, they must also face the repercussions of a growing population — namely increased pressure on the state’s already constrained housing inventory. Inventory was the theme last year and it is shaping up to be the theme this year,” Ellison said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New home sales grew over last month in the latest Census report , but homebuilders are now facing a supply issue their inventory is building up. This situation poses a risk to construction labor in 2025. Is 2025 the first year we start losing residential construction jobs? This issue extends beyond just housing. percent (18.6

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of homes permitted, started, under construction and completed all remain well above pre-pandemic levels but below the peaks reached in the last three years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In response, multifamily construction has skyrocketed over the last year, hitting a historic high of 841,000 units under construction nationwide in June of this year, according to research from the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Despite a documented preference that older Americans have to age in place, the current housing inventory is inadequate to support the needs of an aging population. This is according to a report from MarketWatch in collaboration with Columbia University ’s Age Boom Academy.

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MARCH 8, 2023

As the housing market cooled further during the fourth quarter of 2022, homebuilders also continued to pull back on single-family construction. It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. in Q4 2021 to -12.1% in Q4 2022. a year ago to -11.7%.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

On the construction side, homebuilders as well as land developers found it hard to finance projects because of high short-term interest rates. Given the lack of existing home inventory, somewhat lower mortgage rates will price-in housing demand and likely set the stage for improved builder views of market conditions in December.”

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MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We being outbound. “We

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AUGUST 15, 2023

With strong demand and limited options for existing homes, many homebuyers are turning to new construction. Mortgage applications for new construction home purchases increased 35.5% in July on a year-over-year basis, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The second is in reference to housing inventory. Meanwhile, some analysts believe that hoping for a flood of senior-driven inventory to address the nations housing shortage is more akin to a pipe dream. The first is related to the demographic trends playing out across the U.S., housing shortage. [T]he

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Demand for newly constructed homes continues to remain high as existing for-sale inventory remains historically low. Mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 20.6% in August on a year-over-year basis. Compared to July 2023, applications increased by 4%.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to a new Redfin research, in Q3 of this year, an estimated 28% of single-family homes for sale nationwide were newly constructed, the lowest percentage in three years. The total supply of inventory of single-family homes is up 22% over the previous year. Overall construction has slowed. a year ago. Overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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