Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. The available inventory of existing homes rose by 22% year over year in Q3 2034. New construction inventory has grown in recent months.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for October 2024 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 8.2 The new home sales estimate is derived using mortgage application information from the BAS, as well as assumptions regarding market coverage and other factors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

In many markets, there was simply more new home inventory and some buyers who might have wanted to purchase an existing home were instead looking at new construction, said Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant in a statement. Available new-home inventory is on a firm upward trajectory.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As 2025 draws near, mortgage rates are once again in the news. More inventory should shake loose in 2025, giving buyers a bit more room to breathe.” In September, mortgage rates dropped, momentarily raising the proportion of affordable properties to a 19-month high. increase in property values in 2025.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

With mortgage rates likely to ease only modestly next year, these marketsoffering relatively lower-priced homes, more new and existing houses to choose from, and mortgage products designed to give buyers a leg upcould provide some would-be buyers a better chance at entering the market next year. In November, all four U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Mortgage rates have been rising and the housing market is also experiencing the impacts of hurricanes. However, the Southern states have seen the highest growth in existing inventory, meaning that higher mortgage rates are influencing the figures in this region as well. This represents a supply of 9.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Rich Bradford, broker associate with The Bradford Team at RE/MAX One Realty in Haddonfield, New Jersey, said the results for his local market could be even better if so many potential sellers werent locked in by low mortgage rates. Inventory is down for us about 33% compared to this time last year. Its just the way it is.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. HW : We’re seeing an uptick in ground-up construction. Ground-up construction growth will be high to meet the population growth and meet the demand due to limited inventory.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

In a recent segment of CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange,“ HousingWire lead analyst Logan Mohtashami and anchor Frank Holland dive into last week’s spike in mortgage applications as well as housing permit levels. According to recent data from the Mortgage Bankers Association , mortgage applications for new homes increased by 0.7%

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. 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.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the “Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit Summit” on Tuesday, October 15 at HUD’s headquarters. Independent mortgage banks play a key role in making this a reality, and this summit will shine a spotlight on their essential contributions to our housing market.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

If there’s one sector of the economy that benefits from the very low levels of total housing inventory , it’s the homebuilders , but for a reason you might not think. If national housing inventory were back to normal, we would have 2 to 2.5 The builders will pull back on construction when the supply is 6.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

All 12 Federal Reserve districts have seen issues with a lack of housing inventory , which is largely due to existing homeowners holding back on listing their homes after previously locking in low mortgage rates. Inventory remains exceptionally low and is restraining sales activity in much of the District.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Unsold inventory of homes on the market has been climbing in the U.S. for two years, right along with rising mortgage rates. In general, inventory rises with rates because more expensive money slows demand. When demand slows, inventory grows. Inventory is climbing but it’s still pretty restricted.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) have announced new residential construction statistics for September 2024. The housing market remains structurally underbuilt, and homeowners with locked-in low mortgage rates are keeping existing-home inventory limited. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

More inventory should shake loose in 2025, giving buyers a bit more room to breathe. 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.” Many are also viewing renting as a longer-term lifestyle.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 4% between July and August, the strongest pace of sales in three months. 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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52 The housing market shifted in March of this year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Homebuilders are still getting squeezed by high mortgage rates. The drop in sales is causing a rapid rise in unsold inventory. Though new home inventory in June remained elevated at a 9.3-month Though new home inventory in June remained elevated at a 9.3-month That’s according to the U.S. That represents a decline of 7.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

While stubbornly high mortgage rates are keeping a lid on buyer demand and home value growth, and a response from builders has kept multifamily rent growth stable for many months, rents for detached single-family homes continue to accelerate. That figure was up 4.4% over the past year and 40.6% higher since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

This was some of the perspective shared by Matt Cook, the director of business development at HomeTeam Inspection Service , who shared with HousingWire ‘s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) how the growing number of older homeowners is impacting what he sees on a daily basis. Some feel like homes arent built like they used to be.

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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. High mortgage rates and home prices quelled the surge in buyer demand, and time seems to have moderated the supply chain shocks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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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% MBA’s survey tracks application volume from mortgage subsidiaries of homebuilders across the country. in August on a year-over-year basis.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

“Contract signings rose across all regions of the country as buyers took advantage of the combination of lower mortgage rates in late summer and more inventory choices,” said Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for NAR. Further gains are expected if the economy continues to add jobs, inventory levels grow, and mortgage rates hold steady.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

26 in Dallas, provided valuable insights into the forces shaping the mortgage and housing markets in 2025. With economists, analysts and industry leaders in the room, discussions revolved around key economic indicators, inventory shifts, technology advancements and what lenders should be doing right now to prepare for the next cycle.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2025

Current homeowners who are locked into low mortgage rates and are staying in their homes longer are keeping the supply of existing homes low. New construction has not been able to keep up with demand. The ongoing lack of inventory was reflected in NARs report. Available existing homes for sale fell to 1.15 million, down 13.5%

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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

JULY 13, 2024

In 2023, following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank , the spreads between the 30-year mortgage and 10-year yield were at their worst, leading to new cycle highs. This meant mortgage rates were significantly higher than average. Mortgage spreads Last year, the 10-year yield hit 5% and mortgage rates got above 8%.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Despite the construction boom that happened shortly after pandemic restrictions began being lifted—that has since slowed—the U.S. The result has been worsening affordability, now exacerbated by stubbornly high mortgage rates. “The The pandemic-era housing frenzy sparked a construction boom, but thus far, that boom has fallen short.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2024

Mortgage rates and the bond market have fallen a bit recently and the spreads between the 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rate have improved over last year’s levels. In the past two years, demand has always picked up whenever mortgage rates have moved lower with some duration. That’s a 0.50% difference in rates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% To boost sales, builders have been offering different concessions such as upgrades or buying down mortgage rates. “Slower construction activity in the Northeast could reflect cooler demand as well as challenges builders face in finding availability lots,” she said.

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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 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction. USC researchers offered two key solutions to address the growing inventory shortage.

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