Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Lets look at last weeks data and see if we can tease out the signals for impact on the 2025 housing market. Housing inventory It is December, of course, so inventory is falling for the season. There will be fewer homes on the market each week until February or so. Can there be too many homes for sale?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Compared to a month prior, contract signings fell 5.5% An index reading of 100 is equal to the level of contract signings in 2001. After four straight months of gains in contract signings, one step back is not welcome news, but it is not entirely surprising, Lawrence Yun, NARs chief economist, said in a statement. in the West.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

Many homeowners kept their homes off the market because they were worried values would diminish, and some house hunters canceled contracts because they were nervous about insurance costs and potential future fires. Wildfires Are Impacting the Housing Market first appeared on The MortgagePoint. The post How L.A.s

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Mortgage rates recently hit a year-to-date low, coinciding with ongoing market disruptions from tariffs. The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. Additionally, our weekly pending contract data and new listings are trending positively compared to last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2025

Earlier this year, when mortgage rates soared to 7.26%, a cloud of worry hung over the housing market many feared that home sales would tumble in 2025, fueled by concerns about inflation and tariffs. housing market revolves around the direction of the 10-year yield. Only time will tell because, as always for me, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

New contracts for home purchases are coming in very low this month. Buyer activity has been dropping for several weeks and there are now fewer homes in contract than a year ago. Buyer activity has been dropping for several weeks and there are now fewer homes in contract than a year ago. When will that be? I have no idea.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Home prices firmed up in today’s existing home sales report , but we caught on to this trend two months ago with our Housing Market Tracker. We can track demand faster with our weekly pending contract prints, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise that we had some growth in today’s report. However, that didn’t happen.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

We have more homes going into contract each week now than we did a year ago — supply and demand are climbing together. This implies that there are more than enough buyers at these prices and these mortgage rates to keep activity happening in housing. There are now 258,000 single family homes in contract.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. They’re already in contract, so they don’t add to the active inventory.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For this reason, the number of housing units “under construction” is the largest ever recorded in history because they were taking so long to finish. For the builders, they have a new problem: they had homes under contract and then mortgage rates jumped in the biggest fashion ever recorded in history.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 30, 2024

increase in the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a measure of future home sales based on contract signings, to 75.8, The amount of contract activity in 2001 is represented by an index of 100. Year-over-year, contract signings grew in the Northeast and West and were unchanged in the Midwest and South. September saw a 7.4%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. Demand is slower so more of the sellers are sitting on the market. There are fewer immediate sales that go directly into contract. I continue to interpret any growth in sellers as a good sign for a healthier housing market. There are 28.7%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. The industry is in a deep housing recession this year. If we get lucky with mortgage rates, though, we might just be at the bottom of the housing market recession right now. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. housing market in 2024.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Watch the weekly housing market recap video above to get the latest housing market data download from Altos Research. Here are some key housing market data takeaways: Inventory peaks for the year There are 567,000 single-family homes on the market, which is unchanged from last week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

While the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages decreased to 6.67%, every other loan type saw rates decrease. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with jumbo loan balances also saw a decrease to 6.68% from 6.83%. The USDA share of total applications decreased to 0.4%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

HousingWire’s 2025 Housing Market Forecast predicts home-price growth of 3.5% In the most recent Housing Market Tracker , Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami noted: “Weve witnessed a solid year with purchase application data and our pending home sales contract data has shown year-over-year growth recently.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Any sales growth momentum in the real estate market we might have had early in the year is gone. New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year — 4.9% Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The purchase market is slower to respond, and the data now is still showing the positive impact of lower rates of recent weeks. Mortgage rates bounced back up over the last couple days, and it demonstrates how fragile this housing market recovery could be. This is measuring the total count of homes that are under contract now.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

Overall purchase activity has shown year-over-year growth for more than two months as the inventory of existing homes for sale continues to increase, a positive development for the housing market despite the uncertain near-term outlook. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs increased to 6.04% from 5.89%. from 14.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

March figures to be a crucial month for gauging consumer interest in the 2025 housing market. would been as a sign of stability for a housing market that has been volatile of late. The pace of home sales remains near a 30-year low point as home prices and mortgage rates keep potential borrowers in wait-and-see mode.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

If we look at the housing market right now, sales are down, new listings are down and prices are decelerating. Good inflation data came in last week, the bond market rallied and mortgage rates took a notable dip below 7% for the first time in months. If so, how should we expect the housing market to react?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2025

Does this indicate that the housing market is beginning to wake up just in time for spring? I’ve noticed that housing data tends to improve when mortgage rates drop from 6.64% to 6%, especially when I adjust for seasonal demand. So while the data is better than last year, context is key. Weekly inventory change (Feb.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

NAR’s Pending Homes Sales Index (PHSI) report is a forward-looking source that predicts home sales based on contract signings. But Sturtevant also highlighted economic turmoil as a risk due to potentially higher inflation rates and labor market issues. Housing market activity ramped up in November and December.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2024

This is precisely what the doctor ordered for the housing market. In March of 2022, we only had 240,000 active single-family homes available for sale, leading me to call the housing market savagely unhealthy as we simply had too many people chasing too few homes. Last week, we returned close to recent lows.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

There are three big trends in the spring 2025 housing market: Supply continues to build. There are 358,000 single-family homes in contract right now, and they are priced only 50 basis points above last year at this time. These are negative macro forces that the housing market hasnt had in 15 years. Thats up 1.1%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Weekly pending sales The Altos Research weekly pending contract data provides insights into real-time demand. Even today, the pending contract data remains resilient despite higher home prices and mortgage rates than last year. Last week saw 2% week-to-week growth but was down 1% year over year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

The housing market in Washington D.C. Sweeping cuts by Elon Musks DOGE agency have sent many government employees packing, while other staff need to find housing in the area to comply with return-to-work mandates. housing market. housing market over the next few months. housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

We will keep a close eye on the data in February and we will be discussing this and other housing economic topics at our big Housing Economic Summit Feb. Weekly pending sales The latest weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers valuable insights into current trends in housing demand. 26 in Dallas.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 3, 2025

As more properties came ontothe market and overall inventory increased for the 17th consecutive month, the U.S. housing market showed signs of a sustained recovery this spring, according to Realtor.com s March Housing Trends Report. more unsold properties overall, including those under contract. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Housing market forecasters projected home prices to rise in 2025 because of limited inventory and the release of pent-up demand as mortgage rates moderate off their highs of the last few years. Total sales contracts pending are currently down 3.5% However, recent data suggests home prices are trending in the other direction.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rising supply is one of the housing market highlights of 2024, according to HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami , who said that housing inventory is approaching levels seen in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. .” The homes that went under contract took 43 days to do so the slowest pace since 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Over time, our job at HousingWire will be to help everyone understand the market and financial impact that we can measure. Lets look at this weeks housing market data: Inventory dips Total inventory dipped this week to 624,000 single-family homes on the market. That was 3% fewer than the same week a year ago.

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