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The two big housing market trends to watch in 2025

Housing Wire

All the housing market data for 2024 is in, and its fair to say that the housing market surprised us again! However, there are two big trends that stand out as we launch into 2025 affordability and sellers in the market. There are some signals that seller volume is starting to creep back to normal levels.

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Altos: Sellers are coming back to the housing market, can buyers keep up?

Housing Wire

There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But home sellers are gradually easing back into this housing market. Any time inventory rises, you start to see housing crash hyperbole on social media. There were 66,000 new listings this week, of which 14,000 are already in contract. It’s not a ton of sellers.

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More home sellers are withdrawing listings

Housing Wire

While inventory of unsold homes in the housing market in each of the last two years headed higher during September and October due to mortgage rate spikes, we’re seeing a more normal seasonal pattern now with inventory beginning to decline. We’re also seeing more home sellers withdrawing their listings to try again next year.

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Home sellers are returning to the market

Housing Wire

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising.

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Real estate’s strong 2023 housing market finish: Altos

Housing Wire

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. Each week sellers are easing back into the market a little more than last year.

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What to expect from the 2025 housing market

Housing Wire

What will the housing market look like in 2025? For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more. New listings One way reason it will be hard for inventory to grow more than 17% next year is that there are still not enough sellers to get there.

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Are home sellers finally coming back to the market?

Housing Wire

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. In this week’s Altos Research video, I look at how home sellers and sales are up, but that doesn’t mean prices will climb in 2024. more new contracts started this week than the same week a year ago.

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