Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What will the housing market look like in 2025? We already see many signals for what to expect, including last week’s data on inventory , new listings and price reductions, which I analyze below. For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each week — for several months now — inventory levels of unsold homes on the market has been expanding compared to last year. New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. They essentially bypass the active market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year. It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. In addition to a higher number of new listings, there were also more new contracts started this week than in any week in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Could the housing market change and slow again in 2024? The data does not show any slowing on any of the active market metrics. Sellers are coming back There are 499,000 single-family homes unsold on the market now. There are now 247,000 single family homes in contract. of the homes on the market have taken a price cut.

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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. New listings and home sales remain low this week while available inventory of unsold homes is finally falling across the country after rising with mortgage rates late into November. housing market in 2024.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Ironically, a strong employment situation in the country drives the bond market to higher rates. The purchase market is slower to respond, and the data now is still showing the positive impact of lower rates of recent weeks. Pending home sales continue to climb There are 362,000 single-family homes under contract.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

For several weeks, I’ve been reporting data that shows the housing market growing in 2024. Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. Our immediate sales metric of homes that get offers within a couple days of listing also slowed. 50,000 new pendings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. 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. of the homes on the housing market have had a price cut. Plus, 39.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years.

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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. Let’s look at the details of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

The New Years week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays fell on Wednesdays this year, which messes up two full weeks in terms of getting home sales done and tracking the numbers. fewer homes on the market that a week ago.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

I got one good crumb from the Fed meeting that made me smile: Powell finally admitted that the labor market isn’t tight anymore, which is a beneficial statement for rates down the line if the labor data gets weaker. As most sellers are buyers, seeing more sellers listing their homes has been good.

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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. With more sellers who are buyers, we have a tad more demand this year.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The Fed met last week and we escaped dramatic changes in the markets. There are now 513,000 single family homes unsold on the market. We’ll finish the year with over 600,000 homes on the market unless rates reverse and fall quickly. We currently have 24% more homes on the market than a year ago. Now it’s on the rise.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Unsold inventory in the two biggest housing markets in the country, Texas and Florida, declined this week. This probably reflects seller discouragement in a low-demand market, pulling their listings to wait until next year. real estate market as of mid-August 2024. There are fewer homes for sale now than a week ago.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Despite the Florida hurricanes, and in the face of recently rising mortgage rates , unsold inventory of homes on the market climbed this week by about 1%. The seasonal changes in the housing market are very different from what they used to be with inventory peaking two or three months later in the year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As a result, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel in this crazy market cycle. At least, that’s what the data seems to suggest as inventory grows and new listings decline at a less aggressive rate than last year. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. Don’t have time? That’s up 1.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

But now sellers are coming back into the market. New listing volume last week was 18% more than a year ago. There are still a lot of people who assume that mortgage rates need to fall before we see a rebound in home sales, but the data shows that we only need stability in the mortgage markets.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You also know that new listings are up over last year, too. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Inventory hit 566,000 homes on the market, meaning there are 0.5% New listings volume is up, too. A few more sellers appear to be braving the market each week.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

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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. As a result, we’re now only 21% fewer homes on the market than this point in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

These are the homes that go into contract immediately after listing. We also see new pending sales slowing and price reductions ticking up. Inventory continues to build There are now 605,000 single-family homes on the market. this week, and there are now 39% more homes (170,000) on the market than last year at this time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Today’s housing market suffers from affordability issues due to mortgage rates in the 7s and high home prices. People are quick to panic over any part of the housing market that looks stressed, fearing we’ll see 2008 levels of destruction all over again. Why choose 2011?

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DECEMBER 7, 2024

We also see growth in our pending contract data compared to 2022 and 2023. Let’s get into the holiday spirit with this week’s Housing Market Tracker data! Weekly pending sales The weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers an insightful look into real-time housing demand. Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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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. Still, when it’s all said and done, 2024 will be the second-lowest new listings year in history.

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APRIL 22, 2024

After a couple weeks of big jumps for mortgage rates , we’re still seeing relatively surprising strength in the housing market. More home sales are happening, but we can also see — once adjusted for seasonal patterns — that sales should be much higher now if a real market recovery were underway.

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JULY 1, 2024

Inventory , new listings, etc. New listings volume peaked a few weeks ago. While there won’t be a big drop off for new listings in July, we can assume we’ll have fewer sellers each week through the rest of the year. housing market as we’re now in the second half of the year. Inventory up 1.8%

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MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. Active inventory fell 1,109, and new listing data made a lovely comeback week to week but was still noticeably down year over year. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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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JANUARY 4, 2025

Our weekly pending contract data has shown year-over-year growth for some time now, even with elevated mortgage rates. Weekly pending sales The latest weekly pending contract data from Altos Research offers critical insights into real-time trends in housing demand. Has the spring home-buying season already begun?

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JULY 13, 2024

The homebuilders have shown us how a sub-6 % mortgage rate can grow sales — it shouldn’t be any different for the existing home sales market. The seasonal decline period is starting soon, so we should get accustomed to seeing a decline in new listing data as the year heads toward its end.

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JULY 8, 2024

Nationally, the housing market indicators have been slow for several months now. There have been a few markets; however, that have defied the national trends where inventory has stayed tighter and demand keeps rolling in. is 40% more now than last year, but some markets are just now starting to lift beyond the pandemic lows.

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APRIL 8, 2024

With the Easter holiday last week, data for housing inventory , new listings and the pace of new contracts started all took a breather from their growth pace. Here’s how 2024 is shaping up: There are now more listings, more active inventory and more sales than a year ago. So demand isn’t increasing.

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