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Why low inventory is the perfect time to build

Housing Wire

As the housing market fluctuates, inventory levels are a critical factor for builders, developers and buyers. While low inventory might seem like a challenge, especially for buyers, it presents a unique opportunity for builders. In markets with low inventory and strong demand, the situation is different.

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Fewer housing permits equate to further inventory, affordability challenges

Housing Wire

However, with supply chain issues piling up and loan rates for builders continuing to rise, developers’ confidence is going in the opposite direction. Elevated interest rates and other issues that drive up costs are also likely to keep prospective buyers on the sidelines for years to come, the analysis said.

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Homebuilders are all smiles right now

Housing Wire

For the first time in nearly a year, homebuilder confidence moved into positive territory thanks to strong consumer demand , limited competition from the existing home sales market , and an improving supply chain.

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New home sales fall to lowest pace in a year

Housing Wire

in May to a 769,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Related supply chain issues have resulted in a big jump in the price of a new home over the past year. Census Bureau. Sales grew 33% in the Northeast, 6.7% in the South.

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DataDigest: Construction costs easing for homebuilders

Housing Wire

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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Affordable housing inventory is limited due to foreclosure prevention efforts

Housing Wire

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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April housing starts drop 13.4% from March

Housing Wire

Supply chain constraints are holding back a housing market that should otherwise be picking up speed, given the strong demand for buying fueled by an improving job market and low mortgage rates,” Fratantoni said. Housing completions were at a rate of 1.045 million in April, just 0.1% above the March rate of 1.04