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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Have we seen the peak in housing inventory for 2024? The best part about 2024 has been that higher mortgage rates have created an inventory buffer, so if the economy gets softer and rates fall, we have many more homes to work with than we had in 2020-2023. I have consistently written that with mortgage rates above 7%, inventory should grow between 11,000-17,000 and this year it has happened six times perfectly in the channel.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced a significant expansion of its housing counselor certification exam, now offering the exam and training materials in Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. This announcement, made by Deputy Assistant Secretary David Berenbaum at the UnidosUS Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada , marks a critical step in making housing counseling more accessible to non-English speaking communities.

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