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In June of this year, I raised the fifth recession red flag , putting the housing market in a traditional recession where sales, incomes, jobs, and production would be falling, which is happening now. And unfortunately, one of those productions items is housing completions data — which looks terrible in the latest report. As someone concerned about the housing inflation story since inventory channels broke to all-time lows in 2020, I am frustrated by this housing completion data.
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Goodbye. Zillow sold their last house in Sacramento. After announcing failure as an iBuyer in late 2021, they recently got rid of their final unit. And the cherry on top is they sold this property to Opendoor. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 10/18/22 Orangevale MLS Meeting Q&A (9am) 10/20/22 How to Think Like an Appraiser (9am-12pm) (Sign […].
Single-family housing starts declined further in September as high mortgage rates, ongoing building material production disruptions and flagging demand stemming from rising affordability challenges continue to put a damper on new home production. Overall housing starts decreased 8.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.44 million units in September, according to a report from the U.S.
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Former Senior Advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sworn in by HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge as the Department’s new Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs. The post HUD Names Beth Lynk Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.
Former Senior Advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sworn in by HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge as the Department’s new Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs. The post HUD Names Beth Lynk Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.
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In a further signal that rising interest rates, building material bottlenecks and elevated home prices continue to weaken the housing market, builder sentiment fell for the 10th straight month in October and traffic of prospective buyers fell to its lowest level since 2012, with the exception of two months during the Spring of 2020. Builder confidence in the market for.
As mortgage rates rose to nearly 7% and builder sentiment dipped to painfully low levels in September, housing starts also declined, dropping 8.1% from August , to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.564 million, according to a report released Wednesday by U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. On a year over year basis, September’s annual housing start rate was down 7.7%.
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Over the first eight months of 2022, the total number of single-family permits issued year-to-date (YTD) nationwide reached 728,866. On a year-over-year (YoY) basis, this is 6.0% below the August 2021 level of 775,772. Year-to-date ending in August, single-family permits declined in all four regions. The South posted a modest decline of 3.9%, while the Midwest region reported the steepest.
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Median square foot prices (excluding record-high improved lot values) for new for-sale single-family detached (SFD) homes started in 2021 increased 19%, according to NAHB’s analysis of the latest Survey of Construction data. Increases for square foot prices in new custom SFD homes were more moderate, averaging 5%. Median sale and contract prices per square foot of floor area went up.
Real estate investors purchasing distressed properties at foreclosure auction have been telegraphing a possible housing market slowdown for the last six months. A deeper dive into foreclosure buyer behavior shows which markets are most likely to see a home price correction in the next six months. Foreclosure auction buyers started bidding more conservatively in the second quarter of 2022, as measured by proprietary data from the Auction.com marketplace.
While Black and Latino households have often been disproportionately affected by predatory lending practices, homeownership rates have increased nationwide for both. However, lack of affordable housing and high interest rates may pose challenges moving forward. The post Black and Latino Homeownership Rates Rise in Nearly Half of U.S. appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.
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As rising mortgage rates continue to cool the housing market, the volume of existing home sales has declined for eight consecutive months as of September, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The average 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate has increased from 3.11% at the start of the year to 6.
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October 16, 2022. Woody Fincham, SRA, AI-RRS, ASA, RAA Member of RAC. How Real Estate Appraisers look at Market Analysis. To borrow a phrase from my friend, the real estate market has come to that, “Oh Shift!” time again. Nationally markets are tapering and changing. The Federal Reserve has caused quite the change in the market with the interest rate hikes.
Nations Direct Mortgage, a residential lender in both the retail and wholesale channels, on Wednesday announced appointing Jack O’Brien as its senior vice president and national sales director. Prior to joining Nations Direct, O’Brien held leadership positions at LoanDepot , was Northeast regional sales manager at Fifth Third Bank; principal at J.H.
According to a monthly report from the S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian, the most popular types of consumer defaults remained steady. Click through to see which metropolitan areas saw the most significant default shifts. The post By the Numbers: Consumer Default Rates appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.
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