Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Its late December so all the 2025 mortgage rate forecasts have been published. Most housing market analysts expect mortgage rates to spend the year with a 6 handle. The most optimistic predictions assume 2025 will see mostly low 6s for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage. Unfortunately, all of them are already wrong.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The market reacted badly to the FOMC statement and remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Powell during the Q&A presser, sending the 10-year yield and mortgage rates higher. What he got is higher mortgage rates again. I’ve been cautious about getting to sub-6% mortgage rates until the labor breaks. So what gives?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Robert Gordon, a senior vice president at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association , told the Journal that mortgage lenders need to be more involved in these processes. But the dynamics are evolving, and the fallout from storms like Helene and Milton are playing havoc with the intersection between mortgage and insurance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mortgage rates continued their ascent this week after Fridays jobs report showed that employers added more positions than expected in December, which is likely to cement a pause on interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve later this month. when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) wraps up its next meeting on Jan. in November.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Mortgage rates fell this week and they are now far from the levels widely discussed after the election. With the final jobs report for 2024, mortgage rates made a nice move lower today, and its been a positive story this week. Economic data has played a significant role in the market, unlike speculative theories.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the “Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit Summit” on Tuesday, October 15 at HUD’s headquarters. Click here for a complete event agenda and participant details. Click here for a complete event agenda and participant details.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

Higher treasury yields have pushed mortgage rates higher, but will higher rates cool the housing market? HW+ includes weekly long-form digital content, HousingWire Magazine, access to HousingStack, and free admission to all HousingWire virtual events. The post Will higher mortgage rates cool the housing market?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

A large majority of homeowners (88%) have concerns about selling their homes, with financial uncertainty and housing market conditions ranking among their top fears, according to a recent survey by Clever Real Estate. Among those with mortgages, 47% reported having locked in an interest rate below 4%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The years 2020-2024 will have the best housing demographics ever recorded in U.S. history, with the lowest mortgage rates recorded in history. So far this year, the weekly Mortgage Bankers Association purchase application data compared to last year looks like this: +3%; +10%; +15%; +16%; +16%; +17%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Housing demand continues to remain quite strong for those fortunate enough to work in industries that are currently shielded from job loss, while also being more amenable to remote work. HW+ includes weekly long-form digital content, HousingWire Magazine, access to HousingStack, and free admission to all HousingWire virtual events.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The mortgage servicing landscape has long been a crucible of change, where today’s decisions lay the groundwork for the industry’s future. By bringing together decision-making executives from across the nation, the NMSA drives the conversation on shaping the American housing industry for the benefit of homeowners.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With it behind us, let’s look ahead at several housing market trends that are likely in 2021 and beyond. First, exceptionally low mortgage rates are likely to be around for an extended period. 2020 was a truly unprecedented year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This is the fourth installment of our economist Q&A series, as we work to answer the top 2021 housing market questions. The 2021 housing market forecasts have focused on everything from home prices to mortgage rates. Every Tuesday in December, HousingWire interviewed a top economist in the HW+ Slack channel.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve all been wondering what 5% plus mortgage rates would do to the hot housing market, and now we’ve got that and a bag of chips. As a result, I’ve been rooting for mortgage rates to rise to create a balancing impact on this housing market. Have higher rates worked?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register. The multifamily market is also seeing the effects of the potential recession.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales for April’s housing market came in at 5,8500,000. housing market for 2020 to 2024 is that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level. Exclusive access to the HW+ Slack community and virtual events. My biggest fear for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Federal Reserve didnt raise or cut interest rates today, but the meeting highlighted something I have been emphasizing since 2022: the Fed is shaping its policy around the labor market more than inflation. However, the Fed only cut rates when they believed the labor market was softening in the second half of 2024.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

When you hear people say that the current housing market is like 2008 all over again, you may want to remind them of the huge differences between this market and that one. The previous economic expansion, from 2010-2019, wasn’t a housing bubble. Because of this I am calling this the unhealthiest housing market post-2010.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Although there is no doubt that business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement are going to impact how real estate industry professionals operate, economists aren’t too sure they’ll have much bearing on the housing market. “I

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

For the housing market, the COVID crisis started in earnest the week of March 23, as that is the last week we saw positive year-over-year data in 2020 before COVID-19 really took us for a ride. housing market has been that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level in the years 2020-2024. year over year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

If you bought into the theories being peddled by this crash-cult crowd (who, by the way, have been infecting the discourse of economics since the creation of social media and YouTube channels) then you would have believed that the second housing market bubble crash was imminent during 2020. housing market. But the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 14, 2024

Mortgage relief is on the horizon for U.S. homebuyers as a strong economy bolsters the housing market, according to the Realtor.com 2024 Forecast Update. and 4.6%, respectively, despite ongoing challenges from elevated mortgage rates. and 4.6%, respectively, despite ongoing challenges from elevated mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From this stronghold I have been able to see past the chaos and view the economy and the future of the housing market through the lens of my core economic principles. entered into a period of the best demographics for housing ever recorded. Here’s what I think that means for the 2021 housing market.

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Housing Wire

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. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

A recent article published by CNBC showed that internet searches for the term “housing crash” had gone up 2,450% in the past month. A lot of folks are concerned about a housing market crash. For the majority of mortgage holders, the loan is the cost of shelter. I understand the concern. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

The following Q&A comes from the HW+ exclusive Slack channel, where HousingWire’s Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami answered questions on what to make of the latest housing data, his forecast for the rest of this year, and whether or not the housing market is returning to normal. This was my big fear. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These positive signs were followed by a long-awaited dip in mortgage rates, which fell for four consecutive weeks through the end of June. In combination with high rates , supply constraints continue to result in high housing costs , placing further pressure on affordability. In fact, new housing starts faced a 5.5% from the 3.4%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2023

Mortgage rates were near 7% last week but purchase applications were still able to pull out an 8% week-to-week gain. Active housing inventory grew while new listing data fell. Mortgage rates hardly budged last week, even with the Federal Reserve ‘s announcement it was pausing rate hikes and CPI inflation reports.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. housing market inventory channels have changed due to how the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register. But more recently, market conditions have done an about-face. at the end of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Now that we’re in 2024, the Federal Reserve ‘s rate hike cycle is over, so let’s look at what that means for housing demand and home prices. Instead, they closed 2023 at 6.67%.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

In the last few months in my articles for HousingWire, I have written that monthly supply has been rising and that this increasing supply was the most critical metric for the housing market, specifically the new home sales market. months in the housing market at the current sales rate. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Demand for housing was strong in early 2020, before the COVID-19 crisis hit. Mandated shut-down measures and the fear of what COVID would do to our economy temporarily immobilized the housing market, evinced by nine weeks of declines in the weekly purchase applications data on a year-over-year basis.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With mortgage rates forecast to remain above 6%, inventory expected to remain tight, and home prices predicted to stabilize at their current highs, its looking like the housing market wont see much of a thaw in 2025, Fannie Maes Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group says in a recent report.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. Specifically, housing markets like Portland, Maine , Bay City, Mich. markets; by December 2020, prices were already up 23.6%

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