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. Last week, we returned close to recent lows.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Data on the movement and level of manufactured house prices nationwide are released quarterly by the FHFA in the form of the House Price Index (HPI) and median prices for manufactured homes. In a housing market with elevated home prices, manufactured housing remains an affordable option. Thompson. “In

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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. Maybe we’re finally past the peak of mortgage rates ?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. This week’s trading in the bond market will be exciting with the upcoming inflation data.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

housing market is rapidly approaching the $50 trillion mark, with the total value of homes across the country hitting a record $49.6 Chen Zhao, Redfin’s Economics Research Lead, predicts that the market will likely surpass $50 trillion within the next 12 months due to a lack of new listings keeping prices elevated. trillion.

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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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JULY 26, 2024

However, today’s housing market, while expensive, appears to be in far better shape than it was before the Great Recession. Nationwide, home prices have largely avoided major drops, and most homeowners have maintained their mortgage payments, thereby avoiding foreclosure. 13,868,075 housing units are vacant. The post U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2023

housing market and that they need to be pro-housing again. Even with all the drama we have dealt with in 2022-2023, the housing market stayed intact and never broke. This is a big Merry Christmas gift for the housing market. When mortgage rates rise and demand decreases, more homes see price cuts.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Baby boomers are a key constituency for the reverse mortgage industry since they are currently the generation with the largest share of the population at or above the age of 62. A recent SmartAsset analysis of 2023 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) pinpointed where boomers are most active within the U.S. 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

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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

People seeking more space to accommodate working from home led to a minor outflow of residents that put the housing market on pause. As a result, home prices were stagnant for much of the decade following the Great Recession, but the pandemic unleashed unprecedented volatility to the Chicago market. I know that some of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

The HousingWire Pulse Survey for Q3 2024 provides a detailed snapshot of current housing market sentiments and challenges faced by real estate agents, brokers, and mortgage professionals. In terms of mortgage rates , 63% predict they will stay flat, reflecting a broader expectation of stability.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company’s Auction Market Dispatch for third-quarter 2024 included a survey conducted in late September of more than 140 active buyers on the platform. While 45% said current market conditions were not impacting their desire to purchase distressed property, 34% said conditions were detrimental to their decisions.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

On net, consumers continue to expect home prices to rise and mortgage rates to fall, with the latter component hitting another survey high this month. With rent growth expected to remain modest in 2025, more consumers may be seeking – and finding – attractive deals in the rental market as they continue saving toward a future home purchase.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Starting this week, I will analyze weekly data in a Housing Market Tracker article every Monday to provide a status update on the U.S. housing market and economy. This weekly tracker will give you updates on the data lines that don’t need to wait for monthly housing data reports. . Housing market inventory.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Like the vast majority of the country, the city’s housing market has been stymied by high mortgage rates, low inventory and mismatched expectations between buyers and sellers. Buyers think it’s a buyer’s market. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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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. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The days on market are back to a teenager level in the existing home sales market, which means I can officially say we are back to a savagely unhealthy housing market! Nothing good happens in the housing market when the days on market are at a teenager level or lower. million in May. million in May.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

To that end, Veterans United Home Loans conducted a study to find which housing markets are best for current and former military members in these two generations. It concluded that the most favorable markets are on the East Coast and in the Midwest. The city that topped the list is Tampa. and the quality of life score ranks No.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the months ahead, with the presidential election approaching and the Federal Reserve eyeing interest rate cuts, originators will scrutinize how shifting fiscal policy could influence the mortgage industry and the economy at large. Already, markets are pricing in an anticipated rate cut at the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A slight cooling in mortgage rates wasn’t enough to keep mortgage applications from sinking to a 28-year low. Freddie Mac‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.12% as of Sept.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The housing market experienced more volatility last week, with housing inventory dropping as mortgage rates moved higher. The start of 2023 has been good, considering mortgage rates have stayed above 6% most of the time. I am keeping an eye on how much growth we can get with mortgage rates over 6%.

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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. This is why the days on the market are so low historically after 2020.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. This implies that there are more than enough buyers at these prices and these mortgage rates to keep activity happening in housing. As of right now the housing market is growing.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Consumer confidence in the housing market increased in September, as per Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), which rose to a score of 73.9, The share who think mortgage rates will stay the same decreased from 35% to 31%. the highest in two years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2024

Active weekly housing inventory growth slowed slightly last week, but it’s still running at a healthier clip than in 2023. I have a simple model with mortgage rates being above 7.25%: weekly inventory data should grow between 11,000-17,000 per week. When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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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. I wonder whether the 2024 housing market is beyond saving? Are we past the opportunity for declining mortgage rates to help demand and pick up home sales growth? housing market at the end of July 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Mortgage rates. Home price s.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Recent market trends — including an improvement in mortgage rates, housing affordability and potential refinance opportunities — suggest positive signs for the real estate market this year, according to February’s Mortgage Monitor report from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Mortgage rates held at 6.71% as of Jan.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Although the Greater Boston area may still be plagued by persistently chilly temperatures, its housing market is still red-hot. According to data from Altos Research , the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH metropolitan area was the hottest housing market nationwide as of Feb.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The year 2024 has started with cautious optimism that mortgage rates will drop, sparking much-needed activity in the sluggish U.S. housing market. Mortgage rates, however, have been on a rising trend of late. HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 7.21% on Feb.

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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? million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2023

The slow zombie crawl of housing inventory went lower last week as inventory was negative week to week. In addition, mortgage rates rose to a yearly high as labor data stayed firm and purchase apps had their first negative week after three straight weeks of positive growth. bond market doesn’t see a job-loss recession happening soon.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory data. months shows how far we are from 2008 housing economics.

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JULY 5, 2024

Cross-Sector Housing Monitor Webinar ” at 10:00 a.m. While the nation’s housing market remains tight, sales are tracking well below housing demand, and rental and homeowner vacancy rates are plummeting to multi-decade lows. economics, including the labor market, consumer spending, inflation, demographics, and many more.

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