Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

Home listings fell in neighborhoods hit by the wildfires, too. Listings slowed a bit in Februarybut not nearly as much as sales. There were 23 new listings in the Palisades, down 12% year-over-year, and 46 new listings in Altadena, down 6%. million in February, down 8% year-over-year. Home sales rose 6.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Zillow also reported that, after a tumultuous five years, many measures of the housing market are trending closer to historic norms. Notably, while the flow of new listings to the market is still nearly 14% lower than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, its much improved to compared to the deficit of 25% in March 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Lets look at last weeks data and see if we can tease out the signals for impact on the 2025 housing market. Housing inventory It is December, of course, so inventory is falling for the season. There will be fewer homes on the market each week until February or so. Can there be too many homes for sale?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. We’ve suffered, just like any other major market in the U.S., While the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the current focus is rightfully on containing the blazes and protecting residents, its worth taking stock of where housing markets stand in the affected parts of the Los Angeles metro area. Data from Altos Research shows an area with expensive housing, rising inventory and conditions that lean favorable to sellers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. Additionally, our weekly pending contract data and new listings are trending positively compared to last year. Notably, purchase applications show growth both year-to-date and year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2025

Earlier this year, when mortgage rates soared to 7.26%, a cloud of worry hung over the housing market many feared that home sales would tumble in 2025, fueled by concerns about inflation and tariffs. housing market revolves around the direction of the 10-year yield. Only time will tell because, as always for me, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Fluctuating interest rates have been a feature of the housing market over the last three years. Our 2025 housing market predictions are based on the assumption that lower mortgage rates will spur demand and boost the number of homes sales transactions. Were only two months into the new government policies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The haunted house ride with the bond market and mortgage rates continued this week, but one housing data line hasn’t been spooked. New listing data appears unafraid of the mortgage rate ghost story over the last few months. They remain frustrated that the labor market is not breaking.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

24): Inventory fell from 569,898 to 565,875 The all-time inventory bottom was in 2022 at 240,497 The inventory peak for 2024 so far is 739,434 For some context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 1,104,310 New listings data While active inventory didn’t rise, we did get a nice boost in new listings this last week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Prospective homebuyers have more options to choose from in the housing market, which could help spur sales this spring. New listings ticked up by 21% in February compared to last year, according to Zillow ’s February report. New listings rose 20% from January, and each of the 50 largest U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2024

One of my critical forecasts for 2024 was the growth of new listings data and active inventory, even with higher mortgage rates. However, the new listings data has slightly disappointed me. New listings data I am pleased that we’ve seen new listings data grow year over year — it’s a big step forward.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2024

New listings data has been moving lower over the last few weeks. But, we need to see more growth in new listings data just to grow from 2023 levels. 2023 new listings data was the lowest ever on record, so it’s already a low bar.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

There are three big trends in the spring 2025 housing market: Supply continues to build. This is measurable in both the total unsold inventory and the number of new listings each week. Massive new taxes are being proposed, maybe they go into effect this week. Well, new listings are climbing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The housing market in the state of Florida saw higher median home prices, more real estate listings and a higher number of active listings during the month of January, according to data released Thursday by Florida Realtors , a state-based trade organization for real estate professionals.

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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. Weekly inventory change : (Dec.15-22)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. New listings lower than last week Inventory is building because of demand weakness, not because of supply growth. When will that be? I have no idea.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The last two years were the two lowest new listings data years in history. Note: during the housing bubble crash years, this data line ran between 250,000-400,000 per week. However, the slowdown in price growth is a positive development for the housing market, which desperately needs it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. There were 60,000 new listings unsold this week for single-family homes.

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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. Again, I am a bit mindful here due to Easter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

The seasonal housing inventory bottom evaded us again last week as active listings fell and new listing inventory decreased. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory fell 5,383 last week, and new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. As we approach that threshold of old levels of unsold homes on the market, it raises those questions about home prices. New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers. Unsold new listings amount to 4.8%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While assessing the full scale of the damage could still take months, the short-term effects on the two state’s housing markets were immediately visible — the markets came to a complete halt. However, new listings snapped back sharply to 82 just a week later. 20, then bottomed out at 14 on Oct.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2025

Does this indicate that the housing market is beginning to wake up just in time for spring? I’ve noticed that housing data tends to improve when mortgage rates drop from 6.64% to 6%, especially when I adjust for seasonal demand. ” Labor over inflation, anyone? Weekly inventory change (Feb.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The spring housing market is still trying to spring. New listings volume is trying to grow with its biggest week since September. List prices inched up for the week, though sales prices did not advance. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. Each bar is a week.

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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. Housing recession. That would be a positive for demand.

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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. Active inventory rose by 823 single-family homes and new listing data is trending at all-time lows.

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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. What could make home prices decline?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listing rose 8,260 week to week, down a bit from last week’s gain, but I’m not complaining — anything on the plus side is positive.

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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. If so, how should we expect the housing market to react?

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Active housing inventory , thankfully, saw some decent growth last week. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,914 week to week, even though new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023. The housing market moves with the 10-year yield , so watching this is critical.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2023

This is truly a savagely unhealthy housing market as we have too many people chasing too few homes. The weekly active listing data had a rare week-to-week decline. The other big story in housing has been that new listing data has been trending at the lowest levels recorded in history for 12 months.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year. On the supply side, new listings are slightly more than a year ago, but pulling back. If fact the “coming soon” pre-listings are now running behind last year by 5%. That’s up 1.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2023

It was a wild ride for the housing market last week! New listings data fell, however, active inventory grew. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Total active listings grew by 3,809 weekly, but new listings are still trending at all-time lows. Purchase application data fell 4.8%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. New listings rise There were just under 61,000 new listings unsold this week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

There were 45,000 new listings for single-family homes across the country this week, which is a big jump. Over time, our job at HousingWire will be to help everyone understand the market and financial impact that we can measure. New listings jump The supply story in real estate must take into account the new sellers each week.

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