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Will 2025 finally be a “normal” housing market?

Housing Wire

As we look into 2025, the question everyone is asking is: Do we have a new era starting? What can the data today tell us about signals for growth or weakness after the new year? We know inventory has been climbing all year. Inventory is growing Lets start with supply. Inventory shrank every year for most of the decade.

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

On Friday NAR reported that total housing inventory levels broke under 1 million in December, dropping to 970,00 units for a population of 330 million people. million in January down to about 4 million in December, We now have total inventory levels near all-time lows again. During that period, we saw new listing data decline.

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Housing inventory still near record lows

Housing Wire

months’ worth of housing inventory in the U.S. If we are trending below 4 million — a possibility with new listing data trending at all-time lows — then we have much weaker demand than people think. NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 980,000 units, up 1.0% Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month

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Mortgage market affordability and inventory challenges

Housing Wire

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. Inventory rising, historically low.

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Housing inventory is still at a crisis level

Housing Wire

So few single-family homes are for sale in America that just two months of inventory is available across the top 100 metro areas in the country, a historic low. In markets like San Diego and Los Angeles, any listing under $3 million on average takes less than three months to sell.

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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. Total housing inventory fell in this report, the third report in a row that shows total inventory has decreased.

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Fix-and-flip investors are filling in the gaps in some housing markets: report

Housing Wire

Roughly 80% of real estate investors surveyed are selling single-family homes at or above asking price after fully renovating the properties to make them habitable, according to a report from real estate marketplace New Western. is lacking about 320,000 listings valued at the affordable range for middle-income buyers.

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