Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

It boils down to two factors, according to housing-industry experts: a lack of housing inventory , or supply; and high demand for that limited housing stock — which also is fueling a jump in new-home sales. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.” Just because there’s vacant homes in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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. NAR lists the current inventory at 1.22 million, with a peak in 2007 a tad over 4 million.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Key non-QM products for 2025 Before 2025 continues, lenders should arm themselves with the right tools for tackling the market: Investor loans Investing is the vehicle to success for homeowners in the market. million, so its primed and ready to meet the needs of most property investors. How are real estate investors responding?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In a bidding war, cash buyers and investors will win, and first-time buyers will lose. If we shut off access to real estate services for first-time and entry-level buyers, if investors snatch up the inventory and turn them into rentals, what will our industry look like in a decade or two? What does that mean in the long term?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The debate surrounding the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy is raging on. I think that a prudent Realtor would have an actual conversation where they discuss the benefits and burdens of being on the MLS, Bregman said. Pareja isnt the only executive who feels this way.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index helps to dispel many of the myths and cut through the noise of what is currently happening in the market. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 20, 2025

million, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The inventory of unsold existing homes climbed 5.1% Mortgage rates have not changed much, but more inventory and choices are releasing pent-up housing demand. Individual investors or second-home buyers, The post NAR: Existing-Home Sales Jumped 4.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The claim by the authors that single-family rental home companies “swoop up much of the inventory” of homes from potential homebuyers is, in fact, not supported by the data in any way, shape, or form. of the nation’s total housing inventory. Rather, large companies own less than 1.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Cincinnati is a great place to live,” said Julie Back , the executive sales vice president of Sibcy Cline Realtors. Although there is no doubt among local real estate professionals that demand is high in the Cincinnati housing market, agents say the area’s low inventory situation is only adding to the challenge facing consumers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales for April came in at 5.41 Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

in March compared to February despite rising mortgage rates , according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Meaningful gains will only occur with declining mortgage rates and rising inventory.” Existing-home inventory in March improved 14.4% Pending home sales increased by 3.4%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2024

Low levels of for-sale inventory, high mortgage rates, and record-high home prices continue to hamper existing-home sales. According to the May 2024 existing-home sales report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), sales volume fell 2.8% Rising prices are occurring even as unsold inventory continues to grow.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 19, 2024

compared with November 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). More buyers have entered the market as the economy continues to add jobs, housing inventory grows compared to a year ago, and consumers get used to a new normal of mortgage rates between 6 percent and 7 percent. Existing-home sales increased 4.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. offers, according NAR’s REALTORS® Confidence Index. At the height of the spring market, the typical home had 5.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

million existing homes were sold, according to the National Association of Realtors. High rates further exacerbated the national inventory shortage and contributed to the surge in home prices. of investors have priced in a cut of at least a quarter point in March. In 2023, only 4.09 On Monday, meanwhile, 97.9% With the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Today the National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales for the month of December were at 6,760,000, a beat of estimates. Also covered in the NAR report was housing inventory. Inventory is at all-time lows of 1.9 For context, inventory does tend to fall toward the end of the year and stay low until spring.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for October came in at a solid beat of estimates at 6.34 Not bad considering the low inventory and all that unhealthy home price growth we have seen since the start of 2020. There has been a lot of hype that this entire housing market is driven by investors.

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Empire Appraisal Group

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Despite Inventory Rise, Home Buyers Remain Cautious Source: [link] More listings are coming to the real estate market, but home sales continue to be sluggish. There are more inventory choices for consumers, lower mortgage rates than a year ago and continued job additions to the economy. Housing inventory was up 1.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for January came in as a big beat at 6.5 When you add move-up, move-down, cash and investor buyers into the mix, you will have steady replacement buyer demand from 2020-to 2024. Also, we are starting the year with fresh new all-time lows in inventory.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

From the National Association of Realtors : “The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings, rose 7.5% “This solid buying is a testament to demand still being relatively high, as it is occurring during a time when inventory is still markedly low.” in October.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At We are still going to suffer from lack of inventory.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In assessing blame for a high-demand, low inventory housing market, one finger is pointed at companies that purchase single-family homes as an investment. Moving in: Big investors,” reads a Reuter’s headline from this July. “A Meanwhile, Redfin released a report with the headline: “Investors bought a record 18% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

“Purchase activity has slowed to a virtual standstill, affordability remains a significant hurdle for many and the only way to address it is lower rates and greater inventory.” The National Association of Realtors (NAR) also forecasts that existing-home sales will drop by 17.5% in 2023, reaching an annualized rate of 4.15

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

” Khater added that purchase application demand is improving, but very low inventory is the major obstacle to higher home sales. While borrowers weigh the benefits of refinancing their mortgage, in the purchase market, they still face rising prices and a lack of inventory. The lack of inventory is not expected to improve soon.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

From the National Association of Realtors : Total existing-home sales – completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – bounced 9.5% Here is some perspective on the NAR active inventory data: Since 1982, traditional normal inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This has led to a rise in foreign investor purchases of U.S. Khater said that homebuyers are soaking up all available inventory, which has improved slightly, while home-price growth is also moderating. Housing demand is strong heading into the fall, despite fast-rising home prices and low inventory,” said Kan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. from the previous year ($375,300). All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

In down markets, the best agents and the best brokerages gain market share,” Reffkin, the CEO of Compass, told investors and analysts during his firms first-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday evening. “We We have brought down expenses and continue to grow our agent count and inventory advantage,” Reffkin said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. Inventory is always seasonal. Today inventory levels are at 1.02

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

“Although low and stable mortgage rates have kept the housing market booming over recent months, a deterioration in affordability and for-sale inventory has led to a market slowdown.”. Borrowers are still shopping at a feverish pace, at least by historic standards.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Higher interest rates , shrinking Agency business and low inventory still threatens volume. Realtors , small business owners, gig workers, freelancers, real estate investors, CPAs, doctors and lawyers with their own practices all could be a non-QM borrower. Non-QM isn’t established simply because loans fall-out of Agency.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 21, 2024

compared with February 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Helping to boost existing-home sales in February was that inventory increased 1.07 Individual investors or second-home buyers, who make up many cash sales, purchased 21% of homes in February, up from 17% in January and 18% in February 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Homebuyers flocked to what little inventory existed in January, with existing-home sales rising 6.7% annually to $350,000, according to the Friday report from the National Association of Realtors. from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.5 January sales fell 2.3% from a year ago. That translates to just 1.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. Unsold inventory sits at a 2.0-month

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