Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

HousingWire has partnered with New Hampshire Association of Realtors (NHAR) to bring original data, analytics and news to its members who are the voice for real estate in the state. Our strategy is simple – be the independent source of information housing leaders seek first, and trust the most,” Clayton Collins, HousingWire CEO, said. “By

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

Homebuilders with unsold inventory are feeling the pinch of high mortgage rates — and it’s showing up in new-home sales data. This inventory pileup could start to affect new-home prices. The new-home sales numbers contrast substantially with the existing-home sales report for May from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why I’ve created the Housing Market Tracker — a weekly analysis of purchase apps, housing inventory and mortgage rates that will be published every Monday. The Altos Research weekly inventory data looks ahead before the sales report inventory data. Weekly housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

from a year ago to $356,700, according to the National Association of Realtors. Renovated Inventory to the Rescue. Top Markets for Renovated Inventory. The post Top markets for affordable renovated housing inventory appeared first on HousingWire. Skyrocketing U.S. The median home price nationwide in August increased 14.9%

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

RealReports , a proptech firm that offers an artificial intelligence-based platform for property data , announced a new partnership this week with the San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR) to provide access to its tool to an estimated 5,000 members in the Bay Area. Inventory is low, rates remain high, and lawsuits abound,” Gorman said.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ohio REALTORS, one of the largest and most influential real estate associations in the Midwest, has announced its partnership with HousingWire , the leading source for housing market news and information. This partnership underscores Ohio REALTORS ‘ commitment to supporting its members through education and professional development.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It was the 10th straight month of annualized growth and for-sale inventory is now at its highest level since May 2020. This dovetails with recent pending sales data from the National Association of Realtors. from August 2023, “indicating that the inventory of smaller and more affordable homes continues to grow in share.“

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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.” through the first quarter of 2024.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Available inventory of homes for sale is on the rise in late September, which is very unusual for this time of year. In fact, inventory is growing faster than this time a year ago. What’s happening with inventory? Normally by this point in September, available inventory is declining slightly each week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Taking the top spot as the greatest challenge was low inventory , with nearly half (49%) of respondents ranking that as their biggest challenge. Most buyers here cannot pay realtor commissions because they are VA (Veterans Affairs borrowers).” In a similar vein, “getting listings” was the third-largest hurdle cited by agents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We being outbound. “We

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With Q4 in full swing, many realtors are seeing buyers and sellers paralyzed by high interest rates and stagnant inventories. Sean Shallis, a “Recovering Realtor” and top-producing loan officer , is offering strategies to help realtors break through this stagnation by leveraging micro-market shifts to create urgency and inspire action.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

“Anything under $300,000 or $350,000 has really good activity, but above that, I think interest rates have really affected buyers in those price ranges,” said Eddie Campos, the president of Northwest Ohio Realtors and an associate at RE/MAX Preferred Associates. “I 1 challenge for his buyers is the current inventory situation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

month over month, according to the newest data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Ongoing job gains are clearly increasing demand along with more inventory.” from January to February due to steadily growing inventory. Overall, active inventory grew 14.8% in February, up from 74.3 in January.

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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. ” Closed sales of single-family homes grew 0.6%

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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

MAY 30, 2024

in April compared to March as rising mortgage rates weighed on the market, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The impact of escalating interest rates throughout April dampened home buying, even with more inventory in the market,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. The available inventory of existing homes rose by 22% year over year in Q3 2034. New construction inventory has grown in recent months. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

I have often discussed four months of supply and active inventory between 1.52 In the previous decade, active inventory ranged between 1.52 From NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of June was 1.32 Unsold inventory sits at a 4.1-month million and 2.4 All four major U.S. regions posted sales declines.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

Existing home sales dropped to their lowest level in nearly 30 years in 2023, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), released Friday. Prospective homebuyers have been shut out of the market by a lack of inventory. Compared to a month ago, housing inventory was down 11.5% In 2023, 4.09

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

million in February, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The inventory of existing homes has been steadily increasing, despite elevated mortgage rates. At the end of March, total housing inventory sat at 1.11 Meanwhile, unsold inventory sat at a 3.2-month

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that it had 1,509,195 members at the end of April, a decline of 2.96% from the 1,554,604 members it had at the end of 2023 but higher than its numbers in February and March. You can find more information in our recent update in Realtor Magazine.“ How many is unclear.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While elevated mortgage rates, sluggish home sales and high inflation have taken a significant toll on the housing industry, it’s unlikely that these issues will cause home prices to drop next year, at least according to National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

After rising in March , pending home sales continued to slide in May, with the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) posting its second consecutive month of declines to reach a record low, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The PHSI fell 2.1% from April to a reading of 70.8 on a yearly basis.

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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. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

Denver-based Realtor Bret Weinstein took on a client whose house had been on the market for 60 days. Inventory in the city has also risen sharply, giving buyers more options and more leverage in negotiations. Despite dropping the price to $625,000 from $650,000, it sat for another 45 days with no offers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

million, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The worst of the downturn in home sales could be over, with increasing inventory leading to more transactions,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. Inventory was up 19.1% month over month in October to 3.96

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

After closing out 2023 with its first annual membership decline since 2012, the National Association of Realtors is still struggling with its membership count. January marked the third consecutive month of membership declines for NAR and the month’s Realtor count marks the lowest level since May 2021. This is down 2.1% This is down 2.1%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

million, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Sluggish sales left total housing inventory at 1.35 Despite inventory being considerably higher than last year, the median home price rose 3.1% After a modest monthly uptick in July, existing-home sales fell 2.5% That was a 4.2% decline compared to one year ago.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

in October on a month-over-month basis, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Existing-home sales and housing inventory will increase next year, and home prices will remain stable, said Lisa Sturtevant, the MLS’s chief economist. down from 72.6 in September.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

After plummeting to an all-time low in May , pending home sales bounced back a bit in June, with the Pending Home Sales Index rising 4.8%, according to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun attributed some of the uptick to an increase in housing inventory.

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