Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Weve now been in the post-pandemic housing market recession market as long as we were in the pandemic boom. Does the housing market start to get back to normal? The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. But, the market change isnt evenly distributed. Two and a half years.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite their potential to draw in vandalism and spread community blight, zombie foreclosures continue to have little to no effect on the majority of local housing markets. That phenomena is still one of the many long-lasting consequences of the 13-year-old housing market bubble that has occurred across the country.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Higher prices, higher mortgage rates and limited inventory are making for a slow market among buyers and sellers alike. Price growth is slowing down so there’s less flippers in the market. Home sales in 2024 have been well below historic norms. But even investors have purchased fewer homes this year. Same with the iBuyers.

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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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What will the housing market look like in 2025? For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more. Housing inventory There are now 722,000 unsold single-family homes on the market around the U.S. of the homes on the market. Find out more here.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Realtor.com has revealed its Top Housing Markets for 2025 , highlighting the areas ready for growth in the year ahead. This years list highlights markets characterized by moderately affordable homes, strong inventorymainly boosted by new constructionand a sizable base of younger families, many with military and international connections.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

ATTOM has released its latest Special Housing Market Impact Risk Report , a study examining county-level housing markets around the U.S. The report shows that California, New Jersey, and Illinois once again had high concentrations of the most-at-risk markets in the country, with parts of Florida also joining that mix.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic turned a number of nontraditional cities into housing market hotspots. While some of those markets have since seen a reversal of fortunes, 2025 may bring a few more surprises. Indianapolis has an affordable housing market that will make it attractive. Two markets in the Northeast also stand to flourish.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Demand for “have-it-all” properties and the “forever dream home” will shape this spring’s luxury housing market, according to the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury 2024 Mid-Year Trend Report , which forecasts growing optimism among affluent consumers and an influx of desirable inventory. Among specialists, 32.8% elections. “A

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Other high-performing markets include San Jose, California (26.2%); Seattle (19.5%); and San Francisco (17.7%). West Coast Markets Outpace National Trends Each of the top-performing markets boasts median sale prices above the national median of $430,107. The post What High-Value Markets Are Leading the Housing Recovery?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Its hard to imagine something more disruptive to a housing market than a hurricane. 9, housing markets in the Tampa area came to a complete halt as sellers took their homes off the market. 9, housing markets in the Tampa area came to a complete halt as sellers took their homes off the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

There will absolutely be increased pressure on the housing market as we come out of the wildfires that we’re seeing now, and that will be particularly difficult for rental properties, Brugger said.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Phoenix has a really hot job market, says Stacy Miller, Real Estate Agent for The Miller Team at RE/MAX Fine Properties in Phoenix. markets for Gen Z homebuyers. The post Top Markets Targeted by Gen Z Homebuyers first appeared on The MortgagePoint. Click here for more on the hottest U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Homebuyers have become older and wealthier Young people are having a particularly hard time in the housing market. As home prices climb further and further out of reach, first-generation homebuyers trying to break into the market must rely on increases in their earnings to increase their buying potential.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Southern housing markets have dominated growth lists over the last few years, and a report by CoreLogic today shows Southern markets are still hot. The two non-southern housing markets in the top 10 were Boise City, Idaho at nine and Las Vegas at 10. The slowest-growing housing markets, on the other hand, are all over the map.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

real estate market is marked by contradictions that are leaving many confused. It’s a complex landscape where the tension between renting and owning is more pronounced than ever, and regional differences in housing demand highlight the uneven nature of the market. As 2025 approaches, the U.S. reflect a growing divide.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Zillow anticipates a more active housing market with more buyers obtaining the upper hand in 2025. As the market gradually recovers, 2025 should bring more sales and relatively moderate increases in property values. Working with an excellent realtor to assist price and market a house listing will be more crucial than in previous years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Despite 2025 housing market predictions changing fast , there are still key themes and trends for real estate leaders to watch to best serve their clients and business. I do not think this trend will go away overnight, even with mortgage rate stability and new inventory in the market. HW: Lets dive into some demographic shifts.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While the Fed’s policy rate range of 4.75% to 5% is lower than where it was for the past year, it is still much higher than what many market observers consider a neutral rate needed to spur borrower demand. “We We are at recessionary levels for housing permits for five-unit housing. With mortgage rates back above 6.5%

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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

JANUARY 7, 2025

Across the board, mortgage and real estate respondents to the HousingWire Pulse Q1 2025 survey say the housing market will be flat for the first three months of 2025. HousingWire experts are forecasting a more positive outlook for this year’s housing market in their recent 2025 Housing Market Forecast: The Path to Recovery.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The market is not great, so we aren’t often dealing with multiple-offer situations. Due to these conditions, Dwiggins and other industry professionals believe there won’t be much of an impact on first-time buyers until the housing market strengthens, leading some sellers to potentially stop offers of buyer broker compensation. “If

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Relatively cheap housing, low taxes, looser COVID-19 restrictions and an influx of major employers turned Texas housing markets into hotspots after the pandemic began in March 2020. One doesnt have to wade through the weeds of housing market data to figure out why. There werent many metro areas that rivaled the boom in Austin.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Zillow is predicting a more active housing market in 2025 , but those hoping to buy — or even refinance — should buckle up for a bumpy ride and be ready to move when conditions are right. Zillow is forecasting that housing market activity will pick up in 2025 – but the big wildcard is mortgage rates, which will remain unpredictable.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

As Baby Boomers age out of their homes, will it help create enough inventory to boost the housing market? As per a recent report from Zillow , it all depends on the specific housing market. Empty-nest households tend to be in markets that are less expensive. In 2022, there were roughly 20.9 Among the 50 largest U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

As mortgage rates fluctuate based on decreasing housing inventory volume, the appraisal market is more volatile than ever in key areas such as urban and rural communities states like California and Texas. Jaro stands tall as the only end-to-end appraisal platform on the market. This trend had a profound impact on the housing market.

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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. LAs housing market has largely stabilized after the turbulence of the post-pandemic years and the rapid rise of mortgage rates beginning in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Professional flippers become experts in certain markets and partner with local professionals such as realtors and contractors with strong reputations. Denver is one example of a city where such major companies as Google, Amazon, and Palantir opened new offices, and the fix and flip market is growing to meet the ensuing demand for housing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

They explore the intersectionality of trends in the labor and housing markets. After diving into some background on The Burning Glass Institute, Simonsen and Berger dive into the state of the labor market heading into 2025. Simonsen: Let’s get some baseline about the state of the labor market rolling into the end of 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Rising personal home insurance rates, fueled by escalating claims costs, increasing property values and the growing frequency of natural disasters, will all have a profound impact on market dynamics and homeowners insurance costs. For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, these shifts present both challenges and opportunities.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The 10-year yield and mortgage rates have been on a wild ride lately, even testing my top-end forecast at 7.25%, but today, the 10-year yield fell after remarks by Fed President Chris Waller about whether the Fed would do even more rate cuts than the market was anticipating. It’s not booming. It’s not falling.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Californians deserve a reliable insurance market that doesnt retreat from communities most vulnerable to wildfires and climate change , Lara said in a statement. My Sustainable Insurance Strategy is focused on addressing the challenges we face today and building a resilient insurance market for the future.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rising housing inventory levels in 2024 may not be the positive sign of market health that they appear to be. Rising supply is one of the housing market highlights of 2024, according to HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami , who said that housing inventory is approaching levels seen in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

percent)* above the November 2023 estimate of 611,000 The charts below provide insight into the current state of the new home sales market. Unlike the existing home sales market which is working from record lows, the new home sales sector never had that massive decline, so the bar is higher here. percent (18.6 percent (19.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The answer lies in the bond market. The bond market isn’t old and slow like the Fed — it moves very quickly, and for months it has been sending the 10-year yield (and mortgage rates) lower in anticipation of a series of Fed rate cuts, not just one or two. This means they need to play catch up to the market pricing. So what now?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heading into the 2025 housing market, we havent had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. The more folks with expensive loans, the greater the available inventory of homes on the market. In 2025, we expect unsold inventory of homes on the market to get very close to the 2018 levels.

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