Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

But if buyers and sellers were compelled to transcribe their inaction, it would read like a sociopaths diary entry: We could have watched you grow up, but your grandpa and me werent willing to give up our 2.875% rate to move closer to you. Buyers and sellers are ready to step away from the spreadsheet and get on with living their lives.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We already see many signals for what to expect, including last week’s data on inventory , new listings and price reductions, which I analyze below. New listings One way reason it will be hard for inventory to grow more than 17% next year is that there are still not enough sellers to get there. price cut.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Additionally, our weekly pending contract data and new listings are trending positively compared to last year. Last year, I estimated that a minimum of 80,000 homes would be listed every week during the peak seasonal months, and my prediction was only off by 5,000.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Florida had an uptick in inventory with a bit of a rebound in new listings now that the storms are over. New listings go up This year continues to have slightly more sellers than last year but fewer than we used to get in past years. There were 60,000 new listings unsold this week for single-family homes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

A new variable this spring is that there are also more sellers coming to market each week than there have been in five years. Total unsold inventory is up, and the weekly pace of new sellers adding to that inventory is up too. Why are these sellers emerging now after so many years on the sidelines? More sellers?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers. There were only 54,000 new listings of single-family homes unsold this week. There were another 10,000 new listings immediate sales which makes 64,000 homesellers. Unsold new listings amount to 4.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

This is measurable in both the total unsold inventory and the number of new listings each week. Because each week we have 815% more sellers than last year, the total inventory will continue to build unless and until demand shifts dramatically, which would require notably lower mortgage rates. Well, new listings are climbing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

New listings grew 7% from the week prior Last week saw 68,000 newly listed single-family homes. As such, the pace of new listings seems to be picking up for the spring and the post-pandemic era. There were nearly 7% more sellers last week than the week prior. What is driving the sellers’ behavior?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

When the market is hot like during the Pandemic there were more buyers than sellers in Q1 so inventory kept declining until March or April. New listings lower than last week Inventory is building because of demand weakness, not because of supply growth. There were 2% fewer sellers now than the same week a year ago but 3.6%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

New listings move upward, but remain historically low Altos uses new real estate listings data as a key indicator of seller activity in the D.C New Listings are the homes that were listed for sale in a given week and added to the active inventory. housing market. As unemployment in D.C

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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

JANUARY 6, 2025

The New Years week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays fell on Wednesdays this year, which messes up two full weeks in terms of getting home sales done and tracking the numbers. Those will start rebounding in next weeks data.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

9, housing markets in the Tampa area came to a complete halt as sellers took their homes off the market. The most eye-popping data is for new listings. The week of the hurricane, new listings fell by about 80% in five major cities in the metro area Tampa, Clearwater, Largo, Brandon and Riverview.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

NextHome is joining eXp Realty in committing to Zillow s new listing standards. The firm announced its decision to sign on to Zillow s new standards on Friday. “Partnering with Zillow to commit to listing transparency is simply the right thing to do for homebuyers and sellers across America.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

New listings were unchanged at 54,077. Redfin considers four to five months of supply as balanced, with a lower number suggesting ideal sellers market conditions. Pending home sales sat at 58,267 for the four weeks, marking a year-over-year change of -3.4% the first drop in three months, per Redfin’s data.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We’re also seeing more home sellers withdrawing their listings to try again next year. In fact, for every two sales, there is another listing withdrawn from the market. New listings at the peak for the year There are two reasons that inventory is probably around the peak for the year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

New listings rise There were just under 61,000 new listings unsold this week. When you include the 9,400 immediate sales, the total is 13% more sellers than a year ago. Last year at this time, the market was in deep retrenchment — both buyers and sellers were walking away. Sellers could dip again next week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mortgage interest rates above 6% continued to impact potential homebuyers’ purchase power, while also contributing to a lock-in effect among would-be home sellers who bought their homes years ago with a mortgage rate of 3% to 4.5%,” the association explained in an announcement. “New listings of single-family homes were up 16.7%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year. It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. orate further?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Data from Altos Research shows an area with expensive housing, rising inventory and conditions that lean favorable to sellers. While most of the country is suffering from declining inventory, LAs is up 33% year over year, and pending new sales have gradually risen since the beginning of 2023. The current median home price is $1.47

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2024

The rules of supply and demand economics always end up winning and weekly new listing data is key. New listing data is growing year over year, but it will be the second-lowest new listing data ever recorded in history. With more sellers who are buyers, we have a tad more demand this year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Supply growth could also come from more sellers, such as investors or distressed borrowers unloading. However, in most of the country, we have no growth from the seller side. In Florida and Texas, we see the rising costs of insurance , taxes and climate risk driving some sellers. more sellers than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its a symptom of a market thats transitioning away from sellers. A substantial drop in new listings is a contributing factor. 1, weekly new listings were at 410 but have since dropped to 186, although new listings tend to drop in December as the holidays approach.

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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

MARCH 3, 2025

New listings New listings also dipped for the second week in a row. Theres probably some weather effects in there, and I expect to see a jump in the new listings volume in next weeks data. There were just over 53,000 new listings unsold, plus another 10,000 new listings immediate sales.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 31, 2025

Now its pretty clear that sellers arent slashing asking prices and mortgage rates arent plummeting, so mindsets are shifting. Key findings from the four weeks ending January 26: Before the seller accepted an offer, the average U.S. Active listings 889,202 11.3% (smallest increase in nearly a year) Months of supply 5.2 +0.3

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

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. These active market listing prices lead the sales prices so theyre very valuable to track. NEW LISTINGS There was a nice jump in the new listings volume this week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

New listings When we look at the sellers entering the market, there were 45,000 new listings last week. That is 14% more home sellers listing their properties in December than the same week a year ago. This quantity of sellers is more similar to the pre-pandemic years than weve seen in a long time.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But home sellers are gradually easing back into this housing market. There were 66,000 new listings this week, of which 14,000 are already in contract. It’s not a ton of sellers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Sellers can just wait it out, and it looks like the U.S. I think it’s worth examining if sellers will indeed just wait it out now. New listings unchanged You can see the continuation of that theme with the new listings volume each week. There were 72,000 new single-family listings unsold this week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Even though the best new inventory hits the market each week, these are being priced fractionally cheaper than last year. Home sellers and listing agents know where demand is for homes. Right now, 33% of the active listings have taken a price cut from the original list price. At this time last year, it was 31%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. Home prices ebb and flow, pricing was working in the sense that sellers met homebuyers to a degree. To have a balanced housing market, we need active listings to rise yearly, which they typically do; 2020 was an anomaly.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Home sellers are returning to the market, but buyers are hesitant, according to a recent Zillow market report. In May, new property listings exceeded sales, allowing buyer competition and price rise to slow—and more price relief is expected. Inventory, New Listings and Pending Sales Overview New listings increased by 7.9%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Remember that 2023 had the lowest new listings data ever and 2024 will have the second lowest. One of the reasons total inventory data hasn’t gotten back to 2019 levels is the lack of sellers in 2023 and 2024. National data: Weekly inventory change (Oct. 11): Inventory fell from 734,290 to 732,410 The same week last year (Oct.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Sales are sluggish because high homebuying costs are making both house hunters and prospective sellers skittish. Even though homes are selling for higher prices than ever before, many sellers are still having to drop their list prices after putting their properties on the market—one positive sign for potential homebuyers.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

That pretty much describes sellers. But in 2024 there’s a flicker of hope as sellers have thawed out just a bit. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 01/31/24 Joel Wright […] The post Are sellers finally starting to thaw out? Any thoughts?

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