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Housing Wire
APRIL 6, 2024
Weekly housing inventory data — both active inventory and new listings — are prone to one-week moves that deviate from a trend, especially if people are going Easter egg hunting. So, the fact that active inventory and new listings data fell last week isn’t a big deal. housing market, and we should ignore the decline last week.
Housing Wire
JUNE 9, 2023
In 2022 it was all about finding a point in time when I thought mortgage rates would fall, which was key to understanding how the purchase application data would react to lower mortgage rates. In 2022, mortgage rates got as high as 7.37%, so the question was: how low do rates have to go for housing demand to get better?
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Housing Wire
JULY 2, 2023
Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. As you can see in the chart below, 2023 inventory growth is very slow compared to 2022.
Housing Wire
JANUARY 19, 2024
Today, we saw existing home sales slip a bit month to month, which isn’t surprising to me as purchase application data started its positive run in November. Since making some holiday adjustments, we have seen a seven-week positive trend in purchase apps since November. From NAR : Existing-home sales waned 1.0% Sales faded 6.2%
Housing Wire
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
This data line has always been key to my work, which has run well with the builder’s confidence data that has gone into waterfall collapse mode, as you can see below. Hopefully, I can make sense of this report, which showed the home sales beat estimates with prices still at all-time highs.
Broke Agent Media
JUNE 2, 2023
Dr. Anju Vajja Principal Associate Director in FHFA’s Division of Research and Statistics HousingWire’s Logan Mohtashami explained why this is happening in a recent article while debunking some popular myths about inventory. drop and the Mountain division coming in second with a 0.1% Source: FHFA U.S. North Carolina, 9.4% Vermont, 8.8%
Marco Santarelli
AUGUST 5, 2020
Low mortgage rates, population growth, and an increase in buyer interest are further driving the demand for available housing. Record low mortgage rates are providing opportunities for buyers to lock-in low monthly mortgage payments for future years. nationwide for the week ending July 25, posting a 2.7 percent in July.
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