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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

Housing Wire

In the previous expansion, one of my long-term calls was that the MBA purchase application data will never hit the volume level of 300 until the years 2020-2024. Right on cue, 2020 came and we hit the 300 level. Inventory levels broke to all-time lows and thus created massive housing inflation quickly, which broke my model.

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How the Federal Reserve is Helping the Housing Market

Realty Biz

At first glance, it might seem intuitive that rising interest rates will have a negative effect on the housing market. Interest rates rising today and for the next several months is probably good for the housing market. Obviously, we are watching that quite carefully [prices and mortgage rates].

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What’s On Your Real Estate Mind For 2024? (Pt2)

Toronto Realty Blog

Let me throw some skin in the game here: my mortgage comes due in November of 2024. Let me throw some skin in the game here: my mortgage comes due in November of 2024. It’s been at the back of my mind since the spring of 2022 when interest rates started increasing, but it’s not something that I think about every day.

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Canada Sees Increased Wealth Concentration Amid COVID-19

Point2Homes

An uptick in Canada’s home prices might seem unlikely amid the COVID-19 crisis, particularly when the economy is facing significant job losses and a record-high number of bankruptcie s. These increases are actually similar to those recorded in previous boom years (2010 to spring of 2017), during the expanding Toronto real estate bubble.

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How Does Canada’s Home Ownership Rate Look?

Toronto Realty Blog

Home ownership rates have increased. Case in point: home ownership rates in Canada are increasing. I’ll admit, I certainly wasn’t aware of this, and had I been asked to guess or weigh in on the subject, I’d have assumed that home ownership rates are decreasing. Perhaps it’s low interest rates.

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The Road Ahead

Toronto Realty Blog

But while we can use numbers to say anything we want after the fact, by looking at price, sales, active listings, new listings, days on market, absorption rate, month-over-month, year-over-year, et al, today, I want to look at May specifcally to see if June follows suit. Hey, how are you? Well, now you found this blog!

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Salt Lake City Real Estate Market & Investment Overview

Marco Santarelli

The pandemic has supercharged Utah’s housing market driven by historically low interest rates and low unemployment rate. Salt Lake City is the largest city in the state of Utah, though it tends to be overlooked by real estate investors as just another part of “flyover” country. increase from the previous year.

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