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. However, for now, this is a plus for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

Home prices aren’t crashing, despite what the housing bubble boys are saying. In fact, home prices have firmed up higher recently. Well, it’s June 9, 2023, and home prices have been firm month to month, not showing anything that resembles the housing bubble crash years. Then on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

Mortgage rates rose last week after the better-than-anticipated jobless claims data but even with higher rates, we also had a third week of positive purchase application data. The other big story with housing inventory is that new listing data has been trending negative year over year since the end of June 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. The last two years have been a wild ride. Odds are that this turn in the pandemic will likely be just a temporary setback.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It was 1996 and Dan Gilbert , the founder and CEO, announced that the company’s mortgage bankers weren’t going to meet with applicants face to face. We’re going to send our clients the applications, they’re going to sign it and they’re going to mail it back to us. That was new back then. I probably bought maybe 500 or 600.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 26, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the relationship between housing market interest rates and real estate trends, providing insights into the current state of the market and what the future may hold. For instance, in the early 1980s, the mortgage interest rate peaked at around 18%, making it challenging for people to afford homes.

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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%

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