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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory shocks lower

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In addition, mortgage rates rose to a yearly high as labor data stayed firm and purchase apps had their first negative week after three straight weeks of positive growth. As we can see in the chart below, it’s been so slow that year-over-year inventory is now negative versus 2022.

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Housing inventory gone wild

Housing Wire

The last four weeks of new listings data have been the most volatile since mortgage rates breached 6% in 2022. As I have stressed, weakness in demand can lead to inventory growth over time, it’s just that in 2023, the growth is much slower than what we saw in 2022. The average of the two weeks is 4,906.

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Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates over 7%

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Debt-ceiling drama pushed bond yields up last week, taking mortgage rates to a new 2023 high in the middle of the spring home-selling season. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,914 week to week, even though new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023.

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Housing Market Tracker: A wild week for rates

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The 10-year yield rose noticeably, sending mortgage rates near 7% right in the heart of the spring selling season. And purchase apps had a weekly negative print, continuing the 2023 theme of higher rates impacting the data. Mortgage rates rose last week as we started the week at 6.55% but ended at 6.90%.

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Housing Market Tracker: Higher rates crush purchase apps 

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The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. The 10-year yield didn’t let up this last week, as more robust economic and inflation data kept levels elevated and pushed mortgage rates higher.

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Housing inventory stalls: Less than 3K homes added

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates also had a crazy week and purchase apps fell once again. Saying that the housing inventory growth in 2023 has been disappointing is an understatement. It took the longest time in history to find the seasonal bottom, which happened on April 14. We usually see this in January or maybe February.

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Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates spike as inventory falls

Housing Wire

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. The 10-year yield had a rough week, almost reaching 4% intraday before falling Friday afternoon.

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