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Why higher rates aren’t crashing home prices

Housing Wire

Home prices aren’t crashing, despite what the housing bubble boys are saying. The housing bubble boys are a crew that from 2012 to 2019 screamed housing crash every year. 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.

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How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024?

Housing Wire

How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024? Also, when mortgage rates rise, the inventory peak happens later in the year. Weekly housing inventory data One substantial positive story for 2024 is that we have more housing inventory year over year. But at least it’s positive!

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Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates and inventory fall together

Housing Wire

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory.

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Will Omicron variant stop first Fed rate hike?

Housing Wire

During this Thanksgiving week, we went from higher yields and the first Fed rate hike storyline to a big drop in bond yields and scary headlines on a new COVID variant, Omicron. In this type of economic environment is it even possible for mortgage rates to get to 4% and can the Federal Reserve really hike rates in an aggressive fashion?

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IPO no: Why real estate companies stopped going public

Housing Wire

Gal and other company representatives did not return messages for this article. Another, though, is fading enthusiasm from investors and IPO underwriters that a company can upend the notoriously fragmented residential real estate industry. Last June, Guy Gal was staring ahead at Wall Street. Side is no outlier. Seeing red.

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With Home Prices Coming Down in Some Areas, Will Your Rent Lower as Well?

Lighter Side of Real Estate

So this realtor.com article probably sounds like promising news when the headline claims that rent prices are finally falling in some areas. However, the article actually says that economists are predicting rental prices to keep increasing in the coming year. In fact, rents went up during the last recession between 2007 and 2011.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023?

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