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How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024?

Housing Wire

This is due to demand rising late in one year, pushing through the early part of the next year and preventing inventory growth. This is due to demand rising late in one year, pushing through the early part of the next year and preventing inventory growth. Is the seasonal bottom going to happen later than I want?

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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

Housing Wire

Credit growth in the previous expansion was going to be slow and steady until our household formation data got high enough to get demand higher. The years 2020-2024 were going to be the time when total home sales could finally reach 6.2 The years 2020-2024 were going to be the time when total home sales could finally reach 6.2

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

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 pandemic, as well as policymakers, continue to have the ability to send shocks through the system.

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Where In The World Are Those Rate Cuts?

Toronto Realty Blog

I closed on my current home in August of 2018 and at the time I had a variable rate. The Bank of Canada has made six policy announcements since the last interest rate hike in July of 2023, and they have left the target rate at 5.00% all six times. ” Now I’m saying it. Geez, what happened to me ? Yeah, I know.

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

Toronto Realty Blog

It’s only been a few days but already, I feel as though this January real estate market is going to be very slow. On Monday, we started to discuss the topics, themes, issues, and stories that would consume our “real estate minds in 2024,” notably the things that might concern us the most. Any new developments?

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Is the Housing Market Sustainable?

Realty Biz

In fact, the cost of buying a home jumped more than 20% this April compared to the same month in 2021. Home prices have fluctuated wildly, and there have been a number of high-profile housing bubbles that have eventually burst, causing economic damage. . Housing Marketing Predictions for 2023. But how high is high?

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Why an Economic Downturn Represents the Best Time to Invest in Real Estate

The Close

But for value-seeking investors like myself, the scariest time to invest is actually in a good economy, when housing prices are rising at a blistering pace. Despite this, many agents have a hard time persuading would-be investors that a downturn is the right time to jump into the real estate market and start investing.

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