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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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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory is negative YOY

Housing Wire

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. 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. We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov.

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Wage growth downtrend kills 1970s inflation fear

Housing Wire

Given Friday’s job report , those who have been concerned with entrenched 1970s inflation — which would lead to double-digit mortgage rates — can put their disco shoes back in the closet. As you can see in the chart below, year-over-year wage growth peaked early in 2022 and has been in a clear downtrend for some time now.

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Buyer’s Market vs Seller’s Market: What’s the Difference?

The Close

In real estate, the market is tied to the basic economic rule of supply and demand, which determines if a market is a buyer’s market vs seller’s market. Sure, certain seasons might have more foot traffic than others, but the housing market could vary drastically from neighborhood to neighborhood.

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Have we already reached peak home sales for the year?

Housing Wire

Unless mortgage rates go lower, that’s what we should expect, because that’s what happened last year. When mortgage rates headed lower at the end of 2022 into 2023, we had 12 weeks of positive weekly purchase application data. So, unless rates go down, this might be the high in sales in 2024.

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7 best real estate schools in Massachusetts for 2024

Housing Wire

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Will We See An Interest Rate Hike In July?

Toronto Realty Blog

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember a twelve-month period where we talked about interest rates any more than we have since this time last year? I’ve been around for almost two decades and I’ve seen just about everything when it comes to interest rates. In July of 1980, the Bank of Canada overnight rate was 9.93%.

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