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Why home prices haven’t crashed even with high mortgage rates

Housing Wire

The most underreported housing story I’ve seen this year is that even with mortgage rates rising to 8%, the number of homes that took price cuts before they sold was 4% below 2022 levels. This happened even with higher home prices and higher mortgage rates in 2023. the seasonal peak this year was on Nov.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory is negative YOY

Housing Wire

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. Since May 15, that trend has continued to the point that inventory in America is now negative year over year.

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Housing Market Tracker: Banking crisis is a new variable

Housing Wire

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? The economic data was OK last week.

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Logan Mohtashami on how the housing market is holding up

Housing Wire

In this HW+ Slack Q&A, HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami gives the inside scoop on where rates are headed, his insights on the latest economic reports and more. The following Q&A has been lightly edited for length and clarity. The last time we had 5% mortgage rates was in 2018. What have we seen this year?

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Don’t Believe Everything You Read: The Truth Many Headlines Overlook

Keeping Current Matters

The forbearance program is coming to an end and mortgage rates are beginning to rise. Here are two recent topics you may have seen in the news. There are a number of headlines circulating that call out the rising foreclosures in today’s real estate market. There are already alarmist headlines starting to appear.

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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. Again, I would ask: have we ever seen this before?

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When Will We See 100-Year Mortgage Amortizations?

Toronto Realty Blog

TorontoRealtyBlog When I think of amortization periods, there are two numbers that immediately come to mind. Why those two numbers? I don’t have statistics on this (chime in if you’re in the mortgage field), but I would guess that an overwhelming majority of borrowers in Canada elect to take a 25-year amortization period.