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Why higher rates aren’t crashing home prices

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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?

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It’s not what I wanted to see in 2024, but I have to be realistic since we are already in February. This is due to demand rising late in one year, pushing through the early part of the next year and preventing inventory growth. Here is a look at last week: Weekly inventory change (Jan. But at least it’s positive!

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Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates and inventory fall together

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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. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Think US home prices are high? At least we aren’t Canada

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have been skyrocketing since 2020, however, I often like to remind people that no matter how crazy home-price growth is in America, at least we aren’t Canada. When it comes to home prices — and especially home prices compared to income — our neighbors up north are like Godzilla to our gecko. look very cheap. look very cheap.

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Housing Market Tracker: Still no spring inventory lift

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Last week was relatively calm for the housing market after the fiasco of the banking crisis. Housing demand grew and inventory levels fell again while mortgage rates rose. In this article I talked about how to look at housing credit getting tighter during the next recession.

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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

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But I need to explain why this level has more in common with 2014 housing data than the credit stress markets of 2005-2008, and why you should care. Understanding this data line and what it is trying to tell you will be more valuable than erroneously thinking the market is crashing and we’ll see a wave of foreclosures.

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Logan Mohtashami on why this is a savagely unhealthy housing market

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Tune in for our next event with Mohtashami happening April 6th at 12 CT in the #articlediscussion channel. Tune in for our next event with Mohtashami happening April 6th at 12 CT in the #articlediscussion channel. To get access to the next Q&A, you can join HW+ here. What has remained the same?

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