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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. From the index : I know it seems strange, but existing home sales are falling, and the monthly supply of new homes is at 10.9 million listings.

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The 2021 housing market recap by Logan Mohtashami

Housing Wire

Retail sales have been off the charts, job openings are at 11 million, GDP growth picked up big time and jobless claims hit a level last seen in 1969. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. However, not only did the U.S. These households got sub-3.5%

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Lower mortgage rates fueling existing home sales

Housing Wire

Existing home sales had a huge beat of estimates on Tuesday. To understand why we had such a beat in sales, you only need to go back to Nov. The weekly growth in purchase application data during those months stabilized housing sales to a historically low level. We understood why sales collapsed during COVID-19.

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How Fast Can I Sell My House? It Can Take 75 Days or 12

HomeLight

The recent housing market has been hot and competitive due to an extreme lack of inventory. For a seller in a hurry, the shortage of homes means you can anticipate fewer days on market (DOM). How it might take 12-75 days to sell your home. What do days on market mean? Direct Buyer (Simple Sale).

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The savagely unhealthy housing market is back

Housing Wire

The days on market are back to a teenager level in the existing home sales market, which means I can officially say we are back to a savagely unhealthy housing market! Nothing good happens in the housing market when the days on market are at a teenager level or lower. million in May.

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My Forbes Column: Keeping Housing Market Results From The Public Is Never Justified: An Expansive View

Miller Samuel INC

That was the beginning of the problem this crisis posed for the industry that lives and dies on sales and rental transactions. While I have been a real estate appraiser and market analyst for 35 years, I dipped my toe into real estate as a sales agent in Chicagoland for six months in the mid-1980s. Lesson learned.

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How Smart Investors Decipher & Respond to Real Estate Market Cycles

The Close

In any given moment, we can look to certain indicators to suggest what market stage an area may be in: Active housing inventory. Real estate sales by unit. This is because the market is still experiencing a feeding frenzy from buyers and investors looking to cash in on the appreciation from the previous cycle. Housing values.