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A San Diego data dive shows a market upended by tight supply

Housing Wire

A sales boom in 2020 and 2021 slashed home listings’ days on market and pushed up home sales’ price per square foot and sale-to-list price ratios. Mortgage data paints a similar picture of the increasing competitiveness of the San Diego market. Mortgage With fewer listings come fewer home sales.

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Existing home sales are still savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

We still have the unhealthy dynamics of noticeable sales declines, but prices are still growing year over year. The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell last month while prices increased yearly. Sales were down 5.4% And, the median existing-home sales price climbed 13.4% from May and 14.2%

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Xactus targets lenders through active listing data

Housing Wire

Verification solutions provider Xactus wants to court more lenders through its active listing data in a tight housing market. Xactus Wednesday announced its new active listing scan program, which will scan residential addresses for changes in listing status and the average number of days on market for a neighborhood.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 This level is still within my 2022 forecast sales range between 5.74 Last year I discussed sales levels coming back down to 5.84 Last year I discussed sales levels coming back down to 5.84

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Why industry experts don’t expect mortgage rates to fall

Housing Wire

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) decreased to 7.06% on Wednesday from last week’s 7.16%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. . Existing home sales declined for the eight consecutive months in September, dropping to 4.71

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Housing Market Tracker: Higher rates crush purchase apps 

Housing Wire

The 12 weeks of positive purchase application data are now in the system, and people who applied for a loan are looking and buying. Some homebuyers have bought a home, which will show up in the upcoming sales data, as we saw a positive number in today’s pending home sales report. Weekly inventory change (Feb.

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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.