Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

But increased activity in residential construction , particularly in the South, is helping to alleviate affordability challenges in certain regions, according to ananalysis from First American Financial Corp. This construction boom is contributing to slower home-price appreciation and, in some cases, price declines.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

New home sales increased in December — a sign that new residential sales have continued to rebound in recent months. Last month, new home sales increased by 2.3% In November, the median sales price for new houses was $471,200 and the average sales price was $543,600, according to the data.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He began his presentation during the “Residential Economic Issues and Trends Forum” by analyzing the data points that impacted 2023 real estate conditions before diving into forecasts for next year. However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

The annual initiative which aims to advance innovation in the real estate sector focuses on scaling companies that provide digital solutions for the residential and commercial real estate markets.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Despite yet another increase in homebuilder sentiment , the sales pace of new homes declined month over month in June, according to data published on Wednesday by the U.S. In June, the sales pace of new homes fell 2.5% In June, the sales pace of new homes fell 2.5% from a month prior, but down 3.6%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Despite all the external factors cooling down overall home sales – high interest rates, less spending power among residents, lack of inventory— real estate transactions are still hot in certain key areas. In Florida, new housing inventory has not grown significantly: the number of newly listed homes stands at 43,081, an 8.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

New construction rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,560,000, according to the U.S. Single-family building activity drove November residential construction activity. “The Despite the elevated mortgage rates , homebuilders’ sales have increased this year. Census Bureau data. compared to a year ago.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

One key data line that is flagging a path to recession is the loss of residential construction workers. A while back, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and I discussed the risk of recession due to a lack of construction labor. Let’s look at today’s residential construction report and see where we are.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

After a sharp decline in July , new home sales rebounded in August, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Sales of new single-family homes in August were at a seasonally adjust annual rate of 685,000, up 28.8%, but down 0.1% However, the faster sales pace was not good news for inventory.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Peerage is a top-10 residential real estate services firm that operates across North America and is closely connected with Sotheby’s International Realty. ” Peerage Realty Partners serves luxury home markets through 206 offices and 6,100 sales representatives across the U.S. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

The NAHB/HMI report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which homebuilders are asked to rate both current market conditions for the sale of new homes and expected conditions for the next six months, as well as traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. That share from 2000-2019 was a 12.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. The business appears durable, too. million and 7.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She has more than 25 years of real estate industry experience, and she specializes in lake properties and new construction. In 2023, she closed 57 transaction sides for a total of $29.979 million in sales volume. Most recently, in 2020, she set the record with the sale of a $7.5 This earned her the No.

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Keeping Current Matters

OCTOBER 14, 2020

ShowingTime , which tracks the average number of buyer showings on residential properties, just announced that buyer showings are up 61.9% Purchaser demand is so high, the market is running out of available homes for sale. The post The #1 Reason Not to Wait to List Your House for Sale appeared first on Keeping Current Matters.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For example, tips on home staging for a quick sale, how to get top dollar for a property, or advice on how to improve curb appeal are all topics that a seller might be interested in. Buyers might be interested in seeing featured listings, new homes on the market and advice about the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. Kurt Carlton, President of New Western. The number of existing home sales reflects how the housing sector has been impacted by the Fed’s interest rate policies. Existing home sales are down 19.9% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

In November 2021, the supply of homes for sale nationwide as a percentage of occupied residential inventory remained near historic lows at 1.19% — meaning only 119 in every 10,000 homes were for sale — much lower than the historical average of 2.5%. You can’t buy what’s not for sale. It’s not all bad news, however.

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Keeping Current Matters

MARCH 17, 2021

Unemployment was under 4% , forecasters were giddy with their projections for the economy, and the residential housing market had the strongest January and February activity in over a decade. Remarkably, the residential real estate market (including existing homes and new construction) has flourished over the last twelve months.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2023

For-sale listings deteriorated in 95% of major U.S. New construction starts and completions were both strong in May, which is welcome news. However, most projects underway in the month were 5+ multi-family units, as opposed to single-family residential units,” Walden said. markets in 2023.

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Keeping Current Matters

JUNE 15, 2021

A normal market has a 6-month supply of homes for sale. According to the Existing Home Sales Report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR): “Total housing inventory at the end of April amounted to 1.16 month supply at the current sales pace , slightly up from March’s 2.1-month months at the current sales rate.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher: Real Estate Owned (REO), acquired by lenders , banks, or financial institutions typically due to mortgage loan defaults, involves the strategic marketing and sale of existing properties to mitigate losses on outstanding loans. Balancing supply and demand is a delicate dance between new construction and existing properties.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Supply-side” solutions that focus on new construction and the preservation of the existing housing stock are equally important. The supply of homes for sale is limited as well. At the beginning of 2022, active home sale listings fell below 500,000 for the first time. The quantity of new, entry-level homes has?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The analysis is limited to resale properties and does not include new construction, which means that build-to-rent activity is excluded. Investors of all sizes purchased 46,419 residential properties in fourth-quarter 2023, according to Redfin data. That amounted to $32.3 billion worth of property, or 10.5% Meanwhile, total U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

New Western, which specializes in distressed residential investment properties, aims to revitalize $543 million in residential properties in the Chicago market over the next five years. When we help bring distressed properties back to the market, it’s up to 31% less expensive than a new construction home.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“The latest data on the housing market show that homebuilders are pulling back the pace of new construction in response to low levels of traffic, and we expect this weakness in demand will persist in 2023, as the U.S. retail residential mortgage applications. from this time last year. last week from 29.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

New construction could be the beacon of light the housing market desperately needs right now, as home builders are gaining confidence amongst rising sales, hopefully soon to translate to more residential construction breaking ground in the coming months.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

“Despite elevated mortgage rates and a slower-than-typical spring housing market , homebuilders are feeling confident about the outlook for new housing demand because the inventory of existing homes for sale remains very constrained,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist of Bright MLS , said in a statement. “In million homes.”

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Keeping Current Matters

AUGUST 25, 2020

When shelter-in-place orders brought the economy to a screeching halt earlier this year, many believed the residential housing market would follow suit. Last week, it was reported that applications for new home purchases with home builders were 39% higher than in July of 2019. Last Friday, NAR released its Existing Home Sales Report.

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Realtor.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Compare that with a preexisting home’s median price of $396,300 , and it’s clear that buying brand-new might set you back tens of thousands of dollars extra. But homebuyers should also know that they can lower the costs of new construction right when they make the purchase through some smart negotiation tactics. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. It’s fair to say that 2022 has been a depressing year for homebuilders.

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Keeping Current Matters

MARCH 10, 2021

Last March, many involved in the residential housing industry feared the market would be crushed under the pressure of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Home sales and prices were both up substantially over the year before. As the next graph shows, there were too many homes for sale in 2007, and that caused prices to tumble.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

New-home sales were up nearly 24% in June year over year, according to the U.S. Meanwhile, existing-home sales plummeted by 19% in June year over year after declining by 20% in May, according to the National Association of Realtors. Also helping to propel new-home sales is a huge deficit in existing homes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To begin with, his reputation for excellence is ironclad: over a decade of experience as a real estate broker and over $300,000,000 in total sales. In 2024, Tate received Coldwell Banker’s International President’s Premier Award representing the company’s top 1% of all sales professionals.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 26, 2022

According to Florida’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, the state gained approximately 329,000 new residents between April 2020 and April 2021. New construction is growing just as fast to accommodate the influx — in 2021, 213,494 new housing units were authorized in Florida and nearly 70% were single family homes.

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Realtor.com

JANUARY 2, 2023

Getty Images Many first-time homebuyers might shy away from the prospect of buying a brand-new home, assuming: It will cost too much. While purchasing new construction is indeed different from purchasing previously owned property, many misconceptions abound about new builds. New construction homes are more expensive.

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Realtor.com

JANUARY 17, 2023

Getty Images One of the reasons many homebuyers are drawn to buying a brand-new home is that they often get to choose many of the home’s features to suit their tastes. But with new construction, you can call the shots on countertops, fixtures, flooring, paint colors, and so much more to make your home feel like, well, you!

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Keeping Current Matters

APRIL 7, 2021

” What does this mean for residential real estate? Today, the biggest challenge for homebuyers is the lack of homes currently for sale. Residential construction building jobs increased 3.9% The construction industry remains a labor-intensive industry. As a result, home prices are climbing.

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