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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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Is the savagely unhealthy housing market back?

Housing Wire

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. Why is this so important to me? NAR Total Inventory Data going back to 1982.

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Inventory needs to increase to balance housing market: Fed Beige Book

Housing Wire

“Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday. Bank and branch directors, community organizations and economists interviewed for the Fed Beige Book expect little economic growth in the months ahead.

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Residential real estate activity picks up despite low inventory

Housing Wire

The Beige Book is a compilation of data and interviews with bank and branch directors, community organizations and economists from on or before May 22. After a slow start to the year, housing markets in upstate New York have also started to pick up, with bidding wars and multiple offers becoming more common.

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Bidding wars are starting to cool off

Housing Wire

Despite the rapidly deteriorating affordability, there is some hope for homebuyers in the form of renovated homes: properties that have been rehabbed into move-in ready condition after being purchased at foreclosure auction or bank-owned (REO) auction. Presented by : Auction.com.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory gets summer lift

Housing Wire

More importantly, it showed that the days on market dropped back to the teenager level, which means we are once again in a savagely unhealthy housing market. Nothing good is happening in housing when days on market are so low. Also, NAR updated its inventory report showing a year-over-year decline in inventory.

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

Housing Wire

I understand why anti-Central Bank people say this because they want to blame everything on the Federal Reserve and say it’s just been booming demand. From Realtor.com : Even with demand weakness in recent months, days on market are still low. However, we haven’t had a credit sales boom like the one we saw from 2002-2005.