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5 predictions for the 2022 housing market

Housing Wire

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. More home sales and higher prices will lead to a rise in home-purchase originations in 2022.

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Existing home sales fell in June while monthly median sales price spiked

Housing Wire

With elevated mortgage rates sidelining both home buyers and sellers, existing home sales fell in June, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Sales were also down significantly from a year prior. Total existing home sales slipped 3.3% million. “The from June 2022 (1.25

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6 Simple Graphs Proving This Is Nothing Like Last Time

Keeping Current Matters

Mortgage standards are nothing like they were back then. During the housing bubble, it was difficult not to get a mortgage. percent from 2001 to 2003 for the whole mortgage market.”. New construction isn’t making up the difference in inventory needed. Some may think new construction is filling the void.

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Hit Them With Your Best Shot: How Much to Offer on a Short Sale

HomeLight

But what if it’s a different kind of sale … for example, how much should you offer on a short sale? Sometimes life happens, and a current homeowner can’t afford to keep paying their mortgage … and the remaining payoff amount is more than the home is currently worth. What’s a short sale?

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Another Look at if We are Headed for a Real Estate Bubble

Realty Biz

The housing bubble bust of 2008 resulted in almost 10 million Americans losing their homes to foreclosures and short sales. Today, there is a severe housing shortage with many want-to-be-buyers but few that can afford a mortgage. What We Learned From the Great Recession. Values plunged 30% and more in some areas.

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Is a Housing Market Crash Possible in 2021?

RIS Media

With the real estate market experiencing surging prices, scant inventories and a backlog of new home construction, many consumers are wondering if what’s gone up must come back down—in other words, are we headed for another housing market crash? 2: Pandemic Mortgage Forbearance. Let’s take a closer look. Factor No.

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Is the Housing Market in a Bubble? How the Indicators Today Compare With the Great Recession

Realtor.com

” But it was likely rising mortgage interest rates, a result of the Fed hiking its own rates to bring down inflation, that most directly led to the real estate freeze. The culprits were not subprime mortgages, wild speculation, or overbuilding—the primary causes of the housing crash of the late aughts. So prices climbed.

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