Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5 housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

Sales 541

Sales Days on market Mortgages Lending 541

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We got a great existing home sales report on Thursday, but is this data already too old? Existing home sales showed a jump in sales, which was anticipated by most as we had positive, forward-looking housing data due to mortgage rates falling from 8.03% to 6.63%.

Sales 493

Sales Days on market Mortgages Investor 493

Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Today’s existing home sales report was a massive beat , similar to what happened last year in this month. Will this mark the high point for sales this year like it did in 2023? Unless mortgage rates go lower, that’s what we should expect, because that’s what happened last year. million in February.

Sales 508

Sales Mortgages Days on market Investor 508

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Existing home sales slid for the 10th consecutive month in November, as homebuyer demand continued to cool. The seasonally adjusted sales rate for existing homes fell 7.7% On a yearly basis, existing home sales are down 35.4%. “In months’ supply at the current sales pace. month over month in November to a rate of 4.09

Sales 397

Sales Mortgages Principal Days on market 397

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Has the epic crash in existing home sales finally found a workable bottom to rise from? I say this because of the slow dance between the 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rates since 1971. Last year, the 10-year yield fell from 4.25% to 3.37%, pushing mortgage rates lower from 7.37% to 5.99%. million in October.

Sales 491

Sales Days on market Mortgages Investor 491

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. Year-over-year, sales fell 7.3% (down from 4.12 In 2022, we recorded the most significant single one-year home sales crash ever. million in November.

Sales 482

Sales Marketing Days on market Mortgages 482

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for November came in hot at 6.46 This number is above my sales trend peak of 6.2 million, which means we have now had three straight months of sales of over 6.2 Early in the year , I wrote that if existing home sales stay in a range between 5.84

Sales 516

Sales Investor Mortgages As-is 516

Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

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%

Sales 518

Sales Mortgages As-is Marketing 518

Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today the Census Bureau ‘ s new home sales report came in as a beat of estimates at 811,000. The bearish take on housing for the second half of 2021 didn’t really pan out, especially in the new home sales sector. However, with that said, it’s still just an OK housing market for me based on how I view the new home sales market.

Sales 476

Sales Construction As-is Mortgages 476

Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve all been wondering what 5% plus mortgage rates would do to the hot housing market, and now we’ve got that and a bag of chips. As a result, I’ve been rooting for mortgage rates to rise to create a balancing impact on this housing market. Some data to consider: 1. million at the end of 2017 to 4.98

Mortgages 511

Mortgages Marketing Sales Days on market 511

Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Incomes, wealth, life events, mortgage rates all play a role in determining housing demand, while on the supply side we have land costs, government regulations in terms of zoning rules, geographic constraints to building and builder financing costs,” Divounguy added. “Now As these business practice changes begin Aug.

Debt-to-income ratio 488

Debt-to-income ratio Marketing Mortgages Days on market 488

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Housing professionals already know that high mortgage rates are bad for business. But with mortgage rates ascending past 7% according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center , those hopes have so far been dashed in 2024. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates.

Mortgages 468

Mortgages Days on market As-is Sales 468

Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

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.

Marketing 526

Marketing Days on market Sales Bankruptcy 526

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Moderation in mortgage rates led to a pickup in demand for residential real estate, but limited inventories across the country hindered actual home sales , the Federal Reserve reported in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts that was published Wednesday.

Mortgages 448

Mortgages Residential Construction Lending 448

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

And with Fed rates expected to rise even further, industry experts and economists don’t expect mortgage rates to stabilize for at least another year. Mortgage rates , which are currently near a 22-year high, declined slightly from last week ahead of the Fed’s sixth rate hike announcement. million units from 6.18

Industrial 435

Industrial Mortgages Fixed-rate mortgage Principal 435

Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen and recent data shows that we are at fresh new all-time lows in housing inventory, with mortgage rates and the unemployment rate both under 4% currently. Mortgage demand needs to slow down. This data comes from the recent existing home sales report which has been outperforming lately.

Days on market 538

Days on market Loans Sales Mortgages 538

Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. month-over-month increase in January , existing home sales trended downward throughout the rest of the year. On a yearly basis, existing home sales were down 34% in December.

Sales 397

Sales MLS Mortgages Marketing 397

Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

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. This is why the days on the market are so low historically after 2020.

Marketing 539

Marketing Sales Days on market Mortgages 539

Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2024

Both existing housing inventory and home prices have been rising together year over year, which might seem odd at first glance since existing home sales are trending near all-time lows. Let’s keep it simple: total active listings are still below 2019 levels nationally, and the days on market are under 30 days today.

Days on market 482

Days on market Sales Mortgages As-is 482

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Existing home sales came in at a whopping 6,850,000 , beating estimates with the highest print since 2006. Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. Cash buyers remain at a historically high level of 19%, the same as last year, while sales grew 26.6% The housing market is hot.

Marketing 545

Marketing Sales Days on market Mortgages 545

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

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

Marketing 542

Marketing Investor Sales Days on market 542

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The data examined below represents multiple listing service data and mortgage market analytics for San Diego County, as well as the state of California and the country as a whole from 2019 to 2023. Mortgage data paints a similar picture of the increasing competitiveness of the San Diego market.

Marketing 459

Marketing VA loan Days on market Loans 459

Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

With the release of the CoreLogic 2024 Q1 Equity Insights report, which Logan discussed last week , and now the FHFA National Mortgage Database Aggregate Statistics , we have a lot of visibility into the financial position of the American homeowner. When a person finds themselves no longer able to afford their mortgage payments (No.

Equity 545

Equity Loans Mortgages Sales 545

Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Today the National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales for the month of December were at 6,760,000, a beat of estimates. This also closed the books on 2020’s housing market as we finished out the year at 5,640,000 total existing-home sales — a 5.6% increase from the same month in 2019.

Marketing 545

Marketing Sales Days on market Mortgages 545

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

year-over-year decline in existing home sales in September and total inventory has now fallen on back-to-back reports. Earlier in the year, I labeled this a savagely unhealthy housing market based on the premise that Inventory would break to all-time lows, creating forced bidding and causing days on the market to collapse.

Sales 305

Sales Mortgages Marketing As-is 305

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. Then rates went up almost 1% over several weeks, completely reversing the gains.

Marketing 476

Marketing Mortgages Days on market Sales 476

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

First, mortgage lending standards have remained high after the last bubble. People can afford to pay their mortgages. There won’t be forced home sales like we saw in the crisis. As a result of the fallout from the great recession, mortgage quality has been far more regulated and viewed with suspicion.

Marketing 505

Marketing Equity Mortgages Short sale 505

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

The NAR’s pending home sale index managed to fall below 100 in the Northeast (92.3) An index of 100 is equivalent to the level of pending sales in 2001. Gradually increasing mortgage rates, heightened home prices and inventory levels at historic lows finally coalesced in February to depress in-contract deals. respectively.

Sales 511

Sales Days on market Marketing Mortgages 511

Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Sales of both new homes and existing ones have declined, and it’s affecting how long homes stay on the market. of listed homes in June stayed on the market for more than 30 days, which is up from 59.6% The rising share of stale listings is being driven by the factors that are handcuffing markets nationwide.

Days on market 435

Days on market Mortgages Marketing Sales 435

Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

after coming off the single biggest home-sales crash year in history. As expected, existing home sales fell from February to March since the previous month’s report was intense. We have a workable range for 2023 sales in the existing home sales market between 4 million and 4.6 We only have 2.6 million in March.

Sales 531

Sales Days on market As-is Marketing 531

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

The housing market faced some serious obstacles last week as the 10-year yield broke over 4%, mortgage rates rose to over 7%, purchase apps fell again and we are still trying to find the elusive seasonal bottom for housing inventory. 9, 2022, until February and we can see how that is playing out in home sales. million in 2023.

Marketing 513

Marketing Mortgages Sales As-is 513

Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the housing market rundown for the last week: Purchase application data had a solid week-to-week gain of 25%. Mortgage rates fell, but the bond market didn’t break what I see as a critical level, so for now, stabilization is more important. Last week’s housing market data provided mixed news. Since Nov.

Marketing 516

Marketing Mortgages Sales As-is 516

Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Mortgage rates were again in a small range, hanging near 7%. But, last year saw the biggest home sales crash ever recorded in history, so the rise in inventory last year happened because of an abnormal event and we were working from a very low bar. Nothing good is happening in housing when days on market are so low.

Marketing 435

Marketing Mortgages Days on market Sales 435

Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

All 12 Federal Reserve districts have seen issues with a lack of housing inventory , which is largely due to existing homeowners holding back on listing their homes after previously locking in low mortgage rates. New York – The residential sales market has been strong across the District.

Residential 459

Residential Construction Finance Sales 459

Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said.

Marketing 448

Marketing Residential Construction Sales 448

Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Several leading housing-market economists also are projecting the deceleration in home prices will continue in near the future as homebuyer demand ebbs — with one economist even predicting that prices will decline in some particularly hot markets across the nation. Overall, annual mortgage origination levels are expected to be $2.8

Marketing 418

Marketing Residential Construction Mortgages 418

Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Today’s housing market suffers from affordability issues due to mortgage rates in the 7s and high home prices. People are quick to panic over any part of the housing market that looks stressed, fearing we’ll see 2008 levels of destruction all over again.

Marketing 385

Marketing Equity Days on market Sales 385