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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. NAR Research : Total existing-home sales decreased 5.9% million in October.

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Existing home sales now outperforming

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for October came in at a solid beat of estimates at 6.34 This number is above my trend sales peak of 6.2 million and that means we have had back-to-back existing home sales prints of over 6.2 million and 6.2 I had anticipated a few prints under 5.84

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Don’t get too excited about the jump in existing home sales

Housing Wire

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%. Purchase apps look out 30-90 days before they hit sales data.

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

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. However, expect sales to pick up again soon since mortgage rates have markedly declined after peaking late last year.” The days on market were too low.

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Have we already reached peak home sales for the year?

Housing Wire

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? This year, we’ve had eight positive purchase application reports and the sales were spread out over two months — last month and this month.

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Have we finally hit the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

Has the epic crash in existing home sales finally found a workable bottom to rise from? That created three months of positive purchase application data and gave us one of the most significant month-to-month sales prints ever recorded in history: from 4 million to 4.55 Year-over-year, sales tumbled 14.6% (down from 4.44

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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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