Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis believes that by aligning with the right lender and expanding product offerings, originators can position themselves as valuable partners in a shaky market. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. The Fix-and-Flip program is great to serve to investors and tap into that market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

From Q2 to Q3 2023, the single-family , new-construction market share grew the most in large metro outlying counties from 9.5% Meanwhile, single-family construction growth rates in small metro core counties declined 18.6% Outlying counties posted the highest growth rate in the multifamily sector as well.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

These off-market listings not only harm sellers, but they limit exposure to potential buyers, possibly deepening inequities that have long existed in real estate. We must maintain transparency in the housing market so we dont go back to the dark ages of real estate. To conduct its study, Zillow analyzed 2.72

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. New single-family home sales rose 23.8%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. In Birmingham, ERA King Real Estate agent Anna-Maria Ellison said that even without lower mortgage rates, she is seeing buyers return to the market. “It New construction is backed up,” she said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

New home sales continue to be a bright spot in a dismal housing market. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development shows new-home sales registering at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000, good for a 6.7% Even better, new home sales for the calendar year 2024 are estimated at 683,000, which is 2.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Compared to existing homes , new homes were much more likely to include HOA fees, In fact, 69.9% of new construction homes required buyers to pay HOA dues, compared to only 38.2% But the report noted that existing homes were outpacing new homes for growth in the percentage of listings that include HOA dues. from 2023. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Existing home sales finished 2024 on a high note after a dismal year for the housing market. New construction has not been able to keep up with demand. million sales in 2024 shouldnt be too hard to beat in 2025, but market forecasts from economists in the housing sector arent terribly bullish. million, a 9.3%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

This means more homes on the market and more options for home buyers, which is good news for a housing market that has been underbuilt for over a decade, Odeta Kushi , First Americans deputy chief economist, said in a statement. According to data released Friday by the U.S. from November and 0.8% and 2.6%, respectively.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

1 midsized housing market to watch in 2020 , according to Zillow, because of its draw for young professionals, families, and retirees alike. The demand is clear — the Boise housing market has just 0.3 months worth of supply, according to Keller Williams Realty Boise , and homes typically stay on the market for just five days.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction. The study claims that the crisis can be traced back to the early 2000s when subprime lending activities were prevalent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Todays new construction report from the Census Bureau showed month-to-month growth in housing starts, but falling housing permits. However, employment for residential construction workers hasnt fallen at all, even with the decline in housing starts and permits.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It indicates that a larger share of first-time homebuyers are active in the new home sales market. Our estimate of new home sales showed a 4% increase to the strongest pace of sales in three months at 702,000 units,” he added. The FHA share of applications dipped slightly in August but remained high, noted Kan.

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Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Florida housing market is undeniably hot right now, making headlines with a record-breaking $285 million new construction home hitting the market. According to Realtor.com , this ocean-to-lake estate is poised to shatter records as the most expensive new construction single-family home in the country.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

housing market is back on track , stronger than ever, with a total estimated value of $52 trillion, according to a new analysis by Orphe Divounguy, a senior economist at Zillow Group. housing market has surged by more than $2.6 Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

26 in Dallas, provided valuable insights into the forces shaping the mortgage and housing markets in 2025. Dark Matter Technologies makes it a priority to stay ahead of these trends, ensuring our clients have the right tools to scale efficiently when market conditions change. The HousingWire Economic Summit, held Feb.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They explore forecasts for the 2025 housing market, key macroeconomic trends to monitor, solutions to the housing affordability crisis and more. To start the conversation, Divounguy dives into the past two years of economic developments and how they impact today’s housing market. So, both are happening together.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. Adam Vellano was promoted to managing director of the South Florida market. And Erika Sheridan was promoted to senior director of marketing and operations in the Southeast.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

We had a good few months of positive builder confidence data for the new home sector and positive purchase application data for existing home sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Last year was a tough one for the Indiana real estate market. We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” In mid-June 2023, the statewide 90-day average Altos Market Action Index score hit a high for year of 53.99, before sliding down to a trough of 40.03 in mid-January 2024.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 18, 2024

According to the bureau’s September Monthly New Residential Construction report,… The post Positive Signs: Single-Family New Construction, Permits Rise in September appeared first on RISMedia. Department of Housing and Urban Development bears that sentiment out.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

ICE expects mortgage rates to continue to drop, as it noted that 30-year futures pricing currently implies that the market anticipates 30-year rates to dip below 6.4% ICE says that with the current rate of improvement, the market would be on pace to return to pre-pandemic for-sale inventory levels in the back half of 2026.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Additional lockdowns and quarantines due to COVID-19 could put a dent in housing inventory and sales, potentially slowing down the market and putting increased pressure on buyers, the forecast said. The 2021 housing market will be much more ‘normal’ than the wild swings we saw in 2020,” said realtor.com’s Chief Economist Danielle Hale.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Census report on new construction showed a whopping 22.6% This means we can add housing starts to our growing collection of V-shaped recovery charts for the 2020 housing market. This is essentially the perfect storm for the housing market. increase above the revised June estimate in housing starts in July.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash. It reflects another pressing issue of imbalanced supply and demand in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

This was driven by an increase in both single-family and multifamily construction. Importantly, new construction activity outpaced household formations for the first time since 2016. “So that is a symptom of the lack of affordability that we see from this underbuilding in the housing market.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Against that backdrop, Zillow identified prime markets for first-time homebuyers , and half of them were nestled in the Midwest. The increase in new listings this spring, due both to new construction and to more homeowners choosing to sell, will give buyers more options and help to ease price growth.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Known as Ridgeland Mortgage , the joint venture will expand loanDepot’s footprint in a region where new-home sales account for roughly one-third to one-half of all transactions, depending on the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

As the 2025 spring homebuying season begins, the national housing market continues to struggle with supply shortages. 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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

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. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market.

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Real Estate News

MAY 20, 2024

With many owners of existing homes hesitant to give up their low mortgage rates, new homes continue to account for an outsize share of the market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I’m talking about housing market crash headlines. These dramatic peaks and valleys in the data have fed the demons of greed and fear that infest the minds our extreme housing bulls and the fierce housing market bears – leading to equally wild speculations about the future of U.S. The housing data has been wild this year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Despite the mixed results, some economists are optimistic about the future of the new construction market. While an increase in housing starts combined with lower mortgage rates and an impending Fed interest rate cut are good signs for the housing market, Sturtevant is uncertain it will be enough. of between 1.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The expansion includes the states of Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. The market expansion comes on the heels of a heavy volume year for the San Francisco-headquartered lender. In 2024, Kiavi reportedly originated a record $6.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

It is no secret that the housing market is suffering from an ongoing inventory drought. While many are hoping new build inventory can at least slightly ameliorate this situation, an analysis from Realtor.com , published on Wednesday, says otherwise. million existing home gap in the next three to four years.

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