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Even after a couple weeks of mortgage rate jumps, we’re still seeing surprising strength in key elements of the housing market. In fact, some measures of home prices are now at their...

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Big jump in interest rates this week. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage according to the HousingWire mortgage rates center is now over 7.2%, that’s 50 basis points above where we were at the...

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Here’s how 2024 is shaping up: there are now more listings, more active inventory, and more sales than a year ago. Sales are increasing because supply is increasing. We’re slowly emerging...

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Everyone knows it’s been a very dry 18 months for home sales. As mortgage rates rose, starting over two years ago now, payment affordability got dramatically worse and home buyer demand...

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It was a pretty strong week for all the housing numbers. New supply and sales numbers keep climbing weekly and compared to last year. Price numbers had a slight increase this week across...

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There’s a big Federal reserve meeting this week, and we’ll learn more about the future of interest rates then. I don’t have any capacity to predict interest rates - I’m not convinced anyone...

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Available inventory of homes on the market is climbing and will continue to climb until we’re finally in an environment of declining interest rates. Inventory has been rising for two years...

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In the face of growing supply of unsold homes on the market, we have to ask how much more inventory this market can handle before home prices start to decline. We’re at 19% year over year...

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Price reductions ticked up this week for the first time since November in the face of rising mortgage rates. Inventory is rising across the country as home buying affordability takes...

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Are last year’s surprising home price gains evaporating now? As interest rates climb again, some of the price signals are softening. Inventory is climbing vs. last year, and home prices...