Mortgage rates fell two weeks ago, then climbed steadily again last week. Is it enough to motivate any new buyer activity or are we looking at 2025 before home sales finally recover?From a...
Continue ReadingMortgage rates fell two weeks ago, then climbed steadily again last week. Is it enough to motivate any new buyer activity or are we looking at 2025 before home sales finally recover?From a...
Continue ReadingMortgage rates are dropping fast. Will potential home buyers jump at newly cheaper payments? Or will they wait to see if rates drop further before taking action? Mortgage rates are at the...
Continue ReadingAny sales growth momentum in the real estate market we might have had early in the year is gone. New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year - 4.9% fewer...
Continue ReadingMortgage rates have come down with recent good inflation news, but rates are still higher than they were a year ago and higher than they were 6 months ago. How will consumers respond as...
Continue ReadingIs it darkest before the dawn? If we look at the housing market data right now, things look the most bearish they've been all year. And yet, really good inflation data came in last week,...
Continue ReadingNationally, the housing market indicators have been slow for several months now. There have been a few markets though that have defied the national trends where inventory has stayed tighter...
Continue ReadingThe last week of June is typically the peak of the home buying season, when activity and prices start their seasonal decline. So this first week of July, I'm looking at what we can we see...
Continue ReadingInventory grew by almost 14,000 homes this week. That’s a pretty solid number, but actually fewer than our model had predicted for the week. Are sellers backing off?Every week Altos...
Continue ReadingI’ve been highly tuned in looking for signals that the housing market is slowing. By now everyone knows that unsold inventory of homes on the market is climbing. But is that unsold...
Continue ReadingMortgage rates decided to bounce back into the 7s this week, and we can already see an impact in that immediate sales are slowing down. We can also see the new pending sales slow and price...
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