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...
Continue ReadingHere’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...
Continue ReadingEveryone 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...
Continue ReadingIt 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...
Continue ReadingThere’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...
Continue ReadingAvailable 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...
Continue ReadingIn 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...
Continue ReadingPrice 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...
Continue ReadingAre 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...
Continue ReadingEach week for several months now, inventory levels of unsold homes on the market has been expanding compared to last year. Even as inventory declined this week, it’s growing compared to a...
Continue ReadingMortgage rates are back up over 7% this morning following very strong economic growth data. When the economy is stronger than expected, and job growth is stronger than expected, the bond...
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