| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.09.2024 |
More home sellers are withdrawing listings | While inventory of unsold homes in the housing market in each of the last two years headed higher during September and October due to mortgage rate spikes, we’re seeing a more normal seasonal pattern now with inventory beginning to decline.... |
| 03.09.2024 |
Will homebuyers come back this fall? | This week the available inventory of homes for sale inched down across the country. It was a lead up to the holiday weekend, so that’s not uncommon. But it is indicative that we’re roughly at the peak of inventory for the summer. We may hav... |
| 26.08.2024 |
Inventory is declining in key markets | Unsold inventory in the two biggest housing markets in the country, Texas and Florida, declined this week. There are fewer homes for sale now than a week ago. Inventory seems to have peaked for the season and is slowly inching down.
There a... |
| 19.08.2024 |
Is housing inventory growth finally slowing? | Unsold inventory of homes for sale has been on the rise all year. It hasn’t turned the corner yet — inventory rose across the country this week — but at less than 1% rate. There are some signs that inventory growth is slowing with newly low... |
| 17.08.2024 | The Housing Market's Tightrope: Balancing Affordability and Demand | The U.S. housing market is a tightrope walk. On one side, affordability issues loom large. On the other, demand remains tepid. As mortgage rates fluctuate and policies shift, the landscape is in constant flux. The interplay of these factors... |
| 16.08.2024 |
Housing production and land regulation expert explores potential affordability solutions | In this week’s episode of the Top Of Mind podcast, Altos Research President Mike Simonsen explores the housing affordability and supply crisis facing the U.S. and its major cities.
Salim Furth joins Simonsen to share his expert opinions on ... |
| 12.08.2024 |
Mortgage rates are down. Do buyers care? | Mortgage rates fell two weeks ago, then climbed steadily again last week. Is it enough to motivate any new seller activity or are we looking at 2025 before home sales finally recover?
From a total inventory perspective, we haven’t seen any ... |
| 06.08.2024 |
Will homebuyers jump at cheaper mortgage rates? | Mortgage rates are dropping fast. Will potential homebuyers jump at newly cheaper payments? Or, will they wait to see if rates drop further before taking action?
Mortgage rates are now the lowest they’ve been in over a year. Last year at th... |
| 29.07.2024 |
Is the 2024 housing market beyond saving? | Any 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 in the most recent week. Our Immediate sales measu... |
| 22.07.2024 |
Housing demand stalls as buyers wait for lower rates | Mortgage rates have come down with recent positive inflation news. However, they are still higher than they were six months ago. I think rates are on the verge of going lower. Will consumers respond? I expect that mortgage rates under 6.75%... |
| 15.07.2024 |
What happens to the housing market when mortgage rates finally come down? | Is it darkest before the dawn? If we look at the housing market right now, sales are down, new listings are down and prices are decelerating. But if we look at the data right now, things look the most bullish they’ve been all year.
Good inf... |
| 08.07.2024 |
More price cuts as inventory continues to grow | Nationally, the housing market indicators have been slow for several months now. There have been a few markets; however, that have defied the national trends where inventory has stayed tighter and demand keeps rolling in. Available inventor... |
| 03.07.2024 |
Is the Bergen County market beginning to shift toward buyers? | The housing market in Bergen County, New Jersey, is far from immune to the ills that are plaguing housing markets throughout the country.
High mortgage rates have locked homeowners into the significantly lower rates they got years ago. The ... |
| 02.07.2024 |
Resilient economy keeps mortgage rates above 7% | Mortgage rates rose slightly over the past week, with the U.S. economy continuing to show strength even as home sales remain tepid.
According to HousingWire‘s Mortgage Rates Center, the average 30-year rate for conforming loans stood at 7.1... |
| 01.07.2024 |
What to expect in the real estate market the rest of the year | The last week of June is really the peak of the homebuying season. Activity and prices typically start their seasonal decline very closely tied to the transition into the third quarter of the year. This coming week includes the July 4 holid... |
| 24.06.2024 |
Inventory growth is slowing. Are sellers backing off? | Inventory 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.
Available inventory of unsold homes continues to grow but that growth in seems a bit less intense t... |
| 20.06.2024 |
Interest rates plague Illinois agents and housing market | Interest rates are a major headache for real estate agents across Illinois.
On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their... |
| 18.06.2024 |
Mortgage rates continue their slide toward the 7% mark | Mortgage rates continued to inch toward the 7% mark following last week’s meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers and new inflation data that showed further cooling of consumer prices.
On Tuesday, HousingWire‘s Mortgage Rates Center showed ... |
| 18.06.2024 |
Inventory inches up while prices hold steady | I’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 inventory surging? Is it getting to unsustainable levels? A... |
| 10.06.2024 |
The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022 | Mortgage rate lock-in happens because even small changes in mortgage rates can make a big difference in costs. For example, for a home priced at $390,000 — the median price for a single-family home in the U.S. in April 2024 — with a 10% dow... |
| 05.06.2024 |
Transform your real estate career overnight in 8 easy steps | Picture real estate as the ultimate sports arena. Agents are like seasoned athletes, always training, strategizing, and refining their techniques. The market is their playing field—unpredictable and full of challenges. Just like athletes, r... |
| 30.05.2024 |
Percentage of homes with price cuts reaches 18-month high: Redfin | A report released Thursday by Redfin showed that 6.4% of U.S. home sellers cut their asking prices during the four-week period ending May 26. That is the highest percentage since November 2022 and a potential sign that sale prices will soft... |
| 28.05.2024 |
Unsold inventory is rising across the country | It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. Every state in the country has more homes on the market now than a year ago and, in many places, new construction is being completed and added to inventory... |
| 28.05.2024 |
Mortgage rates trend down as the labor market loosens | Mortgage rates kept sliding toward 7% as HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conforming loans at 7.25% on Tuesday, below the rate of 7.34% one week ago.
At the same time one year ago, the average 30... |
| 22.05.2024 |
Existing-home sales retreat in April: NAR | Existing-home sales declined by 1.9% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.14 million, down from 4.19 million in March, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Sales were also dow... |
| 21.05.2024 |
Mortgage rates continue to slide toward 7% | Mortgage rates continued on their downward path as HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conforming loans at 7.34% on Tuesday, below the rate of 7.43% one week ago.
At the same time one year ago, the ... |
| 15.05.2024 |
The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022 | This is an excerpt of a HousingWire Research report titled: What Everyone Needs to Know about Mortgage Rate Lock-in, by Altos President Mike Simonsen.
In the 24 months beginning March 2022, the U.S. housing market saw dramatic changes in af... |
| 14.05.2024 |
Mortgage rates continue to trend down ahead of inflation report | As the U.S. reaches its peak homebuying season, mortgage rates continue to ease week over week.
HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conforming loans at 7.45% on Tuesday, below the rate of 7.51% one ... |
| 14.05.2024 |
Santa Monica: An unexpected haven for first-time buyers | With a 90-day average median list price of $4.3 million, Santa Monica, California doesn’t seem like a place where one would expect to find many first-time homebuyers. But local real estate professionals would beg to differ.
“Most of the dem... |
| 13.05.2024 |
Peak homebuying season is clouded by mixed signals | As the U.S. hits peak homebuying season, the signals across the country are mixed at best as some markets are accelerating while others are slowing quickly. Inventory continues to build at the national level, something that’s happening most... |
| 08.05.2024 |
Why agents should personalize marketing | Personalized marketing is on the rise in just about every sector. In our hyperconnected times, consumers have more choices than ever, and brands have to get creative if they want to stand out in an oversaturated landscape. In the highly com... |
| 07.05.2024 |
Mortgage rates ease as the labor market cools | Mortgage rates eased slightly last week after a cooler-than-expected jobs report. Additionally, the 10-year Treasury yield fell after Friday’s jobs report.
HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conven... |
| 06.05.2024 |
Home price signals point to flat growth | Inventory increases aren’t occurring at a super fast pace, but the number of homes on the market across the country keeps expanding.
As mortgage rates stay elevated and the number of unsold homes on the market grows — especially in the Sout... |
| 30.04.2024 |
Mortgage rates continue to rise before the Fed’s meeting | Mortgage rates inched higher last week ahead of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Markets Committee on Wednesday and the national jobs report on Friday.
HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conventi... |
| 29.04.2024 |
Home sellers are returning to the market | The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year. It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere ... |
| 22.04.2024 |
Prices for pending home sales reach record high | After a couple weeks of big jumps for mortgage rates, we’re still seeing relatively surprising strength in the housing market. In fact, some measures of home prices are now at their all-time highs, having surpassed the previous peak of two ... |
| 18.04.2024 |
Existing home sales retreated in March: NAR | Existing home sales slumped last month under the weight of elevated mortgage rates.
Existing home sales receded by 4.3% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.19 million, down from 4.38 million in February, according to a report... |
| 16.04.2024 |
As inflation heats up, mortgage rates also rise | Mortgage rates posted a big jump last week after Wednesday’s release of a higher-than-expected inflation report.
As a result, HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans at 7.24% on Tuesd... |
| 15.04.2024 |
High mortgage rates are fueling strong inventory growth | We saw a big jump in mortgage rates last 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 start of the year. At that time, most o... |
| 12.04.2024 |
Louisiana’s housing market has an insurance problem | After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. While the slowdown has resulted in a return to pre-pandemic levels of market ac... |
| 02.04.2024 |
Mortgage rates stabilize prior to Friday’s jobs report | Mortgage rates remained stable this week as the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation report matched economists’ expectations.
As a result, HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for convention... |
| 02.04.2024 |
Majority of older homeowners plan to stay in their home as they age: Redfin | Older Americans who own their home are financially incentivized to stay put, which is likely to worsen the ongoing inventory shortage, two Redfin studies found.
In one recent survey, Redfin found that over three-quarters (78%) of older Amer... |
| 01.04.2024 |
Spring forecast: More inventory and rising home sales | Everyone knows it’s been a very dry 18 months for home sales. As mortgage rates rose starting in 2022, payment affordability got dramatically worse and homebuyer demand dried up. At the same time, seller volume dried up.
But now sellers are... |
| 22.03.2024 |
The grand reveal: RealTrends Verified and the 2024 brokerage rankings | I’m sharing a transformative announcement with you today, one that marks a new era for RealTrends and propels forward the vision of bringing transparency to what it means to be a top-performing real estate brokerage, team or agent. In real ... |
| 22.03.2024 |
eXp, Compass top 2024 RealTrends Verified brokerage rankings for second year | 2023 was a consequential year for real estate. The market grappled with low inventory and mortgage rates that gave many homebuyers a reason to pause. According to Altos Research, 2023 inventory bottomed in April at 406,206 active listings.
... |
| 21.03.2024 |
Existing home sales maintained upward momentum in February | Existing home sales increased in February, a good sign as the market heads into the spring homebuying season.
Existing home sales rose 9.5% in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.38 million, up from 4 million in January, acco... |
| 19.03.2024 |
Mortgage rates stabilize prior to Fed’s meeting | Mortgage rates remained flat this week ahead of the next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans at 7.07% on Tuesday, down from 7.... |
| 18.03.2024 |
Opinion: Real estate agents must embrace a non-traditional housing market | For agents navigating and servicing the American housing market, acknowledging its profound evolution over recent decades is crucial. Today’s landscape is quite different from that of 50 or even just 10 years ago. One of the most notable sh... |
| 15.03.2024 |
New listings surge as the spring buying season approaches | Prospective homebuyers have more options to choose from in the housing market, which could help spur sales this spring. Mortgage demand has been on the rise for two weeks in a row.
Inventory has been trending upward for the last two years d... |
| 12.03.2024 |
Mortgage rates cool off ahead of inflation reading | In anticipation of Tuesday’s inflation reading, mortgage rates eased compared to last week.
HousingWire’s Mortgage Rate Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans at 7.08% on Tuesday, down from 7.17% one week earlie... |
| 06.03.2024 |
Illustrated: The awesome power of high mortgage rates | Housing professionals already know that high mortgage rates are bad for business. And they hope that rates will soon fall.
But with mortgage rates ascending past 7% according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center, those hopes have so far b... |
| 05.03.2024 |
Mortgage rates hold steady ahead of jobs report | Ahead of Friday’s national jobs report, mortgage rates have found stability after increasing for multiple weeks.
Polly’s average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans was 7.17% on Tuesday, down from 7.24% one week earlier, according to ... |
| 05.03.2024 |
Mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been this year. Did loan officers expect this? | “Recovery year” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales.
A little more than two months into t... |
| 04.03.2024 |
Inventory is 19% higher than a year ago: Altos | At HousingWire, we have a debate about whether home sellers will freeze up again this year as mortgage rates stay stubbornly high. We’ve had seller growth for 18 weeks in a row. I’ve previously been confident that trend will continue.
A cou... |
| 11.12.2023 |
Will home prices continue to grow in 2024? | A few months ago I published a video where we asked, “How much will home prices gain by the end of the year?” Using a headline like that should come with a trigger warning. We could see that home prices were inching up, but there are many w... |
| 04.12.2023 |
Promising signs abound for 2024 housing market | Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market.
New listings and home sales remain low this week while available inventory of unsold homes is finally falling across t... |
| 27.11.2023 |
Here’s why home sales will climb in 2024 | If you follow real estate data closely, you’ll know that inventory rose late into November. You also know that new listings are up over last year, too.
However, what you might not know is that home sales are climbing, which is a good sign.
... |
| 14.11.2023 |
Is the housing market finally turning a corner? | As 2023 draws to a close soon, housing inventory has been rising very late in the year. Last year at this time, sellers and homebuyers hit the brakes hard.
This year is slow, of course, but not dropping, so we finally have a fractionally be... |
| 14.11.2023 |
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That may be true for buyers, but for sellers, the crunch can still get worse.
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| 26.09.2023 |
Plunk partners with two real estate industry marketing platforms | Plunk, an AI-powered home analytics platform, has partnered with two real estate industry marketing companies, Union Street Media and Realforce, to scale its real-time data and analytics across multiple digital channels.
Plunk’s platform of... |
| 19.09.2023 |
Changing homebuyer expectations are slowing the housing market | Home sales each week continue to be at depressed levels. We counted only 59,000 new pending sales this week. Meanwhile, the available inventory of unsold homes is growing. This week, inventory grew faster than it did last year at this time.... |
| 12.09.2023 |
Home sales dip, but prices are holding steady for now | I read a Wall Street Journal editorial piece that cited a stat to say home prices are 13% below last year. That’s blatantly wrong. Home prices remain just fractionally above where they were a year ago. The point of the editorial seemed to b... |
| 07.09.2023 |
Affordability slows home sales, hints at future home price declines | Mortgage rates peaked at 7.5% a couple weeks ago and are staying stubbornly high. Rising mortgage rates mean rising inventory as home buyer demand slows quickly. But home prices are staying pretty stable even though we can measure a slowdow... |
| 30.08.2023 |
Logan Mohtashami on CNBC: How rates are impacting supply | HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami appeared on CNBC‘s Squawk on the Street on Wednesday to talk about the health of the housing market, and more specifically about today’s pending home sales data.
Mohtashami explained how demand for ... |
| 21.08.2023 |
Housing inventory is at its highest point all year | Mortgage rates only kept climbing in the last week. Buyers in this real estate market notice these affordability changes, and so we can see in the data fewer home purchase offers, slightly climbing unsold inventory, and slightly more price ... |
| 15.08.2023 | Altos Radar raises $3.5m to accelerate the development and commercialization of 4D imaging radars | SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley-based automotive radar startup, Altos Radar, has raised $3.5 million in seed round funding that will fast-track the commercialization of 4D imaging radars in driver-assisted and... |
| 14.08.2023 |
Local housing markets: Othello, Osage Beach and Vienna | Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends and data across the country. Othello, Washington
Othello is known for its rich geological history, Basalt formations, stunning views and vibrant arts scene.... |
| 14.08.2023 |
Data points to a cooling in the housing market this fall | Mortgage rates have been stubbornly above 7% for two months and it sure looks like home buyers are growing weary. We can see signs that buyers are slowing, both in the sales volume and in the sales price data. This slowdown is not like last... |
| 08.08.2023 |
Plunk launches AI-powered home analysis tool | Plunk, an AI-powered home analytics platform, has introduced a new tool called Plunk Pro that aims to transform the real estate market by offering real-time insights into home valuation, risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities.
The co... |
| 07.08.2023 |
How inventory inches up with higher interest rates | Even as mortgage rates climbed over 7% in the past six weeks, home prices have not declined. But, we can see slightly fewer purchases happening. As demand dips, the prices are not. As a result, the available inventory of homes for sale is s... |
| 04.08.2023 |
10 essential skills real estate agents should possess | Achieving success as a real estate agent requires more than simply understanding the mechanics of the job. Yes, you should certainly be able to post an impressive listing and understand the ins and outs of closing, but helping buyers and se... |
| 02.08.2023 |
Logan Mohtashami on CNBC: Why existing home sales are so low | HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami appeared on CNBC‘s Worldwide Exchange on Wednesday to talk about the health of the housing market, explaining the effect of high mortgage rates and low inventory on existing home sales.
Using data f... |
| 01.08.2023 |
How much will home prices climb over the next year? | Today I’m going to focus on home prices around the country. How much will home prices climb over the next year? All year, the strength of homebuyer demand and the tight supply of homes for sale has meant that the market pretty rapidly found... |
| 28.07.2023 |
Today’s real estate agents see the light at the end of the tunnel | Outsiders to the real estate industry may assume that the tight market has real estate agents hanging up their hats. In reality, today’s agents are seizing the market and feeling confident.
Real estate agents are still confident in the indu... |
| 24.07.2023 |
Will existing home sales climb at all this year? | We’re going to start today looking at the pending sales. Last week the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales declined in June to an annual rate of 4.2 million. It’s now obvious to everyone that home prices... |
| 20.07.2023 |
I’d list my home, but where would I move? | With record-low inventory nationwide, real estate agents seem to be hearing the same thing day in and day out: “I’d list my home, but where would I move?” For most agents, that’s the end of the conversation, ending the possibility of taking... |
| 17.07.2023 |
A soft landing for the real estate market. What’s next? | About this time last summer, I said it looked like the U.S. housing market could have a soft landing in 2023. Any time you use the phrase “soft landing” it should come with a trigger warning because some folks get really angry hearing it. B... |
| 17.07.2023 |
Home prices remain hot even as inflation cools | Even though the inflation growth rate has cooled a good deal, single-family home prices remain quite stubborn.
Fannie Mae’s Home Price Index increased 3.0% year over year in Q2 2023, a decline from Q1 2023’s revised annual growth rate of 4.... |
| 06.07.2023 |
With low inventory, house hunters are in full safari mode | The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations.
The perplexing part: Why are home... |
| 16.06.2023 |
Local Housing Markets: Fargo, Bergen County and 30A, Florida | Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Bergen County, N.J.
New Jersey’s Bergen County gives homebuyers the best of both worlds. There are over 9,000 acres of parklands and eas... |
| 13.06.2023 |
Institutional SFR market poised for a rebound | The first quarter of 2023 proved a tough market for everyone in the housing industry, including institutional buyers of single-family rental (SFR) properties, but there are signs the second quarter of this year has been far more buoyant for... |
| 28.05.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates over 7% | Debt-ceiling drama pushed bond yields up last week, taking mortgage rates to a new 2023 high in the middle of the spring home-selling season. Active housing inventory, thankfully, saw some decent growth last week. Purchase application data ... |
| 24.05.2023 |
Mike Simonsen is bringing housing data to HW Annual | At HousingWire Annual 2023, we aren’t vibe-checking the housing market. We’re bringing all the cutting-edge housing knowledge that today’s professionals need based on data. And who better to present that data than the president and founder ... |
| 21.05.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: A wild week for rates | It was a wild ride for the housing market last week! The 10-year yield rose noticeably, sending mortgage rates near 7% right in the heart of the spring selling season. New listings data fell, however, active inventory grew. And purchase app... |
| 14.05.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: Active listings barely budge | The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. Yes, we found the seasonal bottom for housing inventory on April 14, but this year’s rise in active listings has been tepid at be... |
| 07.05.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory falls | Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. Hopefully, this is just a blip, which can occur from time to time wit... |
| 30.04.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory grows | The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The fear of not having an increase in inventory this spring should be put to rest. The other focus should be whe... |
| 23.04.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: Inventory finally rises | Can we now say that the housing market‘s spring selling season is finally underway? Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory da... |
| 17.04.2023 |
Local Housing Markets: Austin, Hartford and Lake Tahoe | Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas
In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. But, in 2022, as prices in the metro rose to never-... |
| 16.04.2023 |
Housing Market Tracker: Inventory falls even lower | The seasonal housing inventory bottom evaded us again last week as active listings fell and new listing inventory decreased. Purchase application data rose again, with more positive than negative data in 2023. Mortgage rates didn’t move muc... |
| 20.03.2023 | Opinion: The Fed broke the banks. What’s next for mortgage? | It is often said that the Fed raises interest rates until something breaks. Many have already pointed to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank as evidence that the Fed “finally broke something.”
While the ... |
| 19.03.2023 | Housing Market Tracker: Banking crisis is a new variable | The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory?... |
| 13.03.2023 | Local Housing Markets: New York, Sarasota and Racine | Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. New York City, New York
In many ways the spring of 2022 marked the full return of New York City and for a real estate agent like Johnson... |
| 12.03.2023 | Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates fall after SVB failure | Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. We had a 21st-century bank run on Silicon Valley Bank and then the federal government took action over the weekend to stop the contagion. Mortgage rates fell even though the jobs repo... |
| 06.03.2023 | Housing Market Tracker: Inventory drops by 11,000 | The housing market faced some serious obstacles last week as the 10-year yield broke over 4%, mortgage rates rose to over 7%, purchase apps fell again and we are still trying to find the elusive seasonal bottom for housing inventory.
Here i... |
| 01.03.2023 | Announcing the 2023 Tech100 Real Estate Winners | For more than a decade, the HW Tech100 program has identified and recognized the most innovative technology companies serving the mortgage and real estate industries.
The 2023 Tech100 Real Estate winners are changing the home sales process ... |
| 27.02.2023 | Housing Market Tracker: Higher rates crush purchase apps | We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data.
H... |
| 20.02.2023 | Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates spike as inventory falls | Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data.
Here is a... |
| 17.02.2023 | The power of data with Mike Simonsen | Mike Simonsen, president of Altos Research, will share his data-focused insights on the housing market at Gathering of Eagles 2023. Join Simonsen and other data-obsessed attendees for a “Power Lunch,” on Tuesday, June 20.
There’s no need to... |
