Month: January 2022

Rate Bump

Mortgage rates in the mid-3s in January should put some pep in the buyers' step. From MND: Regular readers know that we're fond of setting the weekly record straight in cases where day-to-day rate movements paint a drastically different picture than weekly surveys. ...

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Top 10 Hottest Markets

These look like the towns to which people from New York and California are moving. Excerpts: The boomer tide in the for-sale housing market is expected to continue to rise for at least the next 8 years; younger millennials will be hitting first-time home buying age at...

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Non-Stop Frenzy

Buyers who stalled their home search when school began are going to be shocked at recent prices. In September, there were two sales of the larger 3,362sf floor plan; one was $1,869,000 and the other was $1,875,000 (both under list). So when this house came on at...

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Tuesday Tidbits

Housing bulls on Wall Street argue that this is an upturn that could last for a decade. Millions of millennials are now at a point in their lives when they are seeking single-family homes in the suburbs and exurbs. They are in good shape too. Almost 70 percent of...

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Case-Shiller Index, History

I saw this on Greg's twitter, and thanks to Charlie too.  On the ground it seems like the market is wildly out of control, but looking at this chart it looks like we're just one of the pack. Does it give buyers any comfort to know that the price explosion is happening...

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Inventory Watch, 2022

The NSDCC median sales price in 2021 was $1,900,000. The NSDCC median sales price in the fourth quarter of 2021 was $1,996,875. Today's NSDCC median list price is a mind-boggling $5,972,500! To better reflect the rapidly-escalating home prices between La Jolla and...

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