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The Latest Breaking News from Housing Market

Housing affordability is the worst it’s been in decades. It will improve in 2024, but by only a ‘small step,’ Realtor.com chief economist says

Mortgage rates are expected to drop modestly to 6.8% in 2024.

Fortune

The average long-term US mortgage rate falls to 7.22%, sliding to lowest level since late September

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell for the fifth week in a row, more good news for prospective homebuyers grappling with an increasingly unaffordable housing market

The Independent UK

Home prices break through ceiling but growth eases

The housing market downturn of last year has been completely unwound, but the pace of growth is slowing.

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Alan Kohler’s housing essay resonates — but some economic forces remain absent

Most readers will learn plenty about housing markets and policy from The Great Divide, but the author’s big-picture view needs sharpening.

Crikey

Leasehold reform: why UK government's plans could make housing less affordable and less fair

The UK government is introducing plans to reform the system of leasehold property in England and Wales to parliament. The leasehold and freehold reform bill aims to empower leaseholders and achieve greater fairness in the housing market.

The Conversation

London's hottest postcodes: the areas where buyer demand keeps rising despite the downturn

Home sales are falling across London but some micro-markets are bucking the trend. We take the temperature of the top 10 hottest spots

Evening Standard

Housing market analyst ‘Poison Ivy’ Zelman, who called the 2008 bust that led to the Great Financial Crisis, sees ‘extremely depressed levels’ of existing home sales for years

Existing home sales dropped 14.6% in October on a year-over-year basis—a new 13-year low.

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The housing market is crazy expensive, but 'an improvement in affordability that we have only seen a handful of times over the past ~35 years’ is coming, says Morgan Stanley

“The evolution of the U.S. housing market has been Herculean or devastating depending on where you look,” the strategists wrote in their forecast.

Fortune

Mortgage rates have been falling for weeks as inflation fades—but the housing market may still struggle with affordability and high home prices

“For those homebuyers who can wait, the spring will bring more new listings and lower mortgage rates," Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant said.

Fortune

Stocks Fall Back on Disappointing Earnings from Cisco and Walmart

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.15%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.25%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.31%. Stocks this morning are mildly lower on some disappointing...

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Four in five Australian housing markets in growth mode

The rebound in home prices has reached most parts of the country although the pace of growth varies across cities and regions.

AAP

Lower inflation may be the hammer that cracks the unaffordable housing market for would-be homebuyers

Inflation slowing to 3.2% last month means home shoppers may benefit from stabilizing consumer prices and cheaper mortgages, if the Fed cuts interest rates.

Fortune

Housing innovation in the Hunter from the ground up

'With an increasingly unstable, inaccessible and unaffordable housing market it doesn't take much to go wrong for someone to find themselves homeless or at risk of homelessness'

Newcastle Herald

Mortgage-free and not moving: the London boroughs where outright home ownership has soared

More than half of owner-occupied London properties have no outstanding debt, putting the housing market at risk of stagnation

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Millennials are replaying their parents’ housing market journey as first-time buyers in their 30s flood into an unaffordable market

First-time buyers make up 32% of all home buyers, the National Association of Realtors says—up from last year’s historic low of 26%.

Fortune

This chart shows why millennials, the biggest generation in American history, will keep housing prices sky-high for years to come

“The crux of the issue is supply,” says Ned Davis Research. Too many millennials chasing too few homes leads to housing market inflation.

Fortune

The cracks in the housing market are growing larger. But beware the all-cash buyer

Mortgage rates are down slightly, the number of homes for sale is up, and sellers are dropping their asking price, according to a new Redfin report.

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The ‘silver tsunami’ is about to hit the housing market—but millennials and Gen Zers may not come out any better in the wash

Just over half of people aged 50-plus are set to downsize in the next two years.

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The Street

Mortgage rates plunge the most in 16 months as bond rally boosts beaten-down housing market

U.S. mortgage rates, which hit a 2000 high of 7.9% late last month, fell last week amid a huge rally in Treasury bonds.

Kiplinger

Five Housing Markets On the Rise

Study shows homes in five markets are going under contract in less than two weeks, despite a broader national housing market slowdown. Which cities are bucking the trend and why?

The Guardian - UK

UK housing market is past its ‘peak pain’, declares Savills

Upmarket estate agent says prices will start to bottom out in 2024 as interest rates fall and will return to growth in 2025

Investors Business Daily

Warren Buffett's Real Estate Play Beats Earnings, Gives Bullish 2024 Guidance On Housing Market

D.R. Horton expects revenue between $36-$37 billion while delivering 86,000-89,000 home units in fiscal 2024.

The Guardian - UK

UK interest rate cuts expected in 2024; German recession risks rise as factories struggle; oil price drops – as it happened

The yield on UK government bonds drops as the City expects interest rates cuts next summer, as German factory output falls again

Fortune

The housing market is starting to crack—Sellers are cutting prices at record levels as 'You can no longer price based off of where sales were'

Nearly 7% of sellers posted price drops in October, Redfin says—well above the 3.6% average.

The Guardian - UK

Gazunder alert! How the UK’s house buyers are forcing sellers to slash prices

As the housing market stagnates, buyers are making the most of their new power. One in three vendors has been asked to accept less money after a deal has supposedly been struck

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