America’s red hot housing market is cooling down fast sparking fears of a housing bust and crippling recession as nearly half of home sale prices are slashed in some areas.
US mortgage rates posted the biggest drop in more than two years, offering homebuyers a slight reprieve from this year’s massive surge in borrowing costs.
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As I noted last year, Inventory will Tell the Tale about the housing market. And inventory levels are now up year-over-year and increasing quickly.
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After new- and existing-home sales tumbled, it should have been no surprise that pending home sales dropped in April.
After dismal earnings by such mammoth retailers as Walmart, Targets and this morning’s “horror report” by Abercrombie and Fitch, on Tuesday afternoon we actually got a solid report by Nordstrom, which not only printed strong earnings but also hiked guidance sending the stock higher as much as 12%.
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The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 591 thousand.
Following the unexpectedly large decline in existing home sales (directionally not unexpected given the surge in mortgage rates, plunge in mortgage apps, slump in homebuilder sentiment, drop in building permits, and weakening in labor market signals that are emerging), analysts expected new home sales to slide 1.8% MoM in April.
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There’s no way around it: if the Federal Reserve is going to get runaway inflation back under control, it’s going to cause some economic damage along the way.
Existing-home sales recorded a third straight month of declines, slipping slightly in April, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
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Housing in all of the top 100 markets in America is selling at a premium, but in some, that premium is much smaller.