New home sales rose in February, climbing for the third month in a row as mortgage rates eased off their highs of the past year and buyers looked to new construction amid historically low inventory of existing homes for sale.Sales of newly constructed homes were up 1.1% in February from January, but fell 19% from a year ago, according to a joint report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the US Census Bureau. February’s
NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun draws the distinctions between today’s real estate market and that of more than a decade ago.Many homeowners are still haunted by the 2008 housing crash when property values collapsed and foreclosures spiked. The memory of a sudden catastrophe at a time when the real estate market had been riding high may help explain why 41% of Americans say they now fear a housing crash in the next year, according to a new sur
Rates below 6.5% are lifting home purchase demand at the start of the spring homebuying season.Mortgage rates continued to slide this week, even after recent bank failures failed to stop the Federal Reserve from hiking its benchmark interest rate for the ninth consecutive time. Mortgage rates are following the downward trend of 10-year Treasury yields, which is helping to lift homebuying demand. While the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.42
Sales of newly built single-family homes rose 1.1% in February while the average sale price climbed to just under $500K, according to data released Thursday by the US Census BureauSales of newly constructed single-family homes remained mostly flat during February, marking only a modest increase ahead of the spring buying season, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.Sales of newly built single-family homes rose 1.1 per
Prices fell in February for the first time in 131 months, which could bring more buyers to the market just in time for spring, according to NAR’s latest housing report.Existing-home sales ended a yearlong decline in February, posting gains for the first time in 12 months, the National Association of REALTORS® reported Tuesday. Existing-home sales increased 14.5% month over month—which marked the largest monthly gain since July 2020—reachin
Recent bank failures are creating economic panic, but there may be a silver lining for home buyers.Mortgage rates, which have risen more than half a percent over the last five weeks, fell this week amid fears about the sturdiness of the nation’s banking industry. Silicon Valley Bank and two others that primarily support the technology industry shuttered operations, sending shock waves through the U.S. economy.The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dec
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The real estate industry got 2 kernels of good news in the latest jobs numbers from the US Bureau of Labor StatisticsThe latest jobs data contains a couple kernels of good news for the real estate industry, pointing to less pressure on mortgage rates and an eventual boost in home demand.For one thing, payrolls in real estate continue to come in stronger than in the U.S. at large, with 16,300 new jobs added on a seasonally adju
