Home prices

Prices also fell roughly 0.3% in November from a month before, according to a seasonally adjusted data of national prices from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller.

During a hearing on racial bias in home valuation, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau questions the Appraisal Foundation's "weird" regulatory structure.

To monitor the health of lenders still operating, industry watchers should observe firms' abilities to meet covenant requirements, renew warehouse lines of credits and their activity in the mortgage servicing rights market, said Brian Brown, chief financial officer at Rocket Companies.

Single-family property values during the year's final three months rose 9.2% year-over-year, but that bump fell below the 13.1% annual rise in the prior quarter.

The most attractive cities this year count more homes selling under their listing price rather than over it.

While supply was up by over 54% compared to a year earlier, new home listings decreased, according to Realtor.com.

Increases in values were more likely to stick across the Central U.S, while pandemic boomtowns experienced the biggest declines in median housing costs, according to Realtor.com.

Prices were up by less than 9% year-over-year, according to CoreLogic's report.

The Redfin study covers property transactions between January 2021 and September 2022.

But that's largely because homes are staying on the market longer — almost three weeks more than in early summer on average.

Home prices, sales volumes, interest rates are expected to drop next year, researchers at the company forecasted.

But they will start increasing again by next October, according to a forecast by CoreLogic.

Allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy these loans encourages consumers to purchase more expensive homes, the group said.

The increased limit on the size of the mortgages the government-sponsored enterprises will be able to buy reflects the year-over-year change in home prices.

It was the third straight decline for the seasonally adjusted measure of prices in 20 large U.S. cities, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index. 

"This is Han Solo in carbonite: This is a market that could stay frozen for quite some time," said Benjamin Keys, a real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

The decline in loan activity and softening prices also helped drive down builder sentiment for the 11th month in a row.

The coming months are likely to see greater focus on single-family rentals, reduced credit availability and potential new competitors entering the market.

The limit for high-cost areas for 2023, 50 percent above the baseline limit, would be approximately $1.08 million, writes a former principal economist with the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

However, of those that would choose face-to-face interaction, 40% want it to include a hybrid or fully digital process.