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Below are other key housing market takeaways for more than 400 U.S. metro areas during the 4-week period ending
- Asking prices of newly listed homes hit a new all-time high of
$334,770 , up 10% from the same time a year ago. In a typical year, asking prices do not surpass the previous year's peak until March. - Pending home sales were up 29% year over year.
- New listings of homes for sale were down 11% from a year earlier.
- Active listings (the number of homes listed for sale at any point during the period) fell 37% from 2020 to a new all-time low.
- 52% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market, well above the 43% rate during the same period a year ago. This is the first time the four-week average has surpassed 50% since at least 2012 (as far back as Redfin's data for this measure goes). During the week ending
February 7 , the rate was 57%. - The average sale-to-list price ratio, which measures how close homes are selling to their asking prices, increased slightly to 99.3%—1.6 percentage points higher than a year earlier.
- For the week ending
February 7 , the seasonally adjusted Redfin Homebuyer Demand Index—a measure of requests for home tours and other services from Redfin agents—was up 63% from the same period a year ago. - Mortgage purchase applications decreased 5% week over week (seasonally adjusted) and were up 17% from a year earlier (unadjusted) during the week ending
February 5 . For the week endingFebruary 4 , 30-year mortgage rates were unchanged at 2.73%.
"There is a serious lack of new listings, and although prices are through the roof, homeowners are reluctant to sell, because it's so hard to buy again unless you are moving to a less expensive area where you can afford to outbid other buyers," said Redfin chief economist
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