Podcast: Existing Home Sales, Permits & Inventory

Today’s podcast discusses the recent housing permits data, existing home sales, mortgage rates, and the inventory crisis in America. Also, I address the premise that the housing market was 20% oversupplied last year.

https://www.housingwire.com/podcast/logan-mohtashami-on-new-and-existing-housing/

Here are some of the links to articles on the topic above. Remember, I am no longer writing articles on my blog. If you haven’t joined Housing Wire Plus, please feel free to use my VIP code: loganvip50.

Housing Permits.
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/housing-permits-look-great-until-you-look-at-completions/

Existing Home Sales.
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/why-did-existing-home-sales-beat-expectations/

Note: My 2022 existing home sales trends are between 5,740,000 -6,160,000. I believe we had some spillover demand from a softer December print, which increased the existing home sales data recently. 



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Logan Mohtashami is a Lead Analyst for Housing Wire, financial writer, and blogger covering the U.S. economy with a specialization in the housing market. Logan Mohtashami, now retired, spends his days and nights looking at charts and nothing else