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More Buyers Got Help With Closing Costs in September
What To Expect for Housing in the 4th Quarter

For Buyers:
­The price reductions keep coming. Last week when mortgage rates hit 7.0%, the Greater Phoenix housing market responded with 4,427 price reductions, 24% of all active properties in the MLS. At least 50% of those dropped their price by $12,000 or more.

September saw 1,372 closings involving seller closing cost assistance to the buyer, equating to 23% of MLS sales, with a median concession of $7,000. This is a 334% increase from last June's count of just 316 sales involving concessions. New home sales through the MLS showed 33% with concessions, and 50% at $10,000 or more. OpenDoor, as a seller, paid concessions on 355 transactions, 77% of their sales through MLS, with...

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Is the greater Phoenix real estate market crashing?  The short answer is no, but it is cooling at a much faster rate than anticipated. This chart shows you the Cromford Market Index (CMI) since 2001. Here is what you need to know about this report:

CMI of 90-110 = balanced market

CMI > 110 = favors sellers

CMI

The drop from May 2022 to June 2022 decreased from 385.2 to 272.2 during that time. That's the fastest decline in the history of the Cromford Market Index. This decline was impacted by rising interest rates and increasing supply. 

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For Buyers: 
Does anyone know what a normal, or balanced, housing market looks like anymore?  In Greater Phoenix, the supply and demand indices have only come together twice in the past 21 years to form a balanced market.  First from 2000-2003, then again from 2014-2015.  There have only been two buyer markets recorded during that same time frame, from 2006-2009 (extreme) and a brief 3 months in 2010 (mild).  Seller markets were recorded from 2003-2005, 2011-2013, and 2015-2021. The last 18 months have been extreme to say the least.

Over the past 21 years, Greater Phoenix has been in a buyer market for a combined total of 43 months (3.6 years), a balanced market for 55 months (4.6 years)...

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How long will it be before we hit a balanced market in the Phoenix metro area? In this brief video, I'll compare the 2005 real estate market to 2021, plus I'll explain what you can expect in the months ahead for both buyers and sellers.

Watch out Valley drivers! The Interstate-10 Broadway Curve construction project is underway.  The expected completion date is late 2024. The project is intense, so I recommend you check the project website often and sign up for traffic and construction alerts. 

Here are the improvements ADOT is making:

• Widening Interstate 10 to six general purpose lanes and two high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in each direction between US 60 (Superstition Freeway) and Interstate 17, and adding a fourth general purpose lane in each direction between Ray Road and US 60
•  Adding Collector-Distributor roads parallel to I-10 between Baseline Road and 40th Street to separate through-traff...

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