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A Sudden, Positive Shift in Economic Indicators <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFor the Stock and bond markets \u2013 which greatly impact household wealth, consumer confidence, and interest rates \u2013 were generally characterized by deep pessimism in October, but with significant changes in economic indicators such as inflation, and a continued pause in benchmark rate increases by the Fed, financial markets abruptly shifted to enthusiastic optimism in November. That translated into a dramatic plunge in mortgage rates, which has caused mortgage applications to increase over recent weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since the homebuying process usually takes 30 to 60 days, from loan qualification and making an offer to a closed sale, sales might<\/em> see a bounce in December, or \u2013 since the mid-winter holiday period typically sees the annual low point in new-listing (and thus sales) activity \u2013 more likely in early 2024 (subject to these positive trends continuing).\u00a0<\/p>\n In January 2023, buyer demand saw a substantial rebound due to a similar drop in interest rates in late 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n Click the links below to access monthly market updates by Bay Area region.<\/strong><\/p>\n The post NorCal Monthly Market Insights Report: December 2023<\/a> first appeared on California Real Estate Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Sudden, Positive Shift in Economic Indicators \u201cFor the third sixth straight week, mortgage rates trended down, as new data indicates that inflationary pressures are receding. The combination of continued economic strength, lower inflation and lower mortgage rates should likely bring more potential homebuyers into the market.\u201d\u00a0Freddie Mac (FHLMC) Stock and bond markets \u2013 which greatly impact household wealth, consumer confidence, and interest rates \u2013 were generally characterized by deep pessimism in October, but with significant changes in economic indicators … Continue reading “NorCal Monthly Market Insights Report: December 2023”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferraro-zugibe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}third<\/s> sixth straight week, mortgage rates trended down, as new data indicates that inflationary pressures are receding. The combination of continued economic strength, lower inflation and lower mortgage rates should likely bring more potential homebuyers into the market.\u201d\u00a0Freddie Mac (FHLMC)<\/p>\n\n
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