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"Home sellers still think their homes will command high asking prices as they did during the housing bonanza in 2020 and 2021, or they paid so much for their properties and aren’t willing to budge on the price," per FORTUNE
Lennar is showing you what has to happen in the housing market to drive sales.
They've cut prices 22%. And are now below pre-pandemic pricing.
The result? Sales orders have spiked.
Lennar's margins have compressed to 17.5% as a result of the price cuts. But that's just how it goes in a housing recession - to move inventory, and sell homes, you need to accept less.
Existing home sellers would be wise to take note.
7) The market is the market, though, and eventually these existing sellers will get to a place where they cut the price enough to motivate transactions.
It's just a slow, painful process, and takes time.
But the data points are piling up one by one to show us that this is, in fact, where the market is heading.