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Home prices haven’t risen this fast since 2005

Housing Wire

The March gain is also the largest since December 2005 and is one of the largest in the index’s 30-year history, said Craig Lazzara, managing director and global head of index investment strategy at S&P DJI. This demand may represent buyers who accelerated purchases that would have happened anyway over the next several years.

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Redfin: Boomers aging in place is ‘the driving force’ behind median homeowner tenure doubling since 2005

Empire Appraisal Group

Redfin: Boomers aging in place is ‘the driving force’ behind median homeowner tenure doubling since 2005 Source: [link] Over the past two decades, the median homeowner tenure has jumped from 6.5 In 2005, the median U.S. After climbing every year between 2005 and 2020, U.S. years to 11.9 homeowner tenure was 6.5

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How housing credit is shaping housing inventory

Housing Wire

You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. Demographics also play a role here.

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Typical homebuyers made $107,000 annually, used a real estate agent in 2023: NAR survey

Housing Wire

“In a still-competitive housing market, more well-off home buyers were able to have their bids accepted by offering larger down payments and even by paying cash.” However, a significant majority of buyers (80%) financed their home purchase in 2023, up from 78% in 2022 but still down from 87% two years ago, according to the survey.

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Mark Willis steps back into CEO role at Keller Williams

Housing Wire

Mark Willis, who served as CEO of Keller Williams from 2005 to 2014, has stepped back into the role effective immediately. In 2002, he joined the firm’s executive team, serving as president, before a nine-year stint as CEO from 2005 to 2014. Marc King will continue to serve as President of Keller Williams. He left the company in 2016.

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MC Mortgage Group joins UMortgage platform

Housing Wire

Patrick Stoy , president of MC Mortgage Group, established the brokerage in 2005 and brings with him 24 years of experience in the housing industry. MC Mortgage Group, a mortgage brokerage based in Wilmington, North Carolina, serves homebuyers across North and South Carolina.

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. This is because the biggest buyers of homes are mortgage buyers.