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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 million Historically inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5 Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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VA Approves Desktops and Exterior-Only Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Fannie: Learn how valuation modernization is changing collateral underwriting – Video, 1 hour, 23 minutes. Excerpt from emailed notice: “Valuation Modernization: New perspectives on collateral underwriting” is a must-see for underwriters and appraisal reviewers. For more details and graphs, click here. To read more, click here.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. That percentage was last seen in September 2007 – yes, at the start of the housing crisis (as the chart shows).

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IS THE HOUSING MARKET HEADED FOR A CRASH?

Will Springer Realtor

Prices have soared in most areas – including a 30% jump in the past year for single-family homes in King County – amid a shortage of inventory and a sharp rise in the number of buyers. Flood of buyers – As I noted last month , Millennials will fuel this housing market for at least a decade to come as about 4.5

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

That’s the most since 2007. The Institute outlined four ways innovative builders could accommodate the emerging buyer wants: Immersion into nature. Here’s a negotiating tactic that you may not have thought of: Sellers who “spy” on buyers when they are visiting the home. BY THE NUMBERS. >> Buyers secured 3.8 That’s fair.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

Amid the challengers for buyers, there is an expectation for housing activity to continue puffing its Thomas the Tank Engine without a misfire – at least through early summer – before possibly lowering a gear. One of the reasons for the continued home-sales intensity – in any season – is a key group of “new” buyers. this year. >>

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B billion tax fraud scheme. Owners with conservation easements can claim an income tax deduction.