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Top of the list: An interview with Ben Caballero

Housing Wire

Ben Caballero : Our service supports builders, sales, their marketing and then management as it relates to marketing their homes to realtors. What builders don’t need is a realtor to list their homes in a traditional way. So, with our listings, the realtors know they have a level of confidence that the information is accurate.

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Housing Values up on demand, but can lower financing costs help?

MN Real Estate Services

The median price of an existing home sold in May hit a record $239,700, according to the National Association of Realtors, which began tracking prices in 1968. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($417,000 or less) decreased to its lowest level since May 2013, 3.76

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time. Last five years, we focused in Texas, we never focused on investment property realtors,” Heejin Kim, co-founder of JVM said. “I We are going to pursue the investor niche aggressively, meeting very specific realtors. I thought it was sparse.

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Existing home sales will drop to 4.78 million in 2023, NAR predicts

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors predicts there will be 4.78 Fraud risk continues to rise even as the market contracts . He also stressed that the conditions present in 2007 during the foreclosure crisis look very different than today. million existing home sales in 2023, down 6.8% from the 5.13

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Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions

Houston Properties

Top Ranked Realtors: Paige Martin & The Houston Properties Team. Today's monthly payments on a $500,000 mortgage are about the same as a $210,000 mortgage from the mid-1990s or a $300,000 mortgage from 2007. Properties are still going under contract. Top Ranked Realtors: Paige Martin & The Houston Properties Team.

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Price Adjustments in this New Housing Market

Lamacchia Realty

That’s because fewer homes are being placed under contract. Your home is priced much higher than properties in your area Your REALTOR® will complete a comparative market analysis of the homes sold in your area in the 2-3 months. If three weeks go by, contact your REALTOR® to discuss an adjustment on the list price.

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Local Markets: Louisville, Reno and San Diego

Housing Wire

Since May of 2020 we have seen growth accelerating faster than the national average and this happened as well from 2003 to 2007, but then our decline was also accelerated. And our buyers that do get under contract are a little bit more skittish and quicker to cancel, so I have seen a high number of back-on-markets.”

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