Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. We don’t have any data that shows sales are crashing from this low level: this is key when looking at the future because it does give us a place to grow sales as long as mortgage rates fall. This is a positive for housing in 2024 as most sellers are buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Others have expressed concerns that we are headed for a housing crash, like in 2008. Let’s talk about the difference between today’s market and the one during the years leading up to the bursting of the housing bubble in the Great Recession of 2008. THE RISE IN HOME PRICES IN THE YEARS LEADING TO 2008.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Obviously, mortgage rates have been stubbornly over 7% for a couple of months. That’s a change in expectation of mortgage rates. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. We’re hearing people imagine 8% mortgage rates. What’s happening?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. In 2008, 49% of Realtors had a client with a distressed sale, today it is only 1%. Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Even as mortgage rates rose, and affordability was pushed out of reach for many potential homebuyers, there are still sufficient buyers who can afford these prices and these rates. The number of buyers has been surprising. After the mortgage rate spike in September 2022, we got significantly more bearish on home prices for 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There is one simple reason for this: it’s not 2008. The truth is that if mortgage rates fell below 5.875% and kept going lower, everyone’s housing predictions would need to be revised this year because the builders can sell their homes with lower mortgage rates. Let me be honest here: we got lucky as a country.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2022

In 2008 when blockchain and its celebrity use case of BitCoin came into view, with breathless excitement discussions of complete decentralization of purchases and bank-less futures coursed freely through public discourse. Mortgage Industry and Blockchain: Early but Important Days.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

During the 2007-10 mortgage default meltdown, appraisals were a target of complaints and allegations by lenders, the GSEs, some state appraisal boards, and a few unscrupulous entrepreneurs. In the run-up to the 2008 market crash, appraisers were overworked and took on more than they reasonably could handle. How do we combat this?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the spotlight again over the role some housing-industry experts say they could play in reducing mortgage rates if they resumed a more active investor role in the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market. How likely that is, though, I don’t even know how to handicap.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

Bidders were required to be cash buyers, or more precisely cryptocurrency buyers, or – more precisely still – have a virtual wallet on the Ethereum blockchain. Generally, listing agents extract a commission from the homeseller and then split it with the buyer’s agent. It represented LLC ownership of the property.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

In fact, considering the drop in builders’ confidence, now we have to watch for whether some people will cancel their building contracts because rates have jumped so much while they’ve been waiting for their new home to be built. Mortgage rates have risen since the lows we saw last year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The reasons for that are solid demographics and low mortgage rates , which will not change much in 2021. My housing economic mindset really starts from 1996 as mortgage rates are much lower now than in previous decades. Of course, today is a much different story; our demographics are much better, and mortgage rates are lower.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

When this back and forth was unfolding, mortgage demand rose 2.9% compared to the week prior and the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with loan balances of $726,200 or less, decreased from 6.48% to 6.45%. Let’s keep the 2008 market where it belongs — in the past.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MAY 18, 2023

And I found sales that supported the contract price that had sold within the past month. This is despite the considerably higher mortgage interest rates. Homeowners need to sell their homes to make inventory for buyers. But sellers are also typically also buyers because they are usually looking for another property to purchase.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

Despite this decline, motivated buyers were out there trying to secure a home while also trying to navigate lower affordability and low inventory. The drop in nearly 4,000 closings wasn’t just because buyers weren’t buying; they would, but many couldn’t because sellers weren’t selling. Average prices for closed sales increased by 7.2%

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

It kept inventory down, which propped up prices, but sales are down nearly 22%, and buyers are hungry. With rates trying to reach equilibrium after their nosedive in 2020, everyone has had to accept that pandemic-era rates are a thing of the past and therefore higher monthly mortgage payments are here to stay. Sales Decline by 21.7%

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 26, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on forecasts for mortgage rates, a look back at the 80s a very similar mortgage market, appraising in a changing market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == A Redesigned $48.5M Worried we did not have enough money for mortgage payments.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

The 2023 South Florida real estate market, like national trends, saw a decrease in sales, an increase in prices, and a decrease in the number of homes listed and placed under contract. The number of homes listed decreased by 10% The number of homes placed under contract decreased by 14.1% South Florida Sales Decline by 17.5%

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Appraisal Today

MAY 24, 2024

During my term as an appraisal board member in my state, I encountered several cases in which a mixed-use property or commercial property was appraised as a residential property so a borrower could obtain a residential mortgage. Built in 2008, the luxury estate last traded hands in 2021 for $6,250,000. baths, 19,660 sq.ft.,

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 10, 2022

When COVID hit , policy makers flooded the market with all different kinds of stimulus and the Federal Reserve started buying a historic number of mortgage-backed securities to drive mortgage interest rates down. Congratulations, frustrated home buyers ! That’s not going to happen.

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Appraisal Today

JULY 21, 2023

This likely has to do with the cost of building a pool, cost of maintaining a pool, and even larger parcels at higher ranges – not to mention buyers at higher price points expecting a pool more often. In contrast, pools hardly exist in some locations, so it’s less of a factor because buyers don’t expect a pool.

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Listing Spark

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many buyers are exiting the market because of higher rates. Despite rising rates, there are a lot of advantages that are coming into the market for buyers. So if you’re a buyer, how do you buy in the current market? What mortgage options should you be looking out for? Episode overview. Episode highlights. Key takeaways.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, and types of bias, Scams on black homes, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. An example of this in real estate appraisal is the purchase and sale contract. January 17, 2024) — Mortgage applications increased 10.4

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Perhaps the sellers had a pool of buyers looking for homes to buy in this area. Therefore, my opinion of value was in the mid-sixties, which was far below the contract price. My research and analysis showed that the buyer was about to spend a much higher price than the true market value of this home. WHAT SHOULD AN APPRAISER DO?

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 22, 2022

Highlighted in this report are the average sale prices for single-family, condominiums, and multi-family homes in Massachusetts along with the number of homes listed for sale, placed under contract, and price adjustments. As the market has cooled over the past few months with the increase in mortgage rates, they still haven’t started to fall.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 17, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on real estate market, USPAP and contracts, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. It looks like the change is starting because of increasing mortgage interest rates. The number of potential buyers will decrease as rates go up in many markets.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

New FHA ROV Policy By Dave Towne, May 3, 2024 Excerpts: Up until recently, there has never been a standardized policy for mortgage loan related Reconsideration of Value (ROV) requests after an appraisal has been submitted. Now there is, per the attached PDF HUD/FHA mortgage letter. The mortgage loan officer handling the loan?

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Appraisal Today

MAY 17, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Geographic Data and Comps, effect of renovation on value, very low foreclosures now, current real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = = $99.5M For buyers, I tell them to look for these homes for sale. baths, 45,000 sq.ft.,

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Birmingham Appraisal

MARCH 21, 2023

Over the past several years we had a big increase in demand due to buyers taking advantage of lower interest rates. Since the housing crash in 2008, there has been limited new construction of homes which has negatively impacted the amount of housing supply. When there are more buyers, but a limited supply, this can drive prices up.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 26, 2023

Highlighted in this report are the average sale prices for single-family, condominiums, and multi-family homes in Massachusetts along with the number of homes listed for sale, placed under contract, and price adjustments. Pending Home Sales (contracts accepted) The number of homes placed under contract declined 20.8%

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 15, 2022

Rates dropped to historic lows to keep buyers buying, prompting an influx of new applications and re-finances as obtaining a mortgage was more affordable than ever. Sellers kept listing, albeit, at a much slower pace, and buyers were buying at the highest rate in over 15 years, absorbing inventory faster than ever.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A buyer gets a seller’s disclosure statement for that information. Mortgage interest rates ALWAYS go up and down. Values are so high that buyers are putting a lot of money down to lower the monthly payment as much as they can. For example, I’m appraising a Victorian built before 1910. I understand.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

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 Some appraisers feel that lenders should not provide them with the purchase and sale contract.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JULY 7, 2022

These factors, as well as others, have an impact on home values because it affects buyer and seller behavior. If a buyer paid ‘X’ amount for a property similar to the one being appraised then other buyers will probably pay a similar price for the subject property.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

My comments : The big push to cut down on appraisal turn times because of the appraisal shortage is Very Old News since mortgage volume has plummeted. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Find out why not.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If you look back, the macroeconomic stuff is tied back to the fact that when COVID initially hit it slowed things down even further and this is after we were already trying to catch up from the significant downturn in 2008, so there is so much more demand than there is supply today.

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