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How Reverse for Purchase can help baby boomer borrowers

Housing Wire

These homeowners are seeking different retirement solutions to help allocate their home equity and make it more durable over the next 20 to 30 years. million homes bought and sold in the U.S. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) estimates that baby boomers made up roughly 39%, or 2.32 million, of those homes.

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8 Experts: Sky-High Housing Prices Won’t Fall

Empire Appraisal Group

Exuberant buying – with multiple offers and bidding wars – has become common across the country, reminiscent of the fevered market before the 2008 housing crash. Home prices nationwide increased year-over-year by 18% in July 2021, the largest annual growth that CoreLogic Home Price Index has measured in its 45-year history.

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How to Take Advantage of the Cooler Summer Market

Lamacchia Realty

For the first time in years inventory is at the same level as the year prior as depicted in the chart above, and single families are higher as depicted in the chart below. This will continue throughout the year and the number of homes will continue to increase and climb above 2021, 2020, and rise to about 2019, before-COVID levels.

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Using an Escalation Clause When Purchasing a Home

Eppraisal

If you're in the market to buy a home right now, you're probably finding out that it's not easy. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) existing home sales are -3.7% This is a direct result of the historically low inventory of homes available for sale as buyers are competing for homes.

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2024 Texas Real Estate Housing Report

Listing Spark

On the heels of the largest run up in home values in recorded history, we saw an abrupt and heavy shift that’s been challenging to grapple with for sellers and buyers. It was an inevitable end to arguably the greatest run-up in home values in history. We didn’t see a wave of panic selling like we did in 2008.

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Making the Decision to Stop Renting

Eppraisal

Today's Market Home values have been rapidly increasing over the past year. This is mostly due to the low inventory of homes available for sale. The National Association of Realtors estimates that the annual median home prices will increase by 8% in 2021 and by 5.5%

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Houston Real Estate Market Forecast: Current Data & 2022 Predictions

Houston Properties

While no one ever thinks they’ll be forced to sell in a down market, very few people predicted 9/11 (2001), Great Recession (2008), the collapse of oil prices (2014), or Hurricane Harvey (2017). This is more concerning now that 71% of Houston Realtors have sold less than 5 homes in their entire career. I May Need To Sell.