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How housing credit is shaping housing inventory

Housing Wire

After 2010, qualified mortgage laws were in place, meaning everyone getting a mortgage has to be able to repay the loan. Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. This is what happened post 2010: The millennials started to buy homes in 2013 and they finance 90% of those homes.

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Share of Black first-time homebuyers falls to 3%

Housing Wire

The share of Black and Asian first-time buyers is down from 6% in 2021, while the share of white first-time buyers is up from 82% and Hispanic homebuyers up from 7%. Conversely, White and Hispanic Americans experienced gains in buyer shares. million in 2010. ” The Hispanic population reached 62.5

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Circa 2010: What real estate agents need to know about kitchens and baths

Inman

Knowing these trends and being able to discuss them with buyers and sellers will give Realtors a distinct advantage. Suggesting modern features to sellers to add to their homes before listing existing properties will also give agents additional power.

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Here’s what you can expect from the 2024 housing market

Housing Wire

The number of home sales in 2023 will likely be at its lowest level since 2010, and while sales activity will pick up in 2024, transactions will still be below average. Consumers will reset their expectations, and as rates move lower, there will be both more buyers and more sellers in the market.

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Chase Home Lending increases its closing guarantee

Housing Wire

Dimon further suggested a “candid review” of the thousands of new rules implemented since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010. In just the past year, the Department of Justice has called for a full dislocation of real estate agent commissions between sellers and buyers, and new appraisal bias protections have been set up.

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Can first-time homebuyers afford homes today?

Housing Wire

Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. The share is collected monthly in the Realtors Confidence Index and includes buyers who purchased primary homes, vacation homes and investors. In March of 2022, sellers received an average of 5.5

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Existing-home sales have nowhere to go but up in 2024? 

Housing Wire

Elevated mortgage rates and high home prices pushed sales of existing homes down again in October to the lowest monthly pace since August 2010. While circumstances for buyers remain tight, home sellers have done well as prices continue to rise year-over-year, including a new all-time high for the month of October,” Yun said. “In

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