Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

CoreLogic released its final three-year housing and mortgage outlook report for the year on Thursday, and if numbers hold up, the data company predicts 2021 will maintain its unprecedented sales and record low mortgage rates as the economy continues to recover. On average, CoreLogic predicts mortgage rates to sit closer to 3.2%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Elevated mortgage rates and high home prices pushed sales of existing homes down again in October to the lowest monthly pace since August 2010. Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. The homeownership rate for Black Americans has actually declined between 2010 and 2020 and stands at 43.4%, while the homeownership rate for white Americans is 72.1%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Before that, you have to go back to October 2010 to find total sales this low.” Even though mortgage rates are still double what they were a year ago, they are down from their November peaks. Buyers have started adjusting their expectations and are ready to get back into the market,” Sturtevant said. year over year to $359,000.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

All year, the strength of homebuyer demand and the tight supply of homes for sale has meant that the market pretty rapidly found a floor on the home-price correction of 2022. After the mortgage rate spike in September 2022, we got significantly more bearish on home prices for 2023. If mortgage rates increase to the 7.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Up from 45% last year and a notable increase from 37% in 2021, the report also mentioned that this share of first-time homebuyers likely hasn’t been this high since 2010, when there was a first-time homebuyer tax credit. It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

But they could delegate that responsibility to community-based nonprofit entities, such as community development financial institutions, minority depository institutions, housing counseling agencies or community development credit unions. The bill would not require that states contract with such groups, however.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Higher mortgage rates continued to impact home sales over the last month, with existing home sales declining in September for the eighth consecutive month, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). . regions experiencing month over month contractions. . regions experiencing month over month contractions.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

UAD originated in 2010 and since then we appraisers are accustomed to using codes like “C4,” “N;Res,” and “1200sf0sfin” in our mortgage appraisal reports to communicate the results of our analysis. It all starts with the standard appraisal forms used in the mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Even though the builders are going to stop producing new single-family homes that aren’t already under contracted, they need to have the labor to finish the homes that have been started on or under contract and not started on yet. The economic data was getting better in late 2019, and in February of 2020, housing broke out.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Seattle area housing market right now reads like a mystery novel with half the pages missing. The optimism comes from signals in economic data that show improving conditions and a likely end to rising mortgage rates in the coming months – a story that we are all looking forward to reading. units, a 13-year low. higher YoY.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the family’s income has been cut by almost half and inflation has increased their expenses, Wilen’s primary concern is his mortgage. In 2015, the family paid $250,000 for a 2,900-square-foot house in Ormond Beach, Florida. “They’ve had a manageable budget due to mortgage forbearance. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

He started contracting with home mortgage lenders to appraise the value of the property tied to a loan. “It I have always been good with numbers, and I enjoy looking at houses,” he said. But DeZarn was an independent contractor business of one, and he lost his clients in 2008 when the housing market imploded.

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 13, 2021

Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions. Concerned about a housing market crash? SUMMARY: Coming off a record year, the Houston real estate market started 2021 in a seller’s market. In addition, mortgage rates are at an all-time low. Worried about missing out on a boom?

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But that popularity did not translate into a sale, and the stately dwelling returned to the market more recently in 2021 for $35 million. Most recently, the 2010 build became one of the most expensive homes on the market when it hit the market in early August at the greatly reduced $26 million listing price. 28 Year low.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At what point will mortgage interest rates peak? Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Memories of the Great Recession still linger for anyone linked to the real estate industry – including the estimated seven million households that lost their homes to foreclosures around 2008-2010. Adjustable-rate mortgages were cheap and easy to acquire, home prices were artificially inflated and supply plentiful.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

The Inevitable Cyclicality of Mortgage Lending. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on declining mortgage loans, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. Conch Shell House in Mexico on the island of Isla Mujeres. Purchase vs. refi appraisals.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 22, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Fannie March Update, Bias and not using time adjustments, Climate change effects on risk and values, answer your phone if you want more appraisal business, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Mortgage applications decreased 1.6 baths, 17,878 sq.ft.,

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Cornerstone

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In the past few months, it’s become commonplace for an appraisal to come back under a home’s contract price. As CoreLogic’s Chief Appraiser Shawn Telford explains : “Recently, we observed buyers paying prices above listing price and higher than the market data available to appraisers can support. Get your questions answered now.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Seattle/King County housing market appears to have come through the worst of times with a slightly stronger showing in January than in previous months. Annual sales across King County totaled 21,515 homes – down an incredible 24% from the year before and the fewest since 2010 (20,761). higher than January 2023. 1; that’s 2.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are starting to see all of those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Unfortunately for buyers, a combination of the typical seasonal trend and higher borrowing costs has slowed housing market activity to an excruciatingly slow pace – and there are concerning signs ahead.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There is a feeling of Halloween in the real estate world because this housing market is a bit scary these days. The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. Scary, indeed, but are these signs of a pending housing recession? “I There are 7.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Prospective buyers and sellers watched this one out from the sidelines, leading to King County sales activity hitting lows not seen since 2010 at the heart of the housing crises. Any one of those risks could cascade into other parts of the market and tip the economy into recession.” homes – yes, still a seller’s market.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 15, 2023

Variations between the two years are stark, to say the least: A “re-evaluation” for future buyers can be defined as consumers determining when to jump (or jump back) into the home-search pool as mortgage rates appear stuck around 7.0%. Mortgage rates are high, home prices are high, there’s no inventory.” on the Eastside. drop (542).

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

DID SOMEBODY SAY, ‘HOUSING BUBBLE?’. Are we in a housing bubble? The housing market has become bubbly,” said economist Enrique Martinez-Garcia of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He was one of the authors of a recent report that found signs of a housing bubble in the real estate market.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For 34 consecutive months ending in March, buyers enjoyed mortgage interest rates of 4.0% Sellers, meantime, could put nearly any home on the market and expect a reaction of irrational exuberance from financially sound consumers submitting high-priced offers without buyer-favorable contingencies. What’s next? in the first half of 2022.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2023

Can the housing market cope with rising demand? Our state is among five out West experiencing the greatest undersupply of housing in the nation (California, Colorado, Utah and Oregon are just ahead of Washington on the list.) mortgage holders considered “equity rich” – with 50% or more equity in their homes – fell in Q1 to 47.2%

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Quicken Loans

APRIL 12, 2021

Foreclosure purchases thrived in 2009-2010 when a recession-battered housing market hit its peak foreclosure rate. Foreclosure happens when a borrower fails to pay their mortgage payments and the lender or mortgage investor must repossess the home. Increased Mortgage Payments.

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Assurance Financial

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The real estate market has fluctuated significantly over the past few decades, with a median sales price difference of $195,900 in the last 20 years alone. With these constant housing market shifts, it can be challenging to determine the best time to buy or sell a house. What Is a Buyer’s Market?

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 11, 2022

The spring housing market will include a trio of indicators – all rising. Mortgage rates have risen by about 1.6 Rates have a small chance to top out before hitting 5% and a good chance of topping out before hitting 6%,” said Matthew Graham, chief operating officer at Mortgage News Daily. “It THE IMPACT OF SURGING RATES.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“That’s a triple whammy hitting potential homebuyers,” notes Len Kiefer, deputy chief economist at Freddie Mac, which buys many of our mortgage loans from lenders. People are looking at higher prices, there’s slim pickings in inventory and now we have higher mortgage rates.”. market in the last decade, reported FilterBuy.com.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That median figure is the smallest measure for a home since 2010 and marks a reversal after a brief increase during the post-Covid building boom. >> We are starting to see all those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Home prices are overheating, mortgage rates are inching up from the start of the year and the supply of homes is in an unseasonable valley – far from its Mt. Today, 37% of all buyers are Millennials and they comprise about 54% of all mortgage applications. Icon is on a mission to change the way we house the homeless and others.

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