Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. After failing from 2012-2019, they went all in during 2020 due to COVID-19, only to move the goalpost to 2021 due to forbearance. What a year 2021 has been.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As mortgage rates rose to nearly 7% and builder sentiment dipped to painfully low levels in September, housing starts also declined, dropping 8.1% Soaring interest rates took hold of the housing market in September, with rates climbing towards 7%,” Nicole Bachaud, an economist at Zillow , said in a statement. from August and 15.7%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Everywhere you look there seems to be bad news for the existing-home market — interest rates remain north of 7% and the median home price nears record levels at more than $410,000 as of June. below 4%) and today’s current market rates has created a so-called “lock-in effect.” That shortage is estimated to range from 1.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued its downward spiral in October, hitting its lowest level since August 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Three other indices monitored by the NAHB also posted declines in October.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Homebuilder sentiment dropped yet again in December, hitting its lowest reading since mid-2012, with the exception of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. In December, builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes fell two points compared to November.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At the end of the fourth quarter, the index stood at its lowest level since the NAHB began tracking the data on a consistent basis in 2012. In addition, Q4 also saw average mortgage rates reach a series high of 6.80%. On the other end of the spectrum, Salinas, California was the least affordable small housing market, with just 5.0%

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Looking at the housing market in the years 2020-2024, one risk i identified early on was that home prices could accelerate more in this period than we saw in the previous expansion if inventory channels broke to all-time lows. housing market as savagely unhealthy. Over the last two and a half years of U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

To be honest here, the new home sales market is stuck for now. It gives an idea of what to expect for housing construction. months and below, this is an excellent market for the builders. months, this is an OK market for the builders. months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. When supply is 6.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

At its Annual event Wednesday, Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni forecast that interest rates could rise in the year to come, but that they will remain near all-time lows. The chart below shows interest rates for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will end this year at about 3% and could hit around 3.3%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The homeownership rate in Texas rose to an all-time high of 70% in the third quarter, exceeding the national metric for the first time since 2012, according to a report from the Texas A&M Real Estate Center. The report said that thanks to record low mortgage rates , new home transactions increased over 8%. According to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose two points to 85 in October – the highest score the series has ever recorded since its inception 35 years ago and the second month in its history the score broke 80. How 2020 continues to impact mortgage closings. Presented by: Altisource.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The effects of low housing inventory continue to cause significant ripples in the housing market, as a recent Redfin report shows home sale prices across the country have reached an average of $344,625 — an all-time high, and an 18% increase year over year. But the current prices aren’t deterring homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

billion hit the market in the first two weeks of 2022, HousingWire reported last week , but that’s already old news. Since then, another nine private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings valued at $4.6 And it’s likely that even more deals will come to market prior to month’s end. billion have unfolded.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

The low amount of existing homes left on the market continued to experience overheated prices from consistent competition. For the NAR, this is a record high and marks 111 straight months of year-over-year gains since March 2012. The market’s outlook, however, is encouraging. from May 2020 ($283,500). months in May 2020.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A few months ago, I wrote that the new home sales sector is at risk because of rising mortgage rates. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. The market is savagely unhealthy and needs balance; this is what we call balance!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This is in contrast to the existing home sales market, which I would say is outperforming. With the recent growth in sales, the new home sales market is just OK and has been for some time. Now the new home sales market had a monthly supply spike this year, but it stabilized. months, this is an OK market for the builders.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 14, 2023

The opening months of the Seattle/King County housing market can best be expressed as sparks of activity within a mostly tentative purchasing environment. Sellers who priced their homes appropriately enjoyed busy open houses in their first weekend on the market followed by multiple offers. decline over the 12 months ending March 2012.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Through the class certification, hundreds of thousands of home sellers in four MLS markets in Missouri can ask the defendants, which include Keller Williams , RE/MAX , HomeServices of America and its subsidiaries BHH Affiliates and HSF Affiliates , as well as Realogy/Anywhere and NAR, to be reimbursed for the $1.3 in California.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As we can see below, housing permits are not overheating like we saw in the last few years during the housing bubble years where mortgage credit was facilitated by exotic loan debt structures. Slow and steady wins this race, and as long as you’re not looking for a massive construction boom, you won’t be walking in the wrong path.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amid rising land and construction costs, permits for single-family homes in King County slowed in the third quarter to 940, down 7.8% Who said this is a sellers’ market? Perhaps it’s truly a builders’ market. Lot availability is at multi-decade lows and the construction industry currently has more than 330,000 open positions.”.

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Today’s market isn’t like the boom-bust cycle leading up to the Great Recession: Tough loan standards are the norm, plus many factors have kept housing supply low. Exuberant buying – with multiple offers and bidding wars – has become common across the country, reminiscent of the fevered market before the 2008 housing crash. MCLEAN, Va.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 2023

Each month, this blog will publish a fresh assessment of the King County area housing market. A patch of foul weather and persistent economic challenges chilled an already cold housing market. The market traditionally slows in December to enjoy holiday parties, family gatherings and vacations, but this market chill is unprecedented.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Non-lender appraisals, dealing with lender hassles, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = $36M Beachfront Beauty on Maui Hawaii Excerpts: What exactly makes this oceanside manse on Maui so desirable? Investor purchases of U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 15, 2023

The market has, ahem , evolved in the four years since. After a pandemic-induced free-for-all, where newly listed homes could be off the market in hours and prices soared into a stratosphere more recognizable by the Blue Angels, we are now “enjoying” a period of rest and re-evaluation in summer 2023. on the Eastside.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The world of construction appears to be one of the only commodity-based industries yet to become truly efficient in the production of homes, office space and specialty structures. Robert Gordon, a noted Northwestern University economist, estimates the construction industry recorded negative productivity growth around the turn of this century.

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Annarbor Appraisal

APRIL 9, 2020

Not that long ago, the United States in general experienced a significant decline in property sales prices due to the Great Recession and the mortgage market fallout. Price increases both with single-family houses and condominium units started in 2012 in earnest. Agents in my market are largely optimistic.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I also have some market recap visuals to unpack what’s been happening in 2024 so far. The truth is there are portions of 2021 and 2022 where prices are exactly the same as today too, so if I use an older comp, I don’t always need to adjust for the way the market has changed. Market conditions is the easiest adjustment to make.

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 12, 2022

Houston Real Estate Market Forecast: Current Data & 2022 Predictions. Concerned about a housing market crash? 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). Days on Market: 107.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Liability, Bias, reviewers with little experience, GSE modernization, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. acre lot A spectacular midcentury modern home, cantilevered 16 feet in the air, recently hit the market for $3 million in Oakland, CA.

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Homeowners Are More Apt to Stay Put With interest rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage still high, home prices holding steady and inventory still low, many homeowners plan to stay put, optimizing or expanding their existing square footage. After slowing from 2012 to 2014, spec building has picked up, due to an uptick in migration.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

Housing affordability decreased in 45 of the 50 states from 2012 to 2019. Look at the green states of Idaho, Nevada and Utah on the 2012 map; they have seen housing affordability plummet by 2019, skipping past the yellow category to brown in less than a decade. percentage points. POTENTIAL TAX SAVINGS.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

“The share of first-time buyers has dropped to a 41-year low [26%], the racial divide in homeownership has grown to the widest point in a decade and the share of single women entering [the market] has declined.” NAR’s Housing Affordability Index is a good measure of whether a household earns enough to qualify for a mortgage on a typical home.

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The Robert Weiler Company

MARCH 15, 2021

Built on land that was once home to the Sunshine Terrace 11-story tower, part of the Riverside Bradley public housing complex was torn down in 2012 to make way for the innovative undertaking. That’s why special purpose property appraisals and commercial mortgage preapprovals are vital to your ultimate (buy) decision.

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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. housing market needs 3.8 Rainier-esque peak of a decade past!

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Houston Properties

OCTOBER 1, 2021

See why the 2020-2021 housing market saw a boom during a year of human misery. Contact me for a list of recommended mortgage providers and what (who) to avoid. Contact Paige Martin at Paige@HoustonProperties.com for great mortgage banking recommendations. . See more details on the COVID impact on Houston. We have great lenders.

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Clear Capital

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And they hadn’t hit that that wall that we experience more on the mortgage side — all the compliance reasons why you can’t do that. And, with some of the changes and even like California — some of the zoning changes — allowing for more multifamily construction in what has been traditionally single-family areas.

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