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“It seems impossible:” Bergen County, NJ’s housing market is vexing agents and buyers

Housing Wire

70 towns, 90 new listings Local agents say the county’s tight inventory situation is largely to blame. “We We have been complaining about the lack of inventory for as long as I can remember, but then we at least had more listings,” Danny Yoon , an Edgewater, New Jersey-based Sotheby’s International Realty agent, said.

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The silver lining in the existing home sales report

Housing Wire

On Thursday the National Association of Realtors reported that we had a 23.8% Rates have gone up so fast that new listing data has declined since the end of June; this impacts supply and demand. having rates of 5% and below, you can see why some sellers are hesitant to list their homes and move. However, going from 2.5%

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Best real estate apps for agents in 2024

Housing Wire

per month Use it for: Creating professional marketing materials Apple Store Google Play Why we chose it: Founded by Australian entrepreneur Melanie Perkins in 2013, Canva is still the most popular marketing app for Realtors for a good reason: it makes creating professional marketing materials easy.

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The Cleveland Area Housing Market Was Skating Along… And Then This Happened

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

However, we have significantly fewer active listings than we did before the pandemic began. Interestingly, the number of active listings has dropped every year since at least 2013. But it appears that we have hit the bottom when it comes to active listings. We can expect more listings in the future.

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2023 Maine Year in Review

Lamacchia Realty

The frenzied market of 2021 was unsustainable, and consumers and REALTORS alike hoped for a return to normalcy. 2023 Sees the Lowest Number of Homes Listed in Twenty-Two Years In 2023, there was an 12% decrease in listings compared to 2022, with 20,546 homes listed compared to 23,342 in the previous year.

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HOUSING ‘TRIFECT’ PUTTING SQUEEZE ON BUYERS

Will Springer Realtor

also the oldest age of a first-timer ever recorded by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). building permits were granted in Seattle between 2013 and 2022, with 85K of them for multi-family construction. New York City saw the most development over the past decade, with 98% of its 242K permits comprised of multi-family units.

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