Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. In some markets, more than 50% of active listings have experienced a price cut, according to Altos Research. According to the brokerage, 6.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2024

Here’s the new listings data for last week over the last several years: 2024: 70,665 2023: 63,236 2022: 72,009 Price-cut percentage In an average year, one-third of all homes take a price cut — this is standard housing activity. 2022: 19.2% However, for now, the labor market is getting softer, but not breaking.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

Nominations for HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award are now open through Friday, April 21, 2023. For the past three years, the HW Marketing Leaders award has recognized elite marketing execs in housing who have pushed their businesses to the top via innovative marketing strategies, creative campaigns and purpose-driven programs.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As housing affordability continues its decline, the latest analysis from First American projects home price appreciation to fall further as the booming sellers’ market seen in early 2022 has now turned in favor of homebuyers. The post Pandemic-Era Sellers’ Market Experiences Rapid Decline appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

While it’s not as clear how long-lasting the rebound will be, it does still provide some much-needed good news for the spring and summer housing market. April was the third month with a year-over-year decline in national home prices , and home prices in March were down 9% from the peak in June 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. expansion comes after Roomvu’s successful launch in Canada in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Thanks to a boom in the housing market and a historic refinance market, the past two years have been a favorable period for the mortgage market. 2022 Forecast series.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We We started to hear a lot about seller impersonation fraud early on in the year,” Tyler Adams, the CEO of CertifID, said. “We Oftentimes this leads to the discovery of vacant lots. billion, up from $6.9

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

That figure was up 5% year over year and was only 3% below the peak price of $432,496 in May 2022. In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. Major markets such as Tampa, Orlando and Dallas also posted supply growth of 20% to 30% during this period. Redfin reported that among the 10 U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

8, a slight increase from last week ’s figure of 6.63%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. The economy and labor market remain strong with wage growth outpacing inflation, which is keeping consumer spending robust,” Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Then, the mortgage industry showed why it is called a cyclical business: in the second half of 2021, the Federal Reserve signaled an increase in interest rates and an easing of the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, choking the refi market.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

The housing market boomed in 2021 like few could have expected. What is on the horizon in 2022? Things may be taking a turn for the better in 2022, though. Several real estate experts have identified this as a key aspect of the housing boom, with no signs of dissipating in 2022. Demand for New Homes Will Stay High.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

This level is still within my 2022 forecast sales range between 5.74 million and I am looking for more of the same in 2022, at the 5.74 To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 You can see why some sellers are stressed now. million and 6.16

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. They increased the Federal Funds Rate from nearly 0% at the start of 2022 to 4.5% in September 2022. The overall U.S. It did not hit 6.7%

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. These are market-based decisions.” Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says. “As

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. One caution is that this data line took a waterfall dive, wiping out seven years of growth in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

Purchase application data was up 8% weekly, and the year-over-year decline was the lowest since September 2022. Since the second half of 2022, after mortgage rates reached 6.25%, new listing data has been in a constant year-over-year decline and hasn’t recovered. The answer is no!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Stewart Title appears to be starting 2022 exactly where it left off in 2021. The fourth largest title insurance underwriter by market share announced its acquisition of Nashville-based Homeland Title on Thursday. Homeland Title has served homebuyers and sellers in middle Tennessee since 2003. This is down from 9.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Also, the volume of active listings was higher in 2022 this week, even though we were working from a lower level. However, even with that, the labor market, while getting softer, hasn’t broken yet.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Armed with data from HousingWire sister company Altos Research , we can see in minute detail how the housing market responded to the recent 7%-and-higher rate environment and what the market may see again soon. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates. in 2019-2020, 16.9-17.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement.

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Padove Appraisal Service

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The higher cost of financing a home pushed some buyers out of the market. Appraisers look at this as a gauge of the home market’s health. From January 2022 through November 2022, inventory levels were well below 6 months. The low inventory of homes for sale has led to a seller’s market and increasing prices.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. 30, 2022-Jan. 31, 2021-Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. But, in 2022, as prices in the metro rose to never-before-seen levels, things started to change.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. According to Redfin’s analysis, Austin, Texas has experienced the most rapidly cooling housing market in the nation over the last year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. The red-hot housing market of the past 2 ½ years was characterized by sub-three percent mortgage rates, fast-paced bidding wars and record-low inventory. But more recently, market conditions have done an about-face. at the end of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Everyone in the mortgage and real estate industry is well aware of the shift in the market we experienced in 2022. Most, if not all, would describe the first half of 2022 and the last half of 2022 being two vastly different markets. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. We are working from a shallow bar in this index – seven years of growth were taken away in one year in 2022. The show-me part of the housing market starts with this bounce from an extreme bottom. 9, 2022, it fits into the 30-90 day forward-looking sales data line.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Homebuyers’ median household income increased by $19,000 this year from 2022, reaching $107,000, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers. The report is an annual survey of homebuyers and sellers who closed transactions between July 2022 and June 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 3, 2022

has released its latest Market Pulse report, covering 22 listing-derived metrics and comparing data between July 2021 and July 2022. The Market Pulse is an ongoing review of proprietary data and insights from HouseCanary’s nationwide platform. “In HouseCanary, Inc.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,” By the time it sold its final home in September 2022, the division had lost more than $1.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

In addition, new listing data turned negative year over year after the second half of 2022. The affordability hit with higher mortgage rates has impacted new listings data since most sellers are buyers, thus facilitating an all-time low in new listings data. Nothing good is happening in housing when days on market are so low.

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lusky, DigitalVision, Getty Images Source: [link] FSBO Sellers Regret Not Having an Agent By Melissa Dittmann Tracey Survey: Sellers who go-it alone are twice as likely to be unsatisfied with the experience – and more likely to say their earlier opinion, “agents are overpaid,” was wrong.

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