Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Sellers are hibernating. It’s been striking to see sellers sitting back so far in 2023, and it’s really starting to create more competition for buyers. Let’s talk about it. Scroll by topic or digest slowly.

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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. Mortgage interest rates The unrelenting Fed policies to combat inflation will eventually instigate an economic recession sometime in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. Between 2018 and 2023, homeowners insurance rates in Louisiana jumped 24.9%, according to an analysis by S&P Global. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates jumped 21.2%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Going more in-depth than a Fed meeting, our virtual Housing Market Update event provides you with the strategy-building insights needed to operate in 2024. It’s a savagely unhealthy housing market out there, and these economists unpack what that means for you. Register for the virtual event on Dec.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2024

Active weekly housing inventory growth slowed slightly last week, but it’s still running at a healthier clip than in 2023. Weekly housing inventory data We’ve now had back-to-back weeks of healthy housing inventory growth and spring 2024 is much healthier than spring 2023. Last year, we never hit that target.

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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. in April 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). That mild correction has played out, with an emphasis on mild.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Bright MLS released its National Housing Market Outlook on Wednesday, which shows that affordability will remain the biggest challenge for homebuyers next year. However, market activity is still projected to remain well below typical levels. million, up 12% from 2023’s 4.1 million in 2023. million in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last year at this time, we were seeing surprising home buyer demand with rates having fallen to the low 6s. We still see more sellers than last year. The housing market data has been changing very rapidly this year. Inventory There are now 498,000 single-family homes available unsold on the market around the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to avoid the start of the busy spring buying season and list their properties closer to the midpoint of the year, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. If mortgage rates follow, that could bring another surge of buyers later this year.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

It is nearly April, which means temperatures in the Austin metropolitan area are heating up — and so is the housing market. The market is still strong,” said Wendy Cash, a broker at Austin area-based Century 21 Hellmann Stribling. Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. 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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. Here’s what that buyer behavior in the second half of 2022 is telling us about two key retail market trends in 2023: 1.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Last year was a tough one for the Indiana real estate market. Sales from 2022 to 2023 were down 14%,” Mark Fischer, the CEO of the Indiana Realtors Association , said. “We In mid-June 2023, the statewide 90-day average Altos Market Action Index score hit a high for year of 53.99, before sliding down to a trough of 40.03

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Buying a house was obtainable only for the haves in 2023 as home prices and mortgage rates soared. 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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Debt-ceiling drama pushed bond yields up last week, taking mortgage rates to a new 2023 high in the middle of the spring home-selling season. Active housing inventory , thankfully, saw some decent growth last week. Mortgage rates rose to a 2023 year high of 7.12% as the debt ceiling talks pushed bond yields higher.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

We’ve been a sellers’ market here for at least the past eight years, but probably closer to 10 or 11.“ On the existing-home market , agents say the lack of inventory is due to a rate-lock effect, as homeowners with mortgage rates at 5% or below are reluctant to give up their rate unless a major life change necessitates a move.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2024

compared with February, but remain approximately 16% lower compared with March 2023. But unlike housing markets of the past, this market isn’t being driven by low mortgage rates or low home prices – the current trickle of sales is coming mainly from people who are facing life events that require them to sell their homes and move.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

“Most of the demand is coming from first-time buyers,” Trevor Levin, a local agent with Los Angeles-based Nourmand & Associates , said. Nationwide, the share of buyers who are first-time buyers has risen in recent months. Nationwide, the share of buyers who are first-time buyers has risen in recent months.

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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. It is keeping the pressure on buyers to shop wisely,” Kent Redding, a local Berkshire Hathaway Home Services agent, said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. In 2023, we had one big bounce in sales and then sales trended lower all year long as mortgage rates went from 6% to 8%. million units, down 1.7%

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Indianapolis, which had 880,600 residents as of July 2022, offers a very strong and steady real estate market that attracts buyers looking for a more affordable lifestyle. 10, 2023. “The The market in Indianapolis is very cyclical,” Carrie Holle, Realtor and principal of the Carrie Holle Group with Compass , told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

My advice to sellers is to price your home fairly,” Chen Zhao, economic research lead at Redfin, said in a statement. Even though sellers are getting top dollar at the moment, they should price competitively to attract buyers from the start and avoid having to drop their price as stubbornly high mortgage rates eat into buying budgets.

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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. But after this week’s report, we should have a low-level base formed for housing to stabilize.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Millennials replaced baby boomers as the largest group of homebuyers in 2023. The generational tug-of-war between millennials and baby boomers continued this year, with millennials rebounding to capture the largest share of home buyers,” Jessica Lautz, NAR deputy chief economist and vice president of research, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov. So the fact that housing demand stabilized and inventory is now negative year over year needs the context that 2022 was a once-in-a-lifetime event. As you can see in the chart below, 2023 inventory growth is very slow compared to 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last June, the Federal Reserve said it wanted a housing reset , which meant it wanted higher mortgage rates to destroy the housing market. Today, the Federal Reserve achieved its primary goal; the days on the market are now above 30 days, which was the most important data line to get housing back to somewhat normal.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

But while rates have dropped, the housing market has continued to be challenged by low inventory levels. “Spring sellers should start getting their home ready for sale, keeping in mind that it took longer than expected to prep.” ” Surging rates ahead? . ” Surging rates ahead? In addition, 11 U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Perhaps the most striking detail gleaned from a HousingWire analysis of millions of single-family purchase mortgages is how much more homebuyers had to pay in 2023 compared to 2022. The rapid run-up in mortgage rates after years of low rates was a shock to buyers and a disincentive for prospective sellers to list their homes.

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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

MARCH 13, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Tsai works with both homebuyers and tenants and while he says his business is typically split 50/50 between buyers and tenants, he has noticed a shift as mortgage rates have risen over the past six months.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. This change in buyer expectations is adding to the slowness right now. Up to 36.6%

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