Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2% The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 Looking ahead, experts are optimistic about the spring selling season for new construction. months in December.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Against that backdrop, Zillow identified prime markets for first-time homebuyers , and half of them were nestled in the Midwest.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. 11, a decrease from last week’s 6.66%, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. 12 compared to a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.81% as of July 6, up significantly from last week ’s 6.71%. High rates combined with low inventory continue to price many potential homebuyers out of the market, added Khater.

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Eyes on Housing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Single-family built-for-rent construction accelerated at the end of 2023, as builders sought to add additional rental housing in a market facing elevated mortgage interest rates. This is more than. Read More ›

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

“The economic slowdown has resumed – whether the end result is a modest recession or simply a soft landing remains unanswered – although we continue to expect the former, as we have since April of last year, when we first made our 2023 recession call,” Doug Duncan , senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae, said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After experiencing a temporary hiccup between July 2022 to January 2023, the U.S. housing market is back on track , stronger than ever, with a total estimated value of $52 trillion, according to a new analysis by Orphe Divounguy, a senior economist at Zillow Group. housing market has surged by more than $2.6

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.9%, aligning with the Fed’s projection for 2023 of 3.8%. What to expect in the housing market ? In October, construction employment continued to trend up, adding 23,000 more jobs, aligning with the average monthly gain of 18,000 over the prior 12 months.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

The BLS jobs report data isn’t the best recession indicator, which we can all see since the recession of 2023 — forecast by so many — didn’t occur. Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. Does this mean the labor market is breaking? 9, 2020: 1.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market.

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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

MAY 7, 2024

It is shipped from the Boxabl manufacturing facility in Las Vegas and is “designed to unfold into a fully functional dwelling unit in just a few hours,” reducing construction costs and minimizing environmental impacts, according to a company news release.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Seniors largely want to remain in their own homes as they get older, and that preference could be remaking the housing market in the city of Chicago, according to a new report. The two organizations produce the quarterly Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI) report. Boomers own 35.6% of the national U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

New home sales among the “50 Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities” increased by 7% in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to a study by RCLCO Real Estate Consulting. This uptick in MPC sales represents a turnaround, pointing to the strength of the new home sales market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Economists believe that if the trend continues, the market will be able to improve in the second half of 2023. . “The latest data on the housing market show that homebuilders are pulling back the pace of new construction in response to low levels of traffic, and we expect this weakness in demand will persist in 2023, as the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 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. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best. Fortunately, it’s not all bad news.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Although market asking rents have slowed and are even declining in some markets according to data like the Realtor.com March Rental Report, it takes some time for this to be reflected in overall shelter cost trends,” Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale, said in a statement. The shelter component of the CPI came in at 5.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2024

Mortgage rates and the bond market have fallen a bit recently and the spreads between the 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rate have improved over last year’s levels. To see mortgage rates drop and stay lower, the bond market needs to know the labor market is getting softer. That’s a 0.50% difference in rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Despite recent data indicating a poor affordable housing situation in Texas , the city of Houston must return $45 million in unused affordable housing funds to the state after failing to use them for construction of new homes. Instead, the city failed to begin construction on the homes in a timely manner.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Housing starts had an epic beat Tuesday, which usually means the data will get revised lower at some point, but one thing is for sure: the housing starts and new home sales sector came to throw shade at the 2023 recession crowd. However, the housing market dynamics changed on Nov. economy into a recession. On to the report! This is 14.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

economy in 2023, an average monthly gain of 225,000, according to the BLS. Even though the headline jobs numbers beat estimates, the internals of the jobs report show that the labor market is slowing down,” HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami said. “We Economists were expecting an addition of 170,000 jobs. That’s less than the 4.8

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Economists at Fannie Mae say the Federal Reserve ‘s fiscal policy is having its desired effect on the housing market – home price growth began to slow in the summer, and the GSE says the housing slowdown will continue through 2023. The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $2.17 trillion in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Mortgage tech platform Modex shows the lender originated about $250 million in mortgages in 2023, compared to about $422 million the previous year. million in mortgages last year, mainly for building and construction. Meanwhile, according to the same data sources, CCBank has only 10 licensed LOs and originated only $7.5

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 17, 2023

New home sales are glowing right now in the midst of depressed volume in the resale market. Today I want to share some stats for new construction, but let’s also talk about pivoting when the market changes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The nation’s single-family investment-property sector and the lenders serving those borrowers face some major challenges in 2023 as rent growth is slipping, vacancy rates growing, home-value growth faltering, and a possible recession looms. . They include a $405.2 Approximately 36.8% Another of the planned offerings is a $485.9

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Job gains came in lower than both the 278,000 monthly average for the first half of 2023 and the 399,000 average of 2022. Employment in the construction industry continued to trend up in July, adding 19,000 jobs, especially in the residential construction space.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Go Mortgage sued its former director of capital markets for “corporate sabotage,” alleging computer fraud, violation of trade secrets, breach of contract and tortious interference with a business relationship. Chikonde is a vice president and director of capital markets with Dart Bank , a position she held since August 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are a few trends in financing that will continue to catalyze the construction of more ADUs: Expanded access to mortgage financing The Federal Housing Authority announced a new policy in October 2023 that has made it easier to finance construction of new ADUs, as well as making it more achievable to buy or refinance a house with an existing ADU.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Chinese real estate investments extend beyond their borders and if those investors suddenly need to liquidate those assets to cover losses at home , many countries real estate markets could be negatively impacted. In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This means the honey badger labor market will keep the Federal Reserve from pivoting anytime soon. . The labor market is actually running into a big theme of my economic work over the years. No country has a Dorian Gray labor market and the labor market deals with different dynamics as the baby boomers leave the workforce each year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. According to an NAR outlook, home sales are projected to rise significantly in 2024 and 2025 as the housing market steadily returns to normal. in November.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher, VRM Mortgage Services HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like? Balancing supply and demand is a delicate dance between new construction and existing properties. months as of December 2023), and implementing measures to moderate home price appreciation, fostering increased affordability.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Jacksonville’s housing market was propelled by strong tailwinds: affordability relative to the rest of the Sunshine State, Florida’s lack of income tax and the quality of life benefits of having a river and oceanfront, to name a few. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

21, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Lower rates are bringing potential homebuyers who were previously waiting on the sidelines back into the market and builders already are starting to feel the positive effects,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement. “A

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

today should be between 158 million and 159 million , or in a weaker labor market growth scenario, between 157 million and 158 million. Now let’s look at the labor market on all fronts from the data we got this week to get a comprehensive view of the labor market today. From the St.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

More importantly, he said the current environment may even holdup into 2023. “We Slower value growth will most likely occur from increased sales-inventory, which has been putting upwards pressure on prices for months now though recent housing starts data from the Census Bureau shows construction is finally playing catch-up.

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