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

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the nearly two months since a Missouri jury found the real estate industry liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions, Jason Posnick has fielded a lot of questions about commissions and cooperative compensation from clients. It has been cool to hear that.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

It is extremely competitive,” DeRoussel said of the Cincinnati housing market. “We Buyers are really struggling.” According to data from Altos Research , the Cincinnati metro area (which includes portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana) currently has a Market Action Index score of 54, while the state of Ohio has a score of 55.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams , and Berkshire Hathaway are still going to court to fight the allegations. Here’s what they had to say: Value Proposition : There’s a recurring theme of agents needing to articulate their value proposition, especially when it comes to representing buyers.

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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 Both buyers and sellers are coming back to the market,” Fischer said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the commission lawsuits heat up, real estate brokers are gearing up to add buyer representation agreements and training, cut costs and hone value propositions, according to RealTrends Q4 2023 BrokerPulse survey. Another 10% are honing their value proposition , particularly as it relates to buyers’ agents.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I recently read editorials and articles by such esteemed publications as The Economist , Entrepreneur Magazine , and The Wall Street Journal concerning the antitrust real estate commission lawsuits. by 1% to 2% just by cutting the commission paid to buyer’s agents.” Aggregate data from the housing market would confirm this.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

The progression of homebuying over the past year has seen prospective buyers adjusting their preferred destination plans again, and again, and again. For a time, Colorado Springs became the de facto destination for buyers priced out of living in Denver. How borrower education can make housing more attainable.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Full-service mortgage lender Nations Lending and local Indiana real estate firm Carpenter Realtors launched a joint venture, Commitment Mortgage , in order to offer an end-to-end experience — from finding a home to closing a loan in a cooled-down housing market. “We Nations Lending originated $3.43

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Over one-third (34%) of prospective buyers have yet to purchase a home because there are not enough homes for sale in their budget, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors. The Realtor survey was sent out in late July to 55,751 randomly-selected residential Realtors.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

Critics argue that prospective homebuyers should pay real estate agents directly out of pocket — as opposed to the more common practice of the listing broker paying the buyer broker’s compensation. What those critics fail to account for are negative effects this would have on fair housing in America.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

Many are eyeing scenic East Tennessee, where Knoxville and its surrounding suburbs have formed one the country’s hottest housing markets. Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. year-over-year. .” Presented by: Radian.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. New York City, New York In many ways the spring of 2022 marked the full return of New York City and for a real estate agent like Johnson Tsai, a lead agent at REAL, this meant a massive up-tick in rental demand. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In 1983 Jim Campbell launched what is believed to be the first joint venture experiment between a real estate brokerage and a title and settlement firm. Campbell is now something of a JV guru, having completed over 80 joint ventures with real estate or lending firms. Image was created using MidJourney.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Louis-based Clever Real Estate found that recent homebuyers, as well as people who are considering a home purchase in the next year, are experiencing a laundry list of difficulties. Last month, Clever surveyed a total of 920 Americans about their views of the home purchase process and real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The long-anticipated Sitzer/Burnett class action commission lawsuit enters its first day in court on Monday, leaving real estate professionals to ponder the fate of today’s cooperation and commission practices. 6,” says Johnson, in a statement to Realtor Association communications directors. million, respectively.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 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 Housing is the cost of shelter to own the debt; it’s not an investment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Real estate agents across the country have made it clear – low inventory and low mortgage rates have kept them busy throughout the pandemic, especially in typical vacation destinations. That trend is holding true for the housing market in Hawaii, located about 2,500 miles west of the mainland.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

These are the words real estate agents use when asked to describe the current state of the market and what it’s like to buy a home today. Buyers are facing unprecedented challenges, they say, due to a confluence of housing market conditions: Pricing. So, what does this mean for buyers?

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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). This article is part of our ongoing 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. million in April.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The savagely unhealthy housing market continues to unfold as we approach Halloween. Too many people chasing too few goods — and days on the market are still under 30 days. It’s like we invited Freddy Krueger, Jason and Michael Meyers to come for a haunted housing market party. The core problem?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

And while real estate agents repping luxury homes aren’t seeing as many bidding wars as they did this summer , their respective housing markets are still crazy right now. Koch said that since this summer — typically the home-buying off-season — was busy for buyers, he thinks it will only get crazier. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2021

That’s what real estate agents are here for. Almost 90% of buyers recently used a real estate agent or broker to purchase their home, according to the National Association of Realtors. A real estate agent is a licensed professional who can guide you through the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

in April compared to March as rising mortgage rates weighed on the market, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The few markets experiencing price declines will be viewed as second-chance opportunities for buyers to enter the market if those regions continue to add jobs.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Texas residents interested in becoming a real estate agent must first complete 180 hours of approved coursework to be eligible to sit the state licensure exam. We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced a settlement agreement in the Sitzer Burnett case that would take effect in July. The settlement in no way establishes a standard or limitation on Realtors for what they may charge, nor services they elect to deliver. Here’s the truth.

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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. Home sales are expected to rise, as homebuyers will have more options to choose from.

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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. I give more details in this interview on why I believe the housing market dynamics shifted on Nov. So let’s take a look at the playbook.

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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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

year over year, suggesting a slowdown in the housing market, according to a recent report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Last year was the strongest year in the housing market for new home sales in over a decade,” he said. In 2018-2019, total housing market inventory was in the range between 1.52

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. My rule to get the housing market out of the unhealthy stage is that we need total inventory back between 1.52

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The housing market in the state of Florida saw higher median home prices, more real estate listings and a higher number of active listings during the month of January, according to data released Thursday by Florida Realtors , a state-based trade organization for real estate professionals.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

This article is part of our housing market update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Demographics still point towards a market with strong demand – the largest cohort of millennials, the largest generation in U.S. The post Has the housing market peaked?

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