Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Roughly 80% of real estate investors surveyed are selling single-family homes at or above asking price after fully renovating the properties to make them habitable, according to a report from real estate marketplace New Western. 50%), Charlotte, NC (49%), Jacksonville, FL (48%) and Houston, TX (46%).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Housing experts expect that a boost in apartment inventory in 2024 will dampen rent growth. Real Estate Market Outlook 2024. For investors, single-family rentals have emerged as a better hedge against slowing rents than apartments in 2023. However, affordability woes will persist. and Las Vegas.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

It boils down to two factors, according to housing-industry experts: a lack of housing inventory , or supply; and high demand for that limited housing stock — which also is fueling a jump in new-home sales. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. Inventory rising, historically low.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Earlier this month, real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners raised $1 billion to acquire build-to-rent homes, bringing its total investment in the sector to $2.5 But 2024’s deals show investor interest has persisted. Sales were half that in 2023, but the commercial real estate brokerage notes that $1.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. In other markets, including the Cleveland district, low inventory levels hindered home prices from dropping further.

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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. Altos Research data shows that the weekly inventory fell from 414,278 on March 17 to 413,169 on March 24. Mortgage rates declined for the third consecutive week, sparking hope for a good homebuyers’ spring season.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

So few single-family homes are for sale in America that just two months of inventory is available across the top 100 metro areas in the country, a historic low. In Dallas, listings under $2 million have less than three months of inventory. Historically, it took these thin markets anywhere from six to 12 months to sell listed inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The world of real estate is constantly in flux, yet one thing remains true: Lead generation is one of the most important requirements for maintaining a successful real estate business. and dwindling inventory in most states, today’s brokers must get creative to keep a fresh pipeline of homebuyers coming through the door.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Institutional real estate investors — often mammoth operators with ties to Wall Street — gobbled up record amounts of inventory in almost every corner of the pandemic-induced fever dream that was the 2021 housing market, with one notable exception: distressed properties sold at foreclosure auction. Bulk Buyer Bonanza.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a result, the available inventory of homes for sale is slightly higher each week. Higher mortgage rates mean higher monthly payments, less affordability for home buyers and slightly fewer transactions. With fewer transactions, inventory is building just a bit as we approach the end of the summer.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Housing market inventory is low right now. According to the National Association of Realtors’ existing home sales report in August, inventory was down 13.4% Burns is a luxury real estate agent in Maui, Hawaii and Clark is a patent and intellectual property attorney in the Washington D.C. Historically low.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. By October 2022, it looked like 2023 would have rising inventory and falling home prices. By October 2022, it looked like 2023 would have rising inventory and falling home prices. Inventory has fallen all year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

“It’s oddly enough in states where people are leaving,” said Florida-based real estate investor Paul Lizell of the markets where he is more focused on acquiring investment properties in 2024. I’m still focusing on those markets with very low (retail) inventory. It’s very, very market dependent right now. Heat map link.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Cash buyers are pouring into the housing market this year, and they’re picking off more than half of available inventory in certain areas in Florida and New York. “I just sold a $700,000 home to a cash buyer last week. Investors, who often pay in cash, are also wading back into the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

mortgage rate, the prospective buyer with a $3,000 budget can afford a $453,000 home. In October, a buyer with the same monthly budget and a 7.8% Redfin agents report that buyers have come to terms with rates in the 6s, even if they’re double the historically low costs that buyers had during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

You can thank a rise in housing inventory for the gains. million in June 2020 as housing inventory has slowly improved in recent months. Total housing inventory at the end of June amounted to 1.25 from May’s inventory and down 18.8% ” Unsold housing inventory sits at a 2.6-month Sales climbed 22.9%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

If you were to take an inventory of deals which came out, a majority of the deals have been investor [investment property] … deals, and the prime jumbo deals have been very far and few in between.”. in 2021 were bought by institutional investors,” Lind said. “In in 2021 were bought by institutional investors,” Lind said. “So,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

“Consumers are facing much higher home prices, rising mortgage rates, and falling affordability, however, buyers are still actively in the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist. The sales for March would have been measurably higher, had there been more inventory.” from February’s inventory but down 28.2%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Online real estate marketing platform Hubzu has launched a new mobile app, available for residential real estate buyers. The app offers potential buyers tools to find, research and bid on homes via a competitive auction format. and Denver markets.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? As you can see below, the inventory keeps falling from 2014 levels, and even with the weakness in demand this year, we are nowhere close to 2013 levels, let alone 2018 levels. What is going on here?

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Robert Reffkin is confident that Compass and its agents have what it takes to continue growing and succeeding in the changing real estate environment. “In We have brought down expenses and continue to grow our agent count and inventory advantage,” Reffkin said. First, more buyers are using agents in 2023 than in 2003.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Mortgage rates hold major power in the housing industry; most importantly, high rates exacerbate the current affordability crisis by walloping the buying power of would-be buyers and discouraging some would-be sellers – those with low, fixed-rate mortgages – from listing their homes, a drain on available inventories.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

High borrowing costs simultaneously pushed rate-sensitive buyers to the sidelines while handcuffing current homeowners to their historically low mortgage rates. High rates further exacerbated the national inventory shortage and contributed to the surge in home prices. In 2023, only 4.09 On Monday, meanwhile, 97.9% With the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Buyers searching for starter homes in today’s market are on a wild goose chase because in many parts of the country, there’s no such thing as a starter home anymore,” said Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari. Austin buyers must earn $92,000, down 3.3% year over year, and Phoenix buyers must earn $86,100, down about 1%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Contrary to their portrayal as indiscriminate buyers of properties far and wide, providers of single-family rental homes are working diligently to respond to the demand for quality, affordably priced rental housing in safe, well-located neighborhoods. of the nation’s total housing inventory. Rather, large companies own less than 1.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. from the previous year ($375,300). All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the biggest questions in real estate right now is how rising interest rates will impact the housing market. More expensive money also meant fewer investors holding homes so inventory would climb too. Inventory will inch up… but not much. Price appreciation slows, and homes take longer to sell.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. That’s particularly true for mom-and-pop investors across both market segments.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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. The housing affordability crisis has pushed potential buyers to the sidelines. A healthy historical market for first-time buyers should be closer to 40%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

Chat with a few real estate agents based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — a city ninety minutes from Baltimore and two hours from Philadelphia — and a similar topic will undoubtedly emerge: the capital of the Keystone State has become one of the most popular places to move to in the entire country due to low home prices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month However, negative year-over-year inventory is not what we want to see.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In the first quarter, we saw normal seasonality in purchase opened orders with sequential improvement coming off the fourth quarter,” Fidelity CEO Mike Nolan told investors and analysts during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call on Thursday. “In The number of purchase orders opened per day was up 5% on a yearly basis. “In

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Inventory skyrocketing back toward historical norms of 2 million to 2.5 Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month

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