Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At as of March 6, 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

Real Estate Exchange (REX) filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday in federal court against Zillow , accusing the company of anticompetitive behavior related to showing certain homes on its platform. Trulia and the National Association of Realtors are also named in the suit. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour. billion visits.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors can usually count on their biggest season being spring, followed by summer, but nothing about 2020 has been normal, including home-buying patterns. With shut-down orders in the spring, summer became the new home-buying season, but homebuyers were still incredibly active in August. Over the last four weeks ending on Sept.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to Zillow ’s annual predictions, Indianapolis will be the fourth-hottest real estate market of 2024, thanks to its solid economy, housing inventory, affordability and pent-up demand. The top three spots in the ranking were Buffalo, New York, and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. The real estate market As of Jan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Moderation in mortgage rates led to a pickup in demand for residential real estate, but limited inventories across the country hindered actual home sales , the Federal Reserve reported in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts that was published Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

“I think one of the major trends we are seeing is that our overall inventory is up 60% year over year compared to 2023,” said PJ Smith, president of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and the broker-owner of Naples Golf to Gulf Real Estate. “We Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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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 First, more buyers are using agents in 2023 than in 2003. Second, buyer agreements are not new. Reffkin’s confidence came from what he called “five facts.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

million existing homes were sold, according to the National Association of Realtors. High borrowing costs simultaneously pushed rate-sensitive buyers to the sidelines while handcuffing current homeowners to their historically low mortgage rates. On the bright side, new listings rose 2.2% In 2023, only 4.09 With the U.S.

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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 We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.”

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Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 3, 2023

NEWS & MEDIA Bilanol/Getty Images Plus Source: [link] Study: Real Estate Hot in Hurricane Ian-Hit Areas By Kerry Smith Storms rarely have a long-term effect on the local real estate market. Cape Coral-Fort Myers listings dropped for two months after Ian but rose for the six after that. FORT MYERS, Fla.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

But like the temperatures, which are far from the triple-digit figures the residents of the Texas state capital will see in the coming months, local real estate professionals say that even though the market is warming up, it is nowhere near the frenzy at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

If you sold a home and paid a commission to a real estate agent, you may be part of class action settlements,” the postcards read. We’ve signed 47 new listings year to date, and we’ve had plenty of conversations with other sellers that we didn’t sign, but there are a lot more conversations surrounding transparency,” Posnick said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

million, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Friday. December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. from November to a pace of 4.02 A total of 5.03

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Berg told ALTA One attendees that they should be particularly wary of escrow account “shenanigans” and that they need to keep tabs on how builders and real estate agents are shifting funds around through escrow accounts. Our realtor partners are hurting,” Berg said. It is brute force.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors Confidence Index Survey for April reveals how hot the housing market is. Per the report, homes that sold had five offers on average , and nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16. The pandemic continues to impact how people live and work.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This is a demand-driven slowdown, because new listings supply is still running 9% to 10% fewer homes for sale each week than this time last year. We’re seeing fewer new sellers each week, but inventory is building as homebuyers wait to see if mortgage rates will come down to make purchases more affordable. from last week.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

according to data released Friday by the National Association of Realtors. The Federal Reserve has had to drastically raise interest rates to quell inflation, which has resulted in far fewer buyers and even fewer sellers.”. The new normal for mortgage rates could be around 7% for a while,” Yun added. “On in September.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

year over year, largely on the back of pent-up demand from buyers who were unable to strike deals during the spring, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. “We Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

million, according to the N ational Association of Realtors. Prospective home buyers experienced another difficult month due to the persistent lack of housing inventory and the highest mortgage rates in a generation,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. Existing-home sales dropped 4.1% Looking at the four major U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

bidding-war rate Redfin saw in June 2020, when the housing market was starting to rebound from a temporary standstill triggered by pandemic shutdowns, said Laura Sechrist Molenda, a Redfin real estate agent based in Southern California. But recently, we’ve started to see buyers get cold feet. million and 1.92 million to 5.61

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the virus has had anything but a negative impact on real estate in El Paso. According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. Thank goodness Realtors were deemed essential.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

drop in November , according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. There is a high demand for housing and a great number of would-be buyers, and therefore sales should rise with more new listings,” Yun said. Real Estate Tech Demo Day. pending home sales dipped to the tune of 0.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. According to the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors , the number of houses for sale in 2020 was down 47.5% The KAAR also said housing inventory dropped for six straight months to start the new year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. This change in buyer expectations is adding to the slowness right now. The price of the new listings is more volatile each week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2020

Rather than a typically busy spring home-buying season , the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the bulk of home-buying this year into the summer months, and real estate agents are busier than ever. Since homebuying season was pushed back from this spring, realtor.com ’s Housing Market Recovery Index reported that August is the new May.

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s been a wild ride for Texas real estate this year! Navigating Texas Real Estate with Rising Interest Rates We’re heading into Q4 of a tough year for the real estate market. Here are five of the biggest change in the Texas Real Estate market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors , said last month that he expected momentum to carry over from the end of 2020. Home sales continue to ascend in the first month of the year, as buyers quickly snatched up virtually every new listing coming on the market.” year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. According to the Hilton Head Area Association of Realtors , the median home sale price jumped 15.3% Bluffton, South Carolina. However, this growth has come at a cost. in 2021 to $330,745. “It

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

If you’re in the real estate industry, you certainly know that the average time from mortgage application to closing has been hovering around 50 days. It’s not a point of pride or badge of honor for any mortgage, title, real estate or valuation firm.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The one thing that is positive this year which is different than last year is new listing data is rising year over year, nothing spectacular, but it’s a positive story for housing This means we have more sellers that will be buyers in 2024. Historically, going back to 1982, the average inventory range is between 2 and 2.5

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The region’s real estate scene in 2023 will be remembered for rising home prices and scant new listings. Buyers and sellers tiptoed through caution. As the year dims, all eyes fixate on 2024’s potential: a hopeful dance fueled by dreams of lower rates and a wave of new homes for sale. Um, bye-bye!

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Listing Spark

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As we enter into 2024, we are stepping out of one of the most turbulent years for real estate in Texas in some time. On the heels of the largest run up in home values in recorded history, we saw an abrupt and heavy shift that’s been challenging to grapple with for sellers and buyers. trillion compared to $2.75

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

.” Homes for sale are still being snatched up quickly throughout the country, but a recent slowdown in bidding wars may signal some buyer fatigue in the housing market. New listings are also up 4% year over year, meaning more properties are hitting the housing market for buyers to bid on. in May and a peak of 74.1%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 Existing home sales have more legs to go lower, especially now that new listing data is falling. Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues.

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PennyMac

JULY 20, 2021

Whether you are buying or selling a home, your real estate agent will be your partner through one of the most significant transactions of your life. Here are 12 questions that will help you avoid the bad actors in your search for a great real estate agent. How long have you been working as a real estate agent?

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 21, 2023

november 2023 south florida housing report Broward County In November of 2023, Broward County single-family homes as well as c ondos/townhomes saw decreases in closed sales and pending sales, but increases in average price and new listings. What does this mean for Buyers ? What’s happening in the market?

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