Housing Wire
APRIL 21, 2025
U.S. home sellers offered concessions to buyers in near-record numbers during the first quarter of 2025 as rising housing costs , high mortgage rates and growing economic uncertainty continued to reshape the real estate landscape. According to a new report from Redfin , 44.4% of home sales from January through March included concessions such as money toward repairs, closing costs or mortgage rate buydowns.
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 22, 2025
Single-family home prices increased 1.4% in the first quarter compared with the second quarter and were up 5.2% compared with the first quarter of 2024, according to Fannie Maes home price index. The pace of home price growth has been fairly steady during the past year, the firm says, but is expected to moderate in 2025 and 2026. In 2024, national home price growth reached 5.8%.
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Housing Wire
APRIL 17, 2025
Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management , has an audacious plan to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without congressional approval. The proposal involves the federal government forgiving hundreds of billions of dollars while also reducing capital requirements. As a result, Ackman claims the plan would boost the stock prices of both companies to the $30 range without putting upward pressure on mortgage rates.
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 16, 2025
A jump in mortgage rates led to mortgage application volume falling 8.5% during the week ended April 11, according to the Mortgage Bankers Associations (MBA) Weekly Applications Survey. Applications for refinances dropped 12% compared with the previous week but were up 68% compared with the same week one year ago. Applications for purchases fell 5% compared with the previous week but were up 13% compared with the same week one year ago.
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Sacramento Appraisal Blog
APRIL 16, 2025
Concessions are a tractor beam to entice buyers. Until they’re not. At some point they simply stop working, and prices have to be lowered. Let’s talk about this, and I have some new visuals to show which price points are growing and shrinking. FIVE BEERS ON ME TONIGHT I’m recording a live podcast in Downtown […] The post When concessions stop working first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.
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George Dell
APRIL 21, 2025
Why are adjustments a problem? The concept is simple. How does a typical buyer react (with a number), to a particular feature? For example, it seems to be easy to judge a persons reaction to a house which is, say, 15% bigger. Economists use what is called apreference function to analyze this. This concept is […] The post A New Adjustments Problem?
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 17, 2025
Housing starts stalled in March on tariff and trade-war concerns, dropping 11.4% compared with February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.324 million, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. However, housing starts were up 1.9% compared with March 2024. Starts of detached, single-family homes were at a rate of 940,000, down 14.2% compared with February.
Sacramento Appraisal Blog
APRIL 22, 2025
The housing market has some of the worst sales numbers we’ve ever seen, but that’s not the vibe at the very highest prices. Today, I want to talk about the strength we’re seeing in the luxury market in Sacramento, and I’d love to hear from others around the country. Are you seeing a similar dynamic? […] The post Weak does NOT describe the high-end market first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.
Miller Samuel
APRIL 18, 2025
My friend and Chicago appraiser colleague Michael Hobbs interviewed me for a two-part podcast: “The PahrooZings Podcast showcases inspiring appraisers and professionals who are field-leaders. I met Michael through our membership in RAC , a group of the best residential appraisers in the US. Im a past president (2017-2018) and very much appreciate the knowledge and insights my membership has given me.
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Inman
APRIL 21, 2025
Stephen Brobeck, senior fellow at the Consumer Policy Center, examines competing interests and competing policies to determine which will benefit consumers.
Housing Wire
APRIL 18, 2025
Marc Trachtenberg chairman and CEO of Silk Title Company has spent a career in mortgage and title insurance companies finding ways to break from the status quo, creating innovative, forward-thinking solutions along the way. He doesnt plan to stop any time soon. He actively searches for new and groundbreaking ways to improve his companies and inject innovation and creativity into the industry.
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 17, 2025
Mortgage rates increased this week, as market volatility continued, with the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) at 6.83%, up from 6.62% last week, according to Freddie Macs Primary Mortgage Market Survey. A year ago at this time, the average rate for a 30-year was 7.1%. Looking at the bright side, Sam Khater, chief economist for Freddie Mac, notes that the 30-year has been below 7% for 13 consecutive weeks.
Eyes on Housing
APRIL 17, 2025
Constrained housing affordability conditions due to elevated interest rates, rising construction costs and labor shortages led to a reduction in housing production in March. Overall housing starts decreased 11.4% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.32 million units, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and.
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Appraiserblogs
APRIL 18, 2025
History of waste, fraud & abuse at this rogue organization… Fannie Mae reported this week it had fired more than 100 employees for unethical conduct, including facilitation of fraud. Expect more such news as the truth emerges about this organizations activities over the past half-decade. At the beginning of the decade, under the protective camouflage of its federal conservatorship and Covid-19, Fannie began eliminating critical checks and balances in a radical experiment with U.S. tax
Inman
APRIL 18, 2025
Broker Joseph Santini offers 10 truths about real estate that will put you on the right track and save you some time on your path to success.
Housing Wire
APRIL 21, 2025
A majority of agents believe 2025 is going to be a great year for the housing market, with 85% saying they have an optimistic outlook , and 70% believing the market will be more stable, according to a new survey from Clever Real Estate. Although agents are split on whether its going to be a buyers market or a sellers market, 87% of agents predict that demand will remain very strong over the next year.
Real Estate News
APRIL 16, 2025
Anytime we limit access, it limits opportunities, an eXp exec said during a livestream highlighting ethical issues with the push into private inventory.
Portland Appraisal Blog
APRIL 20, 2025
Via Unsplash We are wrapping up our annual reviews of the various housing segments in the Portland, Oregon region with a consideration of manufactured homes. We will restrict our attention to manufactured homes permanently affixed to land that is also owned by the same party. This means we are excluding classic mobile home parks where the owner of the mobile home must pay a lease/lot rental fee.
Inman
APRIL 16, 2025
New Inman contributor and marketing strategist Alyssa Stalker offers great ideas for stepping up your spring content marketing and drawing in buyers and sellers.
Housing Wire
APRIL 18, 2025
Patrick Stone, the founder and chairman of Williston Financial Group (WFG), is celebrating 50 years in the real estate industry a milestone that coincides with the 15th anniversary of WFG, which he launched in the wake of the Great Recession. Its surreal, Stone said. I started in April of 1975. I never thought Id still be at it five decades later, but I love this business the people, the challenge, the evolution of it all.
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 16, 2025
Last fall, we put out a call for nominations for our first inaugural Buzzy Awards. We wanted to recognize outstanding appraisers and firms and others in the industry from around the country. In this episode, host Hal Humphreys chats with the winner of the Content Creator of the Year. They’ll share the origin story behind one of the first-ever appraisal industry podcasts, reflect on thousands of episodes’ worth of wisdom, and give us a look at what the future holds for appraisers in a
Real Estate News
APRIL 16, 2025
Chris Kelly is eager to move past the challenges of the past 18 months and focus on unifying and growing the company, with agents and consumers at the core.
Eyes on Housing
APRIL 21, 2025
In a previous post, NAHB analyzed where builders and remodelers purchased products, regardless of who ultimately purchases them (themselves or subcontractors). In this post, the question shifts to who is most often responsible for the choice of particular products. When averaging over all 24 building product categories, 60% of builders report they had the most.
Inman
APRIL 17, 2025
In a time when womens financial independence is more important than ever, coach Melanie Klein writes, real estate offers an exciting, dynamic pathway to success.
Housing Wire
APRIL 21, 2025
Homebuyers paid an average of $4,661 in closing costs on purchase mortgages last year, according to a new report from LodeStar Software Solutions. The company released its first-ever purchase mortgage closing cost report. The findings showed that, on average, closing costs represented 1.06% of home sale prices at the national level. The median percentage came in slightly lower at 0.88%.
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 21, 2025
Truework , which offers income and employment verification solutions to the mortgage industry, is being acquired by Checkr, a $5 billion HR platform that helps companies like Kia, OpenAI and Birkenstock. Terms of the deal were not divulged. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The deal allows Checkr to expand into an adjacent multi-billion dollar mortgage and lending market and further accelerates its growth in the enterpris
Real Estate News
APRIL 19, 2025
The Georgia case joins a handful of others as agents argue they are being forced to pay unnecessary association fees to gain access to listings.
GoForrmz
APRIL 17, 2025
Digital tools for a faster, leaner workforce Mobile teams thrive on momentum, but paper-based workflows constantly interrupt that flow. Whether its chasing down lost paperwork, manually calculating time logs, or waiting to turn in forms back at the office, inefficiencies stack up fast. Digital forms offer a more innovative, faster way to handle the day-to-day tasks that keep field teams productive.
Inman
APRIL 16, 2025
As we navigate the whirlwind of opinions around seller choice, private listings and portal response, we want to hear from you.
Housing Wire
APRIL 18, 2025
Nearly half of real estate transactions reviewed in the first quarter of 2025 showed signs of potential wire and title fraud, according to a report from FundingShield. The company analyzed a portfolio of residential , commercial and business-purpose loans totaling approximately $80 billion. It found that 46.8% of these transactions contained issues that could lead to fraud, with each problematic loan averaging 2.5 errors the highest number on record.
Appraisal Buzz
APRIL 23, 2025
Data nerds get ready! Today, Hal and Jim are joined by Chase Pursley, founder of Appraisal Inbox and JobsinAppraisal.com, who recently took a deep dive into Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) data. Were talking demographics, licensing trends, and the fascinating rabbit holes that only a true appraisal enthusiast could uncover. Is the appraiser shortage fact or fiction?
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