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Working with buyers in the nation’s hottest housing market

Housing Wire

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. If they get a higher offer that has financing, then when appraisal comes back, the buyer is going to renegotiate the sales price to be closer to appraised value.”. Garrett said aside from cash buyers, he also has clients who have money to offset any appraisal gap.

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Annual home-price growth cooled further in February

Housing Wire

Inventory has remained low as sellers are locked into their low mortgage rates, even as many home buyers are turned away from this market due to affordability constraints amid volatile mortgage rates,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement. The 10-city home price index also posted a 0.4%

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Mortgage applications dipped 6% continuing 3-week decline

Housing Wire

Weakening economic outlook, high inflation and affordability challenges took a toll on buyer demand, leading to a drop in both purchase and refi applications last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, declined 6.3%

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U.S. Housing Market Collapse? Nowhere in Sight

Empire Appraisal Group

Housing Market Collapse? Housing Market Collapse? The housing market has taken a few hits, such as a doubling of mortgage rates in 2022, but it remains solid even if legitimate news providers suggest doom and gloom. housing market is suffering some cracks, but an outright collapse is nowhere in sight.

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Why the US MLS system is the envy of other countries

Housing Wire

As an Irish immigrant to the United States in 1996 who became a real estate broker in 2000, I can tell you this: The U.S. They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers. Home buyers like my mother and father outside the U.S. experience.

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What’s The Leaven Causing Home Prices to Rise Today?

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

On many of my appraisals at that time, my opinion of value would not support the contract price. Perhaps they were drinking the Kool-Aid that some are drinking today, that market value is whatever the purchase price is. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid that any contract price is reflective of market value.

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Home sales will only get worse next year before rebounding in 2024

Housing Wire

The forecast for the housing market is expected to get gloomier next year before rebounding to 2022 levels in 2024. The mortgage market is projected to slip further, however, to $1.74 With rates at escalated levels, it is affecting home buyers facing affordability challenges. . million in 2022 before dropping to 4.42

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