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Mortgage rates surge to highest level since 2000

Housing Wire

“The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has hit the highest level since the year 2000,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist said. These headwinds are causing both buyers and sellers to hold out for better circumstances.” Other indices showed significantly higher mortgage rates this week.

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Tight credit, high rates and low inventory add to buyers’ affordability struggles 

Housing Wire

This is compounding the challenges for potential home buyers and the origination market alike, Walden said. According to the report, purchase credit scores in April were the highest on record, dating back to 2000, when Black Knight first started tracking the metric.

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Working with buyers in the nation’s hottest housing market

Housing Wire

Jay Garrett, a loan officer at Supreme Lending ’s McClellan Branch in Austin, said he is seeing 10 to 40 offers on houses no matter where they are in Austin, and cash offers are winning the day because sellers don’t want to have to worry about the house appraising too low for someone who needs financing. “If

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You can’t buy what’s not for sale in the housing market

Housing Wire

And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. In most markets, the seller, or supplier, makes their decision about adding supply to the market independent of the buyer, or source of demand, and their decision to buy. Homer Simpson or Spock?

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Illinois homebuyer files commission lawsuit against @properties

Housing Wire

The suit takes aim at the National Association of Realtor’s Participation Rule which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list a property on a NAR affiliated MLS. As with all of the other commission lawsuits, Tuccori’s suit is seeking class action status.

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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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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. That kind of drawn-out timetable is typical for the majority of western nations that use the auctioneer system where a seller works with one, perhaps two, auctioneers. fee to the seller. An additional $6,400.