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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

From NAR Research : “Total existing-home sales notched a minor contraction of 0.4% With mortgage rates rising, 2022 has seen the most significant housing inflationary event in recent modern history as the total cost to buy a home took a historic run higher, one that is for the record books. However, it’s not the market of 2002-2011.

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Builders apply the brakes amid canceled contracts

Housing Wire

However, for the first time in recent modern-day history — due to supply chain issues and other factors — housing completion data has lagged behind housing permits and starts. For the builders, they have a new problem: they had homes under contract and then mortgage rates jumped in the biggest fashion ever recorded in history.

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A Guide to Houston’s Best Ranches & Farms On The Market

Houston Properties

The Houston Properties Team has a database of over 30,000 Houston “buyers in waiting” that we’ve been building since 2002. A detailed list of anything you feel you are buying needs to be a part of the contract. Meanwhile, the average Houston agent’s database has less than 250 buyers. 6 Farms and Ranches to Visit in Houston.

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Appraisers and Local Market Analysis

Appraisal Today

It’s a modern Cape with two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs,” Maiser says. percent – the highest level since 2002,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) increased to 6.94

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SFR with ADU or Two Units?

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, VA, flood and fires no insurance, retirement, few lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination $22M Modern Mansion on 130 Acres in Napa Has Its Own Cabernet Vineyard Excerpts: 6 bedrooms, 6.5+ percent from 11.0 percent from 0.4

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FED’S ACTIONS TAKE STEAM OUT OF HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

We are now seeing “7s” in front of some rates to new mortgage consumers – a figure not seen since April 2002 – causing applications for new loans to hit a 25-year low this month. ( If you don’t mind seeing the neighbor’s house nearby , there are peek-a-boo Lake Washington views and stunning, modern designs inside and out.