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Umpa commission lawsuit defendants look to get case dismissed

Housing Wire

District Court for the Western District of Missouri , the lawsuit is named after its lead plaintiff, Maryland home seller Daniel Umpa. Due to how HomeServices and its affiliates handle their client contracts, if a dispute arises, each client is entitled to individual arbitration of their claims. Filed in late 2023 in the U.S.

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The new home sales recession continues

Housing Wire

The housing market is in a recession, something that the homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors now agree with me on, as this recent CNBC clip shows. can’t have a credit sales boom like we saw from 2002-2005. This means we won’t be working from record-breaking demand of high sales like we did at the peak of 2005.

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Price Adjustments in Florida Rise Rapidly

Lamacchia Realty

Source Inventory rises when more sellers are listing than buyers are buying. The chart below shows the median time to contract, which is the number of days it takes for the property to be considered off the market. When there are market changes it often takes sellers time to first realize it and then be willing to accept it.

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Anthony’s 2022 Predictions

Lamacchia Realty

In fact, our REALTORS had multiple properties that had over 30 offers! From offering dramatically over asking price, putting down massive deposits, waiving home inspection contingencies or not doing home inspections at all, waiving mortgage contingencies, agreeing to close whenever sellers want, and more. But not in 2021.

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Price Adjustments in this New Housing Market

Lamacchia Realty

For the past few years, with inventory at historically low levels , sellers were coming pretty close to naming their price and buyers were paying. The low rates made it possible to offer more on a home as the cost of borrowing was lower and therefore, sellers weren’t the ones competing, buyers were. The same will be true for sellers.

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2021 Massachusetts Year in Review

Lamacchia Realty

Below is a graph that illustrates home sales per year since 2005. Below is a graph that illustrates monthly home prices since 2005. Prices very clearly skyrocketed in 2021 when compared to previous years, again because demand was so high and supply was so low, sellers could almost name their price. 2021 Sales by Month.

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When Will This Market Change?

Lamacchia Realty

Sellers kept listing, albeit, at a much slower pace, and buyers were buying at the highest rate in over 15 years, absorbing inventory faster than ever. A housing crash on a chart looks like what you see in January of 2005-January of 2007; that spike in available inventory of homes for sale means supply is high and demand is low.