Listing Spark

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The real estate market is ever changing for buyers, sellers, and investors. Should you be offering concessions if you are a seller? We’ll dive into how the current real estate market is affecting buyers, sellers, and investors with Ellen Steele, a Realtor with ListingSpark that has had over $10M in sales in the last 12 months.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Speaking of surprises, a recent Zillow analysis finds most states don’t require sellers to disclose paranormal activity in the home they’re selling. I quit all residential lender appraisals in 2005 due to the cyclicality. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 7.52

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

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. The builders are in a better position to manage their inventory glut than when they were working from a credit boom in 2005 that took new home sales up to 1.4

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Sellers, it’s time to listen. Sellers could sell and relocate to an area with much lower home prices, which a friend of mine recently did. Hopefully, it won’t stay the same as long as the 2005 URAR. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA decreased to 5.20

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In 2005 I finally quit all residential lender work due to the huge ups and downs in business. However, our analysis finds multiple other plausible explanations for under valuations of this magnitude such as the greater presence of first-time homebuyers or seller concessions. In the early 1990s, my market crashed. percent from 6.39

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

This report breaks down sales, average prices, the number of active listings, and how many listings went under contract for 2023 compared to 2022 and discusses what is predicted to unfold in 2024. The number of homes placed under contract (pending), decreased by 17.7% Average prices for closed sales increased by 3.4%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If the homebuilders and homebuyers knew rates would hit 7% in 2022, many would not have taken those contracts they’re canceling now. Homebuilders are efficient sellers of homes because it’s like a commodity to them; they don’t have to look for shelter after they sell or have a 3% mortgage rate they have to give up after they sell.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 26, 2024

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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Appraisal Today

APRIL 12, 2024

40 acre lot, Built in 2005 “The village of Highlands is some of the most expensive real estate in the Carolinas,” Jackson (listing agent) says. “It However, the seller ended up taking the home off the block before the Dec. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 6.80

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 15, 2022

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.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 28, 2021

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. Home sellers are usually motivated to list when they see homes on the market that they want to buy.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I am so glad I quit doing residential lender appraisals in 2005! = That has made it hard for some individual sellers of existing homes to compete for buyers. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) increased to 6.80 I was not aware of my bias.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 27, 2023

Below is a graph that illustrates home sales per year since 2005. Sellers were still able to sell at a premium because inventory was low enough that despite rates, buyers paid what they had to. Rates don’t just impact buyers- they impact sellers too as most sellers are buyers! Prices Increased 8.7%

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 28, 2022

Homes Pending (contract accepted) – All of NH. In 2021 there were 27,131 homes listed for all of NH and 26,354 homes marked pending with accepted contracts. Seller Resources. Supply is being consumed at almost the same rate that it’s being made available, which we refer to as the Pac-Man effect. Additional Resources.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

31% of women and 27% of men signed up for Social Security at age 62 in 2018, down from around 54% of women and 50% of men in 2005, according to Social Security Administration data. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) decreased to 6.41 percent from 6.49

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Buyers will continue to outstrip sellers by a significant margin but less extreme than in 2021. Even in the housing bubble of 2005, prices rose “only” 12% nationally.) With more sellers expected to enter the market as buyer competition remains fierce, we anticipate strong home sales growth at a more sustainable pace than in 2021.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Warren Buffett, one of the biggest investors, divested all GSE holdings between 2003 and 2005. When smaller lenders and nonbank lenders look back to that time, assuming they were active sellers to the GSEs at the time, they all know where the root of the unleveled playing field came from. Then came the “Alliance Agreements.”

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