Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Presently, the demand for existing homes outpaces the available supply, raising potential concerns for both sellers and buyers. Employing targeted marketing strategies is equally vital to optimize exposure to potential buyers, minimize days on the market, and maximize the final sales price.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Only from 2006-2011 did we see this break due to forced sellers who couldn’t buy homes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Simonsen founded Altos Research in 2006. With data specific to your local market like this, agents can become local experts and answer their buyers and sellers questions faster. In 15 years, the data analytics company has grown into a titan of data. Altos reports on 99% of zip codes in the United States.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the DOJ, the United States filed a complaint alleging that UBS “defrauded investors” by making false and misleading statements to buyers of 40 RMBS issued in 2006 and 2007 relating to the characteristics of the loans. “The settlement has been fully provisioned in prior periods,” UBS said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The writer in the Economist says, “…either the fat fee [real estate commission] inflates the house price, or the buyer ends up paying a similar fee when he or she sells.” This is from the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal, “Ninety percent of transactions offer buyer agent commissions of exactly 3%.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The faster price growth is leading to affordability challenges for certain segments of buyers, and particularly for first-time homebuyers,” Kan said. “Realtors cited a combination of high demand and low inventory, which are making conditions more competitive and exerting upward pressure on prices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is a strong purchase market and the uptick in inventory is bringing back some buyers who pulled back during peak frenzy.”. For all of 2021, we expect that existing home sales will be the strongest since 2006 despite widespread tight supply conditions in most local markets.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Homebuyer , an Ohio-based software startup offering digital mortgages to first-time home buyers, announced on Monday it had snagged $1.4 million first-time home buyers every year in the United States,” said Green. “First-time home buyers are an important and overlooked segment of the U.S. “There are 2.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

to the highest level since 2006. Despite these rising prices, the underlying demand for owner-occupied homes remains strong, and with record shortages of existing homes for sale , prospective buyers are shifting to new homes. Presented by: MCT. While total sales fell over the month, homes sold-but-not-yet-started jumped by 16.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Existing home sales came in at a whopping 6,850,000 , beating estimates with the highest print since 2006. Cash buyers remain at a historically high level of 19%, the same as last year, while sales grew 26.6% Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. year over year. The housing market is hot.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2021

A National Association of Realtors’ report from 2020’s end found the highest volume of home sales since 2006. The result, Fairweather said, is a cycle with no sign of letting up, where “Buyers are scrambling to complete for the limited number of homes on the market, which continues to drive home prices up to new heights.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The buyers are coming in because of the low interest rates – that’s the No. It was the highest sales level since 2006 and the biggest monthly increase on record. 1 reason,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors said in an interview with HousingWire. million in July, NAR said in an Aug.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Declining mortgage rates could have improved affordability for buyers in the housing market in February, but instead spurred a demand that, combined with a persistent lack of inventory across the U.S., put more pressure on home prices. In February, it took 33.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

from its former high in July 2006, and was up 8.4% “The market is incredibly swift this winter with the listed homes going under contract on average at less than a month due to a backlog of buyers wanting to take advantage of record-low mortgage rates,” Yun said. The National Index is now up 24.5% year over year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

The 12% home price gain is the highest recorded increase since February of 2006. “This data remains consistent with the hypothesis that COVID-19 has encouraged potential buyer to move from urban apartments to suburban homes,” Lazzara said. in January. It’s the ninth straight month of increasing prices.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Homes remain much more affordable in 2021 than they were during the home price runup in 2005 and 2006, but the seven-month trend in deteriorating affordability is starting to gradually slow demand. Auction.com buyer Steve Johnson purchases and renovates distressed homes in Georgia and Tennessee. Homebuyers Losing Heart.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

But — in the same beat — Caporale added, “There is still a massive influx of buyers, and I am not seeing a significant drop in demand.” 2021 is projected to have the most home sales since the 2006 housing bubble, with the U.S. There’s buyer fatigue and real questions about affordability.” on pace for 6.29 July was the plateau.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The one period where this didn’t happen was from 2006-2011, when credit forced Americans to sell, to rent or to be homeless. From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Also, this is what the Federal Reserve wants.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

After months of fending off an unsolicited takeover bid by two of its significant investors, CoreLogic today confirmed that it is looking for a buyer. “In CNBC also cited a source that said CoreLogic “has already signed a non-disclosure agreement with at least one potential buyer.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The recent new home sales data is at levels last seen in 2006, with monthly supply data back down to the low levels when new home sales data was really good. Except this time around, we do not have speculation buyers and a credit bubble — just good demographics and low mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

below its 2006 peak. Additionally, there are move-up buyers with larger budgets who are relocating to more affordable areas where they’re financially able to outbid local residents. Home prices in 19 of our 20 cities now stand at all-time highs, with the sole outlier (Chicago) only 0.3%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Below is the monthly supply of existing homes from 1999-2014, where you can clearly see the growth in monthly supply from 2006-2011. As you can in the chart below, the monthly supply data shows we have no forced selling action in the housing market today, unlike the 2006-2011 period. I believe that number is four months.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

No buyer must use a real estate agent — ever. A meaningful percentage of buyers did not hire a real estate agent when they bought their last home. RealTrends + Harris Insights ‘ studies from 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2019 all show that consumers know that commissions are negotiable.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The city’s housing dynamics point to strong buyer demand, which fueled a 16.8% While about 50% of the metro area’s buyers are local, an additional 17% of buyers come from other Texas cities, like Dallas and Houston. Even the crazy market we had in 2005 and 2006, it was nothing like this. 7,” Raitu said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

That’s nearly 200,000 above the previous peak in 2006. Working with buyers scrambling to compete in an insane seller’s market has become a 24/7 job; homes sell in the blink of an eye. Housing affordability is top of mind right now, and agents working with buyers are looking for any edge they can get in a hypercompetitive market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. This explains why total active listing inventory data has been stable over the decades, with the exception of 2006-2011, when those forced distressed credit home sellers couldn’t buy.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

The data captures a historic year in which the housing market cratered at the pandemic’s start only for sales to surge in the fall to their highest level since the 2006 housing bubble. Heading the RealTrends’ top 1,000 agents list – as he has for most years since 2013 – is Ben Caballero, of Dallas-based HomesUSA.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

The end of seller speculation in the housing market is long overdue and welcome news for buyers. This rise in inventory will tilt the bargaining power in these market toward buyers, and house price growth will ease. Early signs of blossoming competition for buyers are already evident in the data from Reator.com.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2021

Low mortgage rates and incredible buyer demand won out over pressure from soaring lumber prices in March as single-family new home sales rose 20.7% This is the fastest sales pace since September 2006. With so many buyers snatching up new homes at the ready, inventory fell to 3.6 from February to a 1.02 Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

This was a big reason why we saw the monthly supply data pick up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 — all before the job-loss recession happened late in 2008. Even though mortgage rates are historically low, they still always matter because mortgage buyers are the biggest homebuyers in America. We still have some legs to move lower in sales.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MAY 13, 2021

housing market is on a hot streak with double-digit annual gains in home prices, bidding wars, and surging buyer demand. The median selling price for a home is up $35,000 compared to a year ago, which is the fastest-paced increase since 2006, Tirupattur said. But this isn’t 2006. ‘This Isn’t a Bubble’.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

The last time I had four of my six recession red flags up it was 2006 and the other two came that year. Logan Mohtashami: The investor narrative has been blown out of proportion because they’re not the biggest buyers of homes in America. They will be asked this question today! Last year we had roughly 6.7

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

FSBOs made up only 7% of home sales in 2021—the lowest share since 1981—according to the latest Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers from the National Association of REALTORS®. That’s a stark contrast from 15 years earlier when 12% of sellers went the FSBO route during the 2006 housing boom, the data shows. Marketing to potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The company offers responsible homeownership options for first-time and low-to-moderate-income buyers, tools for brokers to communicate with borrowers and the support needed to serve those borrowers in a timely and effective manner. Les Acree, Executive Vice President. Keith Bilodeau, Senior Vice President.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 26, 2023

The rising rates over the past 16 months have decelerated the number of sales as buyer affordability has been greatly diminished and because sellers are hesitating to list. New Hampshire data goes back to 1998, with the highest listing Q1 was also in 2006 at 9,685 and with 2023 the lowest at 3,399.

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Cornerstone

APRIL 30, 2021

Here’s a quick recap of why selling can be a smart move this spring: Springtime normally shows an influx of buyer activity. Spring is a favorable season for move-up buyers. This includes getting prequalified for a mortgage early so a buyer is prepared to act before they start hunting. Download the infographic here.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006. Directors attend multiple meetings throughout the year which cover policy and current issues that need to be addressed within the industry. As a full-service, value-based brokerage, the company’s  mission  is to guide REALTORS®, employees, and clients to their success.

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