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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

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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US home prices hit record level (again)

Housing Wire

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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Value of a Pool for Homes?

Appraisal Today

This likely has to do with the cost of building a pool, cost of maintaining a pool, and even larger parcels at higher ranges – not to mention buyers at higher price points expecting a pool more often. In contrast, pools hardly exist in some locations, so it’s less of a factor because buyers don’t expect a pool. Listed for $42.5

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NAR: Appraisal License Equivalency Credit for RE Agents?

Appraisal Today

Counseling buyers, sellers, owners, and tenants on inspections and remediations, improvements, and the appraisal process. Counseling buyers, sellers, owners, and tenants about listing and offering prices, and market rent. I got it mostly for MLS access and have only done one sale, representing the buyer.

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VA Approves Desktops and Exterior-Only Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Excerpts: Lending was not very prudent prior to the crash of 2008 as suggested by the trend in the median credit score (FICO), a measure for credit worthiness; for newly originated first-time purchase mortgages the median FICO score was 686 in Q1 2006 versus 740 in Q4 2020. For more details and graphs, click here. percent from 5.74

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The evolution of the more productive real estate agent 

Housing Wire

Just how we do contracts now is so much faster. The back end systems, when we are listing something or putting something under contract, it is all just very seamless. We did have faxes, it wasn’t the beginning of time, but everything is almost instantaneous now.”. Brokerages Invest in Tech. Real estate agents are busier than ever. “I

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8 Signs of a Possible Real Estate Bubble or Burst

McKissock

Traditional buyers are replaced by new ones (investors). When traditional buyers are replaced by new buyers who are starting to invest in real estate, this is an indication of a possible bubble. Use of creative financing such as seller contracts.