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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. The Federal Reserve did not like the homebuying atmosphere during COVID-9, especially the non-contingent buying contracts. Outside of that time period, everything else from 1982 to 2023 was normal.

Inventory 540
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US home prices hit record level (again)

Housing Wire

below its 2006 peak. For-sale inventory levels charted their fourth consecutive monthly increase in August, and sellers appear to be taking a less aggressive approach when putting their homes on the market. 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

Often, the MLS mentions that the sellers will fill in the pool, but I don’t know if that has ever happened. The sellers originally bought the land for $12 million back in 2010. The national foreclosure activity total in Q2 2023 was 65 percent below the pre-recession average of 278,912 per quarter from Q1 2006 to Q3 2007.

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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. Built in 1961 (renovated in 2006 by architect Hal Hayes), 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2100 sq.ft. percent from 0.6

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Home sales are going to nosedive in 2023, Fannie Mae says

Housing Wire

Given the ongoing tension between potential homebuyers and home-sellers at the moment, we believe the pace of sales is likely to slow even further, too,” he added. annualized in the third quarter of 2022 due to strong net export and inventory investment activity, before contracting 0.7% contraction in real GDP in 2023.

Contracts 417
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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. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs decreased to 4.55

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Are new home sales flagging a recession?

Housing Wire

I know some people don’t agree with me on this, but the price gains in both the existing home and new home sales sector show that homebuilders and sellers had too much pricing power and needed to be checked. Still, the existing home sales market has an active seller who decides to sell their home to buy another one or rent.