Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

. “The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. ” 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. To top it all off, we started 2022 at all-time lows, forcing bidding action everywhere until mortgage rates rose. And we aren’t talking about your grandfather’s mortgage rates rising; we went from 2.5% Image by Brandon Johnson/HW Media.).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

below its 2006 peak. In addition, homebuyers are continuing to enjoy low mortgage rates , boosting the demand for homes even higher. 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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 is projected to have the most home sales since the 2006 housing bubble, with the U.S. Slowing down the pace, Miller said, is the average interest rate on a 30-year-fixed rate mortgage — 3.09% by late October, according to Freddie Mac , after it hovered below 3% for most of 2021. on pace for 6.29

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With the Experts network, prospective sellers are matched with an expert who has relevant experience selling similar properties in their building or neighborhood, StreetEasy said. The National Association of Mortgage Brokers has been advocating for mortgage brokers for almost 50 years. Presented by: NAMB.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

That’s nearly 200,000 above the previous peak in 2006. iBuying has opened up a completely new path for sellers. Mortgage marketers that convincingly communicate that they can meet that core need, and demonstrate how they do that, win. Talk to us about your perspective on how this practice applies in the mortgage business.

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Cornerstone

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s an ideal time for sellers to take advantage. Sellers who may have been reluctant to list in the past few years are now considering it. Increasing prices also indicate increasing home values, allowing a seller to tap into thousands of dollars in equity gains. The Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) now sits at 125.4

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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. Listing essentially requires sellers to trade in their pandemic-era rates of 2-3% for the current rates hovering in the high 6%-low 7% range.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After over a decade of serving buyers and sellers in New Hampshire, Lamacchia Realty is in the process of opening their first branch office in The Granite State! We are very excited to serve dramatically more homebuyers and sellers in the Southern New Hampshire market and in time grow all the way up the state with additional offices.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the issues with existing home inventory has been that, for the most part, a traditional seller is usually a buyer of a home. The 2005 bankruptcy reform laws and the 2010 Qualified Mortgage laws, once passed, created an expansion that has produced the highest quality homeowners in our lifetime. New listings are declining now.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

Since its establishment in 2006, Lamacchia Realty has been dedicated to serving the needs of both buyers and sellers. Lamacchia Realty was also ranked number one as the number one independent brokerage in Worcester County with the highest sales volume and the highest number of closed transactions for all of 2023.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 8, 2024

Joselin Malkhasian is a REALTOR® working with both buyers and sellers in the Greater Boston Area. To learn more about Cristina, click here: Cristina Coppola Jeffrey Harris is a seasoned Residential and Commercial Realtor®️ with a track record spanning back to 2006. To learn more about Paul Dubuque, click here.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.   Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to educating consumers on programs such as  Buydowns ,  Assumable Mortgages , and offering tools like the  Offer Now  Program.  

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.   Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to its unique selling tools for consumers, like  Buydowns ,  Assumable Mortgages , and the  Offer Now  Program.  

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Clear Capital

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It also featured Allen Middleman, senior vice president at Freedom Mortgage; A.B. men’s olympic basketball team from 2006 to 2010. The pair discuss Luke’s background, his journey to founding Clever Real Estate, how Clever’s platform helps homebuyers and sellers alike, and more. Brent Nyitray, CFO at Ark Mortgage.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.   Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to educating consumers on programs such as  Buydowns ,  Assumable Mortgages , and offering tools like the   Offer Now  Program.  

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

John Millen Director of Business Development Since its establishment in 2006, Lamacchia Realty has been dedicated to serving the needs of both buyers and sellers. Congratulations to our dedicated Lamacchia agents, our exceptional staff, and the incredible clients who played a key role in making it happen again!"

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 6, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006. Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to its unique selling tools for consumers, like Buydowns , Assumable Mortgages , and the  Offer Now  Program.  

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.   Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to educating consumers on programs such as  Buydowns ,  Assumable Mortgages , and offering tools like the  Offer Now  Program.  

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006. Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to its unique selling tools for consumers, like Buydowns , Assumable Mortgages , and the  Offer Now  Program.  

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The housing sector — especially real estate and mortgage — has seen significant layoffs , while the general economy will create more than 4 million jobs in 2022. Then we had the biggest mortgage rate shock in recent history and yet even with that, we will have over 5 million total home sales this year. Production falls. Home sales.

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Appraisal Today

JULY 21, 2023

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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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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. billion and a 27.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Mortgage rates. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023?

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. But we should ask: Why is inventory so much lower now if purchase application data is at 2009 levels — a period in time when inventory was rising noticeably in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009? The housing market shifted in March of this year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

Home prices have skyrocketed in the past year, and data from Redfin backs up what buyers, sellers, and agents have known for months. Mortgage rates have also jumped to north of 3% ; at its current pace, the Mortgage Bankers Association is forecasting rates will reach nearly 3.5% The national average of home prices rose 14.4%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $1.6 The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $1.3 The slowing effect on the housing market of the higher mortgage rate environment has been largely predictable, and home prices appear to have already begun trending downward.”. million in 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

As a consequence, the number of real estate, mortgage and general housing tech firms to make the annual Inc. Homelight , a platform for homebuyers and sellers, was No. Mortgage origination platform Maxwell , which was in the top 200 last year and a HW Tech 100 award winner in 2021, was ranked No. 5000 edition.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Steep competition stirred in part by low mortgage rates, demographic factors and an improving economy is pushing home prices up at the strongest pace in decades, with sales happening at lightning speed and often for well above list price, noted Zillow Economist Matthew Speakman. from April 2020 as every region recorded a price increase.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

My comments : The big push to cut down on appraisal turn times because of the appraisal shortage is Very Old News since mortgage volume has plummeted. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Redfin, on the other hand, has had agents as employees since Glenn Kelman founded it in Seattle in 2006. Living on commissions often means getting paid more for convincing a buyer to increase their acceptable price range or coaxing a seller to hold out for a more lucrative deal. Realogy bought ZipRealty for $166 million in 2014.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How the mortgage industry is working together to make housing more affordable. Redfin said its real estate agents have helped clients in Seattle and the Bay Area buy and sell homes since 2006, with a listing fee as low as 1%. In the Bay Area, RedfinNow is now available to homeowners in the East Bay and South San Jose areas.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A few months ago, I wrote that the new home sales sector is at risk because of rising mortgage rates. 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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

The Fannie Mae report projects “strong deceleration in home-price growth going forward” due to higher mortgage rates and the overall slowing economy affecting purchase demand. Overall, annual mortgage origination levels are expected to be $2.8 By comparison, home-price growth was 17.8% in 2021, Freddie Mac reports. The Beige Book.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

With rates trying to reach equilibrium after their nosedive in 2020, everyone has had to accept that pandemic-era rates are a thing of the past and therefore higher monthly mortgage payments are here to stay. There were 71,149 homes listed on the market compared to 2022, which had 87,536. The opposite is happening now.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

The attempt to restore equilibrium in interest rates, following their drastic drop in 2020, brought about then of pandemic-induced rates, resulting in a sustained presence of higher monthly mortgage payments. However, a significant portion of the decrease is also linked to the persistently low inventory levels due to a lack of sellers.

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