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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 million Historically inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5 Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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VA Approves Desktops and Exterior-Only Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Fannie: Learn how valuation modernization is changing collateral underwriting – Video, 1 hour, 23 minutes. Excerpt from emailed notice: “Valuation Modernization: New perspectives on collateral underwriting” is a must-see for underwriters and appraisal reviewers. For more details and graphs, click here. To read more, click here.

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B billion tax fraud scheme. Owners with conservation easements can claim an income tax deduction.

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Appraisers and Local Market Analysis

Appraisal Today

Inventory levels. It’s a modern Cape with two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs,” Maiser says. But what will happen in the future when buyers say they paid too much or lenders say the appraisal was too high or not USPAP compliant for appraisals you did in the past? It started in 2007 in Vacaville, near Sacramento, CA.

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FED’S ACTIONS TAKE STEAM OUT OF HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

Waller went on to say this adjustment is in no way like the horrific housing/financial crises of 2007-2010. At least buyers will have more options and time to weigh their decision to purchase a home – but at what cost to the bottom line? The next 12-24 months are likely going to be quite a challenge for prospective buyers.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. That percentage was last seen in September 2007 – yes, at the start of the housing crisis (as the chart shows).

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

That’s the most since 2007. The Institute outlined four ways innovative builders could accommodate the emerging buyer wants: Immersion into nature. Here’s a negotiating tactic that you may not have thought of: Sellers who “spy” on buyers when they are visiting the home. BY THE NUMBERS. >> Buyers secured 3.8 That’s fair.