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Builders apply the brakes amid canceled contracts

Housing Wire

However, for the first time in recent modern-day history — due to supply chain issues and other factors — housing completion data has lagged behind housing permits and starts. For this reason, the number of housing units “under construction” is the largest ever recorded in history because they were taking so long to finish.

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. That’s the most since 2007. Just when signs were looking up for an increase in new listings and more inventory, the tap was moved back to near shut. A drying up of listings sent inventory figures lower. in July, and condo inventories were 1.0,

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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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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. years, according to recent data, when it was only about five years just before the housing market crash of 2007. And, opening this year, Graystone.

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Appraisers and Local Market Analysis

Appraisal Today

Inventory levels. The vault is constructed with 4-foot-thick, reinforced concrete walls and is plumbed for a fire suppression system. It’s a modern Cape with two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs,” Maiser says. It started in 2007 in Vacaville, near Sacramento, CA. So, what metrics are worth watching? This 7,200 sq.ft.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A Another 1350 are under construction with delivery in the next two years, including the high-end Avenue Bellevue. This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” million sq. The potent combo of rising U.S.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. >> The lack of inventory to keep real estate moving is confirmed with the latest data on U.S. We are on the right track. million units. existing home sales.