Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

That year, they accounted for 39% of all buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors , pushing millennials out of the top spot for the first time since 2014. Even as many boomers remain in the long-term renter pool, they were also the nation’s largest demographic of homebuyers in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. The share is collected monthly in the Realtors Confidence Index and includes buyers who purchased primary homes, vacation homes and investors. One such measure is who is entering the market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He testified that, in most cases, homebuyers would be unable to include buyer agent commission costs into their financing. “My concern is buyers who are cash-constrained,” Stevens said. ” But buyers are not the only ones who benefit from the current system, according to Stevens. The D.A.N.G.E.R.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2013-2014, rates rose, and you see the lower trend in sales back then. 2022 is looking to be the first actual negative year-over-year purchase application year since 2014. We are between what we saw in 2018 — with a mild response to higher rates — and 2014, where the reaction was much more severe.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JULY 27, 2022

Do Buyers Have a Leg Up In Today’s Market? The smell of a market shift is in the air but what does this mean for the average buyer? Over the past two years, buyers have been put through the wringer. The steep rise in home prices, and the market’s competitive nature, have tested the resolve of buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

last month, still hovering near levels previously seen in 2014. “Expected home sales growth this year is still likely to be driven by first-time buyers, spurred by millennials reaching peak first-time homebuyer age,” Kan said. The group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index remained unchanged at 124.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

This is common in recent history, which has happened before in 2013/2014 and 2018/2019. We are already below 2008 levels today — not that far off the 21st century low of 2014. However, we can see a clear demand-weakness trend in 2014 and 2022. Today, home buyers already have more choices than what they had last year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., November’s numbers mark the greatest annual growth rate since February 2014 and even blew past the 8.4% as prices in November rose 9.5% nationally over the same time last year, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Notably, the market has contracted as fewer buyers can afford to purchase in today’s market with the rise in interest rates and the continual rise in home prices. One way to understand the competitiveness of the market is to look at buyers who are waiving contingencies. All cash buyers now stand at 24%. Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

2014: What they said: Housing would crash because purchase application data was down 20% year over year; adjusting to the population, it was the lowest ever. Ages 28-34 are the biggest age group ever and when you add them with move-up, move-down, cash, and investor buyers together, you have solid replacement demand.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

housing market is more tied to mortgage buyers. Unlike those two cities in Canada, we aren’t as reliant on foreign buyers to such a great extent. foreign buyers have always been less than 300,000 of total home sales for many years. We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. In addition, the U.S. Here in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

But Klir was mostly invisible to buyers’ agents. Formed in San Francisco in 2014, Opendoor stands at the vanguard of businesses that cast their lot with the instant purchase, and then resale of homes. Of those sales, Klir was the listing agent for 1,213 of the 1,613 deals, according to FMLS data.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The faster price growth is leading to affordability challenges for certain segments of buyers, and particularly for first-time homebuyers,” Kan said. “Realtors cited a combination of high demand and low inventory, which are making conditions more competitive and exerting upward pressure on prices.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

million she paid for it back in 2014. If you’re curious about the identity of the lucky buyer of Kardashian’s estate, cosmetics entrepreneur turned Youtube guru Dhar Mann is the chosen one, according to Variety. million— more than $1 million over the highest price ever paid for a home in the city. Even more impressive?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2013-2014, when rates jumped very fast, this index trended down by negative 20% year over year to hit an adjusted population all-time low in 2014. 2022 purchase application data will be the first year where this index has declined since 2014. Some historical context with previous rate increase moves in this data line.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

It generally takes about 20 to 45 days for a buyer to receive a mortgage commitment letter depending on all the conditions being met. Better.com, founded by Garg in 2014, expanded rapidly during the refi boom, but has struggled mightily since the market turned to purchase and a series of scandals.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

The spread between 30-year and ARM offerings is the widest it’s been since 2014 and within 20 basis points of an all-time high. . Potential borrowers who’ve been priced out of the housing market need to be able to compete with an increasingly growing share of cash buyers and investors who are beating them in bidding wars.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On Tuesday, according to multiple sources within the New York-headquartered mortgage lender and “power buyer,” a weekly video meeting of Knock loan officers took a turn when Robert Foos, Knock’s director of sales, told loan officers that they would receive a 33% reduction in salaries effective Jan.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Buyer’s agent commissions won’t necessarily go away Two weeks ago, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and the Residential Listing Service modified their rules starting Jan. This means a listing agent can now present their listings to the public, offering $0 buyer agent compensation. So, what will be the outcome?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

However, May’s credit availability inched to its highest level since the early days of the pandemic, but remained at 2014 levels. Compared to last year, fewer people are applying for purchase mortgages – a likely result of home prices continuing to rise and prospective buyers avoiding astronomical bidding wars.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Traditionally speaking, post-2012, inventory growth came in years where demand was weaker from mortgage buyers: 2014 and 2022. Adjusting to population, 2014 was the lowest level in the index ever, and in 2022 we have seen a noticeable hit in this index, taking it below 2008 levels. The healthy parts of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005. Think replacement buyers, the biggest youngest demographic patch in history, move-up, move-down, cash and investor buyers together — this is driving great replacement buyer demand during this period.

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Miller Samuel

MAY 4, 2019

It's been no secret that super luxury Manhattan sales have been the hardest hit segment of the market since 2014. The introduction of supertalls to the skyline has provided never before expansive views to the buyers. I was asked by the New York Post to provide a snapshot of this submarket.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Inventory has been slowly falling since 2014, so if demand picks up in 2020-2024, it can collapse to shallow levels. As you can see from this NAR report, cash buyers as a percent of sales is slightly lower now than levels in 2016. We have solid replacement buyers: people needing shelter.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A Connecticut estate made headlines in 2014 when it sold for a then-record $120 million, making it America's priciest home sale at the time. Now its owners are giving it a shot on the market for $30 million more.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

The rate of Hispanic homeownership has been inching up each year since 2014, according to U.S. The report also found that in some markets, Latino buyers are losing out because they cannot compete with institutional investors. Last year, the Hispanic homeownership rate grew to 48.4% from 47.5% Census Bureau statistics.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Below is the monthly supply of existing homes from 1999-2014, where you can clearly see the growth in monthly supply from 2006-2011. Contrast the chart above — which is NAR monthly supply data from 1999-2014 — with the chart below, which is NAR monthly supply data from 2013-2023. I believe that number is four months.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. They have to move as well, so a traditional seller is a buyer most of the time when it’s a primary resident owner. However, as we all know, after 2020, things are just more intense. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

No buyer must use a real estate agent — ever. A meaningful percentage of buyers did not hire a real estate agent when they bought their last home. RealTrends + Harris Insights ‘ studies from 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2019 all show that consumers know that commissions are negotiable.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

One thing is certain: potential buyers of all ages are not happy about the current market conditions. It can be stressful enough when the markets are regular, like they were from 2014-to 2019. history: move-up buyers, move-down buyers with a lot of cash, investors and all-cash buyers. So what is going on here?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

One thing is certain: potential buyers of all ages are not happy about the current market conditions. It can be stressful enough when the markets are regular, like they were from 2014-to 2019. history: move-up buyers, move-down buyers with a lot of cash, investors and all-cash buyers. So what is going on here?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

It became one of the fastest-growing brokerages at the time in Canada, and then I sold that in 2014, and moved to the U.S. For us, it’s all about creating one streamlined experience for whatever that agent is doing with buyers or sellers. The agent and the buyers get all these alerts for listings, but 90% of them are irrelevant.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

We expect this additional capital to accelerate our growth as we help cash-constrained homeowners and home buyers build financial stability and achieve their financial dreams,” Lim said. Last year, investor Redwood and Point, the latter founded in 2014, completed a first-of-its- kind securitization backed by HEI contracts.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The last time we had total inventory growth was back in 2014 when we tried to get back to 2.5 Even though mortgage rates are historically low, they still always matter because mortgage buyers are the biggest homebuyers in America. I use the 1.52-1.93 We still have some legs to move lower in sales.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Tracking the 10-year yield and mortgage rates are essential for housing inventory because when rates fall, buyer demand gets better, allowing more homes to be bought and getting a lid on inventory growth, which we have seen since 2012.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. Opendoor set out on its disruptive journey in 2014, and Offerpad followed soon after in 2015.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

For a potential buyer, the deal could be a way to replicate another success in the industry: the acquisition of Ellie Mae , a company founded in 1997 to automate and digitize the residential mortgage industry. . However, analysts have a target price for the company in the next 12 months over $80, an upside of around 18%.

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