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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. Home prices ebb and flow, pricing was working in the sense that sellers met homebuyers to a degree. The last time total inventory grew was in 2014 because we had weak demand. Image by Brandon Johnson/HW Media.). Now fast forward to 2022.

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AmeriHome plans to go public – Let’s look at the numbers

Housing Wire

“Through our correspondent channel, we primarily purchase and aggregate residential mortgages from trusted third-party originators, who we refer to as ‘correspondent sellers.’ It’s a huge growth engine for AmeriHome – in 2014 the correspondent channel produced $1.9 billion in volume representing just 0.5%

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What are Millennial Homebuyers Looking For?

Raleigh Realty

According to the 2018 Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends Report, 90 percent of buyers aged 37 years and younger purchased their home through a real estate agent. These statistics are on a rapid incline, as the average amount of time spent interacting with media in 2014 was slightly over nine hours per day.

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Opinion: Can tech and iBuyers fix the real estate market?

Housing Wire

For instance, Opendoor was founded in 2014 to make buying a home more efficient – or as they say “reinvent life’s most important transaction.” Having everything in-house enables iBuyers to lower closing costs for buyers and sellers, offer real-time, 24/7 customer support and provide unique financing solutions for buyers.

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. We had a few years where sales missed expectations in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Wait, what? But we have a housing shortage, right? Once total inventory can get back into the range of 1.52

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. We had a few years where sales missed expectations in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Wait, what? But we have a housing shortage, right? Once total inventory can get back into the range of 1.52

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

SETTLEMENT FOLLOW-UP A judge has preliminarily approved the $418M antitrust class-action settlement involving sellers’ compensation to brokers/agents in residential real estate sales. home sales in 2023, the highest level since 2014. News of the settlement and its impact topped last month’s newsletter. Please wear soft-soled shoes.

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