Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

I wanted to close before May 1, so I selected a buyer who was already in underwriting. My agent exchanged a few emails with the buyer’s agent over a few minor repair requests, but this was all buttoned up very quickly. She made clear in our first conversation that the commission would only drop to 5% if she also found the buyer.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Despite several indicators of a slowing housing market, prospective home buyers should not get too excited – inventory remains limited and changes are in line with the traditional seasonal slowdown, according to RE/MAX ’s August national housing report. The report analyzes MLS data from 51 U.S. The report analyzes MLS data from 51 U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Since its founding in 2015, Richards said the majority of feedback from consumers about Flyhomes and its products has been positive, but the firm has struggled to increase its brand and value awareness among consumers. “It “This assessment is crucial to transition from the bridge loan to refinance after the sale of the departing residence.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Instead, let’s look at the future: If the 10-year yield can break under 4.34% with some kick from bond buyers, we have an excellent shot at getting under 7%. Most home sellers are buyers, and we want the new listings data to show growth year over year since it appears that we have formed a bottom in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In 2015, CoStar spent $100 million in consumer marketing to promote the revamped Apartments.com site. “I We are confident that we have built the best site possible for both the agents, and the home buyers and seller,” Florance said. as well as nearly 100,000 high schools, elementary schools and middle schools. 5 or 6 to No.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2024

So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024. 6-13): Inventory rose from 471,349 to 473,406 The inventory bottom for 2022 was 240,194 The inventory peak for 2023 is 569,898 For context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 931,002 I don’t want to jinx this because active inventory rose last year at this time. 2022 21.7%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

At issue is an NAR policy that the seller’s agent of a home must split their commission equally with a buyer agent. The pro-competitive, pro-consumer local broker marketplaces serve the best interests of buyers and sellers. NAR responded to the ruling Monday, and the trade group says it plans to appeal the decision.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

18): Inventory fell from 564,571 to 550,302 The inventory bottom for 2022 was 240,194 The inventory peak for 2023 so far is 569,898 For context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 1,081,712 The one positive inventory story in 2023 is that we formed a bottom in the new listings data! Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2024

Let’s take a look at the inventory data this year to test this premise, since for many months it has been a working theory of mine that new listings data behavior last year marked a bottom and even going into 2024 we should see more sellers. With mortgage rates higher, will this stop inventory from growing year over year?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The company works to make purchasing a home easier by fronting prospective buyers the funds to make all-cash offers. It also allows sellers access to a network of pre-approved buyers to expedite the process. HomeLight’s tech lives amid the iBuyer realm with the likes of other heavy hitters Zillow and Opendoor.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

iBuying platform zavvie has launched zavvie Pro , with the goal of helping real estate agents turn homeowners into home sellers. “Webuilt zavvie Pro to help the modern agent generate more seller leads, win more listings, and always earn a commission.”. For buyers, Homie offers a client rebate of up to $5,000.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID and CEO of Sun Title , to talk about battling the latest frauds and scams as bad actors leverage a new arsenal of tech tools to wreak havoc on buyers and sellers of real estate. And the seller net proceeds continue to be a target.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

If I believe Twitter and the charts and graphs that show 2015 trends or 2020 trends or 1982 trends, I can’t help but to ask, what if these are not an indicator of today, but the beginning of a new normal? FHA, VA and USDA aren’t accepted by sellers. Any given year or decade, we see the same trends. If not, what does that mean?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

That is the critical period for new listing data to grow; remember, most sellers are buyers. Weekly inventory change (Nov. 10) : Inventory rose from 566,882 to 566,941 Same week last year (Nov. We saw some good growth this week, and hopefully, in 2024, we can close the gap and get back to 2021-2022 data on new listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The company, founded in 2015, uses artificial intelligence to streamline and accelerate the mortgage process for community lenders and their borrowers. In September, Maxwell launched a trading platform to provide community lenders access to the secondary market, connecting these loan sellers to buyers. mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

We have to remember that a conventional seller is usually also a traditional buyer, so new listings growing toward their seasonal peak throws cold water on the idea that no one will list their homes because they already have a low mortgage rate (the mortgage rate lockdown theory).

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MAY 18, 2023

I was talking to a real estate agent recently who said that her sellers are scared about a significant downturn in the market and missing out on the higher values. In April, we saw the lowest number of monthly single-family home sales in Cuyahoga County since 2015. (I Homeowners need to sell their homes to make inventory for buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2024

13-20): Inventory fell from 473,406 to 472,852 The inventory bottom for 2022 was 240,194 The inventory peak for 2023 is 569,898 For context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 933,746 Yes, the inventory growth rate slowed weekly, but I will take it! Most sellers are buyers, and new listing data decreased after rates increased in 2022.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 13, 2022

WARNING: SCAMMERS TAKING THOUSANDS FROM HOME BUYERS! The internet complaint center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has seen an almost three-fold increase in identified victims who have actually lost money since January 2015, and now that everyone has been operating at home for the last few years most transactions are virtual.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Never forget most sellers are buyers of homes as well, especially if the economy isn’t in a job loss recession. Here is a look at last week: Weekly inventory change (Jan. 19-26) : Inventory fell from 503,233 to 497,389 Same week last year (Jan. Here is a look at last week: Weekly inventory change (Jan. But at least it’s positive!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

“[Since Covid], the IMB [independent mortgage bank] group has retained a lot of MSRs that they had not retained historically as a group,” said Nick Smith, founder, managing partner and CEO of private-equity firm Rice Park Capital Management (RPCM), an active MSR buyer. Cooper and Lakeview Loan Servicing. Those two [Mr.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2021

Today, both sellers and buyers expect to handle a majority of the process online. Roberts said that of those 303 counties, 44% saw market-rate rents rise more than voucher values from 2015 to 2020. Still, federal law does not prevent landlords from rejecting all housing vouchers. Presented by: 1 Percent Lists.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

NAR Research : First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in October; All-cash sales accounted for 26%; Individual investors purchased 16%; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 21 days in October. Now we are getting the call back to balance, which is good.

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Hank Miller Team

MARCH 21, 2022

Each area is its own micro market but all contribute to the overall "Atlanta housing market" The current market (March ’22) remains historically tight; home buyers are experiencing competition like never before. BUYERS & SELLERS The overall "buyer's" or "seller's" market question is best answered visually.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 11, 2023

It’s NOT for a lack of buyers. There are ten times more buyers in the market than sellers despite the higher mortgage interest rates. Buyers this spring are once again very frustrated and there doesn’t appear to be any end in sight. This sure explains why every Realtor feels like business is so slow.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The third day of the highly consequential Sitzer/Burnett class action buyer broker commission lawsuit included a deep dive into the training materials used by various brokerages and the testimony of three of the named plaintiffs. In her deposition, Figgs said that since sending the email to Gonzalez, she had “largely dismissed” the study.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

For your average Joe or Jane buyer, this level of privacy protection may seem a bit excessive, but Nourmand says that these types of precautions are pretty standard when dealing with high-profile clients. The home was originally designed in 2015 by Florida-based architect Cesar Molina. million, according to property records.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

For your average Joe or Jane buyer, this level of privacy protection may seem a bit excessive, but Nourmand says that these types of precautions are pretty standard when dealing with high-profile clients. The home was originally designed in 2015 by Florida-based architect Cesar Molina. million, according to property records.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The research is based on 12 million appraisals for purchase transactions submitted to Freddie Mac between 2015 and 2020 through the Uniform Collateral Data Portal. “An

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

This created an extreme scarcity of inventory and contributed to elevated prices, but it also led to a 22% decrease in the number of sales, leaving buyers eager. The decline can be attributed partly to buyers grappling with the affordability challenges posed by higher interest rates and continuously escalating prices.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

A traditional seller is also a traditional buyer, and certain homeowners have refused to buy their next home with mortgage rates above 6%. This is a big deal as we have seen housing inventory not get much traction with higher rates and hopefully in the future, lower rates can entice some sellers to move.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I call this rate lock risk, where some buyers don’t qualify or don’t want to continue the purchase until rates fall again. Rates spiking almost 1% in mere weeks is damaging because it can take some previous buyers out of play. A traditional seller is a conventional buyer most of the time.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

As the chart shows, a historically large segment of Millennials is inching toward 36, the median age of a first-time home buyer in the U.S. An index score of 100 means that a buyer with a median U.S. years, assuming prospective buyers save 5% of their household income each month.

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Lamacchia Realty

MAY 19, 2023

A significant number of homes in these areas built between 1983-2015 may have concrete foundations containing pyrrhotite, which means they’re at risk of cracking or even crumbling completely. For home sellers, the discovery of a pyrrhotite-infected foundation can be devastating.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In 2015, according to RealTrends data, gross margins were at 16.4% But we think that leading brokerage companies, or market-share leaders, will need to incorporate and embed these services in their everyday offerings to buyers and sellers,” Murray said. for the largest brokerage companies in the United States. only one year ago.

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