Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

Mortgage rate volatility was so wild in the second half of 2022 and even this year that some home sellers are gun-shy in listing their homes, since they will be buying another one. Even though the market stress has decreased lately, the assumption is that credit will only get tighter as the year grows.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. This week’s trading in the bond market will be exciting with the upcoming inflation data.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. When you consider that a home seller is a natural homebuyer as well, you can see why the housing market broke after mortgage rates went on a roller coaster last year. Can you imagine the housing market at that point?

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Looking at the chart above, inventory started growing late this year, but it seems normal compared to 2017-2019. The other data line that is small but steady year-over-year is the new listings data, and if most sellers are buyers, that gives us more demand than in 2023, when new listings were trending at the lowest levels ever.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

1 midsized housing market to watch in 2020 , according to Zillow, because of its draw for young professionals, families, and retirees alike. The demand is clear — the Boise housing market has just 0.3 months worth of supply, according to Keller Williams Realty Boise , and homes typically stay on the market for just five days.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

In Economics 101, the increase in interest rates should have been coexisting with a decrease in demand,“ Todman said in an interview with HousingWire this week during the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s (MBA) Secondary and Capital Markets Conference. But they face competition from large institutional investors in the housing market.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

We all needed some rest from the crazy housing market we’ve experienced in recent years. Like most markets across the country, the Cleveland area housing market has been red hot for the past few years. However, the markets have hit an abrupt slow down, or might I say, cool down, kind of like this ice skater experienced.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. This assumes the spreads are wide as the mortgage-back securities market is still very stressed. This bond market is screaming at the Fed to cut rates. So, the market is wild and the Fed might not care what short-term rates are doing now. The economic data was OK last week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve all been wondering what 5% plus mortgage rates would do to the hot housing market, and now we’ve got that and a bag of chips. As a result, I’ve been rooting for mortgage rates to rise to create a balancing impact on this housing market. Have higher rates worked? What higher rates should accomplish.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

That’s the second deal of the Japanese company in the country since it acquired Woodside Homes in 2017. “This transaction directly aligns with our stated strategy for growth in North America and will create a more resilient portfolio for Sekisui House,” Yoshihiro Nakai, president and CEO of Sekisui House, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The housing inventory shortage dominated much of the conversation surrounding the housing market in 2022, but thanks to softening homebuyer demand, the number of active listings finished the year up 54.7% compared to the December 2017-2019 average. compared to the December 2017-2019 average. “In compared to December 2019 and 38.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

HousingWire: How are existing home sales trends and inventory affecting the housing market right now? Logan Mohtashami: Existing home sales look about right to me this year; this was the pre 5% housing market. At the end of 2017, we went from a 5.72 This article is part of our housing market update series.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In the 2017 tax bill, caps on state and local tax (SALT) deductions and a boost in the standard deduction eviscerated the mortgage interest deduction, ending its use for all but the wealthiest homebuyers. Congress is gridlocked, so enactment of these initiatives is highly unlikely. But now a new threat is emerging on this front.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ruehrwein, who became a licensed agent in 2017 after working in the new construction industry for 28 years, serves clients in Rehoboth and surrounding Massachusetts towns, as well as East Providence and the Narraganset area of Rhode Island. Co-owners Robert Bentley and Alissa Christie, as well as over 60 of their agents are making the move.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2023

In fact I testified in front of Congress in 2017 stating such. Prior to the collapse of Fannie and Freddie, pre 2008, the GSEs would give preferred pricing to their largest sellers in what was known as “alliance” agreements. The spread in pricing between a large seller and a small one was significant.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Knowing where the housing market is headed broadly allows us to stay ahead of the curve and make the right kind of decisions around legacy tools we’ve been using. We started using AI tools as early as 2017, we were early AI players and one of the first platforms to use it. That’s a big opportunity for us.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

That just shows you how impactful the cost of insurance is in the real estate market.” In California alone, research consulting firm Milliman found that wildfire damage in 2017 and 2018 wiped out more than twice the previous 25 years’ worth of underwriting profits for the state’s insurance market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2022

The mortgage servicing rights (MSR) market is continuing to pump out new deals. SitusAMC supports more most of the country’s largest MSR asset holders, including banks, mortgage banks and servicers, KBRA notes, and “every month, SitusAMC values approximately $5 trillion of MSRs and has traded more than $280 billion of MSR … since 2017.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Since joining NAR in 2017, Redfin said that it has paid “more than $13 million in dues, in an effort to influence NAR to advocate for an open, technology-driven marketplace that would benefit consumers.” Redfin had already resigned from its national board seat at NAR in June, prior to the sexual harassment allegations came to light.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

In addition, litigation costs on insurance claims have risen dramatically in the wake of a 2017 State Supreme Court decision that allowed courts to award plaintiff’s attorneys up to 2.5 Word started to spread about this and then everyone was doing it, costing insurers millions.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We should all be jumping for joy as the bond market shows the American bears that America is back. We still have a lot of work to do to earn the right to create this range in the bond market; the first would be hitting 1.60%, which we haven’t yet. The days on the market went from 43 days last year to 21 days currently.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Zillow’s own estimated home value is to guide the company on a “limited subset of homes” in 20 markets. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Deanna has been a member of this club every year since its inception, having qualified in 2017, 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , and 2022. Members of the 2017 and 2018 President’s Club, along with a portion of the Leadership Team and the Employee of the Year, flew to Hotel Riu Palace Antillas in Aruba  in  2018 and 2019 , respectively.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The acquisition will make Howard Hanna Real Estate Services the largest home-seller in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina, Howard “Hoddy” Hanna III, chairman of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. The home equity investment is a new concept for many homeowners and is still small compared to the size of the traditional mortgage market. The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. This sector on an apples-to-apples basis is more expensive than the existing home sales market. The only risk to that 6.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

stock market. Lead Real Estate (LRE) seeks to have its ADS securities listed on the NASDAQ Global Market exchange. and Hong Kong and plan to expand our operations in these markets and in Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines,” the company states in its SEC filing. “… We will continue to expand our operations overseas. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The public is demanding a broker that offers the same cost savings and efficiencies in the real estate market that they receive everywhere else. Many economists are predicting low mortgage rates for an extended period of time which will keep the red-hot seller’s market intact indefinitely. New way to market brokers.

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Birmingham Appraisal

MAY 11, 2022

So How’s The Birmingham Housing Market? We’ll take a look at some key metrics including sales volume, median sales price trends, days on market, the sale price to list price ratio, active listings, and months of supply. The number of homes sold is a key indicator of market activity. Days on Market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. A growing number of sophisticated investors are also betting that climate change will dramatically impact the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Home buying demand is limited by affordability of course, but this is a supply-constrained market. Inventory There are now 479,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S. If a year is a market slowdown, like 2022 or 2018, inventory might not peak until September or October. Balanced between buyers and sellers.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 21, 2022

In early March it was becoming clear that the market was changing from a frenzied post-pandemic scene to one where rising mortgage rates would slow it down and help inventory finally rise back up. For the past few years, with inventory at historically low levels , sellers were coming pretty close to naming their price and buyers were paying.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

The housing market shifted in March of this year. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time. If I take existing home sales from 2017 levels, it’s roughly, on average, just 300,000. housing market. It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

During his time as a REALTOR®, Joseph expertly served buyers and sellers throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island since 2017. "We He has a great understanding of the Bristol County market and will be a big help bringing talented REALTORS® to Lamacchia Realty!" We are so excited to add Joey to our team.

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Berkshire Hathaway

MAY 5, 2021

The trend this year seems to be among buyers “why is it so hard to find a house” Well one of the answers is we are in the ultimate sellers’ market, which means the market it very competitive for buyers right now. Low inventory in the housing market isn’t new, but it is becoming a lot harder to navigate.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

The original appraisal waiver solutions were launched in August 2017. As such, we are transitioning to a range of options to establish a property’s market value, with the option matching the risk of the collateral and the loan transaction.” And when the market inevitably heats up again, you can be two steps ahead of everyone else.

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