Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

since 2019, and theyve jumped 56.8% .” According to CoreLogic data, the median 2024 property tax in Florida was $3,101, a 9.5% increase over the prior year and up 47.5% Property taxes have skyrocketed in South Florida in particular. Median property tax payments in Miami-Dade County have risen 56.8% in neighboring Broward County.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rising supply is one of the housing market highlights of 2024, according to HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami , who said that housing inventory is approaching levels seen in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. That share is 460 basis points higher than a year ago, and it’s the highest share since November 2019.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 14, 2025

since 2019. increase since 2019. since 2019, while Floridas payments increased 9.5% since 2019, while Floridas payments increased 9.5% Both states have seen home prices grow well above the national average, with Georgia recording a 65% increase and Florida a 73% jump since 2019. The median U.S. annually and 47.5%

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

more than they would have in 2019, the median monthly property tax payment has increased the greatest during that time, reaching $205. to $228 since 2019), according to a Redfin analysis of property taxes for single-family homes among the 50 most populous U.S. Top 5 Metro Areas Where Property Taxes Have Increased Most Since 2019 U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Realtor.com began publishing regular monthly rental trends reports in October 2020 with data history stretching back to March 2019. higher than in the fall of 2019, before the pandemic. That’s still just $40 (-2.3%) lower than its August 2022 peak, and is $272 (18.8%) higher than the same time period in 2019. That’s down -3.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

But compared to March 2019, the median rent is still 20.2% metro rents are still considerably higher than 2019,” Joel Berner, senior economist at Realtor.com, said in the report. The median asking rent in March was $1,694, down $65 from the 2022 peak. higher, rising from $1,409 over the six-year period.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

While repeat buyer activity has softened markedly from pre-pandemic levels with originations among this group down 31% compared to 2018 and 2019 first-time homebuyer volume has seen less compression, declining only 19%. New listings were up 10% year over year in March, falling only 12% shy of their 2017-2019 averages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

.” Population growth in Tampa has significantly rebounded with nearly 52,000 new residents in 2022-2023, up from a loss of nearly 13,000 in 2019-2020. Insurance market freefall Florida’s property insurance crisis has reached catastrophic levels with average annual premiums jumping 60% since 2019, Cotality reported.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 16, 2025

properties in 2024, down 10% from 2023, down 1% from 2022, and down 35% from 2019, before the pandemic shook up the market. housing units, down slightly from 0.25% in 2023, and down from 0.36% in 2019, and down from a peak of 2.23% in 2010. Foreclosure filings in 2024 were also down 89% from a peak of nearly 2.9 million in 2010.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. Its now only 17% fewer homes on the market than at the end of 2019. We use 2019 as a proxy for normal times before the pandemic craziness hit even though the unsold inventory in 2019 had been declining for most of the previous decade.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Ive highlighted this year in purple, last year in blue, and the 2019 curve in green. 2019 started a bit slow. By the end of 2019, interest rates were down, so housing demand was up. Inventory started falling pretty quickly in the second half of 2019. We ended 2019 with 782,000 single-family homes unsold on the market.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 18, 2025

However, since 2019, renting has become more appealing, even for the wealthy, as the cost of purchasing a property in major metro areas has increased more than the cost of renting. between 2000 and 2019. in 2019 to 5.4%, which is the biggest drop among the top 50 metro areas. of renters are wealthy, up from 4.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

as recently as 2019. In 2019, independent title underwriters such as Westcor, WFG and others had a combined market share just shy of 15%, which increased to 26.6% In 2023, First Americans market share was 22%, while Old Republics was 15.2%, Fidelitys was 26.4% and Stewarts was 9.2%. of the market, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 13, 2025

2019 Median listing price -1.8% (to $402,502) +34.2% Nevertheless, inventories is still slowly returning to levels seen in 2017 and 2019. Homebuyers should be aware that this December is the slowest month of 2024 overall and the slowest December since 2019 due to days on market. 2023 Change over Dec. New listings +0.9% -11.0%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

NetCredit reported that Detroit has received $1 billion in investments since 2019 to benefit senior and low-income homebuyers. NetCredit referenced a recent report from Arizona State University that highlighted a 72% increase in statewide rent prices between 2010 and 2022, alongside a home-price increase of 57% between 2019 and 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Inventory on the Rise While the nations housing inventory remains a challenge, a recovery is underway, with the number of homes for sale in November notching the highest mark since December 2019. Compared with the typical November from 2017 to 2019 before COVID-19, the South saw the smallest gap in inventory, down just 1.4%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Auction.com noted that the 99,000 foreclosure sales, even if they came to fruition, would still represent less than half the 210,000 transactions that took place in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 322,000 filings last year means that roughly one in four properties that enter the foreclosure process wind up being sold at auction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One was from 2008-2019 and the other was from 2020-2024. These were my variables written in 2019, which still hold up today: 1. From Census : The homeownership rate of 65.7 percent was virtually the same as the rate in the fourth quarter 2023 (65.7 percent) and not statistically different from the rate in the third quarter 2024 (65.6

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 30, 2025

January 2025Housing Metrics National Metric Change over January 2024 Change over January 2019 Median listing price -2.2% (to $400,500) +38.4% The inventory gap is also the smallest in the South (-10.0%) and West (-13.3%) when comparing inventory levels to pre-pandemic (2017-2019) levels. below than average levels from 2017 to 2019.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 7, 2025

The rate of home sales and home listings are both down at least 30% from 2019. Some 31% fewer homes were sold this year than in the previous pre-pandemic year in 2019 (36 of every 1,000) An estimated 37.5% fewer homes were sold this year than during the peak of the pandemic buying frenzy in 2021 (40 of every 1,000).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 2019, 47% of Black homebuyers were purchasing for the first time, a figure that plunged to 35% in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, despite these obstacles, the Black homeownership rate increased more between 2019 and 2024 than the rate for whites, and only Hispanic households experienced a higher rate of growth, Zillow reported.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The latest investment — led by New York investment firm WestCap and Silicon Valley venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz — brings the total amount of capital raised by Valon to $230 million since its launch in 2019. The firm is currently valued at $1.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Detroit-based Ally Financial exited the mortgage business in 2012, reentered in 2016 with the launch of its direct-to-consumer mortgage platform, Ally Home, and went fully digital in 2019 through a partnership with Better.com.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Scalone has been an agent since 2019 and opened his own insurance company, Dignified. That being said, if we’re looking at a single-family home back in 2019 — let’s say, 1,500 square feet in San Diego — it’s going to cost you $1,300 a year. Insurance Services , in March.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

What’s more, operating costs for apartment and SFR (single-family rental) operators are up significantly since 2019 due to higher property taxes, insurance, and payroll costs. “Apartment rents have dropped by nearly 15% in two years, which is warp speed for the housing market. Meaning that margins are being aggressively compressed.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The average number of bids per REO sold in Q3 2024 was still 24% higher than the 2019 average, indicating that demand at REO auctions is still considerably above pre-pandemic levels despite this decreasing trend. This demand indicator was still 39% higher than the 2019 average, even with the recent decline. and from 57.3% in July.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

In contrast, during the pandemic, the median-price peak jumped from $279,000 in 2019 to $319,000 in 2021 before falling to $310,000 in 2022. But that was down substantially from the 46,054 listings in early January 2019, according to Altos data. As of Jan.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

annually, which is somewhat less than the mid-3% rise observed in 2018 and 2019, while detached home rents are up 4.4%, which is comparable to their trajectory prior to the pandemic. in December 2019. December saw just under 1 million properties on the market countrywide, which is more than any December since 2019.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Founded in 2019 by Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez, Place completed a Series A funding round in 2021 that raised $100 million. The deal, which is expected to close in the next two weeks, was first reported by Inman News. This is the second major acquisition Place has completed in the past year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

of respondents expect a recession within the next year, reflecting the highest level of concern since 2019. As economic concerns grow, a new survey from Realtor.com shows that a significant share of prospective homebuyers may view a potential recession as an opportunity rather than a deterrent. According to the survey , 63.4%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Left Lane Capital was founded in 2019 with a focus on consumer-facing internet and technology companies. Camber Creek was founded in 2011 with a focus on real estate and it has almost $1 billion in assets. Among the companies it has invested in are Flex , Bilt Rewards , Proof , Curbio , VTS and HappyCo.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

From 2019 to 2024, the national BTR inventory more than doubled rising from 107,000 units to 217,161, according to the report. Atlanta saw one of the most explosive growth rates: its BTR inventory surged from just 547 homes in 2019 to over 8,100 by 2024 a fifteenfold increase. Phoenix closely followed with 12,702 new homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to the lawsuit, from February 2019 to February 2020, Experian allegedly deleted over 100,000 disputed tradelines instead of completing required reinvestigations within 30 days. Some of this information was later reinserted into consumer reports.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

According to the most recent credit data from the New York Fed , foreclosure data for the housing market is still below 2019 levels. Although foreclosure rates rose in the last quarter, we are far from the stressful levels that we saw during the run-up to the housing bubble crash in 2008.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The class-action suit was filed in 2019 in a U.S. According to a notice filed last week and entered into the court docket on Thursday, the parties have reached a class-wide settlement in principle and are working to finalize a fully integrated settlement agreement. District Court in Northern California.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2025

In 2019, I wrote an article predicting that the debt could reach $71 trillion by 2060, and that estimate was considered conservative at the time. The timing of this downgrade was intentional, as the budget proposed by the Republicans is set to increase the national debt. debt and how the 10-year yield has responded.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

But for-sale inventory is improving as the number of listings in December totaled nearly 1 million, the most for the final month of the year since 2019. An ongoing lack of supply of homes for sale is also fueling demand for rental units, Zillow reported.

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