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Mortgage rates continue to climb beyond 7%

Housing Wire

At today’s rate, the monthly cost to purchase a home totals about $2,400, not including property taxes and insurance, a 17% increase from a year ago. Home sales have been tracking below last year’s levels and are also more than 20% below 2019 totals, noted Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

month figure recorded in October 2019. Similarly, in 2018 and 2019, mortgage rates rose to 4.75 In turn, price growth cooled so that real home price growth went negative year over year in 2019. This could be accomplished by raising the minimum down payment, removing the mortgage interest deduction and the property tax benefit.

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The Proposed NYC "Pied-A-Terre Tax" Looks Catastrophic to NYC Real Estate

Miller Samuel

An earlier version of this post appeared in my weekly Housing Notes, March 15, 2019 edition. This proposed NYC "pied-a-terre" tax law has a name that infers it concerns " pied-a-terres " when in fact that property type is but one part of the property types that are impacted. It's all still up in the air at this point.

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Institutional SFR players are stuck in the doldrums

Housing Wire

But the caveat, of course, is that all bets are off if there’s a more meaningful contraction in lending [in the wake of recent bank failures and other economic factors] because then you’re in serious trouble,” Petrosinelli added.

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Appraisals: Using Comps Across a Freeway?

Appraisal Today

The four-bedroom home was built in 2019 in the gated neighborhood of Back Bay Cove. How to maximize deductible expenses by timing payments Pay as many bills as you can by the end of the year, such as property taxes, software maintenance agreements, etc. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs decreased to 6.59

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What is Your Appraiser Level? Why Does It Make a Difference?

Appraisal Today

. = Surviving the Current Slowdown by Kendra Budd, Editor, Working RE Excerpts: While the actual volume of appraisal work has only declined to the equivalent of a slow month in 2018 or 2019, the volume of appraisals has declined over 60 percent from the busiest month in 2021 compared to the later (slower) months of 2022. percent from 6.39

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FINDING THE KEY TO UNLOCK ‘STUCK’ HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE

Will Springer Realtor

The unprecedented housing price increases in our region – up 39% in King for all home types since May 2019 – will possibly stunt homeownership rates going forward. The change follows Oregon’s lifting in 2019 of zoning restrictions on housing to help address the housing shortage. With scarcity comes price appreciation.

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