Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Cash buyers are pouring into the housing market this year, and they’re picking off more than half of available inventory in certain areas in Florida and New York. In 2020, roughly 25% of homebuyers paid cash for their properties. “I just sold a $700,000 home to a cash buyer last week. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

“Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was normal for inventory to rise in February as the spring home sellers began listing their homes and buyers weren’t yet out in force,” Simonsen wrote in his February 13 housing market update. We are seeing some modest increases, but the pressure is still there for the buyers,” Redding said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The bidding wars that put smiles on the faces of sellers and simultaneously drove buyers to rip their hair out weren’t as frequent in August, according to the latest report from brokerage Redfin. But buyers shouldn’t get too excited. of offers written by Redfin agents facing competition in August. In August, 58.8%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. San Diego, California. Augusta, Georgia.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In 2021, a lingering symptom of the economic sickness we suffered in 2020 is forbearance. Forbearance will have to end at some point, and when it does, couldn’t all these homes flood the housing market at once, driving prices down and scaring would-be homeowners away from purchasing?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Annapolis, Maryland. Provo, Utah.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

But until then, the housing market will remain red-hot.” ” How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market. The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the virus has had anything but a negative impact on real estate in El Paso. According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. 7,” Raitu said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

Most of the highest producing real estate agents in the country belong to an established, national brokerage. RealTrends , which is owned by HW Media , on Friday released its annual list of the top 1,000 agents in the country for 2020, with separate tallies for sales volume and the number of deals done.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But for the past 12 months, the metro’s housing market has been in complete chaos. “It It is hot, hot, hot here,” Clay Winder, a real estate agent for Keller Williams Westfield , said. Since July, however, things have finally started to slow down in the Provo-Orem housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. A growing number of sophisticated investors are also betting that climate change will dramatically impact the housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Conway, Arkansas. Rochester, New York.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

One of my recent new home buyers got their final quote on a property a 30-minute drive from the coast and it had gone up 40% from a year ago. The rising costs and lack of availability of homeowners insurance has forced many homeowners and buyers to turn to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation , the state’s insurer of last resort.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Jacksonville’s housing market was propelled by strong tailwinds: affordability relative to the rest of the Sunshine State, Florida’s lack of income tax and the quality of life benefits of having a river and oceanfront, to name a few. Other would-be disruptors have not fared so well.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

Per a recent Redfin study , 65% of home offers written by company agents in June faced competition, down from a rate of 72.1% But recently, we’ve started to see buyers get cold feet. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out. in May and a peak of 74.1%

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

Chat with a few real estate agents based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — a city ninety minutes from Baltimore and two hours from Philadelphia — and a similar topic will undoubtedly emerge: the capital of the Keystone State has become one of the most popular places to move to in the entire country due to low home prices.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

That’s compared to only 16 homes during the same period in 2020. “I’ve never seen anything like this housing market,” said Scott Petrich, a Seattle-area Redfin agent. Most of those people have the money to compete with other buyers and drive up prices.” a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A 22-year-old, Chicago-headquartered software company, ShowingTime is what it sounds like: “Our products automate the showing, scheduling and management processes” for real estate agents and agent associations, the company’s website reads, claiming that more than 1 million agents in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

This represents the highest increase of any three-month period since July 2020 when Redfin started tracking this data. During the pandemic, record-low mortgage rates invited more demand and led buyers to outbid the asking price and waive concessions to “have their offers taken seriously,” according to the Redfin report.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market. The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

In this hot housing market, Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint understands the key to originating more home loans is ensuring more sellers accept offers made by its buyers. Homepoint partnered with fintech mortgage company Accept.inc , which upgrades offers from qualified buyers to an all-cash bid.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The share of Black and Asian first-time buyers is down from 6% in 2021, while the share of white first-time buyers is up from 82% and Hispanic homebuyers up from 7%. Conversely, White and Hispanic Americans experienced gains in buyer shares. NAR found the age of repeat buyers increased to 59 years from 56 years last year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers. Home buyers like my mother and father outside the U.S. If a showing is to happen, buyers must make appointments with each seller auctioneer to view those homes. An additional $6,400.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And despite fierce bidding wars, competition from institutional investors and sore wrists from writing dozens of heartfelt letters to home sellers, even buyers are growing in courage these days. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. points to 81.7. Presented by: Propertybase.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. We have an insurance problem,” said Charlotte Johnson , a Keller Williams agent based in Mandeville. recorded in mid-February 2020. recorded in mid-February 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. Boise is in a full-fledged housing crash!” The frenetic pace of the market has eased,” Miller said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

range, versus closing on their mortgage now when their homes are finally finished being built and rates are around 7.0%,” said Summers, a Keller Williams agent in Provo, Utah. Any time my buyers are the ones bringing a lender to the table who I am not familiar with, I am going to have some questions for that lender.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the restaurant Tom Hunt worked at as a server temporarily shut down during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided it was the right time to pursue his longtime desire of becoming a real estate agent. By the end of 2020 the organization’s membership had soared to 1.48 million members.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ Later in 2020, eOriginal was acquired by Wolters Kluwer for $280 million in cash and continues to operate within the Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance business.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Milagros Alvarez, a Miami real estate agent at Redfin, said that the pandemic “has brought even more out-of-towners to the area” because so many people can now work wherever they want. Florida has also been much less shut down than other states during the pandemic, which some house hunters see as a positive.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

HW Media : What do you think will be the big themes for the housing market in 2022-2023? Many media outlets are fretting about a possible housing crash because panic gets them more clicks than reason. But the truth is that the market is moderating, not imploding. Katherine Mechling: A big one is moderation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

But the past three years — and 2020, specifically — have been something else. “I started as an agent up here in 2009, and I’ve been saying since then the only thing that would slow down the market would be some sort of national or international event,” said Pullin, a managing broker at Skyline Properties.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Just like Earth, mortgage rates and housing markets are cyclic and we’re heading into another Ice Age. 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?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Starting May 25, “several hundred” real estate agents in the Raleigh, North Carolina and Denver metro areas will no longer have access to Premier Agent , thanks to major changes coming to Zillow ’s lead generating platform. billion in revenue, more than double the revenue it saw in 2020.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Taking accurate measurements yields a more precise cost When setting the asking price for a home, what is one of the most important considerations for the seller and the real estate agent? Based on the assessor’s square footage of 1,500 square feet, the listing agent promotes the property for $125 per square foot.

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Miller Samuel

MARCH 18, 2020

Since the 2020 DJIA peak of February 12, 2020, of 29,551.42, the market has fallen 28.13% to 21,237.88 However, all of these housing-related workers such as appraisers and agents, are starting to see that market conditions do not include the gift that it will be "business as usual."

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