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Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009

Housing Wire

Skyrocketing mortgage rates – now in the 7% range for some buyers – and limited inventory have driven mortgage affordability to its lowest levels since the early 1980s, a reversal from the frenetic boom in buying during 2020 and 2021. Much of that depends on how much inventory returns to the market. With mortgage rates at 6.7%

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How the housing market will evolve in 2023

Housing Wire

Inventory What does that mean for housing? Until mortgage rates drop below 5.5%, we can expect low housing supply, which favors sellers. Until then, home values will slowly decline, most assuredly in high-cost areas and in areas of the country that benefited the most from rampant appreciation during the pandemic.

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Borrowers opt for permanent rate buydowns amid affordability challenges

Housing Wire

points on average, with a corresponding cost of about $1,500, in 2018 through 2020. “On On the surface, it may seem the market has been stirred by a full point decline in interest rates and home prices coming off their peaks – but it’s not that simple,” Graboske said. Prior to the pandemic, buyers paid closer to 0.5

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The Rise in Interest Rates And How It Affects Buyers and Sellers

Boston Appraisal

The Rise in Interest Rates and How It Affects Buyers and Sellers When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the Federal Reserve was quick to act by substantially reducing interest rates, which resulted in many new buyers entering the market to purchase a home at low rates. This affected buyers and sellers.

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Millions will enter housing market in 2021: Zillow

Housing Wire

Inversely, data from Zillow showed for-sale inventory climb the highest in four major real estate markets – Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. The Texas capital saw the largest rise in median list prices for homes among the 50 largest U.S. markets; by December 2020, prices were already up 23.6% and Austin.

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William Raveis ain’t no stinkin’ iBuyer

Housing Wire

.” With “Raveis Purchase,” which officially launched earlier this month, WRRE will acquire the home-seller’s property for an initial payment of up to 80% of the current value of the home, which unlocks the majority of the equity and enables the seller to settle any mortgages.

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Rate buydowns are the cat’s meow in today’s market

Housing Wire

It is really a great tool from a seller perspective to say, ‘Look, we don’t control rates, but what I can offer you is something that will offset this shock in interest rates that has happened here in the last nine or 10 months or so,’” Nunziata said. percentage points of the loan amount,” Nunziata said.

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