Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

California-based home equity investment firm Splitero launched its own real estate brokerage , Splitero Homes, this week. Launched in 2021, Splitero’s main focus is on home equity investments (HEI), which differs from home equity lines of credit (HELOC). I will say that real estate brokerage is a far cry from Fintech.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

When we contemplate the potential of AI and Web3 technologies in real estate , it goes beyond simply revolutionizing how consumers search for homes and take ownership of assets. The stakes in real estate are higher, and the cost of making a mistake is substantial.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Ideal market conditions for flippers include strong demand, limited supply and rapidly rising prices — conditions that existed in 2020 and 2021 and led to record numbers of flipped homes, record gross profits and rich profit margins. Despite all of this, there are still some positives for real estate investors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Outsiders to the real estate industry may assume that the tight market has real estate agents hanging up their hats. Real estate agents are still confident in the industry and the market. There are also more opportunities to go to bat for your buyers and be seen as a valuable resource.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

If you’re looking to buy a home, you’ll stand the best chance in a buyer’s housing market, where listings are flush, demand is low and buyers have the upper hand — not to mention most of the negotiating power. Will 2021 be more of the same? A buyer’s market in 2021? More for Real Estate Enthusiasts.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Phillip Cantrell is the CEO of Benchmark Realty LLC based in Franklin, Tennessee and the executive vice president of Strategy for United Real Estate. The rule change will prohibit listing brokers from paying buyer’s agents and will instead require sellers to pay them directly if they choose to pay them at all. Look around.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. “The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.” and Austin.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Rising interest rates , already in the mid-4% range, have dramatically slowed refinancings, forcing originators to look toward other products that entice purchase buyers or those with equity in their existing homes. The new product targets real estate investors, a group that represented 16.4%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

Roughly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began in the United States, and more people than ever are buying residential real estate in vacation towns and suburbs, per a report from Redfin. Home prices increased 36% year over year. Homes are being snatched up in Santa Cruz County, and on average they trade for roughly $1 million.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024. “It Buyers are really struggling.” But rising prices are not the only financial challenge buyers are having to contend with right now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

As the principal broker for a RE/MAX franchise in coastal Cannon Beach, Oregon, Alaina Giguiere’s typical responsibilities include marketing homes for sellers, touring homes with buyers, generating new business leads, managing client relationships, and drafting and reviewing contracts with buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. I’ve seen more homebuyers cancel deals in the last six months than I’ve seen at any point during my 24 years of working in real estate. year over year, the largest annual decline since June 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. Amy Breach, Real Estate broker on the Hill Team in Seattle for Keller Williams. Looking back, Summers is glad she encouraged her buyers to swap lenders.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At You aren’t getting that, but there is still a lot of competitive bidding.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In today’s red-hot market, you need a real estate agent who can get creative, play hardball in negotiations, and help you stand out from the pack in a bidding war. Want to make sure you’re getting the best real estate agent possible for your home purchase? More for Real Estate Enthusiasts.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 2, 2022

These are a few ways it will affect real estate in the coming months. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill — passed in November 2021 but will soon affect the country. Secondary Real Estate Markets On the Rise. What does this have to do with real estate?

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2021

Auction.com buyer and real estate investor Sue McCormick is ahead of the curve when it comes to President Joe Biden’s plan to revitalize underserved neighborhoods while also providing affordable housing for low- and moderate-income homebuyers. “My in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2021 there were actually more total sellers, but at the peak of the frenzy, so many of those were immediate sales that they never get counted as active inventory. Immediate sales If sellers are growing we need to know if buyers are growing too. These immediate sales were the defining characteristic of the pandemic real estate boom.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

.” The Oakland, California-based company offers an online marketplace where buyers and sellers can both buy and sell rental homes in more than 70 U.S. Like many mortgage and real estate entities in 2020 and 2021, Roofstock got a cut of that sweet, sweet housing market upswing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Since acquiring Homes.com in 2021 , commercial real estate giant CoStar Group has made it crystal clear that it was playing for keeps in the residential real estate market. In less than two and a half years, CoStar has taken Homes.com from a small player in the residential real estate portal space to the No.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. Homesnap said this trend could further drain inventory as 2021 approaches. 22%, while total sales increased 19.29%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Real estate investors buy to flip a home for a profit or get rental income, but they’re not the majority of buyers in America each year. Last year and this year have been crazy for real estate. The post The housing market won’t crash in 2021. It is part of who you are. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Experienced real estate investors often say that there are opportunities in every market — whether prices are rising or falling, whether the trends lean towards a buyers’ market or a seller’s market. Rising prices affect different types of real estate investors in different ways, of course. 2022 Forecast series.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

The pandemic definitely changed the real estate market ,” Todd Alperin, a Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group agent based in Southern New Hampshire, said. But in 2020 through 2022, buyers came out quickly after the new year and inventory didn’t hit bottom until much later in the spring.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ve all heard the news: over 60,000 real estate agents left the profession in the first half of 2023. Whether you’re newly licensed or an experienced agent who had a productive year — if you’re looking for a change, it’s likely you’ve started receiving emails, letters, and phone calls from all kinds of real estate firms.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

home sellers received four or more offers on their home in 2021, according to Zillow’s latest consumer housing trends report. The rise in the number of homes that received multiple offers is reflected in the increased frequency of bidding wars in 2021. Nearly one quarter of U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Residential real estate online marketplace House X has announced the launch of its smart home marketplace and pilot program called The New American Dream Showcase of New Homes. The program is available in California, Florida, Georgia and Texas with additional states launching in 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

For better or worse, trends in the mortgage industry tend to mirror corresponding trends in the overall real estate market. Emerging out of the pandemic, the first half of 2021 showed that there is a historically low housing inventory across multiple markets in the U.S. Inventory issues. Push for tech.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 Gault and Wexler both came from real estate families and have been in the industry for over 20 years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Three researchers believe a first-of-its-kind dataset has enabled them to definitively answer a long-debated question: why have buyer agent commission rates been so stable historically? So how is the uniformity and permanence of buyer agents’ 2-3% rate possible in a free market? One of the researchers, Will Fried, had a hunch.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

“There is a high demand for housing and a great number of would-be buyers, and therefore sales should rise with more new listings,” Yun said. Real Estate Tech Demo Day. Tune in February 9th to experience demos from the most innovative real estate technology solutions. million in 2021, Yun said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bay Area-based HomeLight , a proptech platform aimed at expediting and simplifying the real estate process, announced it has raised a combined total of $363 million in new funding. The company works to make purchasing a home easier by fronting prospective buyers the funds to make all-cash offers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Within the span of a week, San Francisco-based digital real estate unicorn Roofstock completed its first property sale through non-fungible token (NFT) and laid off about 20% of its workforce. Operating on a remote real estate investment model, Roofstock enables customers to buy properties in other areas and rent them out.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

real estate?market will slow down from what we’ve seen in 2021.? a buyer’s market. ? . business as a real?estate?professional. Finding out that Chicago’s real estate market could still skyrocket a double-digit percentage?is Agents, you might have a new area of interest for prospective buyers.??.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As 2020 comes to an end, realtor.com ’s economists believe that the housing inventory shortage won’t be as dire in 2021. Additional lockdowns and quarantines due to COVID-19 could put a dent in housing inventory and sales, potentially slowing down the market and putting increased pressure on buyers, the forecast said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2022

home sellers made a pretty penny in 2021, with the nationwide realized profit growing by 45% year-over-year, according to a new analysis published by real estate data vendor ATTOM this week. in 2021 to $301,000—an annual record, the report added.). “As The national median home price also grew by 16.9%

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