Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Homes priced between $100,000 and $250,000 were down 23% from January 2021, while sales of homes priced between $750,000 and $1 million rose 33%. Homes went under contract in just 19 days on average, down from 21 a year ago. Indeed, January saw the strongest pace of existing-home sales in a year, even though home prices increased 1.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The reasons for that are solid demographics and low mortgage rates , which will not change much in 2021. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For this reason, the number of housing units “under construction” is the largest ever recorded in history because they were taking so long to finish. For the builders, they have a new problem: they had homes under contract and then mortgage rates jumped in the biggest fashion ever recorded in history. percent (±10.6

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

Many are eyeing scenic East Tennessee, where Knoxville and its surrounding suburbs have formed one the country’s hottest housing markets. Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. Generally, they go under contract in a day or two.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. in 2021, Freddie Mac reports. in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. Of course, that’s until you look at the housing completion data, which hasn’t gone anywhere in years.

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GoForrmz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Get ahead with real estate automation The real estate market has seen a lot of unusual trends in the past couple years, and it’s no surprise things have been pretty weird. In 2021 , we saw houses receive multiple offers and sell for thousands of dollars over asking price within hours. No printing, scanning, or faxing needed.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

This fish phenomenon reminds me of the housing market today. As soon as homes hit the market, they often sell in days, with numerous offers that usually bid the list price up. When an appraiser’s opinion of value is below the contract price, that’s when the carping begins. That is a lot of bread!

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 5, 2024

I’m always looking for something new == The Full Measure with Kevin Hecht: March 2024 Housing Market Insights By Kevin Hecht, March 28, 2024 Excerpts: In this installment of The Full Measure with Kevin Hecht, uncover March 2024 housing market insights, plus key takeaways for residential appraisers. percent from 6.93

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

Some housing markets may see an uptick in homebuying activity at the beginning of the year, especially if mortgage rates continue receding from a recent high of 7%. Existing-home sales are expected to end the year 16% down from the same time period in 2021, marking their lowest level since 2014, Yun said.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 14, 2023

APRIL HOUSING UPDATE The signs are generally pointing in the right direction for our local (and national) residential real estate scene, but it is taking more time than usual to turn a cruise-ship-sized sector around without leaving damage in its wake. The estate has been on the market, on and off, since 2021, then at $14.75M.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. While the market share of [single-family] BFR homes is small, it has clearly been trending higher,” the NAHB report continues. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 22, 2024

Updated Unacceptable Appraisal Practices (bias words) – the overall occurrence rate which has declined from 0.15% of appraisal reports in 2021 to just 0.03% in 2023 (see Figure 1). It can impact home values, insurance costs, and the overall stability of a housing market.” “The The fix here just might be a fortress-style home.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That’s partly because sale-price data is a lagging indicator, reflecting deals that went under contract a month or two ago. Growth in sale prices may slow in the coming months as it starts to reflect sales that went under contract as mortgage rates hit 8% in October. Weekly housing-market data goes back through 2015.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

So, the author tried to use new construction prices from back in April to describe the whole U.S. housing market now. That’s frankly surprising given how cold the housing market froze last fall. New contracts dipped as affordability is out of reach for so many. This week continues that trend.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Despite the decline, many industry observers see big potential for the housing market in the year ahead. It’s no secret that low mortgage rates and societal shifts brought on by COVID-19 have collided to form a red-hot housing market. Making housing more affordable by bridging the affordable supply gap.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent) below the September 2021 estimate of 732,000. During the housing bubble years, new home sales, housing starts, prices and credit demand boomed to an extreme level. months, and below, this is an excellent market for builders. This is 10.9

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Homebuilder confidence continued to rise in October despite increasing affordability issues due to rising material prices and ongoing shortages, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report released on Monday. Treasuries and mortgage-backed debt.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. BH: What are you expecting to see in terms of demand for new construction heading into 2023?

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Census Bureau released their new residential construction report for April, showing a miss on the estimate and a negative revisions data line, which I believe is lagging behind the current market reality. Housing starts came in at 1.724 million , and housing permits came in at 1.819 million — both are still very healthy numbers.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Office of Inspector General found in a recent audit that the Federal Housing Finance Agency did not adequately document desktop appraisal reports. 18, 2021, and March 31, 2023, the OIG conducted an audit focusing on FHFA’s supervision of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s use of desktop appraisals. Between Oct. percent from 7.90

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

House decorating used a lot of seashells and items found on the local beach. Construction started in 2001 and took three years to complete with two bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a swimming pool. Hot housing market not a bubble, economists say. Available to rent on Airbnb, of course. Jun 7, 2022. percent from 5.33

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. Except now, we have had massive price gains in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

A new home sale occurs when a sales contract is signed or a deposit is accepted. The home can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction or completed. Supply-side challenges remained a persistent issue, with the count of new homes sold that had not started construction, up 76% over the last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The economic standoff between rising inflation and rising interest rates continues to weaken the housing market nationwide, with home sales falling across all 12 Federal Reserve districts, according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book report. Contacts attributed softer demand to high construction costs and rising interest rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

As the housing market slowed from its frenzied peak in 2022 due to soaring mortgage rates, homebuilders pulled back. An estimated of 1.533 million housing units were started in 2022, down 3.0% compared to 2021, according to a report released Thursday by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

The housing market is in a recession, something that the homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors now agree with me on, as this recent CNBC clip shows. family houses in July 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 511,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. This is 12.6 percent (±16.9

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Appraisal Today

MAY 19, 2023

The home was essentially hand-built from scratch, and it took two years to construct,” says listing agent Damian Hall, of Blackstream International Real Estate. housing market back into a deep freeze Excerpts: A debt default is very unlikely, but new scenario projections from Zillow show sales would decrease sharply as mortgage costs balloon.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

It sees the second quarter of growth rebounding to 1.6%, despite the economy contracting 1.4% Fannie Mae said the economy is slowing faster than previously expected as markets adjust to the Federal Reserve’s tightening monetary policy and are unlikely to result in a “soft landing.”. million houses in April, down 5.1%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

Overall, the MBA estimates new single-family home sales were running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 741,000 units in May 2021. “Since reaching a survey-high 927,000 units in October 2020, the annual pace of new home sales has now fallen around 20 percent, weighed down by low housing inventory and rising prices,” said Kan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

From BLS: Below are the areas where the report says jobs were created, and the construction job growth data is encouraging to see. Also, we must be mindful that multifamily construction has been good this year, with rental demand still solid. The last flag raised was that the leading economic index fell for the fifth month in a row.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 12, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, using new construction comps for existing homes, master planned communities, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. I was lucky to have never had to use new construction as a comp on an existing home. baths, 14,450 sq.ft.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The gain in existing home-sales in September reflects contracts signed earlier in the summer,” Mike Fratantoni, MBA SVP and chief economist said in a statement. decrease from August 2021. Housing demand remains strong as buyers likely want to secure a home before mortgage rates increase even further next year.”. from a year ago.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s been on and off the market since 2014, four years after a lengthy construction project there was completed. Still on the market for the same amount in 2015, the eye-popping property ranked as one of the most viewed homes on Realtor.com®. After all, this isn’t the first time the unique property has been listed.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 29, 2022

Though the federal government has yet to pass legislation directly tackling the current housing crisis, some bills may affect it indirectly. A significant indirect influence comes with the infrastructure bill signed into law in November 2021. The Current Housing Crisis. This was due to an all-time housing shortage.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 2023

Each month, this blog will publish a fresh assessment of the King County area housing market. A patch of foul weather and persistent economic challenges chilled an already cold housing market. The Northwest MLS monthly housing report described it best: “December ends with a ‘whimper’.”. from the year before.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

See below why we feel Ohio land for sale market is still ripe for growth. The Ohio housing market has remained resilient over the past year and a half. Figures from the Ohio REALTORS® Housing Market Report reveal that Ohio home sales reached historical levels in May 2022. land market.

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