Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Beginning in January 2020, 7% of purchase transactions had a contract price above the appraisal value. Five months later, the frequency increased to 19%, leaving homebuyers to either pay more out of pocket or request the seller to lower their asking price. Meanwhile, buyers are plucking up homes left and right.

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lusky, DigitalVision, Getty Images Source: [link] FSBO Sellers Regret Not Having an Agent By Melissa Dittmann Tracey Survey: Sellers who go-it alone are twice as likely to be unsatisfied with the experience – and more likely to say their earlier opinion, “agents are overpaid,” was wrong.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. In the first few months of 2022, primary-residence buyers and second-home buyers (investors and vacation buyers) flocked to the market at a frenzied pace under the correct assumption that mortgage rates would rise.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Compared to October 2022, existing home sales slumped 14.6%, down from 4.44 Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September. lower than October 2022 when inventory was at 1.22 months in October 2022.

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Hank Miller Team

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

So what happens if the appraisal is below contract price? The early '22 market is already showing it'll be as tight or tighter than the '20 & '21 markets, buyers are tossing off all constraints to "win" the beauty contest of buying a home. Appraisals below contract price will continue to be a challenge in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. In addition, just 16% of the homes in Austin went under contract within two weeks of hitting the market. Sellers are locked in because they can’t justify giving up a 2.9%

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 18, 2022

Cancel culture invades real estate.The number of canceled home contracts hit a two year high in June 2022. Still, 22 of contracts terminating isn't a anything to ignore. As inflation runs roughshod over the country, there are multiple factors playing a role in contracts terminating. Can Sellers Sue? in Apr '20.

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Hank Miller Team

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s with a MASSIVE dose of “we think” that we offer our latest opinions (12/16/21) for the first quarter of the 2022 North Atlanta real estate market. It's not a rosy outlook; expect home buyer frustration to increase in 2022. So what's in store for home buyers and sellers that have to make a move this spring?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

But, in 2022, as prices in the metro rose to never-before-seen levels, things started to change. In early 2023, however, as inventory in Austin has become more and more constrained, buyers have become accustomed to the higher mortgage rates and demand has ticked up. “It There were just 169 homes on the market as of late February 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5 The lack of sellers is also a demand problem and what we saw after June of 2022 is that sellers called it quits earlier and faster in the year than usual, resulting in total existing home sales totaling 5,030,000 to end 2022.

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Listing Spark

JUNE 21, 2022

So, if you’re thinking of selling a home in 2022, here are a few tips to help you get started and navigate the housing market successfully. The good news for sellers is that the Texas median list price is up over 18% YOY. So, don’t panic if your home doesn’t have a contract in the first week or two of being on the market. .

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 17, 2022

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2022? Now two years later , 2022 started with the lowest inventory EVER recorded and while inventory has grown slightly, This means NOW is a still a great time to list and take advantage of motivated buyers before other sellers really start to saturate the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

The demand, according to Fullmer, also increased because some borrowers realized that “eventually, when rates drop, it will go back to a seller’s market, and buyers will lose the massive credits and other conditions that they can negotiate now.” But another index measures rates even higher. ”

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2024? From low inventory levels to increasing mortgage rates , the real estate landscape has experienced a multitude of changes and challenges over the last several years, leaving many sellers wondering when the “right” time to list would be given current market conditions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As has been the case for the past several months, our September 2022 report reflects short-term declines and medium-term deceleration in housing prices across the U.S.,” All 20 cities analyzed posted lower price increase in the year ending September 2022 as compared to the year ending August 2022. in home prices. “On

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. at the end of 2022. Six percent mortgage rates have also priced some buyers out of the market. Second, know that even as the housing market resets in 2023, there have been contractions on both the buyer and seller sides.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022. And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. So why is this program so rare?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Notably, the market has contracted as fewer buyers can afford to purchase in today’s market with the rise in interest rates and the continual rise in home prices. However, in many areas of the country it does remain a seller’s market. All cash buyers now stand at 24%. In comparison, in 2011, homes took 96 days to sell. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But the good news is, more buyers have become aware of down payment assistance (DPA) options and are tapping into available resources for help, said Susanne Saller, a senior consultant at Caliber Home Loans. In addition, homebuyers might have to deal with sellers who are reluctant to sell their homes to DPA borrowers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

This new development is being propelled by an alleged Fannie Mae “request” that, according to industry sources, was made recently of several lenders active as buyers in M&A deals. The seller continues to have an obligation to manage their company that they still own after an asset deal,” one industry source explained.

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Hank Miller Team

APRIL 6, 2022

It's time to answer the nagging question…did housing inventory in Atlanta increase during the first quarter of 2022? The key here are sales; fairly consistent and even the dip in Jan 2022 was higher than Jan 2019. No visible increase in inventory over the first quarter of 2022, if fact we're at a low point right now.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JULY 27, 2022

Do Buyers Have a Leg Up In Today’s Market? The smell of a market shift is in the air but what does this mean for the average buyer? Over the past two years, buyers have been put through the wringer. The steep rise in home prices, and the market’s competitive nature, have tested the resolve of buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With the scrutiny of The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and multiple lawsuits concerning how buyers’ brokers get paid, many brokers say it feels like an all-out war on the real estate industry. billion in commissions they paid to buyers’ agents in the past eight years.

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Raleigh Realty

JULY 31, 2022

Major Home Inspection Issues and How to Handle Repairs If your home inspection turns up any of these 7 major issues it could be time to negotiate some mandatory fixes with the seller before you proceed with purchasing the home. Some requests will be mandatory fixes or the buyer will choose to find another home. Structural Issues 1.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

As the calendar has turned to May, and the Realtor Legislative Meetings have come to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on research that was released last month and throughout early 2022. These reports highlight the difference home buyers and potential home buyers have when embarking on the buying process.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 27, 2023

The 2022 Connecticut Year in Review Housing Report breaks down sales, new listings, new pending sales, active inventory, and average price compared to the 2021 market and analyzes what the data means for the current housing market and beyond. In 2022, there were fewer sales in Connecticut than in 2021, down 18.8% Sales Down 18.8%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

below its June 2022 peak.” Inventory has remained low as sellers are locked into their low mortgage rates, even as many home buyers are turned away from this market due to affordability constraints amid volatile mortgage rates,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement. in February, and now stands 4.9%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Lenders saw the value of agency loans made at lower rates — in the 3% range — in 2021 and early January 2022 drop precipitously over the course of the first quarter. The good news, according to both Toohig and Yoon, is that in the second quarter of 2022, so far, the extreme rate volatility has abated.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Ben Hunsaker, a Beach Point Capital Management portfolio manager who is focused on securitized credit, said that during the past year, nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) AAA bond spreads have actually contracted from 155 to 135, while agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) spreads have widened from about 118 to 134 over the same period.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring a real estate lawyer to review all contracts first is best. Another loan option for buying land is a land contract. With a land contract, the seller provides the land buyer with the loan, instead of an institution. You must perform land buyer’s due diligence. Does Land Appreciate in Value?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So far in 2022, he added, “there are over 25 already, and the pace is picking up.”. Meanwhile,” he added, “a large buyer might be able to load that same [mortgage] production [via an acquisition] and not take on any [additional] corporate expenses.”. as of early October 2022, according to Freddie Mac’s market survey.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From NAR Research : “Total existing-home sales notched a minor contraction of 0.4% A traditional primary resident seller is also a buyer, which means if they don’t list, they’re not just taking a potential home to be bought off the table — they’re taking a future sale off the books as well. million in January of 2022.

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Hank Miller Team

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Seems that just over 70 of recent homebuyers have buyer’s remorse. In Feb '21 we noted that 44 of homebuyers had buyer's remorse, these new stats are bonkers. This number is a bit of a surprise and the reasons have to do with price but also with just about every other aspect of the buyer's transactions. Most of them.

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Listing Spark

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Selling a house “as-is” in Texas, means the buyer agrees to buy the home in its current condition. Which is why many sellers try to sell their home “as-is” and avoid the hassle of repairs and improvements. Which is why many sellers try to sell their home “as-is” and avoid the hassle of repairs and improvements.

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Hank Miller Team

MARCH 6, 2024

There was pain of course, many buyers were eliminated and the withdrawals from those low rates is still being felt. We now have fewer buyers, less chaos and more time for buyers to consider their purchase. 23 saw a less severe drop in contracts and closings, sellers also recognizing that bull run was over.

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