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Settling on a New Normal for Appraisals in 2022

Appraisal Buzz

The housing market was hotter than ever last year, with pandemic-driven demand boosting home sales to their highest level in 14 years. There’s too little supply and too high a demand, a predicament that’s disrupted the housing and appraisal industries. Shifting Toward Modernization. Total year-end sales volume ended at 5.64

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%.

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What Impact Will the Infrastructure Bill Have on the Housing Crisis?

Appraisal Buzz

The infrastructure upgrades inside the bill could significantly impact some of the housing market’s problems. The Current Housing Crisis. In the past few years, home prices have risen to the point where we are in another housing crisis. This was due to an all-time housing shortage.

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Rise above the panic, for the housing market’s sake

Housing Wire

Reading headlines or, in this case, Tweet threads , rooted in the “demise of the market,” tend to create false pretenses that sway investment decisions, often when they shouldn’t. We can’t keep turning to 2019-2022 as a benchmark — we were experiencing unprecedented times. When this back and forth was unfolding, mortgage demand rose 2.9%

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Builders apply the brakes amid canceled contracts

Housing Wire

The best way to fight inflation is to add more supply, and when I look at the housing completion data for the past two years, it just makes me want to puke. In previous expansions, builders’ housing completion data would move in line with housing starts and permits. I personally wouldn’t do it.

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Help for troubled borrowers is on the way. But will it come soon enough?

Housing Wire

.” According to consumer protection lawyers, advocates, and housing counselors, the expectation is that some state programs will be up and running sometime in the first quarter of 2022. Also, the DEO said it is implementing 20 projects to modernize its systems, and 97% of all eligible benefits requested before Oct.15

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FED’S ACTIONS TAKE STEAM OUT OF HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. The inter-bank rate stands at about 3.1%, coincidentally the exact figure that Freddie Mac reported at the start of 2022 as the average mortgage rate in the U.S. Not in 2022. Mississippi finished last. >>