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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

Housing Wire

Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Please think of me as your go-to resource for all things real estate.

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New listings take a hit, possibly due to higher mortgage rates

Housing Wire

Did the recent move in higher mortgage rates impact the new listings data more than normal? I hope this isn’t the case, but we had a noticeable move lower in new listings last week. Weekly active listings rose by only 6,618. 9, 2022 , it’s been 21 positive prints versus 17 negative prints and one flat week.

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Here’s the key to being an empowered real estate professional in 2022

Housing Wire

real estate?market 2022 is slated to be? business as a real?estate?professional. Finding out that Chicago’s real estate market could still skyrocket a double-digit percentage?is Studying listing information for the current year and comparing with past years?—?list?prices,?new coming to the?end

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Sluggish net new listings signal that the lock-in effect is not over

Inman

In January, the real estate market saw a 17.5 percent decline in net new listings and a 2 percent decrease in contract signings, driven by mortgage rate fluctuations, according to HouseCanary.

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Housing inventory defied all predictions in 2023

Housing Wire

We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow. 9, 2022, and they’ll be ready for what’s coming next. So today’s tracker is focused on 2023, the inventory data, and how different this year was from 2022.

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Buyers are getting cold feet as mortgage rates exceed 7%: Redfin

Housing Wire

of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. in August 2022 and marks the highest percentage since October 2022, when mortgage rates surpassed 7% for the first time in two decades. They’re getting cold feet,” said Jaime Moore, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Reno, Nevada.

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Existing home sales ended the year with a whimper in 2022

Housing Wire

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement.

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