Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The modified rule still gives sellers and their listing brokers a role in setting compensation for buyers’ brokers,” the filing states. “The modified rule still gives sellers and their listing brokers a role in setting compensation for buyers’ brokers,” the filing states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The DOJ’s statement of interest, which was filed in mid-February, was in relation to the settlement agreement reached between the Nosalek plaintiffs and MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) in July 2023. DOJ’s apparent change of heart in its [statement of interest] in this case is striking,“ NWMLS wrote in the draft of its brief.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

In its motion filed on Wednesday, CMLS said its amicus curiae brief is in repsonse to the Department of Justice’s statement of interest which was filed in early February in relation to the proposed settlement agreement reached by the Nosalek plaintiffs and defendant MLS Property Information Network in July 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

She is also filing the suit as both a home seller and a homebuyer. In May 2023, Jutla reportedly sold her Seattle home before purchasing a new property in California. commission, she claims that she was “coerced” by her listing agent to offer a buyer’s agent commission of 4.5% Jutla is demanding a jury trial and damages.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

How are appraisers handling concessions to the buyer? Could a seller credit damage the chance of appraising at the purchase contract? These questions weren’t asked a year ago, but welcome to the 2023 housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In early September 2023, Steve Murray , the co-founder of RealTrends Consulting , told HousingWire that he believed this was a possible outcome. The outcome the DOJ wants would only reduce costs for sellers, but it Is going to put buyers in a hole,” Murray said.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

However, the company still makes the vast majority of its revenue – 75% in 2023 – from the services it provides brokers and agents in the for-sale residential market. Those same investors foresee fewer buyer agents as a result, or at least fewer that will pay for the premium services Zillow offers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

While Zillow’s net loss of $23 million for the quarter, which was up from its net loss of $22 million in Q1 2023, did not necessarily reflect Barton’s confidence, the firm’s 13% annual increase in revenue to $529 million did. We are advantaged primarily because we are a product and technology company first.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

After a 2023 of real estate brokers saying they feel “neutral” or “pessimistic” about the housing market, some 48% of those surveyed for the Q1 2024 HousingWire BrokerPulse survey are optimistic that the next three months will be positive. The defendants have been ordered to pay damages of $1.78

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

“The key difference between our business model and that of many of our peers is that our model incentivizes agents to help buyers and sellers reach their housing goals, while some other models have incentivized their agents to recruit other agents, many of whom are not productive.” million in Q1 2023. annualized decline in U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Home prices rallied in September, as homebuyers still outnumbered sellers. home prices continued their rally in September 2023,” Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P DJI , said in a statement.“Our in September, marking eight consecutive monthly gains since prices bottomed in January 2023. Home prices posted a 3.9%

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Hank Miller Team

JANUARY 23, 2023

That message however, is often taken at face value and some home buyers expect a bargain basement spring. Best advice as to what home buyers should expect in the spring of 2023.understand Home buyers had a rough couple of years. The current market slightly favors sellers but it's nothing like it was.

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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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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. Looking at the four major U.S. regions on a monthly basis, sales slid in the Northeast, South, and West but were unchanged in the Midwest. from October 2022’s $378,800.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

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 It is keeping the pressure on buyers to shop wisely,” Kent Redding, a local Berkshire Hathaway Home Services agent, said.

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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.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. Rates should continue to fall in 2023, but the decline in rates will be much slower than the run up. million home sales nationally in 2023, a decline of about 6% compared to 2021, and the lowest level of home sales in nine years.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 28, 2024

compared with February 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Month-over-month, contract signings climbed in the Midwest and South but sank in the Northeast and West. Home prices rising faster than income growth is not healthy and adds challenges for first-time buyers.” Pending home sales increased 1.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

The law at the center of the suit came into effect on July 1, 2023, and it “generally restricts the issuance of government contracts or economic development incentives to, or real property ownership by, foreign principals, which are certain individuals and entities associated with foreign countries of concern,” according to the Florida Senate.

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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. The DPA share in FHA’s total book of business, including refinances, was 27% as of October 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) decreased to 7.06% on Wednesday from last week’s 7.16%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. . “The Tables have turned for some sellers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In August, Zillow ‘s 2023 Consumer Housing Trends Report proclaimed that half of all homebuyers are purchasing their first home, the highest share that Zillow has ever recorded. It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks. It never will be. I’ll explain later.)

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our state is at the forefront of improving a document that each buyer and seller receives near the start of the purchase and sale process, and for the first time, our industry will be required to have a contract with buyers. The agency term of 12 months will be the standard but buyers can agree to any length in writing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Real estate agents are optimistic about the housing market and working to implement buyer agency agreement as we head into 2024, according to the RealTrends Q1 2024 AgentPulse survey. Better buyer and seller presentations to break down payment to a more granular level,” was one agent’s response.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

Outside of that time period, everything else from 1982 to 2023 was normal. 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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

.” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) The number of home listings dried up , contracts were canceled , the few buyers still out there demanded concessions , mortgage rates spiked to 7% and homebuilder sentiment hit rock bottom.

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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 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. Judge Stephen R.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I have four more that I’m in negotiations on representing buyers, and in some cases, buyers who might be interested in multiple transactions, and I think I’ll know the results of those [talks] in the next couple of weeks.” So, the deals aren’t as attractive to sellers. …We’ll trillion to $1.64

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Home price trends moderated in February 2023,” Craig Lazzara, the managing director at S&P DJI, said in a statement. To remain in the market and stay competitive, many buyers are looking at lower priced homes to stay afloat, with homes in the lowest price tier seeing the most competition and price growth early this spring.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The big question is: how long will the market contraction last and when should we expect things to heat back up? Home buyers got spooked when mortgage rates passed 5.5%. In April, May and June, when rates spiked dramatically from 3% to 6%, we saw inventory rise as buyers pulled back. Let’s look at what the data can tell us: 1.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

2023 Real Estate Forecast: Market to Regain Normalcy. Source: 2023 Real Estate Forecast: Market to Regain Normalcy (nar.realtor). Housing inventory is expected to remain tight in 2023, with housing starts below historical averages and fewer homeowners willing to sell, said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. compared to 2022.

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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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Empire Appraisal Group

JUNE 29, 2023

million homes in homeowners’ associations (HOAs), most of our members have helped prepare contracts that address issues associated with association rules. For example, both include room for a seller to disclose whether association approval is required. . – With over 1.5 million condominium units (condos) in Florida, and over 3.71

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Lamacchia Realty

MAY 6, 2024

Their job is to make sure the sale from the seller to the buyer happens within the confines of the law, while also looking out for your best interests. An attorney offers valuable protection and knowledge for you as a buyer. The attorney will advocate on your behalf as a buyer to include the most favorable terms to protect you.

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