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Typical homebuyers made $107,000 annually, used a real estate agent in 2023: NAR survey

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Buying a house was obtainable only for the haves in 2023 as home prices and mortgage rates soared. Homebuyers’ median household income increased by $19,000 this year from 2022, reaching $107,000, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers. Meanwhile, in September, one-third of U.S.

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More real estate agents are switching brokerages: Relitix

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With market uncertainty, real estate agents had been sticking with their current brokerage., While inventory is still low, professionals are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. As confidence in the 2024 housing market grows, so does agent’s confidence in their ability to make a move to a new broker.

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Buyers are being picky — here’s how you can navigate it as a real estate agent

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With the coming together of interest rate drops, the persistent, continued low inventory levels and 2023 being recorded as the slowest year for U.S. Interest rates, a key determinant of the real estate market’s health, are on a downward trend. Will we get more inventory? The strategy has changed for buyers.

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Real estate agents wonder if inventory levels will ever return to ‘normal’

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Nationwide, pre-pandemic the first week of February typically marks the lowest point for housing inventory during the year, as sellers return to the market in time for spring, but since the onset of the pandemic this predictable trend has been thrown out the window. “ What happened to ‘normal’?

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6 ways to avoid becoming real estate agent roadkill in 2024

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2023 was the weirdest real estate market on record. We played mortgage rate ping-pong, had unprecedented low levels of inventory and still there were escalating prices. All this happened, but you survived it, so go you! Now it’s time to make this your year. How can you increase your chances of that happening?

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Hispanic homeownership rate rose to 49.5% in 2023: NAHREP

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Despite elevated interest rates and tight inventory, the national Hispanic homeownership rate reached 49.5% in 2023, with a net gain of 377,000 Hispanic owner households from the previous year. In 2023 alone, Latinos saw a net gain of 450,000 new households and were responsible for 25.5% In total, more than 9.5 of overall U.S.

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With low inventory, house hunters are in full safari mode

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It boils down to two factors, according to housing-industry experts: a lack of housing inventory , or supply; and high demand for that limited housing stock — which also is fueling a jump in new-home sales. Fannie Mae recently projected originations for 2023 at $1.59 trillion, a revision downward from its January estimate of $1.65

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