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

Housing Wire

For what felt like a moment in time, buyers enjoyed the luxury of being incredibly picky, carefully selecting what felt like their dream homes in a market that had shifted towards more favorable conditions. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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‘Find buyers before agents!’ Mortgage industry reacts to the NAR settlement

Housing Wire

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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With low inventory, house hunters are in full safari mode

Housing Wire

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. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.” through the first quarter of 2024.”

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Are mortgage rates about to fall?

Housing Wire

This can be partly due to a higher percentage of cash buyers in the sales mix that purchase applicatoins won’t account for. Weekly housing inventory data Last week was another week that missed my inventory growth model with higher rates. Rates have fallen recently and inventory growth was higher last week than the previous week.

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New Home Sales Jumped in March Despite Higher Mortgage Rates

Appraisal Buzz

Department of Housing and Urban Development. New home sales have generally been strong so far in 2024, despite higher mortgage rates and rising home prices. With many homeowners “rate-locked” into their existing homes, new homes are the only bright spot in a market suffering from low inventory. about an 8.3-month

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How the buyer commission lawsuits could upend the relationship between agents and LOs

Housing Wire

But three multibillion-dollar class action antitrust lawsuits looming over the real estate industry may soon reshape how buyers interact with agents. You’ve got current economic conditions that are not opportunistic for a homebuyer right now, inflation is still out there and it’s all constraining buyers’ ability to spend. “You’ve

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DataDigest: Construction costs easing for homebuilders

Housing Wire

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. High mortgage rates and home prices quelled the surge in buyer demand, and time seems to have moderated the supply chain shocks. Builders like D.R.