Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

With low housing inventory nationwide, agents are using innovative ways to find real estate seller leads and convert them into listings. To help you snag more listings, we updated our list of proven strategies to win more real estate seller leads in 2024. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

in October on a month-over-month basis, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Home sales should perform better in 2024 even if affordability remains a challenge According to Bright MLS’s forecast , mortgage rates will continue to trend downward in 2024, finishing the year at 6.2%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

“In down markets, the best agents and the best brokerages gain market share,” Reffkin, the CEO of Compass, told investors and analysts during his firms first-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday evening. “We Year over year , Compass gained 26 basis points of market share, bringing its total share of home sales in Q1 2024 to 4.76%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. However, that hasn’t been the case so far in 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

month over month in December, according to the newest data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). According to an NAR outlook, home sales are projected to rise significantly in 2024 and 2025 as the housing market steadily returns to normal. increase between 2024 and 2025 to a pace of 5.35 Pending home sales rose 8.3%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

million, according to the National Association of Realtors. The latest weakness in existing home sales still reflects the buyer bidding process in most of October when mortgage rates were at a two-decade high before the actual closings in November,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. “The Housing inventory fell 1.7%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

month over month in January, according to the newest data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Overall active inventory improved 7.9% However, the timing and number of purchases will largely depend on the prevailing mortgage rates and inventory availability.” Pending home sales dropped 4.9% in December.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.” But three multibillion-dollar class action antitrust lawsuits looming over the real estate industry may soon reshape how buyers interact with agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Existing-home sales picked up in January as buyers took advantage of the lowest mortgage rates seen in several months. from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million in January, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). In fact, by the end of January, for-sale housing inventory was at 1.01

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

Known as the “Real Life Realtor,” she’s the brain behind Real Life Real Estate Training. Smaller, more specific courses, such as The Buyer Presentation , are priced at $347. The club is currently offering founding member pricing for $25 per month or $250, but it’s a limited-time offer available only under April 30, 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales for April’s housing market came in at 5,8500,000. housing market for 2020 to 2024 is that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level. This was a miss from estimates and the third straight month of declines in sales. My biggest fear for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

“Purchase activity has slowed to a virtual standstill, affordability remains a significant hurdle for many and the only way to address it is lower rates and greater inventory.” trillion, before an expected 19% rebound in 2024 as rates finally start to trend downward,” Broeksmit said in a statement. million units sold.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

After dropping slightly month over month in May , pending home sales ticked back up in June, rising 0.3%, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). in 2024, according to NAR’s forecast. million in 2024. Home prices will be influenced by how much inventory is brought to market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While elevated mortgage rates, sluggish home sales and high inflation have taken a significant toll on the housing industry, it’s unlikely that these issues will cause home prices to drop next year, at least according to National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. Non-QM ripe for the taking Faced with a lack of inventory across the country, lenders have been exploring ways to create new buyers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales for April came in at 5.41 Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here are some charts reviewing today’s report with a host of data lines from the NAR existing home sales report: [link] A few critical glaring points: active inventory is still historically low, and so is monthly supply data. This means 2024 is starting to look a lot like 2023 unless rates fall soon.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. I was adamant about the price growth rule of 23% from 2020 to 2024. Wait, what?

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 12, 2024

As predicted , 2024 has started with low inventory, and mortgage rates have remained relatively stable in the high 6’s and low 7’s. Although inventory is slightly higher now than this time last year, competition is still fierce. If another buyer offers $508,000, your offer automatically goes up to $513,000.

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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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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The real estate industry is no exception, and realtors who specialize in (or at least serve) property investment clients are seeing the beginnings of a complete technological transformation through AI and increasingly smart tools , such as property investment software. Realtors provide insights for pricing strategies.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 With the home-price growth we had in 2020 and 2021, my five-year price-growth model that I set for 2020-2024 of 23% was already smashed in just two years. Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 million to 1.28

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. Growth prospects At the end of September 2022, Opendoor had 16,873 homes in inventory. For the same period this year, the company has 4,007.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

On Friday, the National Association of Realtors released its pending home sales data showing a third month of declines. From NAR : “Pending home sales slumped in January, continuing what is now a three-month drop in transactions, the National Association of Realtors reported. Of the four major U.S. This is critical.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While the industry has yet to find out what Judge Stephen Bough’s injunction will say and the three defendants, the National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams and HomeServices of America , have vowed to appeal the decision, Barton believes his firm will thrive regardless the outcome.

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Clear Capital

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Yet home prices remain high and inventory levels are tight in many markets. How will the first quarter of 2024 shake out when it comes to rates, prices, sales activity and more? I expect the first quarter of 2024 to feel like a continuation of 2023, with relatively weak home sales and modest price increases.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

In fact, the lowest levels of H4P were in the lowest rate environment during the 2020 pandemic as inventory tightened and seniors were not interested in moving given all that was happening.” Industry perseverance But other data suggests that seniors may be more willing to move again.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. Unsold inventory sits at a 2.0-month

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A housing market marked by relatively high interest rates and tight inventory — and punctuated by the practice of home inspection waivers to sweeten offers — are taking a bite out of business for home inspectors, who play a key role in the sales process by ensuring that buyers are not being sold a lemon of a house.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the National Association of Realtors, March’s existing-home sales came in at 6.01 housing market has been that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level in the years 2020-2024. From NAR: My biggest fear for the U.S. You may recall that I repeatedly warned that this could happen and this is now happening.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Sales from 2022 to 2023 were down 14%,” Mark Fischer, the CEO of the Indiana Realtors Association , said. “We We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” But as the calendar flipped to 2024 and as we inch closer to the spring selling season, Fischer said things have started to pick up.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024. “It Buyers are really struggling.” We are going to see an increase in inventory. Baby boomers are not moving.

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