Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

On Wednesday evening, during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call with investor and analysts, CEO Rich Barton took a contrary view: Zillow is just beginning to unlock its revenue generating potential. “In In a hostile housing market and a noisy industry environment, why is Zillow outperforming?” he posited. Of the approximately 1.5

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 01/31/24 Joel Wright & Mike Gobbi Event 9am (on Zoom here) 02/01/24 Gateway Event (private) 2/09/24 PCAR WCR Event […] The post The spring housing market is waking up & random stats first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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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. Together, the two may suggest that there really is nowhere to go but up in 2024,” she said. “In Looking at the four major U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement. in 2024, hitting 800,000 new homes. in 2024, to $445,800. In 2024, they should rise by 13.5% In 2024, it will rise to 1.48

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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. I was already using buyer broker contracts, but now use them 100% of the time.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. NAR expects the economy to continue adding jobs throughout 2023 and 2024, and the 30-year fixed rate mortgage to steadily drop to an average of 6.1% in 2024 Despite these conditions, Yun still expects annual existing home sales to drop 11.1% annual jump in 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“ Recovery year ” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales. For that reason, real estate prices are only going in one direction — and that’s up. economy remains hot.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The recovery has not taken place, but the housing recession is over,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. The presence of multiple offers implies that housing demand is not being satisfied due to lack of supply. in 2024, according to NAR’s forecast.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. They crested near 7.6% at the end of April, according to HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The lack of housing inventory is a major constraint to rising sales,” Lawrence Yun , NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. in 2024, and housing starts will fall 7.3% annual in 2024 to 1.54 to $390,000 in 2024. year over year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Meanwhile, trade groups representing lenders believe that more details on the settlement are needed to understand its coming impact on the housing market. NAR said that the changes , if approved by the court, will go into effect in mid-July 2024. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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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. Binney said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. Inventory is 1.2%

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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). But even though mortgage rates and home prices are expected to moderate, home sales may still sag under persistent inventory shortages, housing economists predict.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s impossible to be an agent if you can’t see which homes are for sale, or unlock the door to those homes, or even write an offer.” “In fact, I’m not even sure that Redfin does not renew its Realtor membership for 2024, because they kind of have to.” “In about half the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Opendoor has committed to deliver at least 100 basis points of contribution margin improvement by 2024, increasing the annual target range to 5% to 7%, with a goal of eventually returning to positive adjusted net income. housing market,” Wheeler said. The contribution margin was negative 4.6% in Q2 2023.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Advisory Opinions For 2024, the ASB has retired Advisory Opinion 16 (AO-16) and replaced it with two new Advisory Opinions, AO-39 and AO-40. These requirements are carried forward in the 2024 edition of USPAP. USPAP 2024 is effective January 1, 2024. To read more, click here My comments: Be sure to read this blog post.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

ROV (Reconsideration of Value) Changes – FHA and GSEs GSE Effective date is August 29, 2024 HUD Effective date is September 2, 2024 Editor’s note: This long section includes, In order: McKissock/Dave Bradley post with a good summary including links to HUD and GSE documents. It was and is controversial. Try this this bigger oar.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period. trillion and to nearly $9.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. We have more homes going into contract each week now than we did a year ago — supply and demand are climbing together. There are now 258,000 single family homes in contract.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . 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.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s not a black and white answer: There’s not one black-and-white answer that applies to every house, price range, location, or market. But backing up, part of the fun of working in real estate is figuring out how to answer questions like this in a way that is balanced and hopefully reflective of the sentiment in the marketplace.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you follow real estate data closely, you’ll know that inventory rose late into November. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. There were 58,000 new listings this week, with 10,000 of those homes already under contract as immediate sales. Short on time?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

regions, only the West registered an increase in month-over-month contract activity. Unlike the surge in make-up demand we saw at the end of 2020, this recent outperforming data should moderate just due to traditional demand limits with the housing market at record low inventory levels. Of the four major U.S. This is critical.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Based on the trends we can see after the start of the year, I’ll project 2024 will see about 15% home sales growth over 2023. But, 2024 is starting stronger than last year. But, 2024 is starting stronger than last year. Could the housing market change and slow again in 2024? That’s certainly possible.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

For several weeks, I’ve been reporting data that shows the housing market growing in 2024. Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. New listings and new contracts both still show a bit of improvement over 2023, but the growth rates have slid back down.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 5, 2024

To see the listing with 19 photos, Click Here == LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement By Peter Christensen, March 28, 2024 Connolly and Mott v. The second development in the case is that on March 22, 2024, the attorneys for Drs. a state-of-the-art home gym, salon, yoga room. No pickleball court. District Court, Maryland.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

The funding has allowed the firm to grow exponentially, de-throning residential real estate’s two biggest brokerages— Anywhere Real Estate and Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices —in just over a decade. This meant slowing growth or contraction at a lot of previously high-flying proptech companies.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Five USPAP Myths Dispelled in 2024 USPAP By Daniel A. Bradley, SRA, CDEI, McKissock Learning On May 5, 2023, the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) voted to adopt changes to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), which will become effective January 1, 2024. Excerpts: 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 4,000 sq.ft.,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. The industry is in a deep housing recession this year. If we get lucky with mortgage rates, though, we might just be at the bottom of the housing market recession right now. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. I’ve been trying to highlight in the last few weeks how the pace of home sales has stopped declining and is about to show some recovery in 2024. Why we’ll have more home sales in 2024 than 2023. is up 2% to 3% over last year at this time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

.” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. The change resulted in Better’s exit from its real estate business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. In this week’s Altos Research video, I look at how home sellers and sales are up, but that doesn’t mean prices will climb in 2024. Housing inventory climbed late in the year as mortgage rates rose.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 15, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on USPAP and Personal Inspection, GSE Appraisal Modernization, Transaction costs and values including real estate commissions, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = Excerpts: We do love our sun, but a handful of homeowners covet it more than others.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

All in all, you can see how effectively 7% mortgage rates have slowed the housing market. Pacific time, Altos Research holds its monthly webinar, where we dive deep on all of the local data trends and the leading indicators for what will happen in the remainder of 2024. real estate market as of mid-May 2024.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 22, 2024

To read the listing and see 39 photos, Click Here Fannie Appraiser Update March 2024 Excerpts: This edition touches on hot topics including zoning changes, hybrid appraisals, subjective language, and recent Selling Guide updates. This is Ann O’Rourke & Associates, real estate appraisers. Thanks for calling.

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