Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Pulling comps in 2024 is tough. I also have some market recap visuals to unpack what’s been happening in 2024 so far. UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 2/19/24 Matt the Mortgage Guy YouTube […] The post The challenge of pulling comps in 2024 first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog. Think about it this way.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Among all the experts’ forecasts for 2024, there is no number more tightly watched than mortgage rates, as those rates will undoubtedly impact sales, prices and construction as well. Mortgage rates The experts unanimously foresee lower mortgage rates in 2024, although none expect rates to fall below 6%. million to 5.07

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2024

I believe we should get more sellers in 2024 than in 2023, but that doesn’t necessarily mean home prices will fall. This is why following the housing market tracker tied to the 10-year yield, mortgage rates, and purchase application data will be as critical as last year to tell you what’s going on in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Mortgage originators who seek success in 2024 need to move with confidence and adaptability. Identify potential market impact The mortgage market is feast or famine, with origination volumes varying between high and low extremes. Evolve offerings with market demand Innovation in the mortgage market still exists.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Guaranteed Rate has introduced a new feature that allows sellers working with a G-Rate loan officer to pay a fee that locks in a permanently discounted mortgage rate for a buyer. But with RateReduce Sell, sellers will be able secure a lower rate by buying down points permanently.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to avoid the start of the busy spring buying season and list their properties closer to the midpoint of the year, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. It is almost certain the Federal Reserve will push back any interest-rate cuts to mid-2024 at the earliest.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our customers for many years have said, ‘I also work with sellers, can we nurture them as well?’” According to Flachner, despite initial hesitancy for fear of biting off more than they could chew, RealScout began “peeling back the layers of the onion on seller nurture.”

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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 value education was mentioned across the board.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

What’s the housing market going to do in 2024? Nobody has a crystal ball, but here are some emerging trends. Scroll quickly by topic or digest slowly.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. United Wholesale Mortgage , the top lender in the country by volume, claimed just under 8% total market share over the first nine months of 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “The bond market is forcing the Fed to pivot.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Those economic projections from the 19 members of the Federal Open Markets Committee show both a tighter consensus of opinions and a lower target Federal funds rate than the projections the FOMC made in September. percentage points above the average of four forecasts for the third quarter of 2024 and roughly 0.6 percentage points.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Learn how to boost your marketing by understanding today's home buyers and sellers, their motivations and desired home features.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Simply put, cutting corners on staging is a risky move that risks prolonged market presence. Interior maintenance: the devil in the details In 2024, buyers are not just seeking a house; they desire a home that has been lovingly maintained. Overall, in 2024, cutting corners on staging is a risk that sellers cannot afford to take.

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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. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85. They crested near 7.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the first week of 2024, mortgage rates continued to stick around the mid 6% mark. 28 , according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. “However, since then rates have moved sideways as the market digests incoming economic data.” The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.62% as of Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The national real estate brokerage found that the nationwide median sale price reached $420,357 in March 2024. In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. Major markets such as Tampa, Orlando and Dallas also posted supply growth of 20% to 30% during this period. Additionally, of the 10 U.S.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Insurance has been a glaring mess in California, and it’s really starting to affect the housing market. The goal is to give some perspective and advice to sellers […] The post The insurance crisis is affecting the housing market first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Based on annual changes to an index of national home prices, conforming loan limits for mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on one-unit properties will be $766,550 in 2024. How higher loan limits might move the housing market needle Economists at Fannie Mae project home prices to increase by 2.8% on an annual basis in 2024.

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Inman

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Falling home prices and mortgage rates are on tap for buyers and sellers — not to mention a presidential election that could hinge on housing issues, according to Redfin's outlook for 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Multiple offers, however, are still occurring, especially on starter and mid-priced homes, even as price concessions are happening in the upper end of the market.” Together, the two may suggest that there really is nowhere to go but up in 2024,” she said. “In On the bright side, housing inventory rose 1.8% from September, with 1.15

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Ginnie Mae are walking back some of the more controversial proposed eligibility requirements for sellers, servicers and issuers they oversee. Institutions with less than $1 billion in originations during a 12 month period would be exempt — a new carveout the agencies said is for “small sellers.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Although more agents are fielding questions about the commission lawsuits than they were a quarter ago , they also remain optimistic about where the housing market is headed in the second quarter of 2024, according to the RealTrends Q2 2024 AgentPulse survey.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Total inventory data is deficient, and this was my biggest fear in the years 2020-2024, and it happened. Inventory has been slowly falling since 2014, so if demand picks up in 2020-2024, it can collapse to shallow levels. One of the critical data lines that I want to see improve this year is days on market. from one year ago.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s important to cultivate objectivity and keep some things in mind about buyers, sellers, and concessions. Everyone is talking about the National Association of Realtors (NAR) lawsuit settlement, and I have a few thoughts too.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

You market your brand and business online. Your home sellers and buyers research you online. Robust search functionality and optimization: RealTrends Verified elevates your brand in the places homebuyers and sellers look first. Digital-first analysis, distribution, and discovery. You educate your sphere online.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2024

Existing-home sales in this current market are mostly being driven by the “Five Ds” – death, divorce, diplomas, downsizing, and diapers – according to a report from First American. Today’s housing market faces a persistent trio of challenges,” says Odeta Kushi, deputy chief economist at First American, in a blog post. “The

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the real estate market continues to grapple with high interest rates and low inventory, agents entering the market are looking for affordable client relationship management (CRM) tools that offer a cost-effective means to automate and manage client interactions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After two straight years of double-digit declines, home sales will pick up in 2024 thanks to lower mortgage rates. This is according to NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun, who shared a presentation of his 2024 forecast on Tuesday. Yun expects the first rate cut to come in the late spring of 2024.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

But with mortgage rates ascending past 7% according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center , those hopes have so far been dashed in 2024. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates. percentage points—sellers take notice. 31% in 2023-2024. in 2019-2020, 16.9-17.2%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

At HousingWire , we have a debate about whether home sellers will freeze up again this year as mortgage rates stay stubbornly high. We’ve had seller growth for 18 weeks in a row. More sellers means more sales. Will sellers retreat entirely, like they did last year? But will rates deter sellers also?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

year over year in the first quarter of 2024, with the median price hitting a record $1.225 million, according to data from Redfin. Redfin defined luxury homes as those estimated to be in the top 5% of their metro area based on market value, while non-luxury homes are those with estimated values in the 35th to 65th percentile.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anywhere demonstrated our leadership strength in 2023, driving meaningful results in a tough real estate market,” Ryan Schneider , Anywhere president and CEO, said in a statement. “In The company produced these results amid “an incredibly difficult year for the housing market,” Schneider said during an earnings call on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008.

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