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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory is negative YOY

Housing Wire

To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. Mortgage rates rose last week after the better-than-anticipated jobless claims data but even with higher rates, we also had a third week of positive purchase application data.

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Housing Market Tracker: Banking crisis is a new variable

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? As I write this article, I see news that even Warren Buffet has been asked to chime in on how to deal with this crisis.

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Hit list: Inside CoStar’s all-out war against Zillow

Housing Wire

We have done a million dollars of market research in the last couple of months. After all, he called that the Zillow Offers iBuying program would flop. A “major car crash two months ago,” he said, compels doctor’s visits. real estate, with over 6 million single-family homes bought and sold each year. Peeping Toms.

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What is Your Appraiser Level? Why Does It Make a Difference?

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post – Bias, Cost cutting, slow business, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Meanwhile, other appraisers report they’re only doing one or two appraisals per month! Meanwhile, other appraisers report they’re only doing one or two appraisals per month!