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Higher mortgage rates haven’t increased inventory

Housing Wire

Weekly housing inventory Mortgage rates have been near or above 7% for the last few months, and active listings growth has been slow during this tenure. Will higher rates extend the inventory season, or are we going into the traditional seasonal decline? Hopefully, we will have found a bottom in this data line before the year ends.

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

But Alipour exited Redfin for Compass last month, due to Redfin’s sales expectations. We would go out to dinner a lot on the beach in Asbury Park on the Jersey shore,” recalled Jacki Wilfinger, an erstwhile Redfin agent in New Jersey. And while former agents have nice things to say about Redfin, they also leave in droves.

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Existing home sales lay the path for the 2024 housing market

Housing Wire

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. Year-over-year, sales fell 7.3% (down from 4.12 In 2022, we recorded the most significant single one-year home sales crash ever.

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Impact of COVID-19 On Appraisals

Simonson Real Estate

As the impact of COVID continues to unfold and the real estate market grapples with rapidly changing information and market conditions – commercial appraisers have had to quickly adapt to a new way of gathering reliable and credible data to base their appraisal analysis from. COVID-19 Market Analysis – Insights and Impact Analysis.

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HousingWire debuts Housing Market Tracker

Housing Wire

Starting this week, I will analyze weekly data in a Housing Market Tracker article every Monday to provide a status update on the U.S. The housing market is one sector that can turn positive or negative very quickly depending on mortgage rates or one-time shocks like we saw with COVID-19. housing market and economy.

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Unacceptable Appraisal Practices from Freddie Mac

Appraisal Today

Here are 5: Reliance in any appraisal analysis on inappropriate comparable sales, or the failure to use comparable sales that are more similar to or nearer to the subject property without adequate explanation. Use of comparable sales data provided by interested parties to the transaction without verification by a disinterested party.

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Must-Read Tips to Appraise, Buy, and Sell Special Purpose Property [2021]

The Robert Weiler Company

But for up-and-coming neighborhoods with a special purpose property or unique properties for sale, the soon-to-be bloom time might as well be called boom time. Committed to 20 percent affordable housing options, the River & Rich project is a story of renewal and community rebirth via unique properties for sale.

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