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Housing Wire
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024? Is the seasonal bottom going to happen later than I want? It’s not what I wanted to see in 2024, but I have to be realistic since we are already in February. Here is a look at last week: Weekly inventory change (Jan.
Housing Wire
JUNE 21, 2022
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. Now that mortgage rates have risen, demand is getting hit, while we are still showing 14.8%
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Appraisal Today
APRIL 5, 2024
To read more, Click Here My comments: The article also discusses bias. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraiser discrimination lawsuit, waivers, staying positive with slow business, appraiser’s economic forecast, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. District Court, Maryland.
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.,
Housing Wire
JANUARY 12, 2022
Early in 2021, when I was talking about how people should worry about home prices overheating, I had a glimmer of hope that maybe toward the end of 2021 we would be spared another seasonal collapse of inventory. Inventory always falls in the fall and winter, but I hoped it wouldn’t be a repeat of 2020.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Even in the extreme conditions of COVID-19, my general premise on housing economics predicted that the two variables with the most influence — demographics and mortgage rates — would hold up the housing market. The 10-year yield and mortgage rates. That range dictated that mortgage rates would roughly stay between 3.5%-4.75%.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 23, 2020
From the Census Bureau: “Sales of new single-family houses in November 2020 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 841,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. This is 11% (±9.5%) below the revised October rate of 945,000, but is 20.8% (±19.5%) above the November 2019 estimate of 696,000.”
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