Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The most underreported housing story I’ve seen this year is that even with mortgage rates rising to 8%, the number of homes that took price cuts before they sold was 4% below 2022 levels. This happened even with higher home prices and higher mortgage rates in 2023. In fact the price cut percentage consistently stayed 4% below 2022 levels.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. What did I get wrong? in total for the year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

When COVID-19 was about to hit our economy, I forecasted that the 10-year yield recessionary yields should be in a range between -0.21%-0.62%. About a month later, I published my AB (America is Back) recovery model , which said that the 10-year yield should get back toward 1%. The 10-year yield and mortgage rates. The forecast.

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Appraisal Today

JULY 15, 2022

She is talking about an investor buying and renting many rooms in a house, sometimes changing the floor plan. Two articles by Julie on my website: Residential Appraisals and Airbnb Income? Excerpts from the article : Don’t get caught like a deer in the headlights! What role does an appraiser take when sorting between the two?

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