Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, high home prices and growing affordability challenges are the two factors weighing on prospective home buyers, said Sturtevant. She expects a market contraction this fall in the housing sector.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Higher mortgage rates have zapped mortgage demand, as buyers are having second thoughts about purchasing homes. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances that are $726,200 or less increased to 6.71% from the previous week’s 6.62%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

However, there are a number of attention-grabbing headlines, which unfortunately only compare today’s housing market to the very recent history of the last two years. It is always good to know where we are with the real estate market, but it is essential to keep all data in historical perspective. . Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

And while real estate agents repping luxury homes aren’t seeing as many bidding wars as they did this summer , their respective housing markets are still crazy right now. Contracts during this time also skyrocketed 62%. And, since early July to now, it’s just getting very busy.”. 1, and runs through May 1.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 6, 2022

A quick change in rates has led to a quick change in the housing market. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/15/2022 Lunch & Learn Big Market Update (sign up here)) […]. We didn’t see much difference right away in the stats, but we are finally getting some good numbers now. Let me show you what I mean.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Pending home sales, like new home sales, are based on contract signings. Mortgage rates have been rising above 7% since August, which has diminished the pool of home buyers,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. With the mortgage market rapidly shrinking – some experts believe it might contract to just $1.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. A lot of sellers are also willing to let buyers slip away because they don’t want to concede to repair requests,” Morre said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. “Job in December, up from 71.6 in November.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

Portland, Maine, has emerged as a popular destination for current homeowners and prospective buyers looking to move out of metro areas into more spacious secondary cities. With demand that high, homes for sale are going under contract 24 to 36 hours after they are put on the market. A recent report from Redfin showed that 14.9%

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

In a hostile housing market and a noisy industry environment, why is Zillow outperforming?” According to Barton, the “substance of the settlement” is a “very reasonable middle path forward for the industry, where commissions are communicated between sellers and buyers and both parties are better educated.” he posited.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

Numerous other sales records were also set, including the median home sale price ($354,250) and number of days on the market (17, down from 36 one year ago). Diving deeper, for the two week period ending May 9, 2021, 57% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

But they do agree on one thing: Higher interest rates will quell housing demand, which will allow inventory to rebound and, eventually, spur the return of reluctant buyers. If mortgage rates peak, Fratantoni said, “potential buyers who had been scared off by the rate spike, might find their way back to the housing market.”.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

How are appraisers handling concessions to the buyer? Could a seller credit damage the chance of appraising at the purchase contract? These questions weren’t asked a year ago, but welcome to the 2023 housing market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2023

“Pending home sales recorded the second-lowest monthly reading in 20 years as interest rates , which climbed at one of the fastest paces on record this year, drastically cut into the number of contract signings to buy a home,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. On a month over month basis, all four of the major U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. “The small gain in contract signings shows the potential for further increases in light of the fact that many people have lost out on multiple home buying offers,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Overall, pending home sales fell in all four U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Persistent inflation has proven quite harmful to the housing market,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. Only when inflation is tamed will mortgage rates retreat and boost home purchasing power for buyers.”. All four major U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Despite sluggish pending contract signings, the housing market is resilient with approximately three offers for each listing,” Lawrence Yun , the chief economist of NAR, said in a statement. annual drop recorded in April.

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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 defendants have been ordered to pay damages of $1.78

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

After eight months of consecutive gains, the consequences of low inventory finally caught up with the housing market in February. drop in the number of homes in contract from the prior month, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply.

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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

APRIL 22, 2021

Robbin Sutton with DASH Realty Carolina has been a broker for 20 years, and she’s never seen anything like the current housing market in the Raleigh-Durham metro. The post North Carolina’s low home prices luring buyers appeared first on HousingWire. “It’s just insane. .

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 5, 2021

“Buyers are crazy!!! ” That’s what we tend to hear from people who are NOT trying to buy a house right now. How can they be paying these prices?” It seems like onlookers really don’t understand what it takes to get an offer accepted these days.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. Meanwhile, new home sales , which are also a measure of contract signings, reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 661,000 in January, up 1.5% As a result, long-term housing demand is increasing more significantly in these regions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. These reports highlight the difference home buyers and potential home buyers have when embarking on the buying process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Pending home sales rose for the third month in a row in February, but at 0.8%, the uptick over January was less than is typically seen in the run-up to the spring housing market. Month-over-month, contract signings increased in three U.S. Overall, contract signings were down 21.1% In-contract deals rose 0.7%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Real estate agents are optimistic about the housing market and working to implement buyer agency agreement as we head into 2024, according to the RealTrends Q1 2024 AgentPulse survey. Better buyer and seller presentations to break down payment to a more granular level,” was one agent’s response.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

However, some economists also say that the economy is veering toward a contraction, with 10-year yields holding below 3-month yields, Bloomberg reported. On Thursday, the market surpassed the 1980 record to hold that way for the longest consecutive daily stretch since Bloomberg’s records began in 1962.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. New home sales data last month was much stronger than had been anticipated; the market had expected a contraction of 4.7% Since July, about 10,000 contracts have been canceled each month, according to data from John Burns Consulting.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Buyers responded to better affordability from falling mortgage rates in December and January,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Instead, expect a bumpy road on the way to a more normal housing market in 2023.” After posting a 2.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

The dip in applications is linked to broader trends in the housing market: more than a year of low inventory is forcing interested buyers to snag whatever they can get their hands on, even if it’s overpriced. That’s coupled with a rise in mortgage rates , too.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. The market has now faced a contraction in existing-homes sales for nine consecutive months, while home prices and rates rise.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 28, 2024

Month-over-month, contract signings climbed in the Midwest and South but sank in the Northeast and West. Home prices rising faster than income growth is not healthy and adds challenges for first-time buyers.” Pending home sales increased 1.6% in February compared with January but were down 7.0%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Homebuyer contract signings in the U.S. Increased inventory of homes for sale, near historic low mortgage rates and favorable demographics means more housing demand, ” Odeta Kushi, the First American deputy chief economist said in a statement. rose 8% month-over-month from July to August, though the figure was still 8.3%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pennymac Financial Services is the latest mortgage company to issue debt in a challenging housing market. Pennymac Financial Services said its notes, to be offered in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers, will be “fully and unconditionally guaranteed on an unsecured senior basis.”

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