Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. Table 1, below, reports the 10 hottest U.S. Bellingham, WA 51.7% -8.3%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

The recent settlement involving the National Association of Realtors and major real estate firms revolves around the practice of “broker cooperation,” where agents representing sellers share commissions with agents representing buyers. Last year, mortgage rates increased from 3% to 8% and home prices still increased in most markets.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Dear Sellers, How are things? It’s been such a crazy market, but things are starting to change. I hope all is well. So, let’s chat. This is coming from a good place, and it’s based on observations and what I’m hearing from real estate professionals. WEBINAR ON THURSDAY: On May 19th at 10am I’ll be […].

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. In some markets, more than 50% of active listings have experienced a price cut, according to Altos Research. the month prior.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Going more in-depth than a Fed meeting, our virtual Housing Market Update event provides you with the strategy-building insights needed to operate in 2024. It’s a savagely unhealthy housing market out there, and these economists unpack what that means for you. Register for the virtual event on Dec.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. If a seller has those multiple offers, they are looking first at cash offers and may even consider a lower cash offer because they don’t have to worry about the property appraising for that price,” Garrett said. “If It is just a super tight housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2024

Here’s the new listings data for last week over the last several years: 2024: 70,665 2023: 63,236 2022: 72,009 Price-cut percentage In an average year, one-third of all homes take a price cut — this is standard housing activity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Those too young to remember the wild west of real estate believe that real estate commissions have always been evenly split between seller’s and buyer’s agents, with each receiving a portion of the sale price. This misconception obscures the reality that, historically, buyers lacked formal representation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Construction is starting to pick up, so that should help alleviate things in the housing market. Four renovations to consider before selling your house. Worries about finding a replacement home in a hot housing market. A whopping 63% of sellers are also buyers, which poses yet another concern.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. All major housing market metrics point to a restrained housing market. But if you are a prospective buyer, macro housing metrics probably do not reflect your experience.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

While it’s not as clear how long-lasting the rebound will be, it does still provide some much-needed good news for the spring and summer housing market. This article is part of our ongoing 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After this series wraps, join us on May 30 for the next Housing Market Update Event.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2024

But unlike housing markets of the past, this market isn’t being driven by low mortgage rates or low home prices – the current trickle of sales is coming mainly from people who are facing life events that require them to sell their homes and move. Currently, First American is forecasting March existing-home sales will rise 1.7%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Bright MLS released its National Housing Market Outlook on Wednesday, which shows that affordability will remain the biggest challenge for homebuyers next year. However, market activity is still projected to remain well below typical levels. Home sales are expected to rise, as homebuyers will have more options to choose from.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. However, a seller is also a natural homebuyer, unless they’re an investor.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We’ve all witnessed the housing market slowdown that has occurred over the last year. Across the country, homes are spending more days on the market as interest rates rise. Many sellers have returned to offering concessions and dropping prices to entice buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

of home sellers gave concessions to homebuyers in Q4 of 2022, through money for repairs and mortgage-rate buydowns. In Q3 of 2022 and Q4 of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales. Recently, one of Welborn’s buyers negotiated a $10,000 credit for a new roof and other repairs along with a lower asking price for the home.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

That pretty much describes sellers. But in 2024 there’s a flicker of hope as sellers have thawed out just a bit. I’ll explain what I mean below, and I suspect many markets around the country are experiencing a similar trend. Any thoughts?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

My advice to sellers is to price your home fairly,” Chen Zhao, economic research lead at Redfin, said in a statement. Even though sellers are getting top dollar at the moment, they should price competitively to attract buyers from the start and avoid having to drop their price as stubbornly high mortgage rates eat into buying budgets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to avoid the start of the busy spring buying season and list their properties closer to the midpoint of the year, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. If mortgage rates follow, that could bring another surge of buyers later this year.”

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 20, 2021

While the housing market will not return to a fully typical state anytime soon,” it is “starting to trend in that direction,” economists say. The post Price Drops Indicate Increasing Buyer/Seller Balance appeared first on theMReport.com.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. It is keeping the pressure on buyers to shop wisely,” Kent Redding, a local Berkshire Hathaway Home Services agent, said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There’s no doubt we’re in a seller’s housing market. With inventory at record lows, demand surging and prices on the rise, buying — even just finding — a home in today’s market is quite the challenge. Are you hoping to buy a home in 2021’s hot housing market ? How much house can you afford to buy?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The “ silver tsunami ” — a colloquialism referring to aging Americans changing their housing arrangements to accommodate aging — could have more of an impact on the housing market this year, according to analyst Meredith Whitney in a conversation with Yahoo Finance. “[T]he

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

Unlike a typical spring homebuying season in which sellers are also looking to buy a home, people trying to relocate into a bigger or smaller home in the Mid-Atlantic region made up a relatively small share of the housing market. of buyers in the region paid above the seller’s original list price. a month ago.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

home sellers received four or more offers on their home in 2021, according to Zillow’s latest consumer housing trends report. Typical sellers received two offers, which is the same as the past three years. This is slightly higher than the number of buyers who reported purchasing a home without a mortgage (68%).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Tsai works with both homebuyers and tenants and while he says his business is typically split 50/50 between buyers and tenants, he has noticed a shift as mortgage rates have risen over the past six months.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. Specifically, housing markets like Portland, Maine , Bay City, Mich. million new households entering the housing market in 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Home sellers are chomping at the bit. As the economy reopens, vaccinations continue to roll out and stimulus checks reach bank accounts across America, home sellers are increasingly optimistic. ” Duncan added that home sellers are citing high home prices and tight inventory as primary reasons why it’s a good time to sell.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. But after this week’s report, we should have a low-level base formed for housing to stabilize.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. According to Redfin’s analysis, Austin, Texas has experienced the most rapidly cooling housing market in the nation over the last year.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Sellers haven’t had to negotiate much with buyers over the past two years, but that’s starting to change. Let’s talk about this today by looking at seller concessions (credits for repairs, help with closing costs, etc…). THE HONEYMOON IS OVER: It’s like the market was on […].

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. As a result, the local housing market is going to be subdued in 2023, especially in the first half of the year.

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