Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 3, 2025

Nonetheless, increasing price reductions and declining pending house sales indicate that buyers are being cautious, most likely as a result of the uncertain economic climate and customers growing anxieties about their individual financial circumstances. Data also suggest that pricing competitively is key for sellers in todays environment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As inventory builds and, as there are fewer offers from homebuyers , more sellers feel the need to reduce the asking price of the homes for sale. At this time, of year theres new inventory and new buyers are shopping. In recent weeks, we can see that those buyers are waiting. Its still not a lot of sellers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

There are obviously fewer buyers who can afford these prices. In 2024, we saw a notable increase in buyer demand when mortgage rates got close to 6%. New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers. There were only 54,000 new listings of single-family homes unsold this week.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Florida had an uptick in inventory with a bit of a rebound in new listings now that the storms are over. New listings go up This year continues to have slightly more sellers than last year but fewer than we used to get in past years. There were 60,000 new listings unsold this week for single-family homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Buyer activity has been dropping for several weeks and there are now fewer homes in contract than a year ago. Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. Theres signal that the price buyers are paying is declining too. more of those new listings unsold than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

This is a crucial time for agents to act as trusted guides to their clients, particularly first-time sellers. From the get-go, 75% of first-time home sellers report feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally exhausted. Now more than ever, sellers need a knowledgeable partner to help them navigate the process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

However, some buyers appear to be adapting. Redfin agents report that buyers who can afford to purchase are acting now before costs rise further. Redfin agents report that buyers who can afford to purchase are acting now before costs rise further. New listings rose 12.7%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We already see many signals for what to expect, including last week’s data on inventory , new listings and price reductions, which I analyze below. Mortgage rates continue to move higher and that’s impacting buyers. Last week there were 52,000 new listings for single-family homes unsold. of the homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

New listings rise There were just under 61,000 new listings unsold this week. When you include the 9,400 immediate sales, the total is 13% more sellers than a year ago. Last year at this time, the market was in deep retrenchment — both buyers and sellers were walking away. It’s really just one week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The company was one of the first to come up with its own buyer broker agreement in response to the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement. To give every seller in America a clear view of whats at stake. Were modeling what leadership looks like.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 31, 2025

Prospective buyers have been cautious because theyve seen homes sitting on the market and theyve heard interest rates and prices may drop. When the market isnt competitive, some buyers think they should wait for costs to go down, said Jordan Hammond, a Redfin Premier agent in Raleigh, NC. The market had 5.2 year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Additionally, our weekly pending contract data and new listings are trending positively compared to last year. Last year, I estimated that a minimum of 80,000 homes would be listed every week during the peak seasonal months, and my prediction was only off by 5,000.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

New listings grew 7% from the week prior Last week saw 68,000 newly listed single-family homes. As such, the pace of new listings seems to be picking up for the spring and the post-pandemic era. There were nearly 7% more sellers last week than the week prior. What is driving the sellers’ behavior?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

The New Years week was expected to be slow, so it’s no surprise that new listings and sales are down. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays fell on Wednesdays this year, which messes up two full weeks in terms of getting home sales done and tracking the numbers. Buyer competition led to all kinds of craziness.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 14, 2025

According to a recent Realtor.com survey, some70% of prospective sellers believe that now is a good time to sell, indicating that sellers nationwide are feeling upbeat as we approach this years Best Time to Sell. Some 96% of prospective sellers have taken some action to start getting ready to sell their house.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

In 2022, it was the end of the post-pandemic boom and buyers were rushing to get a home before mortgage rates climbed, so there was steep price appreciation in the first half of the year. Even though the best new inventory hits the market each week, these are being priced fractionally cheaper than last year. from last week and 26.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Data from Altos Research shows an area with expensive housing, rising inventory and conditions that lean favorable to sellers. While most of the country is suffering from declining inventory, LAs is up 33% year over year, and pending new sales have gradually risen since the beginning of 2023. The current median home price is $1.47

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

This is measurable in both the total unsold inventory and the number of new listings each week. Because each week we have 815% more sellers than last year, the total inventory will continue to build unless and until demand shifts dramatically, which would require notably lower mortgage rates. Well, new listings are climbing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

NextHome is joining eXp Realty in committing to Zillow s new listing standards. The firm announced its decision to sign on to Zillow s new standards on Friday. “Partnering with Zillow to commit to listing transparency is simply the right thing to do for homebuyers and sellers across America.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its a symptom of a market thats transitioning away from sellers. A substantial drop in new listings is a contributing factor. 1, weekly new listings were at 410 but have since dropped to 186, although new listings tend to drop in December as the holidays approach.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

But we didnt really see any change in the buyer demand metrics until rates got closer to 6%. New listings New listings also dipped for the second week in a row. Theres probably some weather effects in there, and I expect to see a jump in the new listings volume in next weeks data.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That does not bode well for home sales in the new year. We saw two signals that buyers are backing off in the face of mortgage rates. We measured a small acceleration of price cuts, which may have happened when buyers and sellers got disappointed by the cost of money after the election. more sellers than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Supply growth could also come from more sellers, such as investors or distressed borrowers unloading. However, in most of the country, we have no growth from the seller side. In Florida and Texas, we see the rising costs of insurance , taxes and climate risk driving some sellers. more sellers than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

A new variable this spring is that there are also more sellers coming to market each week than there have been in five years. Total unsold inventory is up, and the weekly pace of new sellers adding to that inventory is up too. Why are these sellers emerging now after so many years on the sidelines? More sellers?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2025

The luxury housing market lost momentum in April as financial uncertainty prompted many high-end buyers and sellers to hold off on transactions, according to a new report from Zillow. New listings also dropped this year — down 5% from March and 3.4% is now valued at about $1.8 year over year — nearly double the 1.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For others, theyre a disservice to sellers and a potential breach of fiduciary duty. Ive yet to see convincing data that says keeping a home off the market nets a better deal for the seller, Willoughby said. Lets be honest.

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Realtor

JUNE 27, 2025

Nationwide, we’re still short of a buyer’s market, but buyers are gaining market power, especially in the South and West. In recent years, builders had benefited from limited existing inventory that pushed existing sales to 30-year lows, but as more homeowners decide to sell, builders will increasingly face competition for buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

New listings When we look at the sellers entering the market, there were 45,000 new listings last week. That is 14% more home sellers listing their properties in December than the same week a year ago. This quantity of sellers is more similar to the pre-pandemic years than weve seen in a long time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

Except for a brief dip in 2023, home prices have increased on a yearly basis since 2012, driven by a prolonged sellers market. to a five-year high, with new listings up 8.6% And recent economic uncertainty has further slowed buyer activity, Redfin added. Existing-home sales dropped 1.1% during the year. Las Vegas 18.6%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

New listings volume is trying to grow with its biggest week since September. List prices inched up for the week, though sales prices did not advance. These active market listing prices lead the sales prices so theyre very valuable to track. NEW LISTINGS There was a nice jump in the new listings volume this week.

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Realtor

JUNE 26, 2025

Getty Images As summer kicks into high gear, buyers considering coming off the sidelines and dipping their toes into the housing market are likely to find the conditions shifting in their favor, with more fresh listings to choose from and a slower pace of activity, allowing for more time to make a decision. year over year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

Think real-time chat flows that qualify buyers, AI assistants that know exactly what questions to ask, and intelligent routing that gets high-intent prospects in front of the right people, and fast. That goes for buyers, sellers, and yes, even agents considering a move to your brokerage. It’s not about shouting louder.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Connect with seller leads Purpose: Build trust and start meaningful conversations with potential sellers. Script 1: Initial outreach to sellers Hi [Name], I noticed your home on [Street Name] and wanted to check if you’ve considered selling. I specialize in helping sellers like you find success. Can we discuss your goals?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

. “Although it is still too early to tell the extent to which layoffs will impact the regions housing market, Bright MLS weekly market tracker shows signs of a bump in new listing activity in the Washington D.C. area at the end of February,” Sturtevant noted. ”

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 13, 2025

metro areas, Miami (45.4%), San Diego (42.4%), and Denver (41.9%) had the biggest annual rise in active listings. of sellers lowering their prices in Decemberup just a little from 12.7% in December 2023the percentage of listings with price reductions was basically unchanged from the previous year. Active listings +22.0% -15.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

. “Looking at markets by hotness tells us the strength of demand versus supply in each area relative to others and which markets heavily favor sellers.” More than half of the hottest markets had median home prices below the national median, suggesting that buyers are prioritizing cost-effective options.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

Home listings fell in neighborhoods hit by the wildfires, too. Listings slowed a bit in Februarybut not nearly as much as sales. There were 23 new listings in the Palisades, down 12% year-over-year, and 46 new listings in Altadena, down 6%. million in February, down 8% year-over-year. Home sales rose 6.2%

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