Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

But the boost in purchase business likely won’t be enough to prevent operational contraction: As margins shrink, lenders will likely have to lay off staff and renegotiate compensation. Industry experts also predict that home inventory will increase in 2022, creating more options for borrowers.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s been on and off the market since 2014, four years after a lengthy construction project there was completed. What Fannie Says About 3d Printed Homes in Announcement SEL-2023-08September 6, 20233D printed homes are an innovative building technique that brings efficiency and potential cost savings to new home construction.

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MAY 26, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B Some appraisers feel that lenders should not provide them with the purchase and sale contract.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In my city of 78,000 population, there are over 10,000 buildings constructed prior to 1930, including many classic Victorians. the price of the Naples compound was justified not only because of the size, location, and yacht basin, but also because it would be difficult to construct such a property again. baths, 2,973 sq.ft.,

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

= 32% of Homes for Sale in the Fourth Quarter Were Newly Built — Just Shy of the Record High Redfin reports new construction has taken up a growing share of the for-sale housing pie because homebuilding has increased and the number of individual homeowners selling has decreased. Nationwide, 31.8% That’s comparable with 31.9% Lee Miller.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

Housing inventory nationwide flipped from oversupply to undersupply about a dozen years ago when consumers and the banking industry began to slowly rebound financially from the Great Recession. America’s shortfall is most acute with the most vulnerable, as affordable housing inventory has been shrinking for decades. shy of the need.

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JULY 29, 2022

It sits in the Sarasota beachfront neighborhood of Lido Shores, an area that’s a haven for modern architecture. We’ve seen a massive change in housing inventory. This is actually about fewer buyers getting into contract. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 5.54

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. There are no signs of a real estate crisis, particularly in the Puget Sound region, where prices keep rising – up about 20% the past year and 68% in Seattle alone since 2016, by one measure – amid a dearth of inventory and surge of buyers. That’s fair.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Originally constructed in 1973, an 1100 ht.sq.ft. addition in 2011 expanded its footprint and modernized its features also adding a 4-car garage. Additions may be constructed, outbuildings added, and zoning regulations updated. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA decreased to 7.36

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Inventory levels. The vault is constructed with 4-foot-thick, reinforced concrete walls and is plumbed for a fire suppression system. It’s a modern Cape with two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs,” Maiser says. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 6.63

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MAY 27, 2022

6 Tips for Appraising New Construction Homes. Excerpts: New construction is treated a little differently by lenders, FHA, and the GSEs. When appraising new construction homes, you must take into consideration certain features and attributes that don’t necessarily apply to re-sales. To read more tips, click here. By Mark Buhler.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. month backlogs of contract work, as of Q4 (latest data available), which is down from the peak of 4.8 Owners are investing about $475B ( yes, billion!

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. months of inventory. Inventories across the county for all home types now stand at 2.2

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 11, 2022

This year’s buying and selling campaign will be marked by increasing inventory (good!), Yun offers a silver lining: “I expect the pace of price appreciation to slow as demand cools and as supply improves somewhat due to more home construction.”. Inventories for condos were little changed from month to month, standing at 0.6

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Facebook (Meta) is evolving its office arrangements, leaving space in Seattle and Bellevue and contemplating additional contraction while opening a new lab (Frank Gehry-designed Building X) in Redmond later this year. Bedroom-sized home offices are no longer the norm in modern floor plans. of space near its Seattle HQ (pictured atop).

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 9, 2024

1, that requires buyers wishing to work with a licensed real estate broker to sign a services contract. The pact clarifies certain terms, including whether they will have an exclusive contract with the broker or non-exclusive, and how brokers will be compensated for their services. (I Olympia also established a law, effective Jan.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A Another 1350 are under construction with delivery in the next two years, including the high-end Avenue Bellevue. BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq. million sq. That’s up from 2333 sq. a month ago.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. >> The lack of inventory to keep real estate moving is confirmed with the latest data on U.S. We are on the right track. million units. existing home sales.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

Inventories are on the rise, so much so that one area is now considered a buyer’s market. Homes going under contract were off 4.0% (2705) from June and 30% YoY in King, while the number of sales for July was 19% lower (2535) than a month ago and off 37% YoY across the county. Inventory levels are mounting in King, now at 1.9

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Seattle experienced a 32% (1031) monthly increase in new listings but a 15% (558) decline in homes going under contract, as median prices fell 2.9% ($900,000) since August and remain 5.9% months’ inventory for all homes on the market and in the single-family category. months (or 40 days) worth of inventory is on the market.

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The Robert Weiler Company

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you plan to buy commercial real estate in Ohio or beyond, you must have access to a roster of current tenants, service contracts, and maintenance records. Not only that, but you want those transit links to be modern, well funded, and in high use. new construction pipeline of nearby buildings. Do you have a paper trail?

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Prices have soared in most areas – including a 30% jump in the past year for single-family homes in King County – amid a shortage of inventory and a sharp rise in the number of buyers. One-tenth surveyed said they have added language to contracts that require buyers to share in the materials costs if they continue to rise. of the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

They include shortages caused by restrictive zoning that limit the number and type of housing units built on a given parcel, a “not in my backyard” resistance to new construction in traditionally single-family-home neighborhoods, and layers of regulations, processes and fees that dissuade developers from building in certain areas.

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Clarence Stone, from American Political Science Review, offered this after reading Privatopia: “For those genuinely concerned with the moral fiber of modern America, they might well heed McKenzie’s warning about uncritically accepting the privatization of citizenship in an income-segregated society.” Don’t feel sorry for the builder.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 9, 2021

A new door improves curb appeal, adds modern technology to the house and, based on my observations, doesn’t make as much noise as older models! Home prices are going to continue to go up until the inventory comes back bit,” said Rick Sharga, EVP at real estate information provider Realty Trac. They are often surprised by my answer.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 5, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Appraisal Institute President, non-lender appraisals, Changing state appraisal laws, Fannie modernization, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. That is why at first it seems that the construction of living space within such premise is impossible.

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