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6 strategies to get more from your MLS searches

Housing Wire

Today we’ll show you how to deploy 6 creative ways to get more from your searches so you can get those buyers in contract faster. If your buyers can’t or won’t compete for scarce inventory, change your strategy. Look for new construction, even if your buyers don’t think they will like it.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. If supply goes over 6.5 Hard pass.

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VA Appraisals and Fee Appraisers

Appraisal Today

Excerpts: Built sometime in the late 19th century, a Victorian-era row house was constructed on St. Paying high property taxes. Once you’ve saved up the thousands for a down payment on a mansion and managed to move in, don’t forget to budget for the sky-high property taxes you’ll be paying for as long as you own the home.

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A look at Knoxville’s hot housing market

Housing Wire

But like the rest of the country, low housing inventory has hit the city hard. The KAAR also said housing inventory dropped for six straight months to start the new year. You set your appointments the night before, and when you get there that morning, they might already be under contract.” year-over-year.

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NAR Member Survey on Appraisal Data Collectors

Appraisal Today

At the current mortgage rate, and with a 20% down payment, homes priced at $250,000 will have a typical monthly payment of around $1,358, before property taxes and home insurance costs. Home prices in many markets have been supported by low inventory and resilient housing demand for available homes.” percent the previous week.

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Build-for-rent is a bet on the ‘new normal’ housing market

Housing Wire

Construction starts in the BFR market are being propelled by the ongoing demand for single-family rental units as high mortgage rates and limited for-sale inventory push home-purchase prospects further out of reach of many would-be homebuyers. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Numerically, that means that approximately 1.5

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The Proposed NYC "Pied-A-Terre Tax" Looks Catastrophic to NYC Real Estate

Miller Samuel

A large swath of high-end condo market activity of the past five years are non-primary residences which include pieds-a-terres but most are investor purchases that are subsequently rented after the unit closes when construction was completed. January: The closing of the $238,000,000 Manhattan condo sale in January (2015 contract).