Chicagoland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Chicago’s housing options include a wide diversity of architecture, styles, and sizes, including vintage condos, brand-new construction, and 7,000-square-foot homes. According to Chicago-based designer and builder Sebring , quartz is still the top choice, followed by granite and marble. Replace bathroom vanities if needed.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. In my city of 78,000 population, there are over 10,000 buildings constructed prior to 1930, including many classic Victorians. I appraised many of them, but never noticed any effect, plus or minus, for historic designation. No effect on value.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The glass-fronted abode has an innovative design that reflects the trees and nature around it. “A This one was designed by the late world-renowned architect James Lambeth, who in Arkansas is a big deal.” “This one was designed by the late world-renowned architect James Lambeth, who in Arkansas is a big deal.”

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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 billion tax fraud scheme. Right now, nothing compares to it.” The 30-year fixed rate increased to 6.69

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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

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. Home designers have been listening too. Bedroom-sized home offices are no longer the norm in modern floor plans.

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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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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

First, let’s set the scene: Housing inventory is shrinking year to year in most parts of the country and there are no signs of significant replenishment over the horizon. Others are specializing in the design and construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as detached backyard homes (also known as “ mother-in-laws ”).

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

months of inventory. Inventories across the county for all home types now stand at 2.2 Single-family inventory is unchanged from October at 2.1 Exclusive neighborhoods such as Medina and Mercer Island have roughly 4 months of single-family inventory. A little more than a third of inventory is under contract.

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JULY 29, 2022

Excerpts: Built in 1959 and designed by Tollyn Twitchell for Ralph Twitchell Architects, the 3,419-square-foot, ranch-style home is listed for $3 million. 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.

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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 wild designs that cover the walls and ceilings are made of caulking compound, paint, Styrofoam, and wood. “We

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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

APRIL 8, 2021

. >> Counting both the demand for single-family and multi-family housing needed to meet current needs (plus factoring in demolished or lost housing), NAR projects we have a backlog in construction of 3.2 Total inventory (including single-family and townhomes, condos and manufactured homes) shrank in King County to 0.6

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

The cities of Seattle and Renton offer pre-approved ADU designs to help streamline the government-approval process which can often be onerous. Don’t get me started about Seattle’s design review exercise!) . Inventories are on the rise, so much so that one area is now considered a buyer’s market. Inventory stands at 1.8

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

months’ inventory for all homes on the market and in the single-family category. months’ inventory in downtown Bellevue, Medina and Clyde Hill – not surprising for an exclusive section of the county where the potential buyer pool is small. months (or 40 days) worth of inventory is on the market. months’ inventory.

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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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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Not only that, but you want those transit links to be modern, well funded, and in high use. That’s because it’s a design most adaptable to various uses and future expansion as business needs evolve. Low mortgage rates and an inventory crunch (limited supply) fuel the US housing market fire. average office rental rate.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 11, 2024

Louis Sullivan, the so-called father of high-rise construction design, once said: “The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, and the street offers itself as a riverbed to the stream of life that flows through the city.” (The rate is likely higher in Seattle but stats were elusive.)

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Inventory continues to shrink to levels not seen since the days of disco, shag carpets and pet rocks. Amid unusually low inventory and an anticipated growing buyer pool, the median price of a single-family home will climb beyond $1M in Seattle’s summer months. at this time in 2023 (quite optimistic!). San Jose, Calif., Washington, D.C.,

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

And, Seattle’s attempt to force building developers to incorporate more affordable homes within their new residential endeavors yielded only 21 units in 2020 out of a swell of 224 construction projects. Developers opted to pay fees to the city totaling $68M instead, funds that help construct affordable homes in other parts of the city.

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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. million people work in residential construction, or about 2.8% Notably, Seattle single-family inventory slipped to 0.6 million for sale today.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 9, 2021

In calling for rezoning laws to accommodate this concept, Gladney identified five keys that communities should keep in mind when designing their 15-minute neighborhood: Think in terms of mixed-use development, such as a blend of housing, commercial usage and small-scale manufacturing. Inventory across our area remains extremely low.

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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, to Designate appraisers, Advocate for appraisers, and Educate appraisers (DAE).

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 11, 2024

Inventory is slowly declining, with less than a third of the homes remaining on the market after much fanfare when the project was unveiled in 2018. Like many other construction projects, First Light confidently confronted issues ranging from the pandemic, supply-chain delays, change in the general contractor and concrete workers’ strike.

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