Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

The part of the East Coast that is cooling down is the West Coast of Florida, rife with natural disasters that are only intensifying driving people away as the new construction and pandemic-era homebuying boom fade into the distance. North Port, Florida’s housing market is cooling fastest, followed by Tampa and Cape Coral.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

With low housing inventory and rapid home-price growth, homeownership can seem less and less attainable for several groups of potential homebuyers. HousingWire sat down with Radian CEO Rick Thornberry to learn more about the state of the housing market and how Radian is helping further homeownership.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Mike Fratantoni , the chief economist and senior vice president of research and industry technology at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), addressed three major challenges in the housing market during testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives ‘ Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change is a growing problem for insurers and homebuyers in affected areas, particularly California, according to a new report from data provider CoreLogic. CoreLogic said insurers’ models should account for the current risk landscape, including climate change considerations.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 10, 2024

VeroFORECAST evaluates home prices in over three hundred of the nation’s largest housing markets, and the company is committed to the data science of predicting home value based on rigorous analysis of the fundamentals and interrelationships of numerous economic, housing, and geographic variables pertaining to home values.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

“We are committed to empowering Americans with the opportunities and resources needed to build their futures—especially in securing stable, affordable housing,” said Acting Secretary Todman. Census Bureau Advance Monthly Retail Sales (Thursday) Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (Thursday) U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to tout the possibilities that 3D printing technology could bring to the construction of affordable housing in the U.S. A key goal for the project includes the deployment of local and sustainable resources for construction materials.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

housing market is not a monolith, so today we’re going to look at some markets where affordability is within the normal renter’s reach. In a study published this week, First American economist Ksenia Potapov analyzed the share of homes that are affordable to the median renter in any given market. But the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

CoreLogic said it plans on using this data to improve its prefill solution by providing insurance carriers with important wildfire mitigation information to support policyholders. The mitigation factors in PRC 4291 are mandated by the California Department of Insurance Section 2644.9. CoreLogic’s WFMS ranges from 0.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

“These trends and recent data showing fewer job openings and increases in initial claims for unemployment insurance paint a picture of a job market that is still quite strong but beginning to flag, lagging other indicators of a slowing economic activity and tightening credit,” Frantantoni added. .”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Indices that increased in September were rent, owners’ equivalent rent, lodging away from home, motor vehicle insurance, recreation, personal care and new vehicles. What is happening in the housing market ? If mortgage rates pass 8%, housing market activity will see a contraction, Sturtevant said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As the housing market changes, so does lending fraud. Housing market conditions are changing in ways that may increase fraud risk and fraud schemes are becoming increasingly sophisticated. McCord used escrow accounts, meant to pay homeowners’ taxes and insurance premiums, to cover his company’s operating expenses.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 31, 2024

4:00 Central on housing innovation. HUD’s “Innovative Housing Showcase Educational Sessions will feature individual breakouts on offsite construction, building codes, manufactured housing, decarbonization, zoning, public and multifamily housing, resilience, and finance.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

Indexes that contributed to the annual increase were food (+7.7%), motor vehicle insurance (+15.5%), household furnishings and operations (+5.3%), recreation (+5.0%), and new vehicles (+5.4%). Major contributors to this increase included used cards and trucks (4.4%), motor vehicle insurance (1.4%), and energy (+0.6%, thanks to a +3.0%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

housing market for multiple reasons, Redfin said. Some young families are turning to new construction, and others are renting homes.” Millennials are a bit of a different story, since members of that generation tend to change jobs more often than prior generations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Unlike site-built homes, which are always titled as real estate, over 40% of manufactured housing is titled as personal property (the same way a car is titled).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, Paradise’s housing market, though constrained by unresolved wildfire litigation and issues like proper home insurance, even has the high-demand, low inventory problems of most other U.S. Local agents are slowly seeing new construction listings pop up. So, it’s coming along, but it’s a slow process.”.

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Movoto

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Join us as we break down the biggest real estate headlines shaping the market right now! housing market with expert insights from real estate expert, Jerimiah Taylor (JT). It will be just like we’re reading the housing market news to you with an expert to kick off this Thursday episode.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

California-based Anchor Loans, founded in 1998, provides capital for professional residential real-estate investors through bridge and construction products. housing market during a shortage of housing supply and an insufficient stock of move-in ready homes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

A coalition of trade organizations — including the American Bankers Association (ABA), the Housing Policy Council (HPC), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and U.S. historical dataset. for use by the GSEs based on limited historical data,” the letter reads.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 30, 2024

Elizabeth Warren and Raphael Warnock, members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Warren and my colleagues in fighting for this transformational legislation that will unleash construction of millions of new homes and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the process.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

“That said, there was an increase in the number of workers with part-time spots who wanted full-time work, an indication that people are making tough choices to go back to work because enhanced unemployment insurance benefits have ended.”. But despite residential construction employment climbing back to only 0.8%

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Seattle Homes Sell in Less Than Two Weeks, Other Florida Metros Take More Than 9 Weeks Analyzing the median number of days it takes for a house to find a buyer is another method to furthwer assess the market’s pace and activity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The program provides direct loans to Native American veterans and veterans who are married to Native American non-veterans to help with the purchase, construction or renovation of a home on trust land. The program is separate from the broader VA loan program that is available to all veterans.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

Rising consumer confidence often leads to greater spending, which could drive more consumers into the housing market.” Higher borrowing costs will also spill over into real estate markets, keeping mortgage rates at the higher echelons of the 6% – 7% range we have experienced over the past 11 months. However, overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

The subsequent housing market crash sharply reduced that number to an average of about 50,000 originations per year from the late 2010s through 2020. In its executive summary, the report found that the HECM program grew “substantially” during the 2000s and reached its height of 114,000 originations in 2009.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Last week, we wrote a letter to FHA , offering constructive suggestions to ensure a level playing field between borrowers where the seller agrees to fund buyer brokerage commissions and where the seller doesn’t.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

There have only been two months in the last decade with fewer home sales: October 2023, when mortgage rates reached a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to an all-time low. Tampa (46%), followed by Cape Coral (45.1%).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Indexes that increased in August include rent, owners’ equivalent rent, motor vehicle insurance, medical care, and personal care. Additionally, apartment construction is strong , which puts an additional pressure on landlords to avoid vacancy. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, rose 4.3% The rent index was up 7.2%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2023

This dynamic changed the housing market from one where home sales were crashing to one that is now stabilized. As you can see in the chart below, the collapse of the purchase application data has stalled out, and if this didn’t happen, we would be having a different conversation about the housing market today.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The program helped a generation of Americans purchase their first home, however, due to a government policy known as “red-lining,” banks were effectively prohibited from issuing FHA-insured loans in neighborhoods that were predominantly Black or Hispanic. GDP, roughly $3 trillion. For decades, the U.S. Decades ago, U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The White House announced that President Joe Biden will call on lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate to address a series of housing issues in his State of the Union address, which will be delivered to a joint session of Congress and televised nationally on Thursday night.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Residential construction (including specialty trade contractors) posted a gain of approximately 15,000 this month, a sector Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae , said will need further job gains to help ease supply constraints in this industry. million jobs, boost GDP by 3.5%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Job gains occurred in professional and business services, government, health care, construction, transportation and warehousing, and social assistance. The fear of 1970s-style inflation was that wages could grow out of control in a tight labor market. as we are still slowly growing the housing completion data. percent, the U.S.

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 12, 2023

The first half of the Atlanta 2023 housing market shared many similarities with the first half of the 2022 real estate market. In fact, some market are ahead of those record highs of '22. Clearly it's not the same market, but the interest rate shock seems to be accounted for. Not Greater Atlanta.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

housing market is short by at least 6.5 The scarcity of housing has driven home prices and rents prices to an all-time high and pushed affordability to a multi-decade low. million homes. Renters are finding themselves priced out of areas within a reasonable commuting distance to work.

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