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NAR’s Lawrence Yun predicts lower rates, 15% jump in existing-home sales in 2024

Housing Wire

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). He also expects more sellers to enter the market, as they adapt to prolonged higher rates.

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Buyers are being picky — here’s how you can navigate it as a real estate agent

Housing Wire

With the coming together of interest rate drops, the persistent, continued low inventory levels and 2023 being recorded as the slowest year for U.S. This decline, coupled with the aforementioned low inventory levels, is set to rekindle suppressed buyer demand. Will we get more inventory? The strategy has changed for buyers.

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eXp Realty launches Exclusives app

Housing Wire

We are living through one of the most limited inventory periods in our lifetimes, so eXp is committed to providing as many ways as possible to create inventory and ways of selling homes for our agents and their clients.

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Zillow calls timeout on iBuying, but competitors won’t

Housing Wire

Zillow will keep trying to sell existing home inventory, plus renovate and try to resell homes it has purchased under contract, according to a company press release. Pausing new contracts will enable us to focus on sellers already under contract with us and our current home inventory.”. construction workers.

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5 ways to provide overwhelming value to buyer clients

Housing Wire

Present to your buyer clients just like you would in a listing presentation. One of the top concerns for homebuyers as well as agents right now is the historic lack of inventory. Change the search area, change the type of home or find an equally great school district to look in that has more inventory.

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Desperate for deals, mortgage pros get creative

Housing Wire

Roberts and thousands of other loan officers across the country continue to be hampered by a serious inventory shortage , which results in heavy competition for fewer deals. There’s just more buyers than there are sellers,” added Steven Grossman, chief strategic officer at NJ Lenders. Waiting for rates to go down is just a foolish bet.

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Home prices surge to six-year high in November

Housing Wire

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., “With buyer demand continuing to outpace the previous year’s levels amid historically lowest inventory of for-sale homes, the pressure on home prices is going to fuel home price growth in the first half of 2021,” Happ said.

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