Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this week that it has established a new Office of Manufactured Housing Programs , which will report to Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Julia Gordon.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 19, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model developed by OpenAI that can be used to streamline the appraisal writing process. The Most Expensive Home in South Carolina’s History Hits the Market for $22M Located in Simpsonville, SC, the 16,000-square-foot home sits on a sprawling 54 acres designed for the horse lover. The answer is, Yes!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

and dwindling inventory in most states, today’s brokers must get creative to keep a fresh pipeline of homebuyers coming through the door. Learn more Use this tool: Market Leader Market Leader is a comprehensive software solution designed to generate and nurture real estate leads. Make sure the quiz aligns with your personal brand.

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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. Ideally, an engineer designs a model of what they want on software, from an air duct to a prosthetic limb, and it is precisely printed out.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

More Objective Appraisals: A Practical Guide for Appraisers By Scott Reuter Single-Family Chief Appraisal Officer, Freddie Mac Excerpts: Changing the Mindset – Facts First What’s the number one thing appraisers should be doing when they develop an appraisal? Stick to the facts. Originally constructed in 1973, an 1100 ht.sq.ft.

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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. Public development can be a great option for increasing the supply of homes. Home designers have been listening too.

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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. Some developers are delivering smaller homes in the form of four- and six-plex townhomes on a parcel of land that once featured a single-family house.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

To address questions regarding property eligibility and comparable sales requirements, we are clarifying our policy that a 3D printed home with a traditional design and constructed using conventional building materials is not considered a unique or nontraditional type of housing as described in the Selling Guide. bath, 2,908 sq.ft.,

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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.

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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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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

While these are promising developments, there will always be the affordability question. >> Insights from 12,000 consumers and over 300 architectural designers show that 51% of residents will work from home in 2022, up from 33% before the pandemic. Inventories rose in the past month across the county (0.8 a month ago.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 8, 2022

The King County housing market has seen inventory increase by 55% in the past month, while the number of homes going under contract fell 22% from May to the lowest June level since 2011. Total Eastside inventory rose to 1366 active listings, up 52% in one month and 210% in a year. months’ inventory for all home types, up from 0.8

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It is developing several single-family and multifamily communities in King and Snohomish counties. “Family friendliness” remains a prime focus for developers of master-planned communities, but a new survey indicates health & wellness amenities are becoming increasingly important. in the last 12 months. LIFESTYLE CHANGE.

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The Robert Weiler Company

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.

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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. Kirkland gets it too.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 8, 2021

The national median family income rose just 4% from 2019 to 2020, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, while most home prices are jumping each year by 10% or more. To help increase affordable housing inventory, lawmakers are reviewing whether to remove requirements that homeowners must live on-site.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

People love experiences to fill their memory bank and social media feed – and real estate developers are listening. 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. months’ inventory. Condo inventory for King County now stands at 2.0

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Housing starts – the number of units builders would begin if development kept pace for the next 12 months – increased 19% nationally to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.7 >> The lack of inventory to keep real estate moving is confirmed with the latest data on U.S. Total inventories were little changed from March to April.

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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.” ” Are we watching riverbeds of urban enterprise dry before our eyes?

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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!). with basement).

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

Well, I am only a single real estate professional with one opinion but, for me, the solution includes enacting a blend of corporate and federal dollars toward incentivizing the development of affordable for-purchase housing that targets under-served communities whose residents would otherwise find homeownership difficult to achieve.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Maintain USPAP compliance – Confirm the ROV request came from your client, either directly or through the client’s AMC, acting as an agent for the client, or other party designated as an agent by the client. Excerpts: What does the appraiser do with the three different values that may be developed? What Is a Reconciled Value?

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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. You have read here before how lumber prices have soared about 250% in the past year, prompting real concern among developers who are seeing profits dwindle.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 9, 2021

Urban planners have a name for it: the 15-minute neighborhood and it is already in development in parts of the country, including Seattle. Where would you like to see this type of neighborhood development? Make sure residents can get to their employer and to a jobs center. Send me a message. ——-.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 11, 2024

. >> Seattle metro has benefitted from 6138 new apartment units in 2023, according to data compiled by John Burns Research and Consulting, which forecasts another 25,687 units in development. 1 with a combined 75,274 units newly completed or being developed. The overall total ranks 15 th in the U.S., with Dallas metro at No.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 5, 2023

It’s not the length of the report which is of ultimate importance, it is the time necessary to develop the appraisal that is key. That is, to Designate appraisers, Advocate for appraisers, and Educate appraisers (DAE). However, newly constructed homes account for a growing share of inventory, giving more options for prospective buyers.”

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