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Insurance carrier exodus rattles California and Florida housing markets

Housing Wire

In late June, Susan Gregory received an estimate for a new homeowner’s insurance policy on her 120-year-old St. Augustine, Florida property, after her previous insurer, United Property and Casualty, went insolvent earlier in the year. “It can’t be my forever home if I can’t afford it.”

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Homeowners are getting worried about flood insurance costs

Housing Wire

Homeowners are increasingly concerned with flood insurance premium hikes impacting affordability, Fannie Mae ‘s latest national flood survey showed. The latest survey is an expansion from its 2020 version and compared how homeowners’ and renters’ awareness and attitudes towards flood risk and flood insurance changed over the years.

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Don’t expect a drastic housing market turnaround in 2023, Fitch Ratings says

Housing Wire

In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We “A small offset or decline in home values, which we are starting to see, (…) can help that consumer who’s in the market for the first time,” Brown said.

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Housing markets with flood and wildfire risk are booming

Housing Wire

Insurers and government programs frequently subsidize the cost of rebuilding after storms hit, and mortgages mean homeowners are ceding some risk to lenders—especially if their house goes into foreclosure after a storm,” he explained. Recently, prominent insurance companies have exited some of these areas.

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Realtor.com reveals new tools to evaluate climate risk exposure 

Housing Wire

The cost of homeowners insurance policies has skyrocketed in the past two years as U.S. insurers have grappled with exponential growth in natural disaster claims. homes, valued at $19.7 homes, worth $13.6 of homes in the U.S., valued at nearly $7.7 And about 9% of homes, valued at nearly $6.6

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Homeowners sitting on a pile of cash with $17T in home equity: CoreLogic

Housing Wire

For example, when looking at the level of mortgage debt in Q1 2024, there are 111,000 homes that would move back into a positive equity position if home values rose by at least 5%. Conversely, 153,000 homes would fall underwater if values declined by 5% or more.

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Going to Extremes

Appraisal Buzz

Does the cost of homeowners insurance affect the price of a home? In some markets, the answer is increasingly yes. In recent years, insurance companies have pulled out of some markets altogether after sustaining massive losses due to wildfires, flooding, and other climate-related disasters.

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