Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

The real estate market is cooling down. Reports released this week by several respected market observers point to less good and increased bad and ugly ahead for the housing market. On June 21], the National Association of Realtors said that existing-home sales declined for the fourth consecutive month.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

But the East Coast seaside town was gaining popularity way before then – millennials , especially, began flocking to the Portland housing market in 2020 to take advantage of the city’s growing startup scene of biotechnology , bioscience and biopharma. It’s very normal for a house under $300,000 to get 20-plus offers.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Are you wondering what the best clients to work with are to advance your real estate career? There are many different career opportunities in real estate. While some real estate agents and brokers prefer to work with homebuyers, others decide to specialize in working with property investors.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While the industry has yet to find out what Judge Stephen Bough’s injunction will say and the three defendants, the National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams and HomeServices of America , have vowed to appeal the decision, Barton believes his firm will thrive regardless the outcome.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

In light of the jury verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett suit and the terms of the National Association of Realtor’s nationwide settlement agreement of the commission lawsuits , several prominent industry analysts believe Zillow will struggle with its financial performance. Eighty-percent of all real estate transactions across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The long-anticipated Sitzer/Burnett class action commission lawsuit enters its first day in court on Monday, leaving real estate professionals to ponder the fate of today’s cooperation and commission practices. 6,” says Johnson, in a statement to Realtor Association communications directors. million, respectively.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Brian Gubernick, chief real estate officer at Homeward. He has more than 15 years of industry experience, holding multiple positions in the industry including being an investor, team owner/leader, brokerage operating partner, coach and trainer and corporate executive.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. The housing affordability crisis has pushed potential buyers to the sidelines. At the height of the spring market, the typical home had 5.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. million active listings per the last report, we have 526,000 per our last Housing Market Tracker article. This is never a good thing for housing. million in March.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Thanks to provisions in both Anywhere’s and RE/MAX’s settlement agreements , as well as Redfin’s announcement that it would be requiring agents to cancel their National Association of Realtors membership, much of the speculation has focused on what will become of NAR’s 1.5 million members. Certainly there are a lot of places in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Residential real estate brokerages will not do as well in 2022 as they did in 2021, but let’s not get carried away. s quarter one earnings just as the stock markets opened early Thursday morning. Despite the acute inventory shortage, the National Association of Realtors estimated this week that 5.6 Realogy generated $1.6

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Mark Birschbach, Senior Vice President, Strategic Business, Innovation and Technology National Association of Realtors. In his role at the association, Birschbach is a key thought leader and innovator in real estate. Birschbach is a founding team member of NAR’s award-winning REACH technology program.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Atlas Real Estate and DivcoWest declared last week that they will spend $1 billion “acquiring and renovating homes in high-growth states including Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah,” according to a press release. billion equity infusion from investors including Centerbridge and Allianz Real Estate.

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Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 3, 2023

NEWS & MEDIA Bilanol/Getty Images Plus Source: [link] Study: Real Estate Hot in Hurricane Ian-Hit Areas By Kerry Smith Storms rarely have a long-term effect on the local real estate market. Hurricanes present unique housing market events. FORT MYERS, Fla. Bokhari says.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

“This, in part, is causing the tight inventory we’re seeing in the housing market today, as two out of every three houses have mortgages with interest rates below 4% and aren’t motivated to sell their house unless a significant circumstance warrants it.”

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Empire Appraisal Group

JUNE 2, 2022

Is FOMO Fueling the Real Estate Market? Source: Is FOMO Fueling the Real Estate Market? Florida Realtors. Housing markets continue to run hot, despite rising interest rates and home prices. Market fundamentals and the housing market. By Amber Randall.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,” presentation slide for investors in the SPAC that took it public, also in 2020. CEO Brian Baird offered investors an upbeat attitude about the company’s future. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week made a series of significant changes to loan level pricing adjustment (LLPA) fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on conventional/conforming mortgages. The changes include updates to pricing for second homes, high-balance loans and cash-out refinances that were first announced in 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Redfin executives were happy to discuss commission lawsuits during their firm’s third-quarter 2023 earnings call with investors and analysts Thursday evening, just not the one their firm was recently named as a defendant in. Kelman said Redfin could use that technology to market properties listed by Redfin directly to consumers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. On the non-QM side, only 3% of the market has been penetrated. “The The market is retracting but it’s the best time to build,” Watanasuparp said. So that’s something that we’re approaching the market a little bit differently.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

Chat with a few real estate agents based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — a city ninety minutes from Baltimore and two hours from Philadelphia — and a similar topic will undoubtedly emerge: the capital of the Keystone State has become one of the most popular places to move to in the entire country due to low home prices.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market is continuing as we get closer to August. The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell last month while prices increased yearly. I have been talking about the range of inventory that I need to see to remove the ‘ savagely unhealthy’ housing market theme.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

.” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. The change resulted in Better’s exit from its real estate business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For real estate markets more broadly, continued moderation in inflation would diffuse the upward pressure that has led to this year’s surge in mortgage rates, Ratiu said. . range in 2023 would offer housing markets an improved foundation,” he said. . “While a return to the 3.0% million units in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Over the past two weeks, investors have considered Treasures a safe haven amid the banking system turmoil. The good news is that the continued strength of the job market means that both sellers and buyers are still in a favorable financial position heading into the spring housing market, Jones noted.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market. Whether it be through social media, connecting with real estate agents or going back to old-fashioned ways of knocking on people’s doors, they’ll have to focus on the purchase market going into the new year.

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Texas real estate market has come crashing down. Days on the market are up, home prices are down, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Is that the case for all major Texas housing markets? What should they expect in this housing market? How to vet real estate agents as a seller.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . However, it’s not the market of 2002-2011.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In 1983 Jim Campbell launched what is believed to be the first joint venture experiment between a real estate brokerage and a title and settlement firm. Campbell is now something of a JV guru, having completed over 80 joint ventures with real estate or lending firms. Image was created using MidJourney.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

Buy with Orchard is the firm’s first product targeted to first-time buyers that provides home shoppers with the cash needed to compete with equity-rich homeowners and investors, the company said. Lenders have also taken notice of cash-backed products to originate more home loans in the hot housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Since many people think of housing as a wealth creator — and we want more Americans to have more wealth — then the government needs to make sure demand stays high enough for that wealth product to grow. The National Association of Realtors’ total Inventory data shows that historically we have between 2 to 2.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

ONE Sotheby’s International Realty agent Jessica Adams is under fire after TechCrunch co-founder and crypto investor, Michael Arrington took to Twitter on Tuesday alleging that Adams had leaked information about his purchase of a Miami waterfront mansion to the press, creating security concerns that forced him and his family to relocate.

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McKissock

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Mashvisor provides a real estate analytics tool that helps real estate investors quickly find traditional and Airbnb investment properties. . One of the best aspects of real estate investing is the variety of options that you can choose from. Wholesaling real estate as an investment strategy.

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