Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“Although affordability continues to impact homeownership, the combination of a solid economy, strong demographics and lower mortgage rates are setting the stage for a more robust housing market,” Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said in a statement. Is the housing market normalizing?

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

Most home sellers are buyers of homes, so the action we are seeing this year is a healthy step in the right direction to get more balance in the housing market ,” Mohtashami wrote on Saturday. Investors’ focus will turn to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s biannual monetary policy update scheduled for Thursday.

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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. Today, the average is 2.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

On Wednesday evening, during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call with investor and analysts, CEO Rich Barton took a contrary view: Zillow is just beginning to unlock its revenue generating potential. “In In a hostile housing market and a noisy industry environment, why is Zillow outperforming?” he posited.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

The company notified its clients earlier this month that based on the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price NSA Index’s projected decline, the housing market has fallen out of favor with Goldman Sachs. The company is eyeing the San Jose, Austin, Phoenix, and San Diego markets in particular.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Following are excerpts from their responses that reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of the current market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae has announced it closed $36 million in Series B funding on Tuesday, led by QED Investors and with additional participation from Founders Fund , Susa Ventures , Navitas Capital , Prudence Holdings and General Global Capital. The property is then offered on its marketplace for investors to bid on.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. If you believe people sell to become homeless, then you’re in the group of people that have simply not read housing data for decades. The days on market were too low. And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

In this hot housing market, Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint understands the key to originating more home loans is ensuring more sellers accept offers made by its buyers. To do that it relies on the two words sellers increasingly want to hear: “All cash.” Presented by: Finance of America.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Compass attributed some of these struggles to the slower housing market of 2023, which saw Compass close 178,848 transactions, down 15.5% We have successfully navigated two consecutive years of very large declines in industrywide transactions. million in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

The report also shows the housing market also set new records for home-selling speeds and competition, although seasonally adjusted home sales and new listings flattened from April. “Sellers are still squarely in the drivers’ seat, but buyers have hit a limit on their willingness to pay. from April.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a result, the company’s executives told investors and analysts that they were pleased with the firm’s second quarter performance, especially in touring, financing, and renting. Barton also touched on its fabled “ housing super app.” Aryeo will become a part of ShowingTime+.

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Mashvisor

JUNE 30, 2021

‘Is it a good time to buy a house?’ ‘Is Is it a seller’s market or a buyer’s market?’ These are common questions being asked by real estate investors in 2021.…

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Mortgage rates climbed again this week as investors braced themselves for ‘higher-for-longer’ conditions following last week’s Fed meeting. However, unlike the turn of the millennium, house prices today are rising alongside mortgage rates, primarily due to low inventory. Additionally, the yield on 10-year treasuries shot up to 4.6%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Tech executive and investor Keith Rabois at venture capital firm Founders Fund led the capital injection. It allows qualified buyers with a government loan to purchase a home by assuming responsibility for the sellers’ mortgage terms, including the current balance and interest rate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. ” Who is jumping into the market? Investor demand tends to increase at times when most borrowers are waiting for rates to decline, Justin Fullmer, area manager in Idaho for Future Mortgage , told HousingWire. from the week prior.

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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. Potential buyers who may have had an FHA or VA loan were left behind as about one-quarter of the market was paying all cash for homes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the crux of the case is the allegation that commission rates are too high, it’s unfair that the seller pays the buyer’s agent’s commission, and that the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Code of Conduct and MLS Handbook lead to set pricing. What’s at stake may be much bigger than that.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

Investors are weighing the softening consumer sector and inflationary pressures, along with the shifts in real estate markets, looking for more clarity on the outlook,” Ratiu said in a statement. The spring season Higher rates in the housing market are reducing hopes for a productive spring season.

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Chicagoland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We encourage buyers, sellers and homeowners to supplement the Zestimate with other research such as visiting the home, getting a professional appraisal of the home, or requesting a comparative market analysis (CMA) from a real estate agent.”. The more data available, the more accurate the Zestimate value will be.

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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. What does it mean for buyers, sellers? As that uncertainty drains away, mortgage rates will have smaller day-to-day swings.” After dropping for 12 months, existing home sales rebounded in February, climbing 14.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

“This continues to be an incredibly rate-sensitive housing market, and March’s rate lock activity perfectly illustrates this dynamic,” Andy Walden, vice president of enterprise research at Black Knight, said. In early March, when mortgage rates started their climb back toward 7%, originations faced pronounced downward pressure.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Austin is still the nation’s hottest housing market, as tech workers continue to flock to the Lone Star State’s capital. The jumbo market for brokers is back in a huge way. At this time last year, only two homes had been sold in Austin for more than $300,000 above asking price.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,”

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Annual house price growth hit a record high in 2021, over 17%, and growth remains in the double digits thus far in 2022.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 28, 2021

While some real estate agents and brokers prefer to work with homebuyers, others decide to specialize in working with property investors. Both niches have their advantages and disadvantages, but here’s why some people prefer working with investors. Pros of working with real estate investors. Deals can be expedited.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market is continuing as we get closer to August. I have been talking about the range of inventory that I need to see to remove the ‘ savagely unhealthy’ housing market theme. million, we will be in a much better place for housing. But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising.

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Quicken Loans

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Anyone keeping an eye on the real estate market watched for predictions in 2021. Along with the pandemic, 2020 brought a chaotic whirlwind for the housing market. In combination with low housing inventory and labor shortages, that drove up selling prices. real estate market is hot. Buyer demand continued.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Pacific Western Bank also explored a capital raise with potential investors. However, amid volatility in the market and depressed stock prices, “it would not be prudent to move forward with a transaction at this time,” the bank said. Wedgewood , a real estate investment firm that focuses on distressed properties, was the seller.

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Mashvisor

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you want to find out will the 2023 US housing market be a buyer’s or seller’s market and how you can adapt to both scenarios, stay tuned. Table of…

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“The economy continues to show strength, and interest rates are repricing to account for the stronger than expected growth, tight labor market and the threat of sticky inflation,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac ’s chief economist. Even before these data were released, minutes from the Jan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

A panel of experts assembled at a recent Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) conference in New York predicted that adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market contending with fast-rising interest rates. Morgan among its investors.

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Mashvisor

APRIL 3, 2022

Are experts seeing signs of a housing market crash 2022? Whether it is true or not, investors should know how to prepare in case a crash happens. In the past…

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

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. Below, Gubernick answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: What is your current favorite HW+ article and why? .”

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