Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

In today’s low-volume market cycle, mortgage originators can build business by focusing on purpose-built loan products designed to overcome the specific challenges homebuyers face in the current market. This represents a competitive challenge for buyers relying on financing. With an estimated 4.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. Inventory is always seasonal. Today inventory levels are at 1.02 How are home prices up 14.8% year over year?

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. If we had a massive credit boom-to-bust, inventory would have skyrocketed in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. One such measure is who is entering the market.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 21, 2024

compared with February 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Helping to boost existing-home sales in February was that inventory increased 1.07 compared with February 2023. “Additional housing supply is helping to satisfy market demand,” says Lawrence Yun, chief economist for NAR, in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

in March compared to February despite rising mortgage rates , according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Meaningful gains will only occur with declining mortgage rates and rising inventory.” Existing-home inventory in March improved 14.4% Pending home sales increased by 3.4%

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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. million and 6.16

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. from the previous year ($375,300). All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

In down markets, the best agents and the best brokerages gain market share,” Reffkin, the CEO of Compass, told investors and analysts during his firms first-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday evening. “We In addition to Compass’ market share gains, the firm also recorded a 10% annual bump in revenue to $1.05

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Eyes on Housing

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Despite record-low inventory and higher prices, existing home sales jumped in January as buyers expected further rate increases and locked in current low rates, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). However, investors with all-cash offers were squeezing out first-time and young homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The call for smart home technology is coming from inside the house, as it were — but during times of economic pressure, how can investors and property managers justify the effort and expense of upgrading their communities? How does smart home technology benefit investors? Why smart home technology now?

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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 market has now faced a contraction in existing-homes sales for nine consecutive months, while home prices and rates rise.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Combine that with the lack of inventory in New Jersey and bidding wars are back, Kechian said in an interview with HousingWire. I really think they had about three months last year where it was a buyers market in the fourth quarter. Literally, we’re right back to being a seller’s market again.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Rates have been steadily climbing for seven straight weeks, the longest consecutive increase since Spring 2022, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) also forecasts that existing-home sales will drop by 17.5% in 2023, reaching an annualized rate of 4.15

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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. A balanced market, Davin said, requires five to six months.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market is continuing as we get closer to August. But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here are some charts reviewing today’s report with a host of data lines from the NAR existing home sales report: [link] A few critical glaring points: active inventory is still historically low, and so is monthly supply data. A few notes on the data above: obviously, distressed sales are not a thing and haven’t been for some time.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The federal funds rate doesn’t directly dictate mortgage rates, but it does steer market activity to create higher rates and reduce demand. With investors asking for higher premiums to invest in assets caused by the expectation of higher U.S.

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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. . Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Then, the mortgage industry showed why it is called a cyclical business: in the second half of 2021, the Federal Reserve signaled an increase in interest rates and an easing of the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, choking the refi market. “We know that the mortgage industry is about boom and bust,” said Woodward. “It

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Homebuyers flocked to what little inventory existed in January, with existing-home sales rising 6.7% annually to $350,000, according to the Friday report from the National Association of Realtors. months of supply; a healthy market generally has between four and six months of supply. January sales fell 2.3% from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

financial markets,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. This has led to a rise in foreign investor purchases of U.S. Khater said that homebuyers are soaking up all available inventory, which has improved slightly, while home-price growth is also moderating. But that has not stopped hopeful homebuyers searching.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

But for DivcoWest the single-family rental markets represents a shift from the San Francisco company’s general focus on office, retail, industrial, and multifamily spaces. billion equity infusion from investors including Centerbridge and Allianz Real Estate. for the last two months, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

“Although low and stable mortgage rates have kept the housing market booming over recent months, a deterioration in affordability and for-sale inventory has led to a market slowdown.”. For some economists, rising rates are the better option for counterbalancing the market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

s quarter one earnings just as the stock markets opened early Thursday morning. At the same time, Realogy’s CEO noted that the housing market is still pretty good – at least if you’re not a consumer trying to buy a home. Despite the acute inventory shortage, the National Association of Realtors estimated this week that 5.6

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

From the National Association of Realtors : “The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings, rose 7.5% Last week, I wrote about how the existing home sales markets outperformed my peak sales range in the past two sales reports. in October.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. Non-QM ripe for the taking Faced with a lack of inventory across the country, lenders have been exploring ways to create new buyers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The housing market is very subsidized for demand to grow and whenever the economy gets weaker, rates fall and that impacts the housing market in a disproportionate way. This can lead to home prices getting out of control , especially when total inventory gets to all-time lows. This is what we do in America.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. Combined with declining rates and a lack of inventory in his market, Steinway said a seller’s market has returned.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s positive news for an industry that has recently dealt with a lackluster amount of inventory. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market. Now you need to work on who will be buying in this market. Mortgage products expected to get love .

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Every industry is undergoing market pressure—and market opportunity—from automation and more comprehensive software solutions. We’ll examine how your role as a Texas realtor might change over the course of the next year, especially in relation to property investors. Realtors provide insights for pricing strategies.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. I go into real estate offices and Realtors have zero listings for the week,” said the LO, who requested anonymity to protect the business of her partners. “I Mark Glebman, Caliber Home Loans. million to 1.93

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

But recent consumer price reports and a strengthening jobs market have led to a boomerang effect on mortgage rates, said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Lower mortgage rates back in January brought buyers back into the market. There are two reasons for this price stability—record low inventory and record high equity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

I had sought out the agent because she had the best track record in the area, worked with a lot of investors on the buy side, and had a history of closing quickly. We are also seeing new models proliferate, albeit on a small scale and in targeted markets. The legal threat that looms largest is what’s known as the “Moehrl case.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Those economic projections from the 19 members of the Federal Open Markets Committee show both a tighter consensus of opinions and a lower target Federal funds rate than the projections the FOMC made in September. percentage points] by early 2025, which is more than both Fed policymakers and market participants currently project.”

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Eppraisal

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 Better yet, use a real estate agent to do a comparative market analysis and calculate your home’s value impartially. Appraisal Mortgage lenders use home appraisal reports to make credit decisions, so hiring an appraiser can help you learn about your home’s current market value more objectively.  This

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