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

MARCH 18, 2022

Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month However, negative year-over-year inventory is not what we want to see.

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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 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. 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. Relatedly, discount brokerages have promised big savings to sellers for decades.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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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. First-time buyers dropped to the lowest share NAR has recorded in the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers — just 26% of the market, compared to 34% the year before.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Inventory skyrocketing back toward historical norms of 2 million to 2.5 million to return to normal.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

billion revenue, which mostly stems from a 5% sales fee charged to home sellers and proceeds from flipping homes. But like real estate brokerage Compass , another company significantly financed by the SoftBank Vision Fund , Opendoor has constructed an empirically money-losing business model with little sign of reversing course.

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Hank Miller Team

MARCH 21, 2022

The Atlanta real estate market explosion is due in large part to its broad appeal, size and vast selection of properties. The “Atlanta Real Estate market” is a misnomer; the area is akin to spilled glass of milk. Rising rates, rising rents, diminishing inventory and corporate investors are in the mix.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Volatility in the Treasury market, which trades at a shifting spread below that of mortgage rates, also translates into uncertainty among housing market investors. Market observers say this normally leads to investor hesitancy and a tendency to keep more money parked on the sidelines. That was a problem for sellers of loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

And, following investors’ rush into bonds after the recent bank failures earlier this month, yields moved even lower last week — and mortgage rates followed. Arias said the spring season typically would have increased inventory levels that would indicate buyers and sellers are ready to come to the table. “We

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Listing Spark

JULY 5, 2023

Real estate investors who want to stay nimble in this market (especially as inventory stays low and prices stay meteorically high) need to adopt every tool at their disposal to stay informed and to quickly assess homes just entering the marketplace. But the importance of this practice cannot be overstated.

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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. Another challenge to the market is the lack of inventory. in the first week of April to 3.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Today, homes are selling faster than usual because of the shortage of inventory and high buyer demand. COVID changed the real estate industry in a big way since it provided many people with an opportunity to work remotely and live almost anywhere. Factors that Affect How Long It Takes to Sell a House.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

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. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Another interesting fact about 2021 was that certain people put a lot of weight on housing being held up by investors or iBuyers, reflecting that buying conditions had deteriorated so much in the survey in 2021. history: move-up buyers, move-down buyers with a lot of cash, investors and all-cash buyers. So what is the issue here?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Another interesting fact about 2021 was that certain people put a lot of weight on housing being held up by investors or iBuyers, reflecting that buying conditions had deteriorated so much in the survey in 2021. history: move-up buyers, move-down buyers with a lot of cash, investors and all-cash buyers. So what is the issue here?

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Listing Spark

JUNE 16, 2023

In this episode of Real Estate Real Fast, Aaron Jistel, the co-founder of ListingSpark and an experienced real estate broker, provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Texas real estate market. Listen to the full episode for Spring 2023 trends in the Texas Real Estate Market.

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That’s great news if you are a seller though. . In short, huge demand that inventory simply can’t keep up with. Homes are selling at such a feverish pace that active listings are plummeting across the board, further lowering our months of inventory available to buyers. What’s driving this? Hard to say.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. It is always good to know where we are with the real estate market, but it is essential to keep all data in historical perspective. . Investors may have been attracted to the market as they saw rents increase for tenants.

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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% Buyers were likely anticipating further rate increases and locking in at the low rates, and investors added to overall demand with all-cash offers,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. January sales fell 2.3% “While the 6.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

FHA, VA and USDA aren’t accepted by sellers. Investors and trust funds keep buying the bottom of the market from under the first-time home buyer. Builders do not have inventory — or workers and supplies. Products are limited as is inventory. The ARM and IO products are the same prices as the Conventional loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

“We’re giving them an offer to unlock their equity and move forward to make an offer on their next home,” Ryan Raveis, co-president of William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance (WRRE) , said in an interview with HousingWire. “And then we have our agent commission.”

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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? Some real estate markets may also continue to see some softening of prices, but the Fed’s decision today probably will do little to change that dynamic,” he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. It essentially 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A traditional primary resident seller is also a buyer, which means if they don’t list, they’re not just taking a potential home to be bought off the table — they’re taking a future sale off the books as well. Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 I am a big fan of inventory to 2019 levels. million to 1.28

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 6, 2020

But as life starts a trek back to a new state of normality, it will do us good to take a look at the real estate market and measure the impact of the Corona virus and how it will affect the market in the future. Anyone who is in the position to purchase real estate should act now before the next corona virus wave hits.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 6, 2020

But as life starts a trek back to a new state of normality, it will do us good to take a look at the real estate market and measure the impact of the Corona virus and how it will affect the market in the future. Anyone who is in the position to purchase real estate should act now before the next corona virus wave hits.

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Listing Spark

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Indicating that not only are we firmly planted in a seller’s market, but a historically crazy seller’s market. To give an example of how we measure the type of market we are in, we look at what’s called the months supply of inventory. In a balanced market, we have typically have 4-6 months supply of inventory.

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Hank Miller Team

MAY 3, 2022

the Atlanta real estate market shifting? Has the move away from historic inventory shortages and home buyer frustration finally started? Are investors clouding the data? Point is, like everything else, these signs are not universal to every market and every price point. Is the Atlanta Real Estate Market Shifting?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

The winning buyer also waived appraisal and financing contingencies and dropped off cupcakes that matched the interior colors of the house, which was a nice touch because the seller is an artist and the home is unique and colorful.” . The jumbo market for brokers is back in a huge way.

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Robinson Appraisal Group

JULY 17, 2023

The low inventory of available homes combined with high interest rates has made it difficult for potential buyers to find an affordable home in the area. This has caused a decrease in overall real estate sales, and an increase in rental prices. So, why is the inventory amount for houses on the market so low??

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Total Inventory had been growing from 2001-2005; total listings data in 2005 was at the higher historical range of 2.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In addition to predicting mortgage rates, they based their predictions for home sales and home starts largely on mortgage rates, as several experts have stated: “The story this year and the story next year depend on two variables: mortgage rates and inventory.” So where do forecasts stand?

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Listing Spark

AUGUST 28, 2020

July was yet another banner month for the real estate market across Texas. Pent-up demand from the spring fueled housing activity across the state,” said Dr. James Gaines, chief economist for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. months of inventory. months of inventory compared to 3.9

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Eppraisal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There is a lot of buzz among the general public as to if and when there will be a real estate market crash like the one in 2008. The real estate market is nothing like it was back then. Current State of the Real Estate Market The real estate market is still sizzling hot. compared to 2019.".

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