Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

housing market is anything but stable right now and residents are feeling it. housing market using weekly data from Altos, which includes more than 60 different data points on every metro area in the country, to see how employment is changing the housing market. ’s job market. more homes on the market than 2024.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company’s Auction Market Dispatch for third-quarter 2024 included a survey conducted in late September of more than 140 active buyers on the platform. While 45% said current market conditions were not impacting their desire to purchase distressed property, 34% said conditions were detrimental to their decisions.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 10, 2025

As the housing market grows more competitive, rental scams are adding financial and emotional strain to renters nationwide. Common tactics include promoting desirable locations (57%), below-market prices (55%), and immediate availability (52%). According to Rentlys Rental Scams and Fraud Report , 93% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Homebuyers have become older and wealthier Young people are having a particularly hard time in the housing market. As home prices climb further and further out of reach, first-generation homebuyers trying to break into the market must rely on increases in their earnings to increase their buying potential.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The labor market is showing signs of softness but is not breaking down yet, which has kept mortgage rates higher for longer. Since 2022, my guiding principle has been that the labor market is more important than inflation in determining mortgage rates. Again, the theme holds: the labor market is getting softer but not breaking.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While the Fed’s policy rate range of 4.75% to 5% is lower than where it was for the past year, it is still much higher than what many market observers consider a neutral rate needed to spur borrower demand. “We We are at recessionary levels for housing permits for five-unit housing. With mortgage rates back above 6.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Despite 2025 housing market predictions changing fast , there are still key themes and trends for real estate leaders to watch to best serve their clients and business. I do not think this trend will go away overnight, even with mortgage rate stability and new inventory in the market. HW: Lets dive into some demographic shifts.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. There’s still a lot of first-time homebuyers in the market too. They keep the market healthy.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 7, 2025

ATTOM has released its latest Special Housing Risk Report , spotlighting county-level housing markets around the nation that are more or less vulnerable to declines, based on home affordability, equity, and other measures in Q4 2024. Less-vulnerable markets were clustered in various other areas of the Northeast, Midwest, and South.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Florida was one of the hottest destinations during the pandemic, but the states housing market might be coming down to earth. Redfin agents in the state say that its now a buyers market where sellers have to make concessions to bring buyers to the table. Eight of Floridas metropolitan markets have record-high active listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

But while Zillow did get its wish after NAR chose to uphold CCP for now, the trade groups new Multiple Listing Options for Sellers policy which creates the concept of a delayed marketing exempt listing has the potential to put some serious strain on Zillow and other listing portals like Realtor.com and Homes.com.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

There will absolutely be increased pressure on the housing market as we come out of the wildfires that we’re seeing now, and that will be particularly difficult for rental properties, Brugger said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Today, the BLS jobs report showed that the labor market is getting softer, but it’s not breaking. However, there is a limit to the downside on mortgage rates until the labor market breaks, or we get more than 1% rate cuts from the Fed. 14, we’ve seen them move lower. In the coming months, we will see if the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

During the conversation, the group discuss real estate market challenges, the value of being a part of an association, and growth areas for associations in 2025. To kick off the live conversation, Velt asks a question about the current challenges facing the housing market in 2025. A lot is happening in the housing market right now.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 2, 2025

In its 2025 Industry Survey , Redfin dug deeper into how real estate agents view their careers, the housing market, and other hot-button industry issues. The 2025 Industry Survey highlights the opportunities and challenges agents see in this evolving market and the increasing pressures brought on by economic uncertainty and industry reforms.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A month after launching its new Private Exclusive Listings (PX) feature, agent-driven offer, negotiation and collaboration platform Final Offer has acquired Private Collection , a source of listing information for off-market properties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

As mortgage rates fluctuate based on decreasing housing inventory volume, the appraisal market is more volatile than ever in key areas such as urban and rural communities states like California and Texas. Jaro stands tall as the only end-to-end appraisal platform on the market. This trend had a profound impact on the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Federal Reserve didnt raise or cut interest rates today, but the meeting highlighted something I have been emphasizing since 2022: the Fed is shaping its policy around the labor market more than inflation. However, the Fed only cut rates when they believed the labor market was softening in the second half of 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

housing market particularly its levels of affordability, available inventory and accessibility for those with mobility or cognitive challenges presents a unique challenge for older Americans on fixed incomes. The state of the U.S. This has led to a failure to properly serve the senior cohort.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

Many homeowners kept their homes off the market because they were worried values would diminish, and some house hunters canceled contracts because they were nervous about insurance costs and potential future fires. What Regional Markets Are Gaining Momentum? The areas median sale price increased 5.1% The post How L.A.s

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2025

The duo explore Anywhere’s resurgent focus on the luxury market, increasing M&A opportunities, and the value of embracing change. We invest disproportionately in luxury markets. The fact that we were able to outperform the market substantially throughout 2024 was an awesome thing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

I have tried being a solo agent, team, and everything in between, but lets face it the market is tough right now. Instead of trying to handle everything alone, Ive leaned into collaboration mode leveraging alliances with other agents for showings, structuring the team differently, and even pooling resources for marketing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2025

Earlier this year, when mortgage rates soared to 7.26%, a cloud of worry hung over the housing market many feared that home sales would tumble in 2025, fueled by concerns about inflation and tariffs. This unexpected turn of events breathed new life into the market, pushing purchase application data into positive territory for the year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The 10-year yield and mortgage rates have been on a wild ride lately, even testing my top-end forecast at 7.25%, but today, the 10-year yield fell after remarks by Fed President Chris Waller about whether the Fed would do even more rate cuts than the market was anticipating. It’s not booming. It’s not falling.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Californians deserve a reliable insurance market that doesnt retreat from communities most vulnerable to wildfires and climate change , Lara said in a statement. My Sustainable Insurance Strategy is focused on addressing the challenges we face today and building a resilient insurance market for the future.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rising housing inventory levels in 2024 may not be the positive sign of market health that they appear to be. Rising supply is one of the housing market highlights of 2024, according to HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami , who said that housing inventory is approaching levels seen in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Mortgage rates recently hit a year-to-date low, coinciding with ongoing market disruptions from tariffs. The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. With a backdrop of market volatility, the spreads got worse last week. Stay alert for breaking news.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. By the end of May there were 38% more homes on the market than the year prior. California and Arizona have 45% more homes unsold on the market now than a year ago. Texas only has 31% more homes on the market. There are 28.7% California and Arizona are.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. As a result, we’re now only 21% fewer homes on the market than this point in 2019.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

A large majority of homeowners (88%) have concerns about selling their homes, with financial uncertainty and housing market conditions ranking among their top fears, according to a recent survey by Clever Real Estate. These markets also have larger supplies of homes, with about 3.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The spring housing market is still trying to spring. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. The unsold inventory of homes on the market across the country is 28% greater than last year at this time.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Existing home sales ended the year on a positive note , which aligns with our weekly Housing Market Tracker data, but something surprising is that home prices firmed up late in the year as well. That situation is not present in todays housing market as active inventory is almost 1 million, not 4 million like in 2007.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Fluctuating interest rates have been a feature of the housing market over the last three years. Our 2025 housing market predictions are based on the assumption that lower mortgage rates will spur demand and boost the number of homes sales transactions. How will the housing market change as these economic assumptions change?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

housing market slowed down in the third quarter due to rising home prices and higher mortgage rates , investor purchases also ramped down, according to a new report by Redfin. ” Low-priced homes — those priced in the bottom one-third of their local market — comprised 45.7% As the U.S. Now there’s a middle ground. Miami saw a 19.4%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

percent)* above the November 2023 estimate of 611,000 The charts below provide insight into the current state of the new home sales market. Unlike the existing home sales market which is working from record lows, the new home sales sector never had that massive decline, so the bar is higher here. percent (18.6 percent (19.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Most housing market analysts expect mortgage rates to spend the year with a 6 handle. The bond market got spooked and mortgage rates jumped back over 7%. At the time, most mortgage market observers expected that rates had reached their peak and would generally decline in 2024, stabilizing at perhaps 6% or lower by now.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The housing market in 2024 was about as frustrating for the real estate industry as you can imagine. Its a stunning number given how bad the market was in the years after the financial crisis in 2008. Whether 2025 will be a better market depends on who you ask. According to NAR, existing-home sales finished 2024 at a dismal 4.06

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