Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Well, I can’t help but think of today’s housing market compared to the film. Sellers have tended to be stuck in the past expecting the market to be hotter than it actually is right now. I love the original Back to the Future movie. Do you too? And some buyers are stuck in the future, […].

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There is so much talk about buyers sitting on the sidelines right now, but let’s talk about sellers who are also sitting. This is a local trend, but it’s something showing up in many markets across the country also.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 25, 2021

Dear Sellers, How are things? The housing market is so chaotic right now, so I wanted to share some thoughts and advice that I thought might help. I hope all is well. This is coming from a good place and it’s based on observations and conversations with the real estate community. I hope this helps. […].

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Guaranteed Rate has introduced a new feature that allows sellers working with a G-Rate loan officer to pay a fee that locks in a permanently discounted mortgage rate for a buyer. But with RateReduce Sell, sellers will be able secure a lower rate by buying down points permanently.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We’ve all witnessed the housing market slowdown that has occurred over the last year. Across the country, homes are spending more days on the market as interest rates rise. Many sellers have returned to offering concessions and dropping prices to entice buyers. Homeowners want to picture themselves living in a clean, fresh home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to avoid the start of the busy spring buying season and list their properties closer to the midpoint of the year, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. more than at other times of the year, equating to an additional $7,700 on the typical U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

And to close deals, sellers are increasingly coming to the table with concessions and rate buydowns. . ” Gano’s experiences reflect what happened in the market overall. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that job and wage growth is slowing, although the labor market finished 2022 stronger than expected.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. Table 1: 10 Hottest Housing Markets out of the Top 250 Metro Areas, February 2022. Table 1: 10 Hottest Housing Markets out of the Top 250 Metro Areas, February 2022.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Sellers are hibernating. It’s been striking to see sellers sitting back so far in 2023, and it’s really starting to create more competition for buyers. Let’s talk about it. Scroll by topic or digest slowly.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

In such an environment, buyers may feel pressure to bypass steps in the transaction to make their bid more attractive to the seller, but they should be wary that taking shortcuts can expose them to fraud. Secret Service reported a steep rise in seller impersonation in an advisory it issued this year. We can reverse this trend.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

of home sellers gave concessions to homebuyers in Q4 of 2022, through money for repairs and mortgage-rate buydowns. In Q3 of 2022 and Q4 of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales. Sellers realize they’re not going to get $80,000 over the asking price like their neighbor did last year,” he added.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Sellers have been sitting out of the housing market, and it’s made a massive difference in 2023 so far. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 5/4/23 Housing Market […] The post Sellers sitting out of the housing market & buyers getting concessions first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog | Real Estate Appraiser.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 18, 2022

And sellers are losing it. I have some new visuals to show what the market is doing right now. Buyers are gaining power. These are for Sacramento, but I suspect many areas look similar. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/20/2022 Beer & Stats at Out of Bounds (sign up (for real estate agents)) 7/26/2022 Navigating […].

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Miller Samuel

JUNE 18, 2021

Newsday Live: Hot Tips For a Hot Market: For Sellers. The post TV: Newsday Live: Hot Tips For a Hot Market: For Sellers first appeared on Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants. The interview was placed on Newsday's home page, which was pretty cool.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Construction is starting to pick up, so that should help alleviate things in the housing market. Worries about finding a replacement home in a hot housing market. A whopping 63% of sellers are also buyers, which poses yet another concern. Should homeowners get off the sidelines of this housing market? But existing homes?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Home sellers are chomping at the bit. As the economy reopens, vaccinations continue to roll out and stimulus checks reach bank accounts across America, home sellers are increasingly optimistic. ” Duncan added that home sellers are citing high home prices and tight inventory as primary reasons why it’s a good time to sell.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. In some markets, more than 50% of active listings have experienced a price cut, according to Altos Research. According to the brokerage, 6.5%

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Insurance has been a glaring mess in California, and it’s really starting to affect the housing market. The goal is to give some perspective and advice to sellers […] The post The insurance crisis is affecting the housing market first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

Unlike a typical spring homebuying season in which sellers are also looking to buy a home, people trying to relocate into a bigger or smaller home in the Mid-Atlantic region made up a relatively small share of the housing market. of buyers in the region paid above the seller’s original list price. In comparison, 32.4%

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The housing market continues to change as higher mortgage rates, rising inflation and economic uncertainty have sidelined many buyers. Meanwhile, according to this month’s Knock Buyer-Seller Market Index, sellers have the upper hand remaining in most markets throughout the U.S.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

I’d love to share a helpful analogy for today’s housing market, let’s talk about unrealistic seller expectations, and then unpack some fresh stats. I have three things on my mind today.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Realtor.com’s latest housing data release for August reveals that listing prices decelerated for the third month in a row, as more sellers hit pause on listing homes and homes for sale spent more time on the market than last August. The post Market Trends: More Sellers Become Hesitant to List Homes appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From fine-tuning the initial listing to completing the mountains of paperwork needed for closing , homebuyers and sellers can find themselves juggling a wide range of issues. Find your audience Not every real estate transaction is the same because not all buyers and sellers are the same.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The idea that it’s a seller’s market also picked up steam last month with the percentage of respondents who said it was a good time to sell a home gaining 3% to 59% in October. While the state of the market shines brightly for prospective buyers and sellers, the economy overall is showing some slight hesitation.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) this week launched temporary rate buydowns, a product that allows borrowers to receive lower mortgage rates at the beginning of their loan terms by using seller concessions as part of the payment. It comes at a time in which the housing market favors buyers and seller concessions become more frequent.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 20, 2022

We sat down with Mike and Joan Trice, Founder of Allterra Group, LLC, to discuss his latest article in Appraisal Buzz, “ Market Correction or Seller Panic? ”. What is happening in the market today that is impacting appraisers? What can appraisers learn when it comes to market correction and seller panic?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

home sellers received four or more offers on their home in 2021, according to Zillow’s latest consumer housing trends report. Typical sellers received two offers, which is the same as the past three years. Most sellers (74%) received at least one offer on their property that was all cash or did not include a financing contingency.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

August’s HPSI survey revealed both a confident seller’s and buyer’s market, however, Fannie Mae reported September buyers showing more hesitancy. With the market heading into fall, sellers, on the other hand, proved more resilient as the percentage of respondents who said it was a good time to sell a home gained 8% to 56% in September.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As housing affordability continues its decline, the latest analysis from First American projects home price appreciation to fall further as the booming sellers’ market seen in early 2022 has now turned in favor of homebuyers. The post Pandemic-Era Sellers’ Market Experiences Rapid Decline appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2021

Sellers, rejoice. Roughly 77% of respondents to Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), a composite index designed to track the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home, said now is a good time to sell. The post Fannie Mae: Sellers still thriving as home prices stay high appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We We started to hear a lot about seller impersonation fraud early on in the year,” Tyler Adams, the CEO of CertifID, said. “We Oftentimes this leads to the discovery of vacant lots. million, according to NAR.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Hesitant home sellers could be one reason there is such low housing inventory, according to a report from Zillow. Thirty-four percent of would-be home sellers said they are staying out of the market due to the uncertainty caused by COVID-19. “The catch is that waiting to sell may raise the cost of a trade-up.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Ginnie Mae are walking back some of the more controversial proposed eligibility requirements for sellers, servicers and issuers they oversee. Institutions with less than $1 billion in originations during a 12 month period would be exempt — a new carveout the agencies said is for “small sellers.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Redfin is expanding an agent compensation plan it launched last year by adding seven new markets starting in May, the national real estate brokerage announced Thursday. Beginning May 5, Redfin Next will be available in seven markets outside the Golden State —including Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Miami, New York City, Washington, D.C.,

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Inman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Learn how to boost your marketing by understanding today's home buyers and sellers, their motivations and desired home features.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 23, 2021

Real estate economists expect house prices to accelerate less quickly and even begin to decrease in the coming weeks, as more owners place their homes on the market. “Like a slow-turning ship,” the supply side of the housing market is slowly gaining momentum, as analyst Tim Ellis of Redfin puts it.

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