Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 23, 2025

Home Sales Report , which shows that home sellers made a $122,500 profit on typical sales nationwide in 2024, generating a 53.8% Margins fell back as the increase in home values failed to keep up with larger price spikes recent sellers had been paying when they originally bought their homes. ATTOM has released its Year-End 2024 U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

For several years since the end of the pandemic boom three years ago the defining characteristic of this housing market has been how few sellers there are. Think about home sales: its hard to get 80,000 home sales in a week if there are only 70,000 sellers. The taller the bar, the more sellers came to market that week.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 13, 2025

Timing is crucial in a difficult real estate market, and this year, the Realtor.com Best Time to Sell study indicates that the best time for sellers to discover the best balance of market circumstances is between April 13 and April 19. Reduced rivalry between sellers: This week would have 13.2% more than the average week of the year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2025

Commission questions, cost sensitivity Commission fees remain a central concern for sellers, especially in the wake of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) landmark settlement in 2024. More than half (52%) of surveyed sellers said theyve considered selling without an agent, with cost cited as the top reason.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

The surge in first-time homebuyers during 2020 has led to a new trend: first-time home sellers. A survey of 1,000 first-time sellers found that 79% regretted aspects of their home purchase, with 91% saying those regrets influenced their decision to sell. With the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Potential home sellers notice weak demand, fewer offers and price reductions, prompting them to back away from the market. If potential sellers avoid the market, this will keep a lid on supply growth. New listings are hitting the market Last year was an environment with 5% to 10% more sellers each week than a year prior.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Data from Altos Research shows that higher mortgage rates aren’t necessarily keeping sellers from listing their homes. The 15-year conforming rate has increased even more sharply since the Fed’s decision, rising from 5.7% 18 to 6.15% on Tuesday. For-sale inventory of single-family homes is up 33% from a year ago.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 30, 2025

According to the Realtor.com January Monthly Housing Report, January saw a positive shift in seller activity despite recent hikes in mortgage rates, with the number of newly listed homes increasing 37.5% Buyers & Sellers Thaw Alongside Winter Weather Additionally, for the fifteenth consecutive month, annual inventory increased, with 24.6%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As inventory builds and, as there are fewer offers from homebuyers , more sellers feel the need to reduce the asking price of the homes for sale. Sellers who dont get an offer may choose to cut their price. There are few offers being made right now, so more sellers are finding the need to reduce their asking price. There are 27.7%

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Real Estate News

MAY 14, 2025

A survey by the Zillow subsidiary found that most sellers support broad listing access, and those who listed off the MLS were more likely to regret their sale.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

New marketplace for motivated sellers That is good news for sellers like Ricardo Sims, the out-of-state landlord who sold the Montgomery properties to Richards via SmartSale. Very tired landlords, Richards said, describing some of the motivated sellers utilizing private seller auctions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Given this, it should come as no surprise that the company is launching its own seller advisory form in order to comply with NARs new Multiple Listing Options for Sellers (MLOS) policy. The brokerage claims that the form delivers truthful, plain-language disclosure that puts the sellers interests first.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While Monestier, who reportedly sold her Rhode Island home in 2022 and is part of the affected class, believes sellers were paying “inflated commissions,” she feels that prior to the settlement changes going into effect, the rules governing the industry were “clear and confusion did not reign supreme.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

However, there are two big trends that stand out as we launch into 2025 affordability and sellers in the market. The other trend to watch is whether we finally have more sellers entering the market in 2025. There are some signals that seller volume is starting to creep back to normal levels. These are unsold new listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nearly three quarters of recent American home sellers said in a Clever survey that using a traditional real estate agent is the best way to sell. Not only is this method popular, but it’s also well-regarded; 76% of sellers who worked with an agent felt their services were worth the cost.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

More than half of home buyers (52%) negotiated with the seller, with 94% of those who did achieving success. About 34% of buyers paid below the asking price in 2024—up from 27% in 2022, when the market was more favorable to sellers. home ($501,500) adding $75,255, the upfront cost totals a staggering $107,230.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

For others, theyre a disservice to sellers and a potential breach of fiduciary duty. For Willoughby, founder of The Jaymes Willoughby Team with Keller Williams Realty , off-market listings are a gamble that rarely pays off for sellers. Thats not looking out for the seller thats looking out for yourself. Lets be honest.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

home sellers believe now is a good time to list their homes. Roughly 70% of potential sellers said it is a favorable time to sell, despite concerns about mortgage rates and broader economic factors. Our survey found that many potential sellers feel confident theyll not only sell quickly but also receive top dollar for their home.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

And it is a little bit early, but some of the preliminary data I have looked at show that sellers are continuing to pay buyer agent compensation.” I think ultimately, though, sellers should be looking at their net (profit).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Earnouts From Sellers perspective, earnouts can be an opportunity to be paid more for the business over a period of time or, alternatively, an unnecessary holdback of part of the purchase price. To backstop some of those indemnification obligations, there will likely be an indemnification escrow agreement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New listings go up This year continues to have slightly more sellers than last year but fewer than we used to get in past years. When you add it all together, there were just a 2% more new sellers hitting the market this week than a year ago. I mentioned that Florida rebounded this week with sellers that postponed for the storms.

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Real Estate News

MAY 21, 2025

While consumers have disrupted services like travel and transportation, thats less likely to happen in the real estate industry, research suggests.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers. In total, it was another week with fewer home sellers that last year. Its hard to grow inventory too much when there arent many sellers. Demand is slower so more of the sellers are sitting on the market. Thats not a ton. more than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Agents reported that 27% of first-timer buyers requested mortgage rate buydowns from sellers. HomeLight found that the NAR commission lawsuit and the resulting settlement made buyers and sellers uncertain about how to handle changes to buyer-broker agreements. HomeLight notes that this is becoming more common for existing-home sales.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2025

In the face of change, the industry has always innovated on behalf of buyers and sellers. NAR has announced new flexibility in the CCP for NAR-affiliated MLSs that gives sellers more choice about how and when their homes are marketed. Those decisions could directly impact every buyer and seller in your area.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

The tight housing market of the last few years gave home sellers a substantial edge. That led some savvy shoppers to make all-cash offers on homes, as it offered more certainty for sellers (making those bids more appealing) and gave buyers some much-needed negotiating power.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“Frustration happens when one agent who is doing things the legacy way calls up the listing broker and asks what they are doing for cooperative compensation, and the listing broker tells them they aren’t, but their seller is willing to consider all offers, so ask for the compensation in the offer,” Srivatsaa said. Approaching the Aug.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Supply growth could also come from more sellers, such as investors or distressed borrowers unloading. However, in most of the country, we have no growth from the seller side. In Florida and Texas, we see the rising costs of insurance , taxes and climate risk driving some sellers. more sellers than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

The lawsuit filed in late 2023 by home sellers Don Gibson, Lauren Criss, John Meiners and Daniel Umpa is one of several cases that followed the landmark Sitzer/Burnett trial. billion in damages for conspiring to inflate real estate agent commissions paid by home sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

-based Consumer Policy Center (CPC) warns that the common practice of percentage-based real estate commissions may be a financial disadvantage for home buyers and sellers. The report is titled How Percentage-Based Commissions Can Harm Home Buyers and Sellers and What They Can Do About It.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Wacksman: That’s the Zillow app for a buyer and a seller. What does the buyer or seller want? One has to keep up with where the buyer and seller is going. Dwiggins: With this app, how do you balance between what the agents and the brokerage want with the sellers’ wants? Technology pushes the consumer forward.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A History of Policy Change In mid-March of this year, NAR announced an agreement to resolve litigation over broker commission claims asserted on behalf of home sellers. Traditionally, sellers paid the buyer’s agent commission as well as their own agent’s commission. Now we’re negotiating commission more frequently.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

In an announcement on Tuesday, the trade organization unveiled its new Multiple Listing Options for Sellers policy. The exemption will allow a seller the option to instruct the listing agent to delay marketing a listing through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) and syndication for a period of time, NAR noted in its release.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

A new variable this spring is that there are also more sellers coming to market each week than there have been in five years. Total unsold inventory is up, and the weekly pace of new sellers adding to that inventory is up too. Why are these sellers emerging now after so many years on the sidelines? More sellers?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

New listings When we look at the sellers entering the market, there were 45,000 new listings last week. That is 14% more home sellers listing their properties in December than the same week a year ago. This quantity of sellers is more similar to the pre-pandemic years than weve seen in a long time. more than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the current climate, homebuilders have advantages over existing-home sellers. High mortgage rates have kept potential sellers out of the market because many secured rock-bottom rates from the period after the financial crisis through 2022, when the Federal Reserve began to rapidly raise interest rates to combat inflation.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We’re trying to say that buyers and sellers, in my opinion, are willing to pay you. To close the conversation, Morris recommends certifications for buyer and seller agents to pursue. On the seller side, we have the Seller Representative Specialist (SRS) course. The biggest question is, how do I get paid?

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