Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

High home prices : Investors are facing the same affordability challenges as other buyers. metro areas dating back to 2000. Redfin also mentioned other factors have contributed to the pullback in investor activity. Pending home sales hit a record low in January, aside from the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 23, 2025

Last years scenario emerged as buyers buoyed by rising wages, a strong investment market and mostly receding mortgage interest rates competed for a historically tight supply of homes. years, the longest tenure since at least 2000. Amid the generally good news, thats something worth following closely in 2025. years in Q4 of 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

“But do these potential buyers have any bearing on overall home sales? We have found that this type of buyer is the exception rather than the rule.” Be cautious about overstating these buyers’ impact on broader housing demand when the data says otherwise.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 24, 2022

less expensive than in January 2000. “In The post Buyers’ FOMO on Lower Rates May Cause Increase in Home Purchases Before Spring appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. Real house prices increased 1.5% between October 2021 and November 2021, and increased 21% between November 2020 and November 2021. Real house prices are 5.6%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Bloomberg first reported on the buyers’ names based on anonymous sources. servicing business without naming the buyers or disclosing the financial details. Fitch Ratings said in a report that SPS has been servicing residential mortgages since 1989 and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transactions since 2000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Meanwhile, homeowners who bought in January 2000, January 2006 and January 2013 have received boosts of $414,000, $338,000, and $343,000, respectively. At a more granular level, the study shows that home equity increases benefits to buyers across all segments. Overall, U.S. homeowners held $31.8 Overall, U.S. homeowners held $31.8

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

The second occurred in October 2023 when mortgage rates peaked at their highest point since 2000. Buyers today are facing many of the realities of a hot market even though few homes are changing hands,” Redfin senior economist Elijah de la Campa said in the report. year over year. That was up from 13.2% seen in October 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Now, with agent commissions starting to decline, agents naturally want to convey the value of their services to buyers and sellers. We simply wanted to document the distribution of the price effect for both buyer and seller agents. The dataset includes 2.3 million single-family home sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

homeownership rate was close to a record high in census data going back to 2000. While rising interest rates affected all homebuyers, this impact was more pronounced among Hispanic households, many of whom are first-time buyers with lower median incomes and who live in higher priced markets,” according to NAHREP. of overall U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 18, 2025

Please be aware that a home is deemed affordable if the monthly housing payment for a buyer who takes out a mortgage does not exceed thirty percent of their income. between 2000 and 2019. Redfin discovered that for every 10% decrease in homebuying affordability, the proportion of a metros wealthy renters increased by an average of 0.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s signals indicating further rate hikes for 2023 appear to have scared buyers away from the market in December. The last month of 2022 also marked the fewest overall rate lock counts on record since January 2000, when Black Knight began reporting origination metrics. . Rate/term refis dropped 11.2%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

They did not provide information related to the buyers’ names or the financial details. Salt Lake City-based SPS has been servicing residential mortgages since 1989 and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transactions since 2000, according to Fitch Ratings. servicing business. In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Inventory has remained low as sellers are locked into their low mortgage rates, even as many home buyers are turned away from this market due to affordability constraints amid volatile mortgage rates,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement. The 10-city home price index also posted a 0.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

To the buyer of an $800,000 home putting down 20%, the mortgage savings would be roughly $500. If buyers try to time their home purchase to the return of record-low rates and the historically low rates don’t return, their wait could prove costly. Since 2000, the average home appreciation rate has been 4.7%, according to the FHFA.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Founded in 2000, BDX is owned by a group of 24 leading U.S. By combining a new home listings portal with Zonda’s deep dataset, we’ll be able to better serve the unique needs of home shoppers, ultimately driving more connections with buyers and awareness for home builders,” Jeff Meyers, CEO of Zonda, said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

The key is to tailor the financial solutions to meet the needs of various borrowers, including first-time home buyers, those who are looking to move up, and buyers willing to purchase fixer-uppers. That is a significant increase from the 13% average between 2000-2019 in new construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

For home buyers, holding prices constant, the only way to mitigate the loss of affordability caused by higher mortgage rates is with an equivalent, if not greater, increase in household income,” Fleming said. since January 2000. “Two factors drove the year-over-year decline in affordability – a 6.2% year over year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s a different story in the non-distressed retail market, where the large institutional buyers are crowding out both owner-occupant buyers and local real estate investors, according to Kerr, who is president of locally based Mid South Home Buyers. Bulk Buyer Bonanza. The bulk buyer purchases accounted for 8.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

The NAHB/HMI report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which homebuilders are asked to rate both current market conditions for the sale of new homes and expected conditions for the next six months, as well as traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. That share from 2000-2019 was a 12.7%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mortgage applications fell for the fifth consecutive week as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.31%, its highest level since December 2000. Elevated rates and the erosion of purchasing power has resulted in potential buyers fleeing the market, noted Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president and deputy chief economist in a statement. “Low

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 2, 2024

Compare this to 2000-2022, when upgrading to a 25% more expensive home would have required the average homeowner to increase their principal and interest payment by only 40%, or about $400 per month, according to the report.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

Weakening economic outlook, high inflation and affordability challenges took a toll on buyer demand, leading to a drop in both purchase and refi applications last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, declined 6.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

As rates rise, this will impact the builders more as they try to find buyers for current homes in cancellation. But, this data line should grow a tad more while they finish up homes that they do have buyers for. The trend is your friend until rates fall or the builders discount enough to get some buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

The suit takes aim at the National Association of Realtor’s Participation Rule which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list a property on a NAR affiliated MLS. As with all of the other commission lawsuits, Tuccori’s suit is seeking class action status.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cutting prices is one of several mechanisms homebuilders have employed to keep buyers interested since rates began skyrocketing. The index, which pegs January 2000 at 100, reached a seasonally adjusted all-time high of 311.175 in September as tight inventory continues to keep prices elevated.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

As an Irish immigrant to the United States in 1996 who became a real estate broker in 2000, I can tell you this: The U.S. They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers. Home buyers like my mother and father outside the U.S. experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

With rates at escalated levels, it is affecting home buyers facing affordability challenges. . Given this, homebuilders may focus more on comparatively modest product offerings as the number of move-up buyers is low.”. The mortgage market is projected to slip further, however, to $1.74 trillion in 2023 before climbing to $2.11

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. In most markets, the seller, or supplier, makes their decision about adding supply to the market independent of the buyer, or source of demand, and their decision to buy.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

New home sales are now below the recession levels of 2000 and have fallen all the way to 1996 levels, when interest rates were near 8%. Currently, the builders have buyers to occupy those homes, excluding those that cancel the transaction at closing. When rates do fall, we can see that the 5% level brought some buyers into this market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Assuming that the housing market had a balanced supply of homes relative to demand in the year 2000 (no deficit or surplus), we can track the surplus or shortage of housing supply relative to demand cumulatively over time with the grey bars.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash. metro areas going back to 2000. Redfin attributes this uptick to investors being quicker to come off the sidelines than consumer buyers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

NAR Research : First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in October; All-cash sales accounted for 26%; Individual investors purchased 16%; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 21 days in October. Now we are getting the call back to balance, which is good.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The S&P/Case-Shiller index also uses a repeat sales method, but is calculated monthly, seasonally adjusted and indexed to a base of January 2000. Buyers are losing purchasing power to rising mortgage rates, mortgage demand has dipped and homebuilder confidence has declined, to name a few. That is up 3.1% from the year prior.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded in 2000, Scottsdale, Arizona-based HomeSmart is the seventh largest brokerage in the country by transaction sides, or how many times a HomeSmart agent represented the buyer or seller in a deal, according to RealTrends.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

NAR: First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in March; Individual investors purchased 17% of homes; All-cash sales accounted for 27% of transactions; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 29 days. As we can see in the data below, the days on the market fell back down to 29 days.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. This time the hit on demand is much more challenging as we are working from a savagely unhealthy rise in home prices since 2000, and mortgage rates have skyrocketed in the most prominent fashion in modern history.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Some buyers had to wait forever before they could lock in their rate, meaning they didn’t qualify for their homes as rates moved up so fast. We are already below the 2000 recession levels and back to 1996 levels today. The June rate for units in buildings with five units or more was 366,000.

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