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Working with buyers in the nation’s hottest housing market

Housing Wire

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. If they get a higher offer that has financing, then when appraisal comes back, the buyer is going to renegotiate the sales price to be closer to appraised value.”. Garrett said aside from cash buyers, he also has clients who have money to offset any appraisal gap.

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House flipping hits lowest level since 2000

Housing Wire

of all home sales in the first quarter of 2021 were flips — or one in 37 transactions, the lowest level since 2000. homes flipped in the first quarter of 2021, 10 percent were sold to buyers using loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), down from 11.6% were flipped in the first quarter. Of the 32,526 U.S.

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Mortgage rates surge to highest level since 2000

Housing Wire

“The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has hit the highest level since the year 2000,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist said. However, unlike the turn of the millennium, house prices today are rising alongside mortgage rates, primarily due to low inventory. Other indices showed significantly higher mortgage rates this week.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

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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The housing market recession continues, despite starts data

Housing Wire

The June housing starts data beat estimates with positive revisions, however, this doesn’t change the housing market recession call that I made last month. The housing completion data has been the most frustrating data line we have dealt with for years. One might even say this housing market is still savagely unhealthy.

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

Housing Wire

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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You can’t buy what’s not for sale in the housing market

Housing Wire

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.