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Single Women Defying Housing Market Trends

Appraisal Buzz

The share of single women with a bachelors degree or higher has grown from 20% in 2000 to 34% in 2024. At the same time, their real median household income has risen more than 20% from 2000 to 2023, significantly improving their ability to purchase homes. housing trends.

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The housing market is ‘failing older adults,’ Urban Institute says

Housing Wire

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. In 2000, 11.5% of older households reported facing housing cost burdens. The state of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Real estate investors purchased 16% of homes in Q3 2024

Housing Wire

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. The report is based on an analysis of home purchase records from 39 of the most populous metro areas since 2000. As the U.S. Investors purchased $38.8

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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

Just before noon on Thursday, they were Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.31% as of Sept. 28, up 12 basis point from last week ’s 7.19%.

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Manufactured Homes Appreciating at Rates Comparable to Site-Built Homes

Appraisal Buzz

A recent analysis of Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) data by the Urban Institute dispels the myth that manufactured homes do not appreciate as much as site-built homes. Between 2000 and 2024, home prices in Florida surged by 331.9%, while Texas and North Carolina recorded increases of 232.8% and 209.6%, respectively.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

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. Also, I believed the risk to the housing market was if home prices grew more than 23% over the five years of 2020-2024.