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Texas cities lead the way for medium-density housing growth

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Census Bureau data to analyze housing inventory changes across 489 cities between 2005 and 2023. from 2005 to 2023 — the lowest inventory increase among all property types. McKinney — located in the Dallas area — had the fastest-growing middle housing inventory among the cities analyzed at 185% from 2005 to 2023.

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Fathom acquires Arizona-based My Home Group

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Founded in 2005, My Home Group has been recognized on the Inc. Our merger with Fathom is a major milestone in accelerating business development for our agents and organization,” Kleven said. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies for seven straight years. That was good for the No.

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United Real Estate expands Midwest footprint through Kansas City merger

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Rob Hill Platinum’s director of growth and market development, said in a statement that SunWest is “receiving a lot more than what a typical merger brings,” referring to the shared technology assets and resources through Platinum that will soon be available to SunWest agents. .

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Developing a lending strategy for rising mortgage rates

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In fact, the largest home purchase year in this nation’s history was 2005 when rates were near 7.5%. The post Developing a lending strategy for rising mortgage rates appeared first on HousingWire. Mortgage rates have never been this low and yet through previous cycles home sales have continued.

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New home sales hot but not bubbly

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No, this is not a new home sales housing bubble as we are far from total new home sales being where they were in 2005. The monthly supply of new homes was mostly higher every month in the previous expansion (2008-2019) than any period from 1996-2005. At that time, the new home sales sector got so bad that I put it in the penalty box.

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Ellie Mae President and CEO Jonathan Corr retires

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In 2005, Tyrrell temporarily left the company to work as an independent executive consultant, ultimately returning to Ellie Mae in 2010 as a senior vice president. In 2019, Tyrrell became chief operating officer and was awarded membership within the Forbes Business Development Council the same year.

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Are existing home sales showing a housing bubble?

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This is evident if one compares the purchase application data from the overheating market of 2002-2005 to the period between 2012-2020. First the rate of growth in no way compares to what we had during the bubble years of 2002-2005. While sales are and will stay elevated compared the COVID-19 lows, the market is not bubbly.