Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 2, 2025

Home price appreciation seems to be settling into a more comfortable pace, just as inventory levels pick up going into 2025: welcome news for prospective buyers who continue to face the headwinds of high mortgage rates. With that being said, the index also reached a new record high for the 17th month in a row. last month). Jul-06 134.00

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

When we are looking at lower spreads, the Fed was an active buyer of mortgage backed securities (MBS), but clearly they arent today. I think it will take time to get back to that normal 170 basis points with the Fed not an active buyer. That is actually the highest market share since 2006, McKeveny said.

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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. trillion in home equity at the end of 2023, up from $15 trillion in 2006, the previous peak of the housing cycle. Overall, U.S. homeowners held $31.8

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. Demographics also play a role here.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

These rates continue to incentivize potential buyers and the home-buying season, which shifted from spring to summer, will likely continue into the fall.”. million in July, the highest level since 2006, the report said. Existing-home sales jumped 25% in July from June. The median price increased 8.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

from its former high in July 2006. Craig Lazzara, managing director and global head of Index Investment Strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said that it’s likely COVID-19 has pushed buyers to move from urban apartments to suburban homes. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index covering home prices of all nine U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Mounting mortgage rates and home prices are creating increasing affordability pressures for some prospective buyers. . in July 2006, according to Black Knight’s latest monthly Mortgage Monitor report. Buyers who closed on a property in March had a good chance of locking in mortgage rates at around 4%. Housing prices are up 5.9%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

The demand for homes is the highest it’s been since 2006,” Campbell said. But the distinctive difference today is the profile of the buyer. Today, I am amazed by how many buyers are not only qualified but overqualified.” Boyd Campbell, a broker at Century 21 , has a somewhat reassuring perspective on the current housing market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Only from 2006-2011 did we see this break due to forced sellers who couldn’t buy homes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The monthly housing supply for the existing home sales has only gone above six months during the bust years after the housing bubble (2006-2011). This period was also during a lull in our prime-age labor force growth, so demand was soft during the years 2006-2011. million jobs lost. Hard pass. It could also function as a jobs program.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The buyers are coming in because of the low interest rates – that’s the No. It was the highest sales level since 2006 and the biggest monthly increase on record. 1 reason,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors said in an interview with HousingWire. million in July, NAR said in an Aug.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The faster price growth is leading to affordability challenges for certain segments of buyers, and particularly for first-time homebuyers,” Kan said. “Realtors cited a combination of high demand and low inventory, which are making conditions more competitive and exerting upward pressure on prices.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Existing home sales came in at a whopping 6,850,000 , beating estimates with the highest print since 2006. Cash buyers remain at a historically high level of 19%, the same as last year, while sales grew 26.6% Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. year over year. The housing market is hot.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Homebuyer , an Ohio-based software startup offering digital mortgages to first-time home buyers, announced on Monday it had snagged $1.4 million first-time home buyers every year in the United States,” said Green. “First-time home buyers are an important and overlooked segment of the U.S. “There are 2.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

. “This is about the same rate of price growth that occurred during the 2002 through 2006 period when subprime lending drove exuberant housing demand. “But that is where the similarities end.

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Eyes on Housing

JANUARY 20, 2022

However, supply has continued to lag due to ongoing supply-chain disruptions and inventory fell to lowest level since January 1999, keeping home prices elevated and pricing out first-time and young buyers. Total existing home. Read More ›

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The supply of for-sale homes, already extremely tight, has only become more constrained in recent months, and historically low mortgage rates continue to encourage many buyers to enter the market,” said Matthew Speakman, economist at Zillow. year-over-year to a pace not seen since 2006.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

to the highest level since 2006. Despite these rising prices, the underlying demand for owner-occupied homes remains strong, and with record shortages of existing homes for sale , prospective buyers are shifting to new homes. Presented by: MCT. While total sales fell over the month, homes sold-but-not-yet-started jumped by 16.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

It’s the third-highest number of housing starts builders have broken ground on in one month since May of 2006, a sign of strong buyer demand. “Millions of buyers are eager and able to buy, if only they can find the right home at an affordable price.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is a strong purchase market and the uptick in inventory is bringing back some buyers who pulled back during peak frenzy.”. For all of 2021, we expect that existing home sales will be the strongest since 2006 despite widespread tight supply conditions in most local markets.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The recent new home sales data is at levels last seen in 2006, with monthly supply data back down to the low levels when new home sales data was really good. Except this time around, we do not have speculation buyers and a credit bubble — just good demographics and low mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

2006 is when Zillow came out with their Zestimates and with that, they started to very slowly provide to the consumer a more transparent way of understanding the market, and how to see not just the value of their home, but also what their neighborhood was doing and how prices were going up and down,” Saunders said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Homes remain much more affordable in 2021 than they were during the home price runup in 2005 and 2006, but the seven-month trend in deteriorating affordability is starting to gradually slow demand. Auction.com buyer Steve Johnson purchases and renovates distressed homes in Georgia and Tennessee. Homebuyers Losing Heart.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

census divisions rose 7% in September from a year ago, the greatest year-over-year gain since 2014, and nearly 23% higher than its last peak in 2006. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index covering home prices of all nine U.S. The September increase was also greater than the 4.8% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

But we should ask: Why is inventory so much lower now if purchase application data is at 2009 levels — a period in time when inventory was rising noticeably in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009? However, the spike in inventory that we saw from 2006 to 2011 can be attributed to the massive credit bubble we had from 2002 to 2005.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Sellers saw a market where their homes sold quickly and often above list price as multiple buyers competed to have the winning bid. . Higher mortgage rates and home prices are expected to moderate buyer demand as the erosion of affordability takes a toll. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

New data from LendingTree and CoreLogic highlights the struggles and successes of young buyers in todays real estate landscape. Young buyers still face an uphill battle According to a LendingTree analysis of anonymized credit reports, only 3.1 % of Americans under 30 currently hold a mortgage in the nations 50 largest metro areas.

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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

APRIL 27, 2021

The 12% home price gain is the highest recorded increase since February of 2006. “This data remains consistent with the hypothesis that COVID-19 has encouraged potential buyer to move from urban apartments to suburban homes,” Lazzara said. in January. It’s the ninth straight month of increasing prices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. Homebuilder confidence fell in March as builders continue to face supply chain disruptions, price increases, and concerns that declining affordability will price out buyers.”. This is an increase of 3.3% after a 10.4%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

below its 2006 peak. Additionally, there are move-up buyers with larger budgets who are relocating to more affordable areas where they’re financially able to outbid local residents. Home prices in 19 of our 20 cities now stand at all-time highs, with the sole outlier (Chicago) only 0.3%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

But — in the same beat — Caporale added, “There is still a massive influx of buyers, and I am not seeing a significant drop in demand.” 2021 is projected to have the most home sales since the 2006 housing bubble, with the U.S. There’s buyer fatigue and real questions about affordability.” on pace for 6.29 July was the plateau.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Similarly, companies like Zillow and Trulia launched in 2005 and 2006 as “real estate search engines” to help buyers more easily find a home online. Having everything in-house enables iBuyers to lower closing costs for buyers and sellers, offer real-time, 24/7 customer support and provide unique financing solutions for buyers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

After months of fending off an unsolicited takeover bid by two of its significant investors, CoreLogic today confirmed that it is looking for a buyer. “In CNBC also cited a source that said CoreLogic “has already signed a non-disclosure agreement with at least one potential buyer.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Data from the National Association of Realtors (PDF) shows that 81% of buyers think home staging helps them visualize living in the home. Virtual staging helps buyers imagine what actually living in your listing would look and feel like. Since 2006, HousingWire has been the go-to resource that provides the full picture of the U.S.

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