Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Founded in 2006, Carson Realty serves clients in the South Carolina markets of Hilton Head, Bluffton and Lake Keowee. On Thursday, the family-owned firm announced that it had acquired South Carolina -based Carson Realty. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. We look forward to our partnership with Carson Realty (CR).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Simonsen founded Altos Research in 2006. With data specific to your local market like this, agents can become local experts and answer their buyers and sellers questions faster. Believe it or not, it is still a seller’s market. In 15 years, the data analytics company has grown into a titan of data. What does that mean?

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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 12, 2022

Given the ongoing tension between potential homebuyers and home-sellers at the moment, we believe the pace of sales is likely to slow even further, too,” he added. “The slowing effect on the housing market of the higher mortgage rate environment has been largely predictable, and home prices appear to have already begun trending downward.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Presently, the demand for existing homes outpaces the available supply, raising potential concerns for both sellers and buyers. Factors like location and condition of the property and the market demand for REO and other existing home sales, impact the current landscape for REO assets.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Redfin said its real estate agents have helped clients in Seattle and the Bay Area buy and sell homes since 2006, with a listing fee as low as 1%. We’re the only national brokerage working to offer home sellers a complete range of options to meet their needs.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The one period where this didn’t happen was from 2006-2011, when credit forced Americans to sell, to rent or to be homeless. Outside of that time period, everything else from 1982 to 2023 was normal. If you believe people sell to become homeless, then you’re in the group of people that have simply not read housing data for decades.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. This explains why total active listing inventory data has been stable over the decades, with the exception of 2006-2011, when those forced distressed credit home sellers couldn’t buy.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 is projected to have the most home sales since the 2006 housing bubble, with the U.S. While it’s still a strong seller’s market, there just aren’t the up-to-20 offers coming in on homes anymore,” Herrig said. Sellers aren’t getting a free puppy or pony with their buyer’s offers any longer.”. on pace for 6.29

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

below its 2006 peak. For-sale inventory levels charted their fourth consecutive monthly increase in August, and sellers appear to be taking a less aggressive approach when putting their homes on the market. 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

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. . With more supply from new construction and existing owners relocating, new and existing home sales are expected to rise about 1% to 7 million sales, the largest number since 2006.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

What we are telling sellers right now is that homes that are properly priced and well prepared are averaging seven to 15 days on the market, compared to an average of 31 days for the greater Peoria area.” While there is no doubt it is a seller’s market in Peoria, Van Cleve said many potential sellers are hesitant to list.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, “the commission on home sales has stayed basically flat for decades at 6%, split evenly between the buyer and seller agents.” Our data is good enough for the DOJ and the FTC to use for their own report on competition in the industry in their 2005-2006 report.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With the Experts network, prospective sellers are matched with an expert who has relevant experience selling similar properties in their building or neighborhood, StreetEasy said. NAMB leads brokers in advocating for consumer data privacy. Presented by: NAMB.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Homelight , a platform for homebuyers and sellers, was No. 403 Homelight 1,444% 2012 Providing a platform that helps deliver better outcomes for homebuyers and sellers. 1,943 EmpowerHome 289% 2006 A partner to real estate teams and agents, offering exclusive programs to ensure sellers get top dollar for their properties.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Housing went into recession in 2006 and prices weren’t collapsing that year either. Part of the issue is that mortgage rates moved up so fast that many sellers quit this year as well. Key thing to remember: A traditional seller is also usually a buyer. Let’s look at the recessionary factors we see now versus 2008.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

“Last month, existing home sales recorded their best bottom line in any April since 2006,” Speakman said. This elevated level of competition may be starting to wear on buyers’ confidence and could be holding back sales volumes. ” While borrowers battle it out in the bidding trenches, unsold inventory sits at a 2.4-month

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sears Real Estate has been serving buyers and sellers since 1971, under the influential leadership of the late Paul Sears. Kevin is also the Associate Broker of Lamacchia Realty Springfield/Sears Real Estate , which just celebrated their grand opening last month after merging companies in April 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

I know some people don’t agree with me on this, but the price gains in both the existing home and new home sales sector show that homebuilders and sellers had too much pricing power and needed to be checked. Still, the existing home sales market has an active seller who decides to sell their home to buy another one or rent.

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Housing volatility is pushing more sellers to work with real estate pros rather than go it alone. FSBOs made up only 7% of home sales in 2021—the lowest share since 1981—according to the latest Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers from the National Association of REALTORS®. FSBOs Usually Soar in a Hot Market. Not This Time.

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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

JUNE 21, 2023

May’s housing starts rate was actually the highest since April 2022, which was then the highest since 2006. The few existing homeowner sellers aren’t incentivized to negotiate much, and there’s no reason to think they will for a long while. Let’s dive in a little deeper. million, 21.7% above the revised April estimate of 1.34

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Cornerstone

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s an ideal time for sellers to take advantage. Sellers who may have been reluctant to list in the past few years are now considering it. Increasing prices also indicate increasing home values, allowing a seller to tap into thousands of dollars in equity gains. in contrast to the all-time high of 868 seen in 2006.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 26, 2023

The rising rates over the past 16 months have decelerated the number of sales as buyer affordability has been greatly diminished and because sellers are hesitating to list. Listing essentially requires sellers to trade in their pandemic-era rates of 2-3% for the current rates hovering in the high 6%-low 7% range.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

That’s nearly 200,000 above the previous peak in 2006. iBuying has opened up a completely new path for sellers. First of all, there are simply too many Realtors chasing too few homes for sale. There were 1,522,801 Realtors in America as of the end of February. This has created an environment of scarcity.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After over a decade of serving buyers and sellers in New Hampshire, Lamacchia Realty is in the process of opening their first branch office in The Granite State! We are very excited to serve dramatically more homebuyers and sellers in the Southern New Hampshire market and in time grow all the way up the state with additional offices.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the issues with existing home inventory has been that, for the most part, a traditional seller is usually a buyer of a home. Since we never had any exotic loan debt products in the system post-2010, you don’t see foreclosures and bankruptcies rising even as the expansion was moving along like what we saw in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

The drop in nearly 4,000 closings wasn’t just because buyers weren’t buying; they would, but many couldn’t because sellers weren’t selling. Sellers find themselves in a holding pattern , desiring to move but hesitant due to the reluctance to part with their low pandemic-era interest rates. Sales Decline by 18.9%

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006. Directors attend multiple meetings throughout the year which cover policy and current issues that need to be addressed within the industry. As a full-service, value-based brokerage, the company’s  mission  is to guide REALTORS®, employees, and clients to their success.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, a significant portion of the decrease is also linked to the persistently low inventory levels due to a lack of sellers. Sellers are hesitant to put their homes on the market because they are reluctant to give up their pandemic-era interest rates, contributing to the lowest number of new listings since 2001.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sellers are sitting on their hands because although they may want to move, they’re hesitating to do so because they don’t want to trade in their pandemic-era rates. Sellers are stuck not just because they don’t want to lose their rate; those who need to buy again are concerned about the possibility of much higher monthly payments.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

Since its establishment in 2006, Lamacchia Realty has been dedicated to serving the needs of both buyers and sellers. Lamacchia Realty was also ranked number one as the number one independent brokerage in Worcester County with the highest sales volume and the highest number of closed transactions for all of 2023.

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McKissock

MARCH 15, 2022

Buyers, many out-of-state, were purchasing homes with cash but were not living in them, which increased values from 2004 to 2006 because of competition, but it also indicated that a possible real estate bubble was in the very foreseeable future. Use of creative financing such as seller contracts.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.  The Hudson Office is home to plenty of distinguished REALTORS®, including Kerryann Murphy who qualified for the 2022 President’s Club by surpassing 33 transactions in 2022. Get to know all the Lamacchia Realty Hudson Office REALTORS® here!

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Keith founded the company in 2006 and Dr. Travis-Johnson joined in 2008. The VRMU platform is one in which we take professionals in a marketplace that have the expertise to do the work but have not yet had the opportunity to work with corporate sellers,” explained Murray.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.  Cervone , Eileen Doherty , Kelly Dimbat , Krista Matthews, and Marjorie McCue. . Get to know all the Lamacchia Realty Woburn Office REALTORS® here!

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