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Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009

Housing Wire

Home prices are now posting the biggest monthly declines since January 2009, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report from Black Knight. The post Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009 appeared first on HousingWire. With mortgage rates at 6.7% as of Sept. 29, it takes 38.2%

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

Today, however, the purchase application data is actually down to levels we saw in 2009 ! How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? The post Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory? If you connect the lines, you can see where we are on a historical basis.

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International buyers purchase fewest existing homes on record: NAR

Housing Wire

International homebuyers purchased the fewest number of existing homes for any year since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) began tracking the data in 2009. This decrease came even as the average ($780,300) and median ($475,000) purchase prices for foreign buyers were the highest ever recorded by NAR, up 21.9% purchased $22.6

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Two years after fleeing to the suburbs, homebuyers have flocked back to cities

Housing Wire

That’s evident in the annual profile of home buyers and sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which provides data on dozens of real estate trends. Between 2009 and 2021, the typical home purchased was built in the early 1990s. That number popped up to 50 miles in 2022 but has since fallen back to 20 miles.

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Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman: ‘We do tech so you can do real estate’

Housing Wire

That got me here in 2009 and kept me ever since. Wacksman: That’s the Zillow app for a buyer and a seller. What does the buyer or seller want? One has to keep up with where the buyer and seller is going. For an agent, that’s a higher-intent lead, a more educated buyer in all these regulatory changes.

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Buyers viewed just eight homes before making their purchase

Housing Wire

Right after the Great Recession, between 2009 and 2011, buyers viewed a median of 12 homes before purchasing, as inventory was plentiful. From 2004 to 2006, during the housing boom years, even though homes were moving at a rapid pace, buyers typically looked at nine homes.

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Hispanic Homeowners Reduce the Home Value Gap

Appraisal Buzz

The gap was as wide as 18% in 2012, following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009, when many minority communities were hit especially hard, setting back progress by several years. Hispanic-owned homes are currently worth 11.9% less than homes owned by non-Hispanic white households, down from 12.1% last year and a recent high of 12.4%