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Buyers and sellers agree: it’s a good time to enter the housing market

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points, but has steadily recovered over 60% of its COVID-19 pandemic loss when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. While the state of the market shines brightly for prospective buyers and sellers, the economy overall is showing some slight hesitation. But that does still leave an estimated 11.1

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As home prices increase, sellers have the upper hand

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points, but has recovered more than half of its early pandemic-period decline when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. August’s HPSI survey revealed both a confident seller’s and buyer’s market, however, Fannie Mae reported September buyers showing more hesitancy. Presented by: NAMB. As of Oct.

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

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There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. This doesn’t mean homebuyers don’t have something of an edge now: As inventory has increased and buying power has faded, the buyers who are available are dealing with a lot less competition as the bidding wars are ending. million today.

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Where home seller profit margins are shrinking

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Despite this drop, investment returns for home sellers is still up from 48.8% ATTOM says these factors are raising homeownership costs for buyers, which it says “cuts into resources available for down payments on purchases” and impacts overall household budgets. Metro results for home sellers. This is up from 6.7%

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As insurance costs rise, real estate agents have more buyer concerns to assuage

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Now we are looking at a two- to three- business-day process and the buyer may not like the numbers they get back.” For some buyers, surprisingly high insurance premiums are causing them to second-guess the property they have selected. “I She has also started discussing these details with prospective sellers at listing presentations. “No

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Elevated borrowing costs remain the top worry for homebuilders

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Additionally, the competition from existing home sellers was somewhat absent. In 2011, only 13% of homebuilders worried about the cost of labor, versus 87% in 2019. On the bright side, attracting buyers to the market last year was not a widespread difficulty, but homebuilders fear that might change. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Howard Hanna acquires two independent brokerages

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The merger combines the strengths of both companies, allowing us to better support agents, buyers, and sellers in the Dayton area while enhancing our leadership in the market.” Alliance Group Realty was founded in 2011 by Bob Clarkson and currently has over 70 agents.

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