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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. The only time this happened was 2006-2011 — the housing bust years. Home prices ebb and flow, pricing was working in the sense that sellers met homebuyers to a degree. Image by Brandon Johnson/HW Media.). Now fast forward to 2022.

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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. Compared to this time last year, the HPSI is still down 7.1

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Risks of nonbank mortgage sellers and servicers revisited

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These were 2000-2003, 2004-2008Q2, 2008Q3-2011, and 2012-2015. Note that for the 180DPD+ model the 2012-2015 period was collapsed with the 2008Q3-2011 period based on the machine learning results. The post Risks of nonbank mortgage sellers and servicers revisited appeared first on HousingWire.

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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% Metro results for home sellers. The post Where home seller profit margins are shrinking appeared first on HousingWire. This is the first decline in home prices in almost three years, down from 57.6% This is up from 6.7%

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Credit data shows: There’s no housing crash coming

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Look at the difference between this week in 2024 versus the same weeks in 2009-2011. We had a lot of stressed sellers back then! Here is an example with our Nov.

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Americans are deeply pessimistic about the housing market

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On the seller side, 35% said it was a bad time to sell, rising from 27% in July. Following a slow down in home price appreciation , prices slipped 0.77% in July from June, marking the largest single-month decline in the housing market since January 2011, according to Black Knight. Year over year, the index is down 13.7