Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It all started when mortgage rates jumped from 5.25% to 6.25% this year and I saw how home sellers reacted to that move. Traditionally speaking, post-2012, inventory growth came in years where demand was weaker from mortgage buyers: 2014 and 2022. Can you blame home sellers? in 2021 and as high as 6.25% in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

November’s numbers mark the greatest annual growth rate since February 2014 and even blew past the 8.4% According to Hale, realtor.com’s 2021 outlook expects an eventual moderation to price gains as home construction ramps up and the widespread availability of COVID vaccines bring more flexible sellers back to the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

That’s a swing of 17% fewer sellers in just a matter of days. What’s not measured in the FHFA paper is how by 2023, seller volume had already been declining for nearly a decade. In that period, we can see seller volume decreasing as more and more Americans had mortgages under 5%. Download the entire report here.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Homebuyers’ median household income increased by $19,000 this year from 2022, reaching $107,000, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers. The report is an annual survey of homebuyers and sellers who closed transactions between July 2022 and June 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Larson started her career in real estate as an agent at a large national franchise in 2014. RE/MAX The Collective will serve buyers and sellers throughout Yakima, Ellensburg and Cle Elum and it will specialize in rural and residential properties as well as large agricultural farms.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Excelerate Capital was an early adopter of non-QM lending following the advent of the Ability-To-Repay (ATR) rule in 2014. It also provides a full range of agency conforming financing, including FHA, VA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

At the same time, seller volume dried up. But now sellers are coming back into the market. NAR reported 33% all cash buyers, which is the most since 2014 when buyers were still cleaning up distressed properties. More sellers means more sales in 2024. Everyone knows it’s been a very dry 18 months for home sales.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

What’s not measured in the FHFA paper is how by 2023, seller volume had already been declining for nearly a decade. In that period, we can see seller volume decreasing as more and more Americans had mortgages under 5%. Throughout most of the last decade, fewer sellers entered the market each year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Inventory has been slowly falling since 2014, so if demand picks up in 2020-2024, it can collapse to shallow levels. My concern now is that some sellers are feeling stressed about this market, which should never happen because this is the best seller market ever. You can see why some sellers are stressed now.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Dwiggins: Since we started the company back in 2014, we were always looking to try and be a little bit different from the rest of the industry, in the sense of it wasn’t about having tons of agents. As a result, if a seller is not offering compensation, the buyer and agent just move on.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

Inventory falling again in 2022 created more forced bidding wars, which frustrates buyers, keeps potential sellers from wanting to list, and creates stress for real estate agents doing a lot of work with nothing to show for it. The last time this data line was fragile was back in 2013-2014. The four-week average is running at 9.25%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

“David’s dedication to maximizing marketing and optimizing value for sellers aligns with the Real platform and our mission to give our agents the tools they need to succeed by providing the best consumer experience possible.” Newman has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

This is common in recent history, which has happened before in 2013/2014 and 2018/2019. Higher rates need duration so sellers can adjust their pricing reality. We are already below 2008 levels today — not that far off the 21st century low of 2014. However, we can see a clear demand-weakness trend in 2014 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. They have to move as well, so a traditional seller is a buyer most of the time when it’s a primary resident owner. However, as we all know, after 2020, things are just more intense. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

While spring of 2022 saw a similar share of all-cash homebuyers, one needs to look back to 2014 before seeing similar shares. In March of 2022, sellers received an average of 5.5 Then, the mortgage interest rates were in the low-4% range. In the months before the COVID-19 pandemic, the share of all-cash buyers hovered in the teens.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It’s the highest share of all-cash transactions recorded since 2014. FHA loan usage increases in September As sellers field fewer offers, buyers with FHA loans may have greater luck to close on a home. In September, all-cash purchases represented one-third of the U.S. home purchases, compared to 29.5% of all transactions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2021

“In particular, the sell-side component fell for the first time since April and by 18 points, reversing most of the increases of the past three months and implying to us that, at least temporarily, potential home sellers might wait to list their homes,” Duncan said. “If The report also predicts home price growth to slow through this November.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

The rate of Hispanic homeownership has been inching up each year since 2014, according to U.S. A lot of sellers were very blunt about it: ‘If it’s FHA, forget it,’” said Lizbeth Alarcon, an agent at RE/MAX Vivid Realty. Last year, the Hispanic homeownership rate grew to 48.4% from 47.5% Census Bureau statistics.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe became an approved seller and servicer for Freddie Mac in 2013, Fannie Mae in 2014 and Ginnie Mae in 2016. Last year, Northpointe expanded its home loan centers in eight states — Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada and Texas, according to a release from Northpointe in October.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The firm currently serves buyers and sellers in Essex County, the Merrimack River Valley and Southern New Hampshire. In 2014, Bentley started his team at RE/MAX with Christie and four other agents, by 2016 the team had expanded to 10 agents and in 2018 they transitioned from a team to an independent brokerage, Bentley’s Real Estate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He told the jury that sellers also benefit because it brings more foot traffic and attention to their listings. On Friday, Schulman stated that home sellers have no reason to pay buyers’ agents, whom he claimed do not provide much value. He also noted that buyers’ agents provide valuable services for sellers and buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

The regulator directed the regulated entities to “increase support for core mission borrowers, while fostering capital accumulation, achieving viable returns and ensuring a level playing field for small and large sellers.”. During her tenure so far as FHFA acting director, Thompson has made affordability a top priority.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Wedgewood , a real estate investment firm that focuses on distressed properties, was the seller of Civic. billion since its inception in 2014, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pacific Western Bank hailed the acquisition as a strategic move into specialized areas of the non-QM market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

After making some Covid-19 adjustments to the data line, we will have our first negative year over year since 2014, unless something changes on the mortgage rate side. 2014 was the last year we saw a noticeable weakness in purchase application data. What have we seen this year? The last time we had 5% mortgage rates was in 2018.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 8, 2024

trillion in June 2014. Mortgage rates have started falling, but many potential sellers and buyers are waiting to make a move, meaning we are likely to continue seeing a pattern where prices slowly tick up,” said Zhao. In a decade, the value of U.S. homes has more than doubled, rising nearly 120% from $22.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

If you follow the trend of housing supply since 2014, it’s been falling every year — with a pause in 2018-2019 — and then collapsed lower post-2020. As you can see below, the inventory keeps falling from 2014 levels, and even with the weakness in demand this year, we are nowhere close to 2013 levels, let alone 2018 levels.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Opendoor is a pioneer in cash home-buys moving online, and an alternative to home sellers having to work with real estate agents. The company grew partly thanks to venture capital money, including from Tokyo-based SoftBank Group.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

When analyzing the future of home prices in this country, and the potential for a home-price crash, or distressed sellers flooding the market if/when a recession finally catches up to us, we should look at three variables. For example, in 2014 the average mortgage holder in Florida carried a loan with 74% LTV — that’s 26% equity.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Remember, a seller is typically also a buyer, so inventory should fall when demand picks up and that seller finds another home to buy. Total inventory levels have been falling since 2014, while sales have been rising. 2020 and 2021 are at pre-cycle highs in demand, with total inventory levels at all-time lows for both years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The last time we saw this happen was in 2014. With transactions that included buy-downs and seller credit to lower rates, the rate some homebuyers are getting is lower than the headline numbers we see daily. To get more details on this data line, check out the Top of Mind weekly podcast hosted by Altos Research founder Mike Simonsen.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

We had a few years where sales missed expectations in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Yes, I know home sellers will pull back with higher rates, but you can see the issue with the existing home sales marketplace that doesn’t exist with the new home sales market. Once total inventory can get back into the range of 1.52 million to 1.93

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. Opendoor set out on its disruptive journey in 2014, and Offerpad followed soon after in 2015.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005. The reality is that home sellers and builders had too much pricing power. Whenever you see vertical home-price growth over a period of time, it’s never a good thing. This either means you had a massive supply shortage or you had a credit boom.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The last high among all-cash buyers was seen at 35% in 2014. While it is not the high seen during the First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit in 2010, it is also not the historical norm of 40% seen in the annual Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers report. All cash buyers now stand at 24%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The rule change will prohibit listing brokers from paying buyer’s agents and will instead require sellers to pay them directly if they choose to pay them at all. There is certain to be a segment of the seller market who will adopt the attitude of if they want to get paid, let their buyer client pay it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It can be stressful enough when the markets are regular, like they were from 2014-to 2019. We always talk about the stress of home buying, but we should also include sellers in that discussion. Unless they choose to rent after the sale or sell their investment home, a seller becomes the next natural homebuyer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It can be stressful enough when the markets are regular, like they were from 2014-to 2019. We always talk about the stress of home buying, but we should also include sellers in that discussion. Unless they choose to rent after the sale or sell their investment home, a seller becomes the next natural homebuyer.

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