Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In time for National Hispanic Heritage Month, the National Association of Realtors has launched ‘NAR en Español,’ a Spanish language subsite to the association’s main webpage. Since 2018, the NAR en Español initiative has helped Spanish-speaking Realtors leverage networking and additional sources, the association said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The company announced that Firelands Association of Realtors in Ohio and Northwest Wisconsin MLS have signed up for CheckMate, the firm’s listing compliance violation detection software. In 2018, TheMLS.com created VestaPlus to continue building the software with the intent of licensing it.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Clare Knapp, housing economist for the Austin Board of Realtors , counters the notion of a collapse “Austin is not the same Austin as it was eight years ago,” she said. The sheer amount of additional supply on the market has really given buyers more of a leg up,” she said. “I 20 — $4 less than the national average.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

But recently, we’ve started to see buyers get cold feet. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out. The market is still competitive, but buyers are more trepidatious than they were at the start of 2021, and less willing to pull out every stop in order to win.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

Each of these out-of-state Named Plaintiffs allegedly enlisted a buyer-agent in the period from 2018 to 2021 to purchase a home in these other states. The eighth Named Plaintiff purchased a home in Illinois in 2022 using a buyer-agent from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices,” the filing states.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

And while this situation is certainly far from ideal, according to a report published Thursday by the National Association of Realtors and Realtor.com , even with the existing level of homes available for sale, the housing affordability and inventory shortage issues wouldn’t be so severe if there were enough homes for buyers at all income levels.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

Pending home sales metrics released by the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday revealed pending home sales reached its highest mark for the month of May since 2005, up 8% from the previous month of April. The effect of higher mortgage rates, which in late 2018 crested at 5%, also contributed to more stability in housing prices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

“During the course of the pandemic, ‘home’ had become more important than ever, and as a result, strong purchase demand continues—but buyers also outnumber the sellers,” Khater said. million, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales of existing homes fell 6.6% month-over-month.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

.” Homes for sale are still being snatched up quickly throughout the country, but a recent slowdown in bidding wars may signal some buyer fatigue in the housing market. New listings are also up 4% year over year, meaning more properties are hitting the housing market for buyers to bid on. in May and a peak of 74.1% million and 1.92

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released a report on Friday that found 88% of all first-time homebuyers in the U.S. The share of Black and Asian first-time buyers is down from 6% in 2021, while the share of white first-time buyers is up from 82% and Hispanic homebuyers up from 7%. million in 2021, up from 50.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And according to MetroStudy , in 2018, 70% of Millennial survey participants planned to purchase a home in the next 12 months. ?. As Candace Taylor writes in The Wall Street Journal , “These days, buyers eschew the large, ornate houses built in [previous] years in favor of smaller, more-modern looking alternatives.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2018, Forbes ranked the city No. In high-demand areas where only one or two properties come on the market, maybe in a month, we’re seeing [buyers paying] upwards of $100,000 to $150,000 over asking price.”. Ward, a Realtor with Keller Williams, Christina and Company , said that her business is up 30.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

The median age of a first-time buyer for the past three years has remained 33 years old. Between 1981 and 2018, the median age of first-time buyers ranged between 28 and 32. There will soon be a wave of potential buyers aging into the first-time buyer age group. There are 23.4 million adults aged 28-32 in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 In 2018 when mortgage rates rose, we saw existing home sales trend lower from 5.72 Even though total existing-home sales didn’t do much in 2018 and 2019, we see how higher rates impacted the demand curve.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

The fact that Black buyers report earning more money and making more financial sacrifices to enter the homeowner class is one example of how difficult it is for Black people in this country to achieve the American dream.” A 2018 study from the Brookings Institute found that in the average U.S. Presented by: iEmergent.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

from a year ago to $356,700, according to the National Association of Realtors. After renovation , these homes sold for 28% below the average sales price of all existing home sales nationwide, according to an Auction.com analysis of nearly 100,000 homes that sold on its platform between 2018 and 2020. Skyrocketing U.S.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS® for October 2024! has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for October 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

All created by Realtors, for Realtors. So if you want to actually generate leads from social media, focus on telling stories that resonate with local buyers and sellers. So get over your fear of being perfect and just start creating content that resonates with buyers and sellers in your farm area. Touring a new listing?

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

Additional initiatives that Freddie Mac noted included the financing of more than 46,000 manufactured homes titled as real property from 2018-2023, providing more than $6.7 The National Association of Realtors (NAR) November 2023 Housing Affordability Index was the lowest reported since July 1985. population.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The survey also noted evidence that predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, or neighborhoods with a Hispanic population of 50% or more, saw more than double the amount of first-time home buyer activity than that of the rest of the country between the second quarter of 2019 and the second quarter of 2020.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 8, 2025

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS for December 2024! has released its Top Producing REALTORS, for December 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The second day of the trial for the Sitzer/Burnett bombshell class action buyer broker commission class action lawsuit included plenty of insights into how the plaintiffs are approaching what is expected to be a battle royal. When you reduce the commission, you reduce the incentive for that agent to bring a buyer to your house.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

“I think one of the major trends we are seeing is that our overall inventory is up 60% year over year compared to 2023,” said PJ Smith, president of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and the broker-owner of Naples Golf to Gulf Real Estate. “We We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.”

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 16, 2025

Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS by Transactions for 2024 Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released their Top Producing REALTORS, for all of 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS out of the over 700 agents in Lamacchia Realty with the highest transaction numbers for the year!

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

Naturally, this has forced buyers to seek lower price points or has completely eliminated them from the market. This is a trend that leads me – and many others – to believe that we are quickly transitioning into a renter economy – much like the United Kingdom where their homeowner has fallen from 71% in 2003 to 63% in 2018. [2]

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS for November 2024! has released its Top Producing REALTORS, for November 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 million range because it brings us back to 2018-2019 levels, the last time we had a balanced housing market. million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. million and 1.93

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell last month while prices increased yearly. This is common in recent history, which has happened before in 2013/2014 and 2018/2019. Today, home buyers already have more choices than what they had last year. This is the unhealthy aspect of housing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

According to NAR , five percent of sellers and four percent of buyers found their agent through another agent’s referral. A referral estate referral occurs when a licensed agent or broker passes along a prospective buyer or seller to another licensed agent to handle a transaction. Everybody’s happy!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Both buyers and sellers value the combined benefits of his individual talents along with membership in one of the most respected real estate firms in New York City. Jane Doe is an industry-leading Realtor with a talent for selling unique properties.” In 2018, Jane Doe became a LEED Accredited Professional.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. Now we are getting the call back to balance, which is good. NAR lists the current inventory at 1.22

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Like the other copycat commission lawsuits, the plaintiff James Tuccori, an Illinois resident who purchased a home listed on the local MLS in 2018 with the help of an @properties agent, is accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Last week the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales declined in June to an annual rate of 4.2 The trends in this chart show how quickly home buyers reacted to the big mortgage rate jumps in 2022. If a year is a market slowdown, like 2022 or 2018, inventory might not peak until September or October.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In November 2018, the deadliest fire in the history of California nearly destroyed Paradise, a 144-year-old town that sits in the Sierra Foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley. . Those prices are higher than the national median home price of $357,000 as of November, per the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The likelihood of the listing agent selling a pocket listing to a direct buyer without their own agent increases greatly with pocket listings. A reason to call your buyer leads. An off-market listing is a great excuse to call all those buyer leads in your database. We will give you ideas of how to do this in a later section.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MARCH 6, 2025

News & Media Getty/sturti Source: [link] Starter Home Prices See Largest Increase By Jennifer Warner Florida starter home prices have jumped since 2018, with rising rates and investor competition making it more difficult for first-time buyers. ORLANDO, Fla. How did we get here?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

If you’re a big celebrity, the press is going to find out,” Michael Nourmand, president of Beverly Hills-based brokerage Nourmand & Associates Realtors , told RealTrends. The sellers that Arrington bought the home from, purchased the home in November 2018 for $10.4 The home officially sold on May 14, 2021, for $16 million.

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