Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Comparing current levels of housing inventory to those of 2019 reveals that listings are down in almost every state. Oklahoma (+33.6), Texas (+24.8%), Florida (+15.1%), Colorado (+11.8%), Idaho (+16%) and Arizona (+11.3%) all have higher inventory levels compared to 2019. rise in the number of incoming New Yorkers relative to 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Multifamily completions in December were 47% higher than the 2019 average, according to the latest data available from the U.S. Single-family completions, by contrast, were 17% higher than the 2019 average. Multifamily permits in December were 8% below the 2019 average, while single-family permits were 16% above the 2019 average.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Its listings in 2023 fell below its 2019 level, although the drop was less steep than that experienced outside of Florida and far less steep than other metros like San Diego. Competition heats up In 2019, Watson Realty Corp. DR Horton and Dream Finders both ranked in the top 10 in 2019, and Lennar made a top 10 appearance in 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

1 brokerage by listing count from 2019 through 2023. Despite its continued lead, the properties listed by the firm on Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) in the county fell from 4,360 in 2019 to 2,390 in 2023, a 45% drop as homebuying slowed significantly in Dallas and nationwide. In the past five years, eXp Realty has done just that.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Knapp boomeranged back to Chicago-headquartered Guaranteed Rate after he left in 2019. ” Knapp spent 10 years at Guaranteed Rate between 2008 and 2019 in multiple leadership roles. He was chief retail production officer at the time of his departure in 2019.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Importantly, while the starter-home segment has become slightly more affordable in the past year, it is much less affordable than it was in the post-recession housing recovery of 2012 and in the pre-pandemic period of 2019. But in August 2019, households earned 57% more than they needed, and in August 2012, they earned 113% more.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

At first glance, these concerns seem reasonable: home prices have increased by more than 50% since the end of 2019. The median home in 2019—priced at $212,000 and financed with a 30 year mortgage for 3.75%—would carry a monthly cost of under $900. We’ve recently lived through an unusually rapid run-up in home prices.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Realtor.com began publishing regular monthly rental trends reports in October 2020 with data history stretching back to March 2019. higher than in the fall of 2019, before the pandemic. That’s still just $40 (-2.3%) lower than its August 2022 peak, and is $272 (18.8%) higher than the same time period in 2019. That’s down -3.6%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

The firm’s market share was 10.62% as recently as 2019 , and this is the closest Stewart has gotten to its 2019 market share in several quarters. In 2019, independent title underwriters such as Westcor, WFG and others had a combined market share just shy of 15%, which increased to 26.6% and Stewart’s was 9.2%. in Q1 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

The homeownership rate among Black Americans has risen at a faster-than-average rate since 2019, but it remains well below the high point reached in 2004, according to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data compiled by Zillow. Allowing rent payments to count in credit scores is one example of how to move the industry forward.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

First American detected a cybersecurity breach in May 2019 as a result of a vulnerability within its proprietary EaglePro application, which it uses to store consumer data. It paid nearly $500,000 in a settlement to the SEC in 2019.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Founded in 2019 by technology and mortgage professionals, Polly is a San Francisco-based provider of mortgage capital markets technology for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders nationwide. Since its launch in 2019, the California fintech company has raised about $57 million in three rounds of funding.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

more than they would have in 2019, the median monthly property tax payment has increased the greatest during that time, reaching $205. to $228 since 2019), according to a Redfin analysis of property taxes for single-family homes among the 50 most populous U.S. Top 5 Metro Areas Where Property Taxes Have Increased Most Since 2019 U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Interestingly, inventory is now only 21% fewer than in 2019. We use 2019 as a bit of an arbitrary baseline, because that was the last pre-pandemic year. In the fourth quarter of 2019, inventory was falling quickly. It turns out that Austin has 3% fewer new listings each week now than in 2019. In fact, no.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Zillow reported that nationwide active inventory was up 22% year over year in August, although it remained 31% lower than the pre-pandemic level of August 2019. New listings, meanwhile, grew slightly on a monthly and yearly basis but were 21% lower than the same month in 2019. The listings portals said that the week of Sept.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Independent real estate firms are growing quickly, with flat-fee firms taking three of the top 10 spots by transaction sides when looking at the five year movers (2019-2023) in this year’s RealTrends Verified brokerage rankings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. Its now only 17% fewer homes on the market than at the end of 2019. We use 2019 as a proxy for normal times before the pandemic craziness hit even though the unsold inventory in 2019 had been declining for most of the previous decade.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Though virtually every mortgage lender is down because of the high-rate environment (excepting homebuilder-affiliated mortgage firms, of course), purchase volumes are still above 2019 levels. The InGenius data dating back to Q1 2019 points to some sobering trends. Setting channel side, where are we in terms of the overall LO landscape?

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Despite the increases in 2022 and 2023, labor force participation among those ages 70 to 74 did not quite reach the pre-pandemic threshold observed in 2019, the research explained. But it did surpass pre-pandemic levels last year among the 55-64 group. “In

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The class action antitrust lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019, also included RE/MAX and Anywhere as defendants, however the two reached settlements in this suit as well as the two other commission lawsuits, Moehrl and Nosalek , in September.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 9, 2024

June 2024 Housing Metrics – National Median list price per sq.ft: Change over June 2023: (+3.4%) Change over June 2019: (+52.6) June 2024 Housing Metrics – National Median list price per sq.ft: Change over June 2023: (+3.4%) Change over June 2019: (+52.6) when compared to June 2019. vs. June 2019).

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 1, 2024

Although inventories remains below pre-pandemic levels, the difference between the levels in 2017–2019 and the current levels is decreasing. Nevertheless, it’s still more than a week (8 days) shorter than the average house spent in July from 2017 to 2019, even if it was listed for five extra days in July 2023. and 47.6%, respectively.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

Brokers and agents , mortgage officers and other housing professionals continue to compete for their share of tight volumes and would need major industry growth to get back to 2019 levels. Texas, for example, went from being about 10% of national listings in May 2019 to about 17% at present.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While inventory is less depleted, it remains well below the pre-pandemic level of January 2019. million in January 2019.” compared to the start of 2019, according to Realtor.com data. The housing shortage is acute compared to before the pandemic,” Holden Lewis, home and mortgage expert at NerdWallet , said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Further data found that some 31% fewer homes were sold this year than in the final pre-pandemic year of 2019 (36 of every 1,000), and 37.5% since 2019, while that of condos and townhouses has decreased by 37.6%. Phoenix : (2024 Sales per 1,000 homes: 37.7) (2019-2024 difference: -43.2%) 2. Newark, NJ : (36.7) (-41.4%) 3.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

million for alleged violations of a 2019 consent order and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) when it submitted incorrect mortgage data. million for errors in its 2019 data regarding borrower race and ethnicity. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed that lender and servicer Freedom Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

When asked about divorce as a potential vehicle for reverse mortgage business in 2019, Christina Harmes Hika — now of Amerifund Home Loans — described how it could be useful in dividing up different assets. “I The reverse mortgage industry has taken notice, seeing seniors engaging in divorce as a potential path for business.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2024

It also analyzed sale prices during the five-year period beginning in April 2019 to illustrate trends since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sale prices there have risen from $153,347 in 2019 to $259,264 in 2024. SmartAsset, a personal finance and fintech website, ranked the 100 largest U.S. in April 2024. Wichita also ranked No.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Inventory on the Rise While the nations housing inventory remains a challenge, a recovery is underway, with the number of homes for sale in November notching the highest mark since December 2019. Compared with the typical November from 2017 to 2019 before COVID-19, the South saw the smallest gap in inventory, down just 1.4%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Among all Medicare decedents in 2019, nearly half used home health care in their last three years of life, with close to 30% starting before their final year,” the study stated. “We Aging in place is a stated preference for a majority of older Americans, according to many dedicated surveys on the topic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

The firm’s market share was 10.62% as recently as 2019. In 2019, independent title underwriters such as Westcor, WFG, and others had a combined market share just shy of 15%, which increased to 30.2% In the third quarter of 2023 , First American’s market share was 21.6%, while Old Republic’s was 14.9%, Fidelity’s was 26.6% in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

In 2019, Seattle -based MoxiWorks announced that private equity firm Vector Capital had acquired a “meaningful” stake in the company, which spun out from Windermere Real Estate more than a decade ago. Elfman most recently served as CEO and co-founder at Onit , a provider of AI-based workflow automation and enterprise legal solutions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

That was down from 49,473 active single-family listings in June 2019, and only slightly better than the all-time low of 9,570 active single-family listings set in late April 2022, according to data from Altos Research. Local agents say this is one of the main reasons why the state is struggling with housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

USA Today also cites some of its own reporting from 2019 that took aim at certain actors in the reverse mortgage industry. It painted a bleak picture of the industry’s practices, some of which were challenged by other subject-matter authorities.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Texas has 44% more homes on the market that last year and 24% more unsold homes on the market now than in 2019. more homes unsold than last year, but we’re still 23% fewer homes on the market now than in 2019. There are eight states with more inventory now than in 2019. Nationally, we have 36.7%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

increase 2019: $484,350 — 6.8% Here are the increases in FHFA’s conforming loan limit for one-unit loans for the lower 48 states since 2016. 2016: $417,000 2017: $424,100 — 1.7% increase 2018: $453,100 — 6.8% increase 2020: $510,400 — 5.3% increase 2021: $548,250 — 7.4% increase 2022: $647,200 — 18% increase 2023: $726,200 — 12.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

This study compared on- and off-MLS home sales, analyzing more than 1 million transactions that took place on Bright MLS between 2019 and the first quarter of 2023. Between 2019 and the first quarter of 2023, homes sold on the MLS sold for 17.5% In 2019, on-MLS sales commanded a 13.3% higher price, on average. respectively.

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