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Older Americans are ‘splurging’ on home modifications to support aging in place

Housing Wire

One profiled couple in California hired an interior designer for $20,000, and spent another $95,000 on home modifications designed to more easily accommodate natural limitations to mobility that come from aging. This means that renovations of existing homes are likely to become more necessary as time goes on.

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These markets are attracting the most out-of-state real estate investors

Housing Wire

Green gave the example of a Fort Wayne, Indiana, property he purchased on Auction.com via a bank-owned (REO) auction in July 2019. Following extensive renovations that took nearly a year to complete, the property was resold to an owner-occupant buyer in July 2020. “A deal for me is a property I can buy for under $100,000, typically.”.

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Restoration of historic Frank Lloyd Wright home complicated by reverse mortgage

Housing Wire

An historic home in Chicago ’s Austin neighborhood designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903 is in serious need of repairs and renovations, but an existing reverse mortgage loan is complicating the process of initiating the work. The home, designed by Lloyd Wright for real estate developer Joseph Jacob (JJ) Walser Jr.,

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How to Build Volume in Today’s Market

Appraisal Buzz

In today’s low-volume market cycle, mortgage originators can build business by focusing on purpose-built loan products designed to overcome the specific challenges homebuyers face in the current market. That is a significant increase from the 13% average between 2000-2019 in new construction.

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Opportunities to improve the home-building process

Housing Wire

While mortgage rates are at an all-time low, people looking to buy their first home — particularly millennials, who accounted for half of all new home loans in 2019 — have a limited and aging stock of houses to choose from. But, even then, today’s homebuyers aren’t spoiled for choice. Bringing more services under one roof.

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Jonathan Scott and Zooey Deschanel are engaged

Inman

The couple have been together since 2019 and recently completed a two-year renovation on a Georgian-style home they purchased together in 2020, according to reports.

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SFR, fix-and-flip sectors are in a ‘bit of a malaise’

Housing Wire

Fix-and-flip investors — who tend to be smaller entrepreneurial players — acquire, renovate and then sell existing single-family homes — and, in some cases, hold them for rent for a time, depending on market conditions. It remained way below the 44.6% level from the second quarter of 2022 and far beneath a recent peak of 60.8%

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