Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 22, 2024

2024 Buyers Need to Earn 80% More Than in 2020 Over the past four years, escalating home values and mortgage rates have nearly doubled the monthly mortgage payment on a typical U.S. To comfortably afford a home, prospective buyers need to earn 80% more than they did just four years ago. at the end of January 2020.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

There was a sweet spot in 2020 when mortgage rates were ultra low and home prices had yet to skyrocket, allowing some lower-income Americans to break into the housing market,” says Elijah de la Campa, senior economist for Redfin, in the report. “The The drop brought that group’s piece of the home buying pie back down to where it was in 2018.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

This also closed the books on 2020’s housing market as we finished out the year at 5,640,000 total existing-home sales — a 5.6% The COVID crisis of 2020 was responsible for a lot of abnormal metrics in the housing market. We saw hints of this prime housing market period as early as February of 2020.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Zillow Group reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings of $789 million on Wednesday, easily beating Wall Street’s estimates. For the year 2020, Zillow posted $343 million in EBIDTA. For 2020, Zillow reported 9.6 from the end of December 2020 to March 2021, and by 10.5% billion visits. through December 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024. “It Buyers are really struggling.” But rising prices are not the only financial challenge buyers are having to contend with right now.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2021

of homes sold in the fourth quarter of 2020 that were affordable to households earning the median income of $78,500. “After a surprising gain for housing affordability in 2020 that was driven by historically low interest rates, housing emerged as a bright spot for the overall economy,” said NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I I have buyers that are looking, but to find a house that you love enough to pay a high price for — and to be at over a 6.5% In Wise County , there were only 56 listings.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 24, 2024

Even during a period when home values are typically at their lowest, many prospective first-time buyers were unable to reach their long-term financial goal of becoming homeowners in Q1, according to the Q1 2024 First-Time Home Buyer Affordability Report from Nerdwallet. times potential first-time buyer income) Detroit (2.9)

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

At the height of the pandemic there were bidding wars and all that, but it didn’t seem impossible, but now it seems impossible to get our buyers into homes,” said Heather Corrigan , a RE/MAX Signature Homes agent based in Closter, a borough that is 24 miles north of Manhattan and renown for its schools. Now it is a different conversation.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

With that in mind, I would like to revisit my 2020 thoughts on the U.S. No doubt about it, the COVID crisis has taken some juice out of the 2020 housing market. The big question for the rest of 2020 is whether or not we will get total home sales of 6.2 The February housing data, pre-COVID, was juicy indeed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

For perspective, I am starting with the condition of the 2020 housing market before the first infections. Before COVID-19, in the first two months of the year, the 2020 housing market appeared on a powerful upswing. But the 2020 U.S. These strong demographics mean we have a healthy number of replacement buyers in America.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

RealTrends , which is owned by HW Media , on Friday released its annual list of the top 1,000 agents in the country for 2020, with separate tallies for sales volume and the number of deals done. The agent reported 6,409 transaction sides in 2020 for a deal volume of $2.2 Unless, that is, you are at the very top of the profession.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

District Court in Boston granted the Department of Justice’s request to extend all settlement related deadlines in the Nosalek buyer broker compensation class action lawsuit on Tuesday. Unlike the two other buyer-broker commission lawsuits, Moehrl and Sitzer/Burnett , NAR is not a defendant in the Nosalek lawsuit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here are 14 real estate trends Gen Z buyers won’t pass up. Gen Z likes to stay close to home With the continued trend of remote work and little desire for a long commute, Gen Z buyers are moving to homes in walkable communities with nearby amenities. Gen Z values diversity and inclusivity.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

There have only been two months in the last decade with fewer home sales: October 2023, when mortgage rates reached a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to an all-time low. High home prices, rising mortgage rates, and a continuous housing shortage are discouraging buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

With the total number of homes on the market at its greatest point since May 2020 and interest rates about to start declining, buyers will have more options this autumn. In April we noted that rising for-sale inventory was likely to lead to more balance between buyers and sellers. This range’s inventory increased by 46.1%

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 23, 2024

Buyers are getting more and more selective,” said Julie Zubiate, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in the San Francisco Bay Area. Buyers often back out during the inspection period because they find something they don’t like, but affordability is really the underlying issue. of homes that went under contract. June 2024 U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Three researchers believe a first-of-its-kind dataset has enabled them to definitively answer a long-debated question: why have buyer agent commission rates been so stable historically? So how is the uniformity and permanence of buyer agents’ 2-3% rate possible in a free market? One of the researchers, Will Fried, had a hunch.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

Per a recent report from Redfin , the typical iBuyer-owned home found a buyer after 13 days on the market — the quickest pace since at least 2015, when Redfin began recording iBuyer data. That number then steadily dropped, bottoming out at 825 in the second quarter of 2020 after COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The bidding wars that put smiles on the faces of sellers and simultaneously drove buyers to rip their hair out weren’t as frequent in August, according to the latest report from brokerage Redfin. But buyers shouldn’t get too excited. In August, 58.8% and Salt Lake City at 68.1% and 35.7%, respectively.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MLS Property Information Network’s (MLS PIN) settlement agreement in the Nosalek class action antitrust buyer-broker compensation lawsuit has hit yet another snag. ” It continues: “Buyer-broker commission rules are the subject of several pending antitrust suits and a pending appeal in which the United States is an appellant.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Mortgage rates would fall to record lows 16 times throughout 2020, with origination volume expected to eclipse $4 trillion. Low rates also continued to feed the refinance frenzy for many segments of borrowers while buyers created for a very early summer homebuying season. Quite the opposite. Meanwhile, refinancings rose to 65.7%

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to a new report from Redfin, homebuyers are struggling as 45% of homes are now finding buyers within only two weeks on the market. Despite the market’s unforeseen intensity and demand, pending home … The post Pending-Sales See First Decline Since June 2020 appeared first on DSNews.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That’s the most since 2020 — before the pandemic. Immediate sales If sellers are growing we need to know if buyers are growing too. We have more buyers than sellers this time of year so the active inventory of unsold homes ticked down this week. And the spring buying season will have improved selection for home buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2022

Here are some buyer relocation trends to watch out for in 2022’s hectic real estate market. Many millennial and Gen-Z first-time buyers look for second homes before investing in a full-time primary residence. Affordability remains an issue for younger buyers who haven’t yet saved enough money. More Second Home Purchases.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued to drop in November, hitting its lowest level since June 2012, with the exception of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

The NAHB/HMI report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which respondents are asked to rate market conditions for the sale of new homes at the present time and in the next six months as well as the traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. The component tracking traffic of prospective buyers, however, rose two points to 67.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Cash buyers are pouring into the housing market this year, and they’re picking off more than half of available inventory in certain areas in Florida and New York. In 2020, roughly 25% of homebuyers paid cash for their properties. “I just sold a $700,000 home to a cash buyer last week. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

From waiving inspections and financing contingencies, to free leasebacks and uncapped escalation clauses, real estate agents say that buyers in Rhode Island are willing to do almost anything to get into a house right now. “It For buyers, the tight inventory has meant frequent compromises to their search parameters.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

But relief for buyers could be coming in the next 12 months. gain by this time next year, as ongoing affordability challenges deter potential buyers — as well as an uptick in new for sale listings. from June 2020. from June 2020. Home prices increased 2.3% from May to June, and 17.2% ” The 17.2% ” The 17.2%

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2021

share in June 2020 and the 20.2% “Many buyers who have been priced out of the market for single-family homes have turned to condos,” Fairweather said. “Earlier in the pandemic, many buyers shunned small condos in favor of large detached homes with space for offices and homeschooling. . share in June 2019.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

The number of homes for sale fell 28% year over year from 2020, and the typical home sold in just 14 days — a record low and, down from 39 days in June 2020. “Home sales are starting to stall because prices have increased beyond what many buyers can afford.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Year-over-year, new listing volumes were down 16% in January and 21% in February — amounting to a 125,000 deficit in inventory compared to the same time in 2020. Buyers who were fortunate enough to snag an available single-family home – new listings are down 46% from a year ago – paid a premium. The post Housing inventory is down 40%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Redfin first launched Direct Access in April 2020 and over the past 18 months its service has expanded to 10 additional metropolitan areas, including Austin, Orange County, Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, Boston and Phoenix. The post Redfin allows buyers to tour homes without an agent appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data. That was up from 40% a year ago.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Homebuilder confidence slid again in September, hitting its lowest level since May 2014 with the exception of the spring of 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Monday. For 21% of respondents, however, “nothing” had improved.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 28, 2021

For the first time in 2021, the demand for homes has fallen below last year’s levels, with high prices turning many would-be buyers away from a still-completive marketplace. The post Homebuying Demand Slips Below 2020 Levels appeared first on DSNews.

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