Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

In August, the median monthly rent in Miami was $2,944 a 42% jump since 2020. Cash buyers dominate the market, accounting for 42% of home purchases. It’s followed by California at 6% double its share in 2020. Floridas median home price reached $393,500 in October 2024, while Miamis median price sat at $629,575.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

recently hired Bijoy John as its new senior vice president of marketing. “We are thrilled to welcome Bijoy John as the new Senior VP of Marketing at Sage Home Loans Corporation,” Sage Home Loans’ CEO Mike Malloy said in an email. As the lender’s new head of marketing, John can bring this vision to life.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

housing market remains challenging for prospective buyers as concerns over mortgage rates , home prices and affordability persist in 2025. I believe the concerns for the market at this point are dramatically related to geographics. Nonqualified mortgages (non-QM) have also risen in popularity.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The housing market in 2024 was about as frustrating for the real estate industry as you can imagine. Its a stunning number given how bad the market was in the years after the financial crisis in 2008. And its a higher number than at any point since the financial crisis, other than 2020 and 2021 during the post-pandemic boom.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

However, if home prices hadn’t skyrocketed alongside mortgage rates , we would have more younger homebuyers entering the market and we would have a slightly higher homeownership rate than todays 65.7% One was from 2008-2019 and the other was from 2020-2024. From Census : The homeownership rate of 65.7 in Q2 of 2016.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I wonder if we’ve forgotten what the market used to feel like before 2020. Properties were selling in lightning speed a few years ago, but that’s not the vibe today. The truth is it could easily take twice as long to sell today, but the stats actually feel somewhat normal. Let’s talk about it.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It was July of 2020 and the interest rates had just dropped below 3%, every Title & Escrow company was slammed! Every title company wanted a great piece of the current refi market and most would do about anything to obtain it.The problem; almost all were late to the party and not prepared. Why did this happen?The They respect that.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Californians deserve a reliable insurance market that doesnt retreat from communities most vulnerable to wildfires and climate change , Lara said in a statement. My Sustainable Insurance Strategy is focused on addressing the challenges we face today and building a resilient insurance market for the future.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Stats are the fuel to the fire of the real estate market and will make you exude confidence in conversations with potential clientsmaking them feel confident in hiring you to represent them. This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 24, 2024

An examination of CoreLogic data indicates that, in comparison to prior years, jumbo mortgage originations saw a discernible drop in both dollar quantities and market share in 2023 and 2024. Mortgage origination volumes surged in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the historically low mortgage rates and the quick growth in housing prices.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

housing market slowed down in the third quarter due to rising home prices and higher mortgage rates , investor purchases also ramped down, according to a new report by Redfin. a year earlier and the lowest share since the end of 2020. in neighboring Fort Lauderdale, indicating growing apprehension for the Florida housing market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

And that number includes a huge caveat as June 2020 was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The jump in sales gives the market momentum heading into 2025, which is expected to outperform 2024. The existing-home sales report comes as major real estate companies are releasing their forecasts for the 2025 housing market.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 14, 2025

month-over-month on a seasonally-adjusted basis, hitting the highest level since the early days of the pandemic (June 2020). Todays housing market is weird. February 2025 Housing Market Highlights: United States Prices Plummeting in Texas and Florida Prices fell in six major U.S. Nationwide, active listings rose 10.7%

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 31, 2025

Fannie Maes ESR Group, led by Chief Economist Palim, studies current data, analyzes historical and emerging trends, and conducts surveys of consumer and mortgage lender groups to provide forecasts and analyses on the economy, housing, and mortgage markets. Aside from costs, buyers are gaining a leg up in a few areas of the market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The labor market isn’t tight anymore and that will eventually be good news for mortgage rates. Let’s look at my labor economic model that started on April 7, 2020, and see where are we today. The current state of the labor market results from a series of events, with COVID-19 being a significant catalyst.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This early spike indicates that there was more financial turmoil in the commercial real estate market at the time. Historical Commercial Foreclosure Overview The statistics for 2020 clearly shows the influence of COVID-19. The number of business foreclosures stayed at historically low levels throughout 2020 and the first part of 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Currently, housing starts are back at the levels seen during the COVID-19 recession in 2020. The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. With the labor market cooling down particularly in the private non-farm payroll data can this sector be completely ignored in 2025?

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 17, 2025

Housing equity growth slowed in 2024 versus 2020-2023 due to moderating price appreciation, but homeowners maintain substantial equity gains from prior years, preserving their strong financial position, said Dr. Selma Hepp, Chief Economist for CoreLogic. million homes or 2% of all mortgaged properties. of all mortgage properties.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Today’s existing home sales report shows that the existing home market is now almost balanced. We are very close to getting this balance nationally and in some markets we’re already there. million as a balanced market, but this equation has a second variable tied to today’s housing economics: affordability.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Auction.com has released its 2025 Distressed Market Outlook , which forecasts foreclosure auction volume decreasing 8% in 2025 as a baseline scenario. The forecast also incorporates two other less likely scenarios with differing macroeconomic and housing market assumptions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

For those who are within five years of retirement either those who are five years away, or who have recently entered the market volatility being experienced today as a result of the White House s embattled tariff policy are likely to endure challenges as they navigate the potential impacts of market volatility.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

annually since 2020 , led by markets in Florida, North Carolina, Southern California, and Arizona. Home prices stalled during the second half of the year with markets in the West dropping the fastest. San Francisco , the lowest-performing major market since 2020, saw prices drop by 4.5% Home prices were up 3.9%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The modest gains reflect a continuing slowdown in the rental housing market, which has struggled to regain momentum after surging demand in previous years. Since February 2020, single-family rents have climbed 30%, with some markets particularly in Florida seeing even steeper increases. increase recorded in December 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

In a supply-constrained housing market , even landing a deal at foreclosure auction has become challenging, but those deals tend to be more readily available in markets or neighborhoods that are off the beaten path. It’s very, very market dependent right now. I’m still focusing on those markets with very low (retail) inventory.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

For now, we can say the labor market isn’t tight anymore, but it’s also not breaking. The four-week moving average declined slightly by 750, to 212,250 Below is an explanation of how we got here with the labor market, which all started during COVID-19. Jobless claims show an expanding economy that has not lost jobs yet.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, yearly growth for single-family rents was between 2% to 4%. average from 2010 to 2020. The luxury market as a whole is poised for success in 2025, according other experts and data providers. market for rent-price growth in January. It’s also slightly lower than the 2.6%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Rent prices have fluctuated alongside home prices in this year’s housing market. The most significant increase was in the West, a region notorious for high market prices. “With minimum wages set to increase in more than half of the top 50 markets next year and a projected 0.1% Asking rents rose 4.4%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s the slowest rate of sales in the South since April 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the challenges, the new-home market will likely continue to outperform the existing-home market over the near term because, unlike existing homeowners, builders are not rate locked-in.” month over month and 19.7%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Rental listings have been a consistent high-growth revenue stream for Zillow since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Zillows rental listings income has increased every year since 2020. The loss was driven by sales and marketing expenses, which rose from $658 million in 2023 to $790 million in 2024.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 10, 2025

Foreclosure Market Report , which shows a total of 93,953 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows a total of 35,890 U.S. However, strong home equity positions in many markets continue to help buffer against a more significant spike in distress. ATTOM has issued its Q1 2025 U.S. The Q1 2025 U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In a housing market shaped by uncertainty, military veterans and service members are emerging as some of the most confident and prepared homebuyers, outpacing their civilian counterparts. This was driven by optimism about the housing market and economy. This marks a shift from last year when civilians were more bullish.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Similar to other lending discrimination cases, the CFPB and the DOJ accuse Fairway of redlining as the company allegedly discouraged people from majority-Black neighborhoods from applying for mortgages, including through its marketing and sales actions. The regulators added that in the Birmingham area — which has six counties and about 1.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Fluctuating interest rates have been a feature of the housing market over the last three years. Our 2025 housing market predictions are based on the assumption that lower mortgage rates will spur demand and boost the number of homes sales transactions. How will the housing market change as these economic assumptions change?

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 7, 2025

housing market in decades, with the average home requiring an annual household income of $116,986. Since early 2020, when the income required to purchase a typical home was $78,236a near-50% increase. Naturally, a national housing market does not exist; rather, it is a conglomeration of smaller local markets.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

While a slowing in rents will be welcome news to renters, increases since 2020 are still at 32%.” CoreLogic also noted that SFR price depreciation is occurring in a few markets in Texas , California and Florida.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Like the vast majority of the country, the city’s housing market has been stymied by high mortgage rates, low inventory and mismatched expectations between buyers and sellers. Buyers think it’s a buyer’s market. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in a turbulent housing market , it may have been this innovation that ultimately ended Redfin’s run as a standalone company. They still have to bear the cost of those agents, despite production not being there in a terrible housing market.” Redfin leaned into that, and it didn’t work.”

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