Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But home sellers are gradually easing back into this housing market. Sellers are coming back to this housing market. In 2021 there were actually more total sellers, but at the peak of the frenzy, so many of those were immediate sales that they never get counted as active inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

On the balance, there are still more buyers with their eye on a purchase than there are houses on the market. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a sellers market. In contrast, during the pandemic, the median-price peak jumped from $279,000 in 2019 to $319,000 in 2021 before falling to $310,000 in 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Sellers can tap into their current home equity in a bid to buy another property without coming up with cash for a down payment. Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. Calque also offers buyers a guaranteed offer on their current home to reduce risk.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Since the first quarter of 2021, Redfins agent count has fallen by 22.5%. Many consumers like having an agent guide them through the process, particularly because its nearly impossible for a buyer or seller to execute the transaction on their own. It shows in the data. Redfin leaned into that, and it didn’t work.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

SmartSale allows homeowners to sell their homes through direct offers from buyers or an auction process. SmartSale is designed as an alternative for sellers who are navigating financial challenges or simply seeking greater control, Auction.com explained.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Higher prices, higher mortgage rates and limited inventory are making for a slow market among buyers and sellers alike. Investor purchases at the national level peaked in June 2021 at 148,670. Home sales in 2024 have been well below historic norms. But even investors have purchased fewer homes this year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

And to close deals, sellers are increasingly coming to the table with concessions and rate buydowns. . According to industry watchers, sellers are attracting buyers to their homes through mortgage rate buydowns. In the third quarter of 2022 and the fourth quarter of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

of home sellers gave concessions to homebuyers in Q4 of 2022, through money for repairs and mortgage-rate buydowns. In Q3 of 2022 and Q4 of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales. Sellers realize they’re not going to get $80,000 over the asking price like their neighbor did last year,” he added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. “The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

If you’re looking to buy a home, you’ll stand the best chance in a buyer’s housing market, where listings are flush, demand is low and buyers have the upper hand — not to mention most of the negotiating power. Seller’s markets, on the other hand, are on the opposite side of the spectrum. Will 2021 be more of the same?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. Homesnap said this trend could further drain inventory as 2021 approaches. 22%, while total sales increased 19.29%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

higher than in January 2024, good for the highest level for any January since 2021. Home buyers and sellers are ending a longstanding stalemate, Realtor.com chief economist Danielle Hale shared in the report. This could mean that sellers are willing to compromise if it means getting their home sold. year over year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

That’s evident in the annual profile of home buyers and sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which provides data on dozens of real estate trends. Between 2017 and 2021, rural areas and small towns had remarkably consistent shares of the home purchase market at about 13% and 22%, respectively.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

“With full integration into Final Offer, buyer agents can share and comment on exclusive listings and then make offers and negotiate the transaction seamlessly within one integrated platform.” It currently operates in 11 U.S. states and in Canada.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

While we will likely not experience anything like we did in 2021 or 2022 those years were not typical and nor do we want them to be there are clear signs of improvement. On the seller side, as affordability improves and traffic increases, so will competition. This means some sellers might see their properties moving quickly.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate was its lowest ever at 2.65% on December 31, 2021. Assuming a $250,000 loan was committed on December 31, 2021, your monthly payment was approximately $1,007 exclusive of escrow for real estate taxes and insurance. Therefore, it begs the question: what will happen to home values?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. It facilitated a very unhealthy housing market in 2020-2021 that became savage in 2022. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. It wasn’t part of my forecast in 2020 or 2021. million today.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 8, 2025

What should be the most competitive markets for buyers this year share two characteristics: relative affordability and a dearth of available homes. In chillyBuffalo, competition among buyers will remain hot, with employment growing far faster than builders are adding homes, saidSkylar Olsen, Chief Economist at Zillow.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

observed in 2021 and are seeing below-trend growth over the history of the index,” said Brian Luke of S&P Dow Jones Indices. “Mortgage rates nearing 7% in January seem to have affected buyers more than sellers,” Zillow senior economist Kara Ng said. National home prices have risen by 8.8%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This indicates that buyers and sellers alike are showing signs of frustration in waiting for rates to fall. Builders permits for single-family homes declined by 2% year over year in September and are down 23% from their post-pandemic peak in 2021, when permits reached a 15-year high. million units.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

in October — and since we are days away from December, we can officially label the 2021 housing crash bears as even worse than the 2020 housing crash bears. As we can see below, housing moderated, found a base and moved higher toward the second half of 2021. So far, 2020 and 2021 have come in as a noticeable beat in my eyes.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Bright MLS — one of the nation’s largest multiple listing services that covers six Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia — recently polled buyer and seller agents on what their clients are thinking during their home searches, including thoughts on mortgage rate hikes that have plagued other markets. Another 23.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

If a condo is on this list, its significantly harder for prospective buyers to get a mortgage, making it nearly impossible to sell. This blacklist became more of a prevalent issue after the 2021 deadly Surfside condo collapse in Florida.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Even though we may be a long way from rates returning to the 23% range we saw at the end of 2021, its still great to see things trending in the right direction. But 510% is okay, too, if youre a first-time home buyer. 7 Overall, buyer demand has stayed steady over the last two years. Is It a Buyers Market?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Despite this drop, investment returns for home sellers is still up from 48.8% in the third quarter of 2021, and still at near-record levels for the century (20 points higher than two years ago). Metro results for home sellers. of sales in Q3 of 2021. of all sales in the third quarter of 2022. This is up from 6.7%

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 19, 2024

More buyers have entered the market as the economy continues to add jobs, housing inventory grows compared to a year ago, and consumers get used to a new normal of mortgage rates between 6% and 7%. has been a difficult market for would-be home buyers. Buyers should still expect to encounter a competitive market in the year ahead.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

year-over-year, in part because to builders’ efforts to attract buyers with incentives including cash toward closing costs and mortgage-rate buydowns. Single-family home building permits fell 23% from their 15-year peak in early 2021 and 2% year-over-year in September. Overall U.S. Below 4% : Approximately 59.4% in Q1 of 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

When a home gets listed for sale in March, the seller and the listing agent use all the information about possible buyers and traffic to price that as most likely to sell. Sellers that dont get an offer either have to cut prices or withdraw the listing and both of those metrics are elevated. This was a jump of 2.5%

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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? and relied on salaried agents rather than commission-paid agents, who typically cost sellers 5-6%. One of the researchers, Will Fried, had a hunch.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 27, 2025

As inventory recovers, the housing market is very slowly tilting toward more balance between buyers and sellers. Todays home sales are skewed toward higher-end homes, and this means larger down payments from more financially prepared, high-earning buyers as entry-level and lower-earning buyers sit out.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 3, 2025

in February of previous year, indicating that sellers are becoming more accustomed to the present market conditions. over the previous year, making 2019 February the most active month for sellers since 2021. Sellers also listed their homes at higher rates than the previous year, with the number of newly listed homes rising 4.2%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

If buying a home is on your radar for 2021, there are still ways to do it. Are you hoping to buy a home in 2021’s hot housing market ? Will we have a buyer’s housing market in 2021? Not only can it give you a good price range to work with, but it can also make sellers more likely to choose your offer.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. Buyers get sticker shock when they see their high rate on paper alongside extra expenses for maintenance, repairs and closing costs. year over year, the largest annual decline since June 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

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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

In Monday’s court filing, Howard Hanna claims that in 2021, Ketchmark donated $103,189 to the Taxpayers Unlimited PAC , which over time contributed a total of $8,317 directly to Andrea Bough and her campaign committee. Alternatively, rule of reason requires plaintiffs to prove the negative impacts of the practice.

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