Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

in 2022, according to HUD. Because FHA accepts lower credit scores , higher debt-to-income ratios and lower down payments than most conventional mortgages, first-time buyers have relied on them due to the ongoing affordability challenges in today’s housing market from elevated prices and mortgage rates. of the U.S.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Buyers are gaining power. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/20/2022 Beer & Stats at Out of Bounds (sign up (for real estate agents)) 7/26/2022 Navigating […]. And sellers are losing it. I have some new visuals to show what the market is doing right now. These are for Sacramento, but I suspect many areas look similar.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New home sales have been one of the brighter housing stories since the home sales crash in 2022 — as we can see in the chart below, new home sales have been able to grow since then. This is one reason why the homebuilder stocks have done so well since November of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

We’re rebounding inventory after the holiday, so it’s not that much of a surprise, and it’s less of a jump than what was happening at this time in 2022. will be significant enough move in rates to move the needle for buyers. It’s notable here that we’re about to cross over with the 2022 line. Freddie Mac reported rates at 6.8%.

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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. in August 2022 and marks the highest percentage since October 2022, when mortgage rates surpassed 7% for the first time in two decades. That rate is up from 14.3% That rate is up from 14.3% The median U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

The August 17 deadline is looming, and many Realtors are gnashing their teeth over how they can share their seller’s offers of buyer broker compensation while still complying with the terms of the settlement. In Dwiggins’ view, there is no need to disclose what the seller is willing to pay in concession or buyer representation fees. “If

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Perhaps the most striking detail gleaned from a HousingWire analysis of millions of single-family purchase mortgages is how much more homebuyers had to pay in 2023 compared to 2022. The rapid run-up in mortgage rates after years of low rates was a shock to buyers and a disincentive for prospective sellers to list their homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Sellers saw a market where their homes sold quickly and often above list price as multiple buyers competed to have the winning bid. . for 30-year fixed-rate loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. enters the third year of the pandemic, the 2022 housing market remains on stable ground. While interest rates are projected to rise in 2022 to 3.5% As the U.S. Demographics.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

“Most of the demand is coming from first-time buyers,” Trevor Levin, a local agent with Los Angeles-based Nourmand & Associates , said. Nationwide, the share of buyers who are first-time buyers has risen in recent months. Nationwide, the share of buyers who are first-time buyers has risen in recent months.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In December 2023, a startling rumor started to spread on social media — that large institutional buyers had purchased 44% of the available homes on the market in 2023, leaving policymakers concerned with the potentially predatory grip of these entities. less than in the final quarter of 2022. That amounted to $32.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As brokerages across the country have begun implementing buyer agency contracts into their business practices in the wake of the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit verdict, the Consumer Federation of America is warning consumers that they may be filled with “unfair provisions” that primarily protect agents and brokers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

What is on the horizon in 2022? Things may be taking a turn for the better in 2022, though. Many buyers hope the housing market will cool down in 2022, and while experts don’t think it will be as competitive, this is unlikely to be a dramatic shift — at least not one that turns the market away from being seller-friendly.

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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. as of March 6, 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff. High octane stuff.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A deeper dive into foreclosure buyer behavior shows which markets are most likely to see a home price correction in the next six months. Foreclosure auction buyers started bidding more conservatively in the second quarter of 2022, as measured by proprietary data from the Auction.com marketplace.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 24, 2024

Following substantial increases in Coverage A, or residential coverage, from 2021 to 2022, these increases started to taper off in 2023 and kept going down until 2024. For instance, when a homeowner purchased insurance in 2021, their premium increased by $253 and their Coverage A increased by $33,500 when they renewed their policy in 2022.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Buyers today are facing many of the realities of a hot market even though few homes are changing hands,” said Elijah de la Campa, Senior Economist at Redfin. And with so few homes for sale, buyers in some markets are getting into bidding wars, which is helping push home prices to record highs.” record established in October 2022.

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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. recorded in October 2022, having increased from 14.4%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. home sale price rose 3% year over year, reaching $420,846 in August, the largest annual increase since October 2022. According to the brokerage, 6.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Buyers are really struggling.” Although this is up from an all-time low of 1,429 active listings in early May 2022, it is down from the 3,021 listings recorded in late April 2020, a little over a month into the COVID-19 pandemic. But rising prices are not the only financial challenge buyers are having to contend with right now.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

As mortgage rates continue to decline, Chad Earnest’s mantra with his referral partners in 2023 is “no buyer left behind.” The Montgomery, Texas-based area manager, who moved from AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation to Cardinal Financial Company in November, launched in mid-2022 a platform to help their referral partners succeed.

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Real Estate News

MARCH 28, 2023

Millennials dominated the market in 2021, but as affordability pushed younger buyers to the sidelines, boomers took over as the top group of buyers 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As we approach the end of another hot year for the market, homebuyers and sellers are eagerly looking ahead to the 2022 housing market. Demand will continue to be strong into 2022. In a normal market, we tend to see about 30% to 35% of sellers initially over-price their homes and eventually reduce the price to attract buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Now we are looking at a two- to three- business-day process and the buyer may not like the numbers they get back.” For some buyers, surprisingly high insurance premiums are causing them to second-guess the property they have selected. “I There has also been an uptick in the strength and scale of natural disasters.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I actually started out as a buyer’s agent myself… and I see buyer’s agency as being a very valuable tool for buyers,” Sanford said during the Q&A session. I’m concerned, quite frankly, about what this might mean to buyers who may not be able to afford representation if things change up too much.” million to $14.90

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

compared to July 2022. Median home prices there were roughly unchanged from the same period in 2022. Average mortgage rates rose by about a half percentage point in May and June, pricing some buyers out and limiting closed sales in July. month over month and 23.8% The median price for a home was $467,500, up 5.5% a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While mortgage rates have been trending lower, rates are still higher than 12 months ago, but some experts anticipate that the downward pressure on rates will provide opportunities for buyers. in February 2022. For the buyer of a median-priced home, these lower prices translate into a $9,800 savings on a 20% down payment.

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

in 2022, the eighth consecutive year of growth. Latinos added a net total of 349,000 homeowner households last year, which is one of the largest single year gains over the last decade, the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals ( NAHREP ) said in its 2022 state of Hispanic homeownership report on Tuesday.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Sellers haven’t had to negotiate much with buyers over the past two years, but that’s starting to change. Let’s talk about this today by looking at seller concessions (credits for repairs, help with closing costs, etc…). I hope you enjoy, whether you’re local or not.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

When the entire mortgage industry saw volume drop by more than half in 2022, nearly every lender emerged with battle scars. billion in 2022, up from the previous year’s $2.2 While investor bonds were scarce, A&D securitized its loans and sold the bonds, leading to seven securitization deals in 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Nevertheless, while we view the trends described below as the most likely path for the economy and mortgage market in 2022, this news highlights the elevated level of uncertainty we’ve all been living with the past few years. A silver lining is that we are expecting both 2022 and 2023 to be record years for purchase originations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. 2022 Forecast series. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market. The new 2022 houing market environment.

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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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