Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Full-service mortgage lender Nations Lending and local Indiana real estate firm Carpenter Realtors launched a joint venture, Commitment Mortgage , in order to offer an end-to-end experience — from finding a home to closing a loan in a cooled-down housing market. “We trillion in 2022, down from the previous year’s $4.4

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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

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

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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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The study found that 48% of buyers said costs were higher than expected, with 39% exceeding their budget and 38% reporting impacts on their savings. Notably, 63% of first-time buyers were surprised by the cost. It was noted that 79% of buyers compromised on at least one priority. Among Gen Z, 49% exceeded their budget—over 1.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Buyers are really struggling.” Cincinnati is a great place to live,” said Julie Back , the executive sales vice president of Sibcy Cline Realtors. I think a lot of it has to do with there are just fewer houses available,” said Mark Meinhardt, a senior vice president at Sibcy Cline Realtors. Baby boomers are not moving.

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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

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. million, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Friday. million existing homes were sold in 2022, down 17.8% After posting a 6.5%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) suggested a 2.2% 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%

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Buyers Inventory Realtors Housing Market 335

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

After previously taking issue with some of the forms generated as a result of the terms of the National Association of Realtors ’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement , University of Buffalo law professor Tanya Monestier is now objecting to NAR’s settlement. In a document filed on Monday in U.S.

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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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Real Estate Agent Insurance Real Estate Agents 477

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That partnership is everything,” Amy Breach, a Seattle-based Keller Williams agent, told HousingWire in late 2022. Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.” But three multibillion-dollar class action antitrust lawsuits looming over the real estate industry may soon reshape how buyers interact with agents.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

Pending home sales ended 2022 on a positive note. according to data released Friday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Interested buyers are out there. After six consecutive months of declines, the Pending Home Sales Index rose 2.5% month over month in December to a reading of 76.9,

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Contracts Realtors Mortgage Buyers 448

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

JANUARY 16, 2024

District Court in Las Vegas by Nathaniel Whaley, who sold a home in Las Vegas in April 2022 and paid a buyer broker commission. Unlike other commission lawsuit, the Whaley suit only names Realtor associations as defendants. 15, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The suit still takes aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which required listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer brokers in order to list a property on a Realtor association-affiliated MLS. 1, 1996, and the present.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The combined share of millennials, both younger (ages 25 to 33) and older (ages 34 to 43), made up a combined 38% of the home purchase market last year, up from 28% in 2022, according to the 2024 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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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 30, 2022

Another 125 basis points in hikes are still to come in 2022, with a federal funds rate topping out well above 4%. It’s transitioning to a buyers’ market, as 20% of sellers had a price reduction in August 2022, compared with 11% a year ago,” said Rich Weidel, CEO at Princeton Mortgage. Not yet anyway.

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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. But in 2022, the share of homes bought in rural areas (19%) and small towns (29%) jumped considerably. Urban areas also took a hit, falling from 13% to 10%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Newly released data from the annual profile of home buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows just how dramatically this trend has manifested since the financial crisis of 2008. While the median age of buyers gradually increased over the course of two decades, the COVID-19 pandemic sped it up.

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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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Lamacchia Realty

AUGUST 7, 2024

August 7 th – At the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® Annual Awards & Networking Breakfast at Venezia Waterfront Restaurant in Boston , Anthony Lamacchia was named 2024 REALTOR® of the Year. Anthony serves on many committees and groups within the REALTORS® organization on local, state, and national levels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Davis is a resident of North Carolina who purchased a home in Greensboro in 2022 using a buyer agent from Allen Tate Real Estate LLC , a subsidiary of Hanna Holdings. 1, 1996, and the present.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

housing market is split into two groups: first-time buyers struggling to enter the market and current homeowners buying with cash,” said Jessica Lautz, NAR Deputy Chief Economist and VP of Research. First-time buyers decreased to 24% of the market share (32% last year). For first-time buyers, this number jumps to 64%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. In the first few months of 2022, primary-residence buyers and second-home buyers (investors and vacation buyers) flocked to the market at a frenzied pace under the correct assumption that mortgage rates would rise.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS® for October 2024! has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for October 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Of the surveyed pool, 42% have sold since late 2022 as rising mortgage rates cooled the post-pandemic market. home seller paid a 2.55% commission to the real estate agent hired by their buyer, down from an average of 2.62% in January. Almost two-thirds of respondents (61%) go as far as calling cash buyer companies “scams.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Northwest MLS , the largest multiple listing service in the Pacific Northwest, will not take part in the $418 million agreement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in the Sitzer/Burnett case. Secret deals’ The NWMLS board of directors made the decision to opt out at its most recent meeting, the organization said Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

million homeowners added between 2012 and 2022. According to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) titled “A Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America,” Asian and Hispanic Americans achieved historic heights in homeownership rates in 2022 of 63.3% and 51.1%, respectively. The overall U.S.

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Buyers Inventory Realtors Mortgage 456

Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS® for September 2024! has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for September 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Commissions paid to real estate agents representing buyers have remained essentially unchanged since new rules on commissions went into effect on August 17 , according to a new analysis from Redfin. Buyer’s agent commissions have fallen 17 basis points since January 2023, when they averaged 2.51%.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Sellers 386

Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 16, 2023

has released their “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for all of 2022! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® out of the nearly 500 agents in Lamacchia Realty by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the year! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Homebuyers’ median household income increased by $19,000 this year from 2022, reaching $107,000, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers. The report is an annual survey of homebuyers and sellers who closed transactions between July 2022 and June 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced in Circular 26-24-14 that eligible veterans, active-duty servicemembers, and surviving spouses who use VA-guaranteed home loan benefits can pay for certain real estate buyer-broker fees when purchasing a home. Nine out of 10 consumers use the service of a real estate professional.

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