Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2022

The housing market has been a roller coaster ride since COVID-19 began, and it hasn’t shown signs of stopping in 2022. It’s increasingly difficult for home appraisers to predict what will happen next, between seller booms and fluctuating mortgage rates. Mortgage rates dipped to record lows in 2021, then skyrocketed in early 2022.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 25, 2024

approximately one-third (33.4%) of single-family houses listed for sale in the first quarter were recently constructed; this percentage is down from a record-high 34.5% The percentage of newly constructed homes in the market is still over twice that of pre-pandemic levels. In the U.S., months’ worth of existing homes.

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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

MAY 20, 2024

home construction at the onset of the pandemic. Many potential sellers prefer to keep their low rates rather than move and trade in for higher ones. Many potential sellers prefer to keep their low rates rather than move and trade in for higher ones. “We First, a spike in homebuying demand drove the surge in U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

market share, while first-quarter 2022 saw a record high of 34.4%. Nearly 93% of homeowners with mortgages had rates below 6% in mid-2022, but that share dropped by roughly 4 percentage points at the start of the year, according to Redfin. New construction inventory has grown in recent months. Census Bureau. million units.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

family houses in March 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 763,000, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Even though multifamily construction has boosted housing starts recently, the slowdown in single-family purchases hasn’t been anything too dramatic yet. From Census: Sales of new single?family

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

This gave sellers the upper hand, but the market has turned in recent months. The loss of population has softened housing demand, as has the rapid rise in mortgage rates that began in the spring of 2022. This has taken power away from sellers, who now face a shortage of potential buyers. People still need to upsize or downsize.”

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In places like San Francisco ; New York ; Seattle ; San Antonio ; Rochester, New York; and Kansas City, permits dropped by more than 30% from 2022 to 2023. Fewer homes under construction and falling permits mean dwindling options for future buyers, adding more pressure to a market already strained by tight supply,” Point2 said.

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Empire Appraisal Group

DECEMBER 14, 2023

1 in 3 Sellers Granting Buyer Concessions By Kerry Smith Two Fla. SEATTLE – Home sellers gave concessions to buyers in 35% of U.S. Orlando came closest to the national numbers in 2023 and 2022, and while Miami saw a decline in concessions, it was on par with national ones. in 2022 Orlando : 34.3% in 2022 Tampa : 43.1%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Additionally, the competition from existing home sellers was somewhat absent. more than the figure of 641,000 in 2022, according to the U.S. single-family homes for sale were new construction, similar to the percentage from a year earlier and good for the highest level of any fourth quarter on record. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction. In 2022, the Husky Homes team closed 121 transactions and more than $48.4 million in sales volume. It even ranked No. 15 in the state of Wisconsin by transaction sides, according to the RealTrends 2023 America’s Best list.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022. Dallas-based United Real Estate burst onto the scene in October 2022 when it acquired EXIT Real Estate Gallery , which had ranked in Jacksonville’s top 10 in three of the four years from 2019-2022. Other would-be disruptors have not fared so well.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In an odd twist of fate, the delays due to COVID-19 are currently an infrastructure and jobs program for Americans in the construction industry. percent below the January 2022 rate of 1,841,000. percent) below the January 2022 rate of 1,666,000. percent)* above the January 2022 rate of 1,247,000. percent (±15.9

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While sellers of existing homes have struggled with rising rates and softening demand, homebuilders have not only survived, but thrived in this market thanks to the use of mortgage rate buydowns , a tool more widely used by builders since their business is selling homes and clearing inventory. 2022 to Dec.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The panelists also shared that they think speeding up construction permitting processes, increasing density around transit corridors, and allowing more “missing middle’-type housing are the local and state policy reforms likeliest to increase housing production. in mid-2022. million homes. A recent study by Redfin found that 85.7%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said. By the end of 2023, year-over-year home sales will likely fall by 18% after a 17% decline from 2021 to 2022, Yun noted. He also expects more sellers to enter the market, as they adapt to prolonged higher rates.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

The part of the East Coast that is cooling down is the West Coast of Florida, rife with natural disasters that are only intensifying driving people away as the new construction and pandemic-era homebuying boom fade into the distance. of sellers are dropping their asking price—up from 36% a year earlier. a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. These all-cash homebuyers are happily avoiding the higher mortgage interest rates, which touched 7% in the fall of 2022 before trending down to the current rate of 6.28%. Today, the average is 2.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Every state in the country has more homes on the market now than a year ago and, in many places, new construction is being completed and added to inventory, so it’s not just resale inventory that’s growing. No one wants a scenario in which there’s a flood of sellers but no buyers. There just aren’t enough sellers yet.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In comparison, the job market gained an average of 401,000 jobs per month in 2022. Overall, the unemployment rate has shown little net movement since early 2022. in March 2022 to 4.5% According to the ECI, service-sector wage growth has slowed from 8% in the second quarter of 2022 to 6.9% in the fourth quarter.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

New construction starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.331 million units, down 14.8% month over month in January to a rate of 1.015 million units, the highest level since May 2022. Housing starts came in lower than estimates in the first month of the year, as the cold winter dampened activity. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

One of the urban myths spouted by people needing more experience tracking housing data was that millions of homes would hit the marketplace in 2023 because the builders had so many homes under construction. percent)* above the October 2022 estimate of 577,000. months , the builders will pause construction. percent (±12.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Chikonde’s agreement remained in full effect as she continued working for Go Mortgage before abruptly resigning in July 2022 without notice, the lawsuit claims. It was in December 2022 that the lender discovered Chikonde’s actions regarding Optimal Blue. By then, Go Mortgage had sustained millions of dollars of financial losses.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

As I have said many times over the last few months, the builders are efficient sellers and they’re taking advantage of an existing home sales market that is suffering from low inventory and higher mortgage rates. percent)* above the May 2022 rate of 1,543,000. percent)* above the May 2022 rate of 1,446,000. This is 21.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

We’ve been a sellers’ market here for at least the past eight years, but probably closer to 10 or 11.“ While this is up from a record low of 7,336 listings set in late April 2022, it is still well below the 29,951 listings in early May 2019, about a year prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Sales from 2022 to 2023 were down 14%,” Mark Fischer, the CEO of the Indiana Realtors Association , said. “We Both buyers and sellers are coming back to the market,” Fischer said. With existing inventory down, Schuler said new construction has taken on a larger role in his market. 23, 2024.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

May’s housing starts rate was actually the highest since April 2022, which was then the highest since 2006. above the May 2022 rate of 1.54 below the May 2022 rate of 1.7 Currently there are 695,000 single-family units under construction, which is actually 136,000 units below the peak in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2024

However, let’s keep an eye out on this story over the next six months because of what late 2022 and 2023 data has shown us: if the mortgage rates fall and we can get at least two to three months’ worth of positive data, it will show up in the future existing home sales report. have higher inventory data than the national data.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

since March 2022. The construction sector also saw job gains in May, adding 25,000 positions, thanks to a large uptick in heavy and civil engineering construction, which added 10,700 jobs. Residential building construction added 2,400 jobs during the month. The unemployment rate has remained between 3.4%

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

With elevated mortgage rates sidelining both home buyers and sellers, existing home sales fell in June, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). million in June 2022. from the record-high of $413,800 in June 2022. from June 2022 (1.25 months in June 2022, NAR said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2023

markets seeing prices at or above 2022 peaks. Just eight of the top 50 markets are currently more than 5% below their 2022 peaks. New construction starts and completions were both strong in May, which is welcome news. At this point, even if rates come down, but not so sharply as to entice potential sellers out of their sub-3.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

billion in the fourth quarter of 2022. The increase was due primarily to the residential and real estate mortgage and construction portfolios, consisting of 70% of the total portfolio in Q4 2022. Wedgewood , a real estate investment firm that focuses on distressed properties, was the seller.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

So for now, the builders will take their time with the homes under construction and make sure they offer enough incentives to unload the new home supply they’re dealing with. family houses in July 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 511,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. When supply is 4.4

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This is why I have called them efficient home sellers. percent)* above the August 2022 estimate of 638,000. months, the builders will pause construction. months, and we had a big miss on housing starts last week , mostly coming from multifamily construction. I talked about this in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ruehrwein, who became a licensed agent in 2017 after working in the new construction industry for 28 years, serves clients in Rehoboth and surrounding Massachusetts towns, as well as East Providence and the Narraganset area of Rhode Island. “My According to the release, the firm closed more than $350 million in volume in 2022. “We

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