Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Richardson Economic Consulting found that as of 2022, there were still large numbers of owner-occupied homes assessed at $150,000 or less in each of the three cities studied, particularly in distressed areas. However, the stock of low-cost homes declined from 2007 to 2022 due to home price appreciation.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

in the middle of 2022. Lock-in Effect Moderates as Buyers Adjust to Elevated Rates The lock-in effect has discouraged homeowners from listing their homes for sale, which has contributed to Americas acute housing scarcity. in Q2 2022 and the lowest share since the Q4 2016. in Q1 2022 and the lowest share since Q3 2017.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 8, 2025

According to new Zillow research, Buffalo, New York, is projected to be the hottest major housing market in 2025. This is the first time a market has held the title for consecutive years. What should be the most competitive markets for buyers this year share two characteristics: relative affordability and a dearth of available homes.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 22, 2025

According to Zillow s most recent market report, rented single-family homes are currently the most notable item on the real estate market, with prices 20% higher than those of a typical multifamily apartment. In the meantime, owned home value growth has leveled out at 2.6% annually, down from 5.2% in December 2019.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

Unless you’re living under a rock, you have heard that interest rates have been rapidly increasing since Q1 of 2022. It consistently climbed to 3.76% as of March 3, 2022, and as of the date I’m writing this, it is 5.81%. Naturally, this has forced buyers to seek lower price points or has completely eliminated them from the market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 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. housing market this year, and we’ll find out which one wins. 2022 Forecast series. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. They increased the Federal Funds Rate from nearly 0% at the start of 2022 to 4.5% in September 2022. The overall U.S. It did not hit 6.7%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

billion in net income recorded in the third quarter of 2022, though it represented a 36% decline from a year prior. We expect to accomplish these objectives by leveraging our talented workforce, collaborating with market participants to find new solutions, and continuously working to effectively manage risk. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Both pose threats to access to capital, the cost of materials and labor, and future housing values.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This was due to the leveling of home prices: After bouncing up in the spring and then flattening, the median home value was virtually unchanged at the end of the third quarter at about $360,000. Home values remained at or near record levels around large swaths of the country, keeping seller profits far above historical levels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

While Congress amended the Fair Housing Act in 1988 to explicitly forbid appraisers from factoring in race, gender or other protected characteristics when assessing property values, discriminatory appraisals continue to limit homeownership opportunities particularly among Black and Latino buyers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Price corrections are coming to housing markets across the United States, Black Knight said following July’s home price decline from June. Relatedly, tappable home equity is expected to pull back in the third quarter as equity-rich markets already saw declines in July. . While July’s home price grew 14.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. The housing market won’t be like this forever.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 23, 2025

While the gross profit on median-priced single-family home and condo sales did inch up approximately $2,000 from 2023, the typical profit margin stood eight percentage points below a peak hit in 2022. The downward investment-return trend continued despite the median national home price rising 5% to another annual record of $350,000.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The nation’s single-family investment-property sector and the lenders serving those borrowers face some major challenges in 2023 as rent growth is slipping, vacancy rates growing, home-value growth faltering, and a possible recession looms. . trillion — down by 15% compared with 2022. as of December — with an estimated 5.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And homes in many communities have shot up in value in recent years, leading to tax increases through reassessments. But opinions differ on how much impact higher taxes are having on local housing and mortgage markets. “I The market has since cooled off, but taxes are going up. In 2022, the average tax on a U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. In addition to the same demographic factors driving growth elsewhere — all those millennials buying homes — the number of companies relocating there is a huge draw. year-over-year increase in home values. It is just a super tight housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). One of those deals made its way to the market this year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That favors markets in the Northeast and Midwest, where prices are lower, and comes at the expense of markets in the West, where prices are higher, recently published data from Zillow suggest. Take the Zillow Home Value Index.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For real estate agents, this economic reality can present both challenges and opportunities, and determine strategies in markets across the country. Home insurance premiums have climbed 45% from 2017 to 2022, contributing to a slowing sales market. inflation climbing to 2.6% Data from RentSpree and the U.S. Last year, 44.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. metropolitan areas in February 2022, based on year-over-year growth in median listing price according to the residential real estate listing website, Realtor.com. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Home-equity lending is on a roll this year, with the combined volume of home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and traditional closed-end home equity loans up 47% from January to May of 2022, compared with the same period last year. One of those deals made its way to the market this year. billion in 2021 to $4.6

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 4, 2022

Zillow predicts that the housing market will cool in 2022, but a number of hotspots have roared to life over the past two years show no signs of slowing. The post Florida Markets Expected to Remain Hot in 2022 appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

High mortgage rates and looming economic uncertainty caused trillions in equity to evaporate from the housing market in the third quarter of 2022, according to Black Knight ’s mortgage monitor report. Equity among mortgaged homes dropped by about $1.5 trillion in the second quarter of 2022. That figure declined by $1.17

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

High interest rates, coupled with a still-low supply of housing, have created price hurtles that are keeping many first-time homebuyers and lower-income borrowers locked out of the housing market. So, while the rate of home-price gains is trending downward, home values are still appreciating overall.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 28, 2022

The 2022 housing markets across the U.S. According to the National Association of Realtors, home values increased by 16.9% This surge in demand is pressuring the diminishing … The post Hot Market Homes Selling at Record Speeds appeared first on DSNews.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

home , currently valued at $360,681, up 4.3% With so few available, buyers may have to wait even longer for the right home to hit the market, especially now that buyers can afford less. metropolitan areas, the typical home is affordable to a median-income household with less than 20% down. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because the FHFA’s conforming loan limit increase is based on a formula related to home-price data in the third quarter of each year. The regulator compares home prices year over year and adjusts the limit by the corresponding amount. These loans would normally end at the jumbo market , which is dominated by banks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

property taxes on single-family homes rose twice as fast in 2023 as they did in 2022, with a total of $363.3 million single-family homes in the U.S. but was nearly half that in 2022, standing at 3.6%. amid a combination of declining home values and rising tax bills,” according to an Attom news release.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. Freddie Mac projects that home-price growth will average 12.8%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Home equity continued to rise in the first quarter of 2024 as residential properties with mortgages collectively gained $1.5 homeowner with a mortgage added $28,000 in equity during the year ending in March 2024 — the highest year-over-year increase since late 2022. of homes underwater) and Texas (1.7% The average U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. The Fed report shows HELOC balances nationwide stood at a total of $336 billion at yearend 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Amid the surging rates, the refinance market is nearing the bottom. drop in rate/term refi, according to Black Knight ’s origination market report. With interest rates now at their highest level in 20 years, the refi market is rapidly approaching a bottom,” Scott Happ, president of Optimal Blue, a division of Black Knight, said.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Home values are now 11.4 2022, Zillow said. percent lower in Austin, Texas, than they were in Aug. Nationally, prices were up slightly from July to August.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In wake of the Fed’s recent rate cut last month, hesitant Americans are becoming open to the idea of entering the market to begin their homebuying journey. However, people actually need homes to do so. Across these 50 metro areas, the vacancy rate increased somewhat from 7.22% in 2022 to 7.37% in 2023. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This is according to the Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), a measure of senior-held home equity maintained by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) in partnership with data analytics firm RiskSpan. billion) increase in senior home values, which was offset by a 0.89% (or $20.9

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