Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the first half of 2022, home prices in the county were on fire, jumping up by 40% year over year in some neighborhoods as people were pushed out of pricier Austin. In 2022, the average tax on a U.S. single-family home was $3,901, up 3% compared to 2021, ATTOM reported. But counties do assessments in different ways.

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Real Estate News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new Redfin report found the total value of U.S. homes has dropped $2.3 trillion since June 2022, with the biggest declines in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

of Black renter families earned enough income in 2022 to afford a mortgage with a 3% down payment, compared to 12.5% While home values are relatively lower in these communities and more Black families can afford the typical mortgage payment, access to homeownership remains a challenge. About 7.8% percentage points. About 13.3%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Boston-based fintech company Hometap has deployed more than $1 billion in home equity investment (HEI) products since its launch in 2017, the company announced on Tuesday. Of the $1 billion total, $730 billion has been deployed since 2022, and the company has issued more than 10,000 HEIs in total as of January.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% year over year in Q2 2024, the largest increase since Q2 2022, according to a report published Thursday by Redfin. home purchases fell 1.9% during the same period, which Redfin attributed to elevated mortgage rates and home prices. Although the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take the Zillow Home Value Index. It measures the typical home value for single-family residences, condominiums and co-ops in the 35th to 65th percentile within their region. For the nation as a whole, home values have hardly changed since August 2022 by Zillow’s estimation in its Home Value Index.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

This homebuying season – and year-round – industry professionals must do their part to ensure home buyers understand the threat of real estate wire fraud and how they can protect themselves. billion in reported losses in 2022. As home values rise, so do the loss amounts from these scams.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Did you know that in 2022, both younger and older Baby Boomers made up the largest generation of American homebuyers? This cohort accounted for 1,950,000 properties — equating to 39% of total homes purchased! For real estate professionals, this option presents an opportunity to capture more sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

homes, valued at $19.7 “It’s important for people to fully understand the climate risks that a home faces not only in the present, but in the future, so they can make the most informed decision for one of the biggest purchases and investments they will make in their life.” of homes in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Both pose threats to access to capital, the cost of materials and labor, and future housing values. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) also recognizes the potential of the build-for-rent (BFR) sector. Housing starts as of November 2022 were “down 32% since February , when mortgage rates began to rise,” NAHB reports.

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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%. Therefore, it begs the question: what will happen to home values? I waived no contingencies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

in the third quarter, according to a new report from real estate data company ATTOM. This is the first decline in home prices in almost three years, down from 57.6% in the second quarter, with median national home values dropping 3% quarterly to approximately $340,000, the report said. decreased to 54.6%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In fact, home prices climbed 6.3% from October 2022 to October 2023, compared to 5.5% Meanwhile, home prices in the Mountain division were 2.6% higher in October 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, the lowest gain in the index. However, the data shows it slowed down compared to the previous month.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

year-over-year—the largest increase since mid-2022, according to a new report by Redfin, a real estate brokerage. Investors bought approximately one out of every six homes sold in the quarter, representing $43 billion in transactions, marking a 13.7% of the most affordable homes that sold in the quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs). billion in 2021 to $4.6 billion in 2021 to $4.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

However, the lenders and loan officers who will be most successful in the second half of 2022 will be those who pivot quickly, understanding both the nuances of the market and the best strategies to help solve problems for today’s homeowners, homebuyers, homesellers, Realtors and financial advisors. Their research shows the U.S.

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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). That deal, dubbed GRADE 2022-SEQ2, was a $198.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Over the same time period, home values grew 31.2%. In the past two years, prices have grown an additional 22%, which should come as no surprise, as more than half of homes sold this past July went for above list price and there appears to be no end in sight, as Goldman Sachs predicts that home prices will rise another 16% in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

year-over-year increase in home values. Rapidly accelerating home prices come with a variety of challenges for lenders and real estate agents, including one of the biggest pain points right now — the appraisal gap. Real estate agents and lenders are working together to try to get buyers into houses.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Fannie Mae conducted an online survey in late 2022 among a national panel sample whose addresses were in or near a Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) defined flood zone. Premiums are rising About 24% of the surveyed respondents said flood insurance is not very or not at all affordable in 2022, compared to 25% in 2020.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sales of homes valued at $10 million or more in newly emerged or reemerging markets helped propel transactions in that sector beyond pre-pandemic levels in 2022 while falling short of 2021 levels.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 1, 2024

The latter two sites seem quite chilly presently, but three years ago they were heralded as the country’s new real estate hot spots, leading the nation in gains during the pandemic. Pandemic boomtown real estate markets, however, continue to seem robust going forward, even in spite of the abrupt reverse.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 19, 2024

The record high in home prices—the median sale price nationally increased by 4% in June—has led to a record high in the percentage of American homes valued at $1 million or more. This is more than twice the 4% proportion that existed prior to the epidemic and up from 7.6% a year earlier.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The real estate market has seen a lot of unusual trends in the past couple of years, so it makes sense that youd want the latest market update before you make any major decisions! The real estate professionals make their best predictions based on data, but no one can know whats going to happen with 100% accuracy.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

billion in 2020, an increase that ALTA attributed to historic mortgage origination activity and the substantial increase in home values. Incredibly low mortgage rates (led) to an unprecedented increase in real estate transactions and substantially higher home values,” Diane Tomb, the CEO of ALTA said in a statement.

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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. And 2022 was off by some 17% from 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

I don’t think retail is great for anybody right now with rates high and home values high, but it’s a good time to be investing in retail,” Michael Dubeck, CEO and president of Planet Financial Group , parent of Planet Home Lending, said in an interview. We’re taking a long-run view that it’s going to pay off. million in cash.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Because homeownership is traditionally considered one of the surest routes upward in a socially mobile society and the primary means by which Americans accumulate wealth, the inability to buy a home puts much more than just the real estate market in jeopardy. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Fannie Mae ’s Economic and Strategic Research Group also released a recent report that projects year-over-year growth in home-price appreciation for 2022 will reach 16%. Freddie Mac projects that home-price growth will average 12.8% in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023. By comparison, home-price growth was 17.8%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Western pessimism is also unsurprising given the year-over-year declines Western states have seen in home values. Builders reported covering closing costs, offering discounted or free features, helping buyers sell their existing home and providing other incentives. 2019 level. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

“Securitization of HELOCs had been a small part of the RMBS [residential mortgage-backed securities] market in the pre-financial crisis period, but issuance was still relatively commonplace until 2007,” states a fall 2022 DBSR Morningstar report focused on the securitization market for HELOCs. from the fourth quarter of 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2023

The fix-and-flip market has seen a boom in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, a 14% increase from 2021 and a 58% increase from 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales last year — 8.4% — involved fix-and-flip investors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2023

These declines, of course, came after very strong price increases in late 2021 and the first half of 2022,” Craig Lazzara, the managing director of S&P DJI , said in a statement. The Case-Shiller 20-city home price index posted a 8.6% In September , the index recorded a year-over-year increase of 10.7%. Month over month, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

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. Table 1: 10 Hottest Housing Markets out of the Top 250 Metro Areas, February 2022. Table 1, below, reports the 10 hottest U.S. Bellingham, WA 51.7% -8.3%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Under its Sell & Stay program, which charges an annual option fee, clients have the right to repurchase the home or to direct a third-party sale at any time. If the home value appreciates, customers get to keep the difference. billion in volume in 2022, a decline of more than 50% from its 2021 production of $30.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

million, of those homes. If we then look at data from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), there were 2,063 Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase loans endorsed in 2022 — less than 1/10th of 1% of homes sold last year. There is an incredible opportunity for growth,” he said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

home prices seeing essentially a decade’s worth of appreciation in just two-and-a-half years,” added Ben Graboske, Black Knight’s president of Black Knight data & analytics. Home prices are beginning to fall from post-pandemic peaks but remain up 12.1% Raleigh and Nashville have all shed 3% of home value in recent months.

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