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Home Seller Profit Margins Slip for Second Consecutive Year

Appraisal Buzz

Home Sales Report , which shows that home sellers made a $122,500 profit on typical sales nationwide in 2024, generating a 53.8% But even as both measures remained near record levels, and home prices kept rising around the country, the profit margin on median-priced sales nationwide decreased from 56.9% in 2023, the U.S.

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Market Correction or Seller Panic?

Appraisal Buzz

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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Single-family rentals are more expensive than apartments — and the gap is growing

Housing Wire

While stubbornly high mortgage rates are keeping a lid on buyer demand and home value growth, and a response from builders has kept multifamily rent growth stable for many months, rents for detached single-family homes continue to accelerate. Meanwhile, apartment rents averaged $1,812 per month in December, up 2.4%

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Where home seller profit margins are shrinking

Housing Wire

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. Despite this drop, investment returns for home sellers is still up from 48.8% Metro results for home sellers.

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Homebuyer Competition Stiffens in the Northeast 

Appraisal Buzz

In chillyBuffalo, competition among buyers will remain hot, with employment growing far faster than builders are adding homes, saidSkylar Olsen, Chief Economist at Zillow. But both buyers and sellers should expect unpredictable mortgage rates. Thats the good news. With an anticipated growth rate of 4.2%, Hartford is in the lead.

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ATTOM: Average Return on a Home Sale Decreased in the Third Quarter

Appraisal Buzz

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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Opinion: The end of seller speculation in US housing market

Housing Wire

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 2: 10 Hottest Housing Markets out of the Top 250 Metro Areas, June 2022.