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Home Seller Profit Margins Slide in Q3

Appraisal Buzz

The nationwide investment return ticked downward as home-price spikes that had buoyed the housing market during the spring of this year flattened out, leaving the U.S. median home value virtually unchanged at approximately $360,000. from Q3 of 2023, and remained near the record of $135,000 hit in 2022.

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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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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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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.

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Zillow’s outlook for 2022: Will housing affordability slow demand?

Housing Wire

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. appeared first on HousingWire.

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Seniors are in the sweet spot for tapping into home equity

Housing Wire

This mortgage-free cohort “represents almost 40% of American homeowners and includes anyone wealthy enough to not need home financing at all, as well as people who have lived in their property long enough to have paid down most of their mortgage or cleared it entirely,” the report explained. And in Q1 2022, it exceeded $11 trillion.

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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.