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Real estate investors purchased 16% of homes in Q3 2024

Housing Wire

housing market slowed down in the third quarter due to rising home prices and higher mortgage rates , investor purchases also ramped down, according to a new report by Redfin. The Seattle-based brokerage found that real estate investor purchases dropped by 2.3% As the U.S. Investors purchased $38.8 Miami saw a 19.4%

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Rising unemployment is shifting the D.C. housing market: Altos

Housing Wire

housing market is anything but stable right now and residents are feeling it. housing market using weekly data from Altos, which includes more than 60 different data points on every metro area in the country, to see how employment is changing the housing market. ’s job market. housing market.

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Housing Market Predictions for 2025

Appraisal Buzz

If youre thinking about buying or selling a house and wondering about the housing market, youre not the only one. 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!

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Tight inventory is challenging Illinois’ ‘steady Eddie’ housing market

Housing Wire

Despite the frequency of departures, real estate agents in the state say the housing market remains strong. On the balance, there are still more buyers with their eye on a purchase than there are houses on the market. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a sellers market. as of Jan.

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Will 2025 finally be a “normal” housing market?

Housing Wire

Weve now been in the post-pandemic housing market recession market as long as we were in the pandemic boom. Does the housing market start to get back to normal? In the 2010s, interest rates were very low for basically the whole decade and that encouraged Americans to buy and hoard real estate.

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Real estate teams get most deals from their ‘sphere of influence’

Housing Wire

Brokerages are scrambling to adapt to the post-settlement landscape of real estate, and more of them are turning to the same method for growing their headcount — acquiring new teams. The median team size increased from five in 2022 to six in 2024. Another 5% said they are “nonexistent.”

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Real Estate Agents Weigh in on Impact of NAR Settlement

Appraisal Buzz

Commissions paid to real estate agents representing buyers have remained essentially unchanged since new rules on commissions went into effect on August 17 , according to a new analysis from Redfin. In relatively competitive housing markets, agents are seeing more negotiation over who pays the buyer’s agent, and how much they are paid.