Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 18, 2022

And sellers are losing it. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/20/2022 Beer & Stats at Out of Bounds (sign up (for real estate agents)) 7/26/2022 Navigating […]. Buyers are gaining power. I have some new visuals to show what the market is doing right now. These are for Sacramento, but I suspect many areas look similar.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. It facilitated a very unhealthy housing market in 2020-2021 that became savage in 2022. To top it all off, we started 2022 at all-time lows, forcing bidding action everywhere until mortgage rates rose. Now fast forward to 2022.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While home-seller profits remain historically high, the national margin has declined almost every quarter from a 64% peak hit in 2022. The leveling of prices during Q3 also led to typical raw profits for sellers staying about the same, near an all-time high of just under $130,000. But it was still up 2.7% of those metro areas.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

In the 24 months beginning March 2022, the U.S. After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. In July 2022, new listings volume per week dropped from 90,000 at the end of June to approximately 74,000 just after the July 4th holiday. The lower rates go, the fewer home sellers we have.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

home sellers reaped slimmer profit margins on median-priced single-family homes and condominiums during the first quarter of 2024. Investment returns for sellers fell for the second straight quarter. We saw a similar downward pattern from late 2022 into early 2023, and then the market surged. Home Sales Report.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

The MLS is crucial for home sellers , even in a strong seller’s market, as it provides significant financial benefits and access to more potential buyers, according to a recent study by Bright MLS called “On-MLS Study: Measuring the Benefits of an Open and Transparent Housing Marketplace.” They would be wrong.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

In the 24 months beginning March 2022, the U.S. However, if you ask, most people think the mortgage lock-in occurred in 2022. million fewer home sales between March 2022 and December 2023. What’s not measured in the FHFA paper is how by 2023, seller volume had already been declining for nearly a decade.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Sales are sluggish because high homebuying costs are making both house hunters and prospective sellers skittish. Even though homes are selling for higher prices than ever before, many sellers are still having to drop their list prices after putting their properties on the market—one positive sign for potential homebuyers. Ongoing U.S.

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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%. Sellers are panicking right now which is almost always an opportunity for buyers. I waived no contingencies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Despite this drop, investment returns for home sellers is still up from 48.8% Metro results for home sellers. of all sales in the third quarter of 2022. in the second quarter of 2022, representing the first quarterly gain in the past year. This is the first decline in home prices in almost three years, down from 57.6%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Data from Altos Research shows that higher mortgage rates aren’t necessarily keeping sellers from listing their homes. New pending sales are also on the rise, with the 60,000 homes going under contract last week representing a 9% increase from the same week last year and an 11% increase from the same week in 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

“Home sellers are buyers” — this is a phrase that I have been using in my economic work to explain the reality of the housing market recently. So, when home prices and mortgage rates rise so quickly, some sellers won’t list , which means they’re not buying either. million in July 2022). million in July.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 3, 2024

of home sellers cut their asking prices during May, the highest share since November 2022. The post Home Sellers Forced to Get Flexible With Asking Prices first appeared on The MortgagePoint. The post Home Sellers Forced to Get Flexible With Asking Prices appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We We started to hear a lot about seller impersonation fraud early on in the year,” Tyler Adams, the CEO of CertifID, said. “We Oftentimes this leads to the discovery of vacant lots. billion, up from $6.9

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. home sale price rose 3% year over year, reaching $420,846 in August, the largest annual increase since October 2022. According to the brokerage, 6.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 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. Sellers saw a market where their homes sold quickly and often above list price as multiple buyers competed to have the winning bid. . for 30-year fixed-rate loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2022

home sellers made a pretty penny in 2021, with the nationwide realized profit growing by 45% year-over-year, according to a new analysis published by real estate data vendor ATTOM this week. For comparison sake, in 2019 a home seller’s realized profit averaged out to about $55,000, the report said.

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

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 29, 2022

ATTOM ’s Q1 2022 U.S. The post ATTOM Sees Seller Profits Drop to 47 percent in Q1 2022 appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. Home Sales Report shows that profit margins on median-priced single-family home sales across the United States dipped to 47.2%, the first quarterly decline since late 2019 and the largest in a decade.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

What is on the horizon in 2022? Things may be taking a turn for the better in 2022, though. Many buyers hope the housing market will cool down in 2022, and while experts don’t think it will be as competitive, this is unlikely to be a dramatic shift — at least not one that turns the market away from being seller-friendly.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As we approach the end of another hot year for the market, homebuyers and sellers are eagerly looking ahead to the 2022 housing market. Demand will continue to be strong into 2022. In a normal market, we tend to see about 30% to 35% of sellers initially over-price their homes and eventually reduce the price to attract buyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) proposed some key changes to requirements for single-family seller servicers that do business with the enterprises. The proposed changes would take effect for current and new servicers starting December 2022. For all non-depositories, the minimum capital ratio would increase to 9% from 6%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? With homes taking longer to sell, due in part to higher mortgage rates, buyers in 2022 had negotiating power to get concessions or credits to lower rates down for a limited period. over asking price.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. enters the third year of the pandemic, the 2022 housing market remains on stable ground. While interest rates are projected to rise in 2022 to 3.5% As the U.S. Demographics.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nearly three quarters of recent American home sellers said in a Clever survey that using a traditional real estate agent is the best way to sell. Of the surveyed pool, 42% have sold since late 2022 as rising mortgage rates cooled the post-pandemic market.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As housing affordability continues its decline, the latest analysis from First American projects home price appreciation to fall further as the booming sellers’ market seen in early 2022 has now turned in favor of homebuyers. The post Pandemic-Era Sellers’ Market Experiences Rapid Decline appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Stewart Title appears to be starting 2022 exactly where it left off in 2021. Homeland Title has served homebuyers and sellers in middle Tennessee since 2003. The post Stewart starts 2022 with yet another acquisition appeared first on HousingWire. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. million compared to $55.9

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2022

The housing market has been a roller coaster ride since COVID-19 began, and it hasn’t shown signs of stopping in 2022. It’s increasingly difficult for home appraisers to predict what will happen next, between seller booms and fluctuating mortgage rates. Mortgage rates dipped to record lows in 2021, then skyrocketed in early 2022.

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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. 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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 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. 2022 Forecast series. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market. The new 2022 houing market environment.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 29, 2022

ATTOM released its Q2 2022 U.S. On the heels of a dull Q1, that suggested possible weakness in the nation’s long-running housing market … The post Home Seller Profit Increases Throughout U.S. appeared first on DSNews. appeared first on DSNews.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Zawislak purchased a home in Chicago in 2021 and D’Acquisto bought a home in Bartlett, Illinois, in 2022. This rule is no longer in place due to the terms of NAR’s home seller commission lawsuit settlement , which went into effect in August.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

More than half of home buyers (52%) negotiated with the seller, with 94% of those who did achieving success. About 34% of buyers paid below the asking price in 2024—up from 27% in 2022, when the market was more favorable to sellers. home ($501,500) adding $75,255, the upfront cost totals a staggering $107,230.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New listings go up This year continues to have slightly more sellers than last year but fewer than we used to get in past years. When you add it all together, there were just a 2% more new sellers hitting the market this week than a year ago. I mentioned that Florida rebounded this week with sellers that postponed for the storms.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

The seller is not identified in the offering, which indicates the deadline for final bids is Jan. Incenter Managing Director Tom Piercy would only say that the seller is a “nonbank.”. 5, 2022, totaled $44.1 The post 2022 opens with a big MSR bulk-sale offering appeared first on HousingWire. Year to date through Dec.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Five months later, the frequency increased to 19%, leaving homebuyers to either pay more out of pocket or request the seller to lower their asking price. Experts expect home price growth to moderate in 2022, but the lessons learned over the past two years are sure to change the industry in the long term. More Remote Contact.

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