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Home Values Surge in Q2

Appraisal Buzz

The equity gains coincide with a surge in home prices during the 2024 spring buying season, with the median national home price rising 9% quarterly to a record $365,000. This price increase has helped boost equity levels across much of the country by widening the gap between home values and the amounts owed on loans.

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Don’t expect a drastic housing market turnaround in 2023, Fitch Ratings says

Housing Wire

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. Fitch Ratings expects a challenging 2023 — at least in the near term — while the industry right-sizes from the $4 trillion production volume that occurred during the pandemic boom years.

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How the housing market will evolve in 2023

Housing Wire

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. Mortgage interest rates The unrelenting Fed policies to combat inflation will eventually instigate an economic recession sometime in 2023.

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DataDigest: Yes, buyer agents steer clients, new study claims

Housing Wire

Three researchers believe a first-of-its-kind dataset has enabled them to definitively answer a long-debated question: why have buyer agent commission rates been so stable historically? So how is the uniformity and permanence of buyer agents’ 2-3% rate possible in a free market? One of the researchers, Will Fried, had a hunch.

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Home prices grew in 93% of markets in Q1 2024: NAR

Housing Wire

Out of 221 metro markets analyzed, 205 (93%) posted yearly home price gains in Q1 2024, while 30% experienced double-digit price gains during the same period — up from 15% in the fourth quarter of 2023 — according to the National Association of Realtors ’ (NAR) newest quarterly report. year over year in Q4 2023. in the West. “The

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The High Cost of Low Down Payments

Appraisal Buzz

home, a buyer making the median income needs to put down nearly $127,750, or 35.4%. Just five years ago, when mortgage rates were hovering just above 4% and the typical home was worth nearly 50% less, that home would have been affordable with no money down. home , currently valued at $360,681, up 4.3%

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Home-price growth is cooling, leading to appraisal challenges

Housing Wire

Cleveland-based Corporate Settlement Solutions (CSS) released an analysis Thursday that highlights a growing gap between appraised home values and sale prices. That share was up from 53% in the second half of 2023 and 51% in the first half of 2024.

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