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Sellers Slash List Prices as Buyers Face Record High Home Costs

Appraisal Buzz

There have only been two months in the last decade with fewer home sales: October 2023, when mortgage rates reached a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to an all-time low. In some places, individual home sellers have faced stiff competition from homebuilders. Ongoing U.S.

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Home sellers are returning to the market

Housing Wire

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising.

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Seller Concessions Adjustments Revisited

Appraisal Buzz

There seems to be continued debate among appraisers, reviewers, and underwriters regarding seller concessions. A particular point of contention in this debate is whether or not it is appropriate to adjust seller concessions on a dollar-for-dollar basis. 09, Adjustments to Comparable Sales ). 09, Adjustments to Comparable Sales ).

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Housing Market Slows as Buyers and Sellers Wait For Rates to Drop

Appraisal Buzz

With the total number of homes on the market at its greatest point since May 2020 and interest rates about to start declining, buyers will have more options this autumn. Simultaneously, home sellers reduced the number of newly listed properties on the market, with a -0.9% decrease from the previous year. “In year-over-year increase.

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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% While the gross profit on median-priced single-family home and condo sales did inch up approximately $2,000 from 2023, the typical profit margin stood eight percentage points below a peak hit in 2022.

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Home price growth slows to lowest level since January 2023: Redfin

Housing Wire

Last month’s reading marked the smallest monthly increase on a seasonally adjusted basis since January 2023. A slight uptick in new listings has taken some of the pressure off sales prices as buyers have more options to choose from. Home prices rose 0.26% month over month in May, down from a monthly increase of 0.44% in April.

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Utah Realtors boycotted Homie listings over 1.5% buyer broker commission: antitrust lawsuit

Housing Wire

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, real estate startup Homie Technologies claims that home seller consumers were not the only ones harmed by the real estate industry’s allegedly anticompetitive practices. Buyers using Homie would receive some or all of any BAC offered by the seller,” the complaint states.

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