Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Inventory is still very tight in places like Chicago and New England, but it is rising in these markets. And 2025 is poised to continue the trend of rising inventory across the country. Well probably finish 2025 with 15% more homes available than we have now. How will that impact home prices in 2025?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Its late December so all the 2025 mortgage rate forecasts have been published. Most housing market analysts expect mortgage rates to spend the year with a 6 handle. The most optimistic predictions assume 2025 will see mostly low 6s for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage. Unfortunately, all of them are already wrong.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This downward pricing trend at distressed property auctions, combined with affordability constraints for retail buyers and rising rates of serious delinquency, foreshadows slowing home-price appreciation in 2025. Register today to attend the Housing Economic Summit in Dallas, on Feb. 26, 2025 and hear Daren Blomquist in person.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has announced that the conforming loan limit values (CLLs) for mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) in 2025. the 2025 CLL value for one-unit properties will be $806,500, an increase of $39,950 (or 5.2%) from 2024. In most of the U.S., According to the report, U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The stagnant 2024 housing market is one the real estate industry cant wait to get away from, but not so for the niche luxury market. Elevated mortgage rates have stymied the broader housing market in 2024, but the luxury segment is somewhat insulated from that because wealthy buyers are less likely to need a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Despite 2025 housing market predictions changing fast , there are still key themes and trends for real estate leaders to watch to best serve their clients and business. See what she had to say below and register today for the Housing Economic Summit on Feb. Home building is expected to increase in 2025.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic turned a number of nontraditional cities into housing market hotspots. While some of those markets have since seen a reversal of fortunes, 2025 may bring a few more surprises. Indianapolis has an affordable housing market that will make it attractive.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With fluctuating mortgage rates and economic pressure in the housing market, foreclosure activity ramped up in October 2024. According to real estate data provider Attom , homebuyers may face more challenges heading into 2025. Foreclosure Market Report on Tuesday. Attom released its October 2024 U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability. Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report (Thursday) The post The Week Ahead: Preparing for 2025 first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

housing market, home equity now increasingly belongs to homeowners themselves a sharp turn from the post-Great Financial Crisis era when homeowners were largely underwater and owned much smaller share of the U.S. housing value. Register today to attend the Housing Economic Summit in Dallas, on Feb.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The 2024 housing market is shaping out to be one of the slowest in recent memory, but what can the industry expect in 2025? HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami and Altos Research Founder Mike Simonsen have compiled a comprehensive forecast for the 2025 housing market. HousingWire’s 2025 forecast of 3.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

If 2024 was a rollercoaster, 2025 is shaping up to be a championship gameand every buyer , seller and homeowner has a shot at winning big. After a year filled with rate swings, unpredictable markets and a bit of drama (thank you, inflation), the real estate world is ready for a fresh start. The key takeaway?

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Home price growth in the second quarter was stronger than previously anticipated, but economists at Fannie Mae believe it will likely moderate soon, closing 2024 and 2025 at annualized rates of 6.1% Fannie also forecasts refi volumes to grow to $563 billion in 2025 as home prices continue to rise and mortgage rates fall.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

housing market. And according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, the average rate inched closer to 7% this week. Fannie Mae, however, remains optimistic that housing market activity will pick up as existing home sales and new single-family housing starts are expected to grow modestly in 2024.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has set a new baseline conforming loan limit of $806,500 for one-unit properties in 2025, authorizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase mortgages up to this amount. The adjustment indicates a weaker housing market this year, driven by still-elevated mortgage rates.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Like much of the housing market at the moment, home prices remained relatively flat coming into the fall,” says Selma Hepp, chief economist for CoreLogic, in a statement. Photo: Frames For Your The post CoreLogic: Home Price Growth Forecast to Flatten in 2025 appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Buyers have also been less active despite the Federal Reserve ’s 50-basis-point cut to benchmark rates last month.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To get there, Martell said loanDepot is still committed to its Vision 2025 plan, announced three months following his arrival to the company last year. But it was built to have a “little bit of wiggle room” to adjust to market conditions and opportunities for tomorrow. “The market has changed a lot.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As 2025 approaches, the U.S. real estate market is marked by contradictions that are leaving many confused. Mortgage rates, rental patterns, homeownership dreams, and housing trends across the country are all seemingly colliding in ways that create both opportunities and uncertainties.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell played the Grinch last week for the housing market, sending mortgage rates higher after his remarks at the Fed presser on Wednesday. However, we need lower mortgage rates to grow sales in a bigger fashion in 2025.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis believes that by aligning with the right lender and expanding product offerings, originators can position themselves as valuable partners in a shaky market. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Investors run into challenges trying to build their portfolios every day.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

I’m now looking forward to 2025 when the data comes in each week. We’ll release the HousingWire 2025 Forecast paper in the next week or so where we’ll lay out our expectations, scenarios, and data to track for the real estate market in the coming year. We’re also at the seasonal decline time for the housing market.

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Real Estate News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Federal policy changes could impact real estate in surprising ways, but economists are predicting fairly modest shifts in the new year.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With mortgage rates forecast to remain above 6%, inventory expected to remain tight, and home prices predicted to stabilize at their current highs, its looking like the housing market wont see much of a thaw in 2025, Fannie Maes Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group says in a recent report.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Many in the real estate industry are looking at 2025 as a year to get back to the basics of the business, but Side is taking it one step further. As Side looks to 2025, the company wants to continue strengthening its agents and the industry as a whole through its education initiatives.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

People seeking more space to accommodate working from home led to a minor outflow of residents that put the housing market on pause. So, I’m cautiously optimistic that rates coming down are finally going to bring more inventory that could balance things out for buyers, especially when we get into the first quarter of 2025.”

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 11, 2024

is Realtor.coms Top Housing Market for 2025 , a list of the top 100 housing markets that are forecast to see increased sales in the coming year. Rounding out the top 10 markets are Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Fla.; Colorado Springs, Colo. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Va.-N.C.;

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Rocket Companies ’ third-quarter earnings call offered a glimpse into a key element of its 2025 strategy for Rocket Mortgage — driving profits through ridiculously high recapture rates and an expanding servicing portfolio. Here’s HousingWire’s early look at Rocket Mortgage’s 2025 recapture play strategy.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has announced 10 top hot spots for the 2025 housing market based on economic, demographic and housing factors predicted to significantly impact local markets. 2025 Outlook NAR expects the Federal Reserve to maintain a gradual approach to easing monetary policy in 2025.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the new year draws near, Fannie Mae anticipates that many of the housing trends from 2024 will persist in 2025, with the lock-in effect of mortgage rates and housing affordability continuing to be major obstacles for countless Americans. million in 2025, which is an estimated 4.8% more than the 4.06 lower than in 2019.

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Real Estate News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Feel like housing forecasts have been off lately? That’s because the market hasn’t been behaving as expected. See which factors are playing a bigger role.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. million — once that happens, I can take the unhealthy label off the housing market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. The existing home sales market does not align with their dual mandate of ensuring stable personal consumption expenditures (PCE) or consumer price index (CPI) prices, as these measures account for rent.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. Job additions and income growth will further help with housing affordability, but increased supply will be essential to satisfying all potential demand.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Home prices firmed up in today’s existing home sales report , but we caught on to this trend two months ago with our Housing Market Tracker. However, they did, and this is the second time over the past two years that mortgage rates just heading toward 6% changed housing market dynamics. However, that didn’t happen.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The jump in sales gives the market momentum heading into 2025, which is expected to outperform 2024. The existing-home sales report comes as major real estate companies are releasing their forecasts for the 2025 housing market. million sales in 2025, a number that is close to the current rate of 4.15

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What happens to the housing market after a presidential election year? Does the market really heat up like people say? UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 11/19/24 Downtown Regional MLS Meeting Q&A 9am 11/20/24 […] The post The housing market after a presidential election first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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