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Luxury Market Heats Up as Affluent Buyers Seek ‘Forever Homes’

Appraisal Buzz

“It’s gratifying to see many of the trends that we identified in January holding true and new ones taking shape halfway through the year,” Michael Althea, VP of Coldwell Banker Luxury , said. As evidence, “a notable uptick in sales was observed from January to May, coinciding with the introduction of new listings,” according to the report.

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Sellers Slash List Prices as Buyers Face Record High Home Costs

Appraisal Buzz

Buyers today are facing many of the realities of a hot market even though few homes are changing hands,” said Elijah de la Campa, Senior Economist at Redfin. And with so few homes for sale, buyers in some markets are getting into bidding wars, which is helping push home prices to record highs.” Ongoing U.S. year-over-year.

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Zillow and Redfin partner on new construction listings

Housing Wire

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. New single-family home sales rose 23.8% New single-family home sales rose 23.8%

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Residential real estate activity picks up despite low inventory

Housing Wire

All 12 Federal Reserve districts have seen issues with a lack of housing inventory , which is largely due to existing homeowners holding back on listing their homes after previously locking in low mortgage rates. New York – The residential sales market has been strong across the District.

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Mortgage rates head lower, helped by better mortgage spreads

Housing Wire

The seasonal decline period is starting soon, so we should get accustomed to seeing a decline in new listing data as the year heads toward its end. The seasonal decline period is starting soon, so we should get accustomed to seeing a decline in new listing data as the year heads toward its end.

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Midwest housing markets good for first-time homebuyers: Zillow

Housing Wire

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Millennials comprised 75% of this demographic, with older millennials and Generation X (ages 44 to 58) accounting for 44% and 24% of first-time buyers.

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Has spring housing demand already started?

Housing Wire

Mortgage spreads If mortgage spreads did not improve in 2024, we would have already lost some construction workers due to rising rates. It’s important to remember that most sellers are also buyers and the last two years presented the lowest new listings data in history. Weekly inventory change (Dec.