Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 13, 2024

While the industry is no stranger to predatory and/or unfair lending practices, new advisory opinion and research study on a type of home seller financing known as a “contract for deed” has been released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is had a field hearing in St.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. It can be tough for a buyer to choose when faced with the allure of a brand-new build or the charm and affordability of an older home.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. Inventory is slowly but steadily increasing over last year, which means slightly more options for buyers this spring. There are millions of would-be homebuyers who are simply priced out of the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

NAR’s Pending Homes Sales Index (PHSI) report is a forward-looking source that predicts home sales based on contract signings. “Despite higher mortgage rates in November and persistent affordability challengers, buyers took advantage of more inventory as pending home sales reached the highest level in nearly two years.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Record-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are prompting buyers to back out of home purchase agreements at elevated levels. Redfin ’s newest housing market report shows that buyers backed out of 56,000 purchase agreements in June, which constitutes 14.9% of homes that went under contract. In his market, 17.6%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

In the complaint, Homie claims that it is bringing this legal action to “recover the damages…suffered as an excluded competitor foreclosed by the Defendants’ conduct from effective competition in the relevant market.” Buyers using Homie would receive some or all of any BAC offered by the seller,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) proposed settlement of litigation, recently given preliminary approval by the Court, has raised questions about whether buyers with limited resources, especially first-time home buyers , can afford closing costs. In a seller’s market, that may well occur.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The most positive development in the housing market over 2024 has been the increase in active housing inventory , which is approaching the levels seen in 2019. Although those 2019 levels represent a five-decade low before COVID-19, the market was still functioning better than it did from 2020 to 2023. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

This was in stark contrast to three other market segments that posted declines in the number of pending sales compared to July 2023. Additionally, price growth for starter homes — which are defined as properties valued among the bottom 35% of local markets — was slower than for other segments. Sale prices for starter homes rose 4.2%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Fewer sales, mean a shrinking housing market as consumers wait it out. real estate market as we’re now in the second half of 2024. this week to 668,000 single-family homes unsold on the market. There are another 179,000 condos unsold on the market. will be significant enough move in rates to move the needle for buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. The inventory picture There are now 539,000 single-family homes on the market unsold, which is up 3.2% More home sellers enter the market There were 11% more new sellers this week than last year at this time.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 30, 2024

A forward-looking measure of home sales based on contract signings, the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) fell to 70.2 The level of contract activity in 2001 is represented by an index of 100. “A Current lower, falling mortgage rates will no doubt bring buyers into market.” Pending transactions decreased by 8.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Ironically, a strong employment situation in the country drives the bond market to higher rates. The purchase market is slower to respond, and the data now is still showing the positive impact of lower rates of recent weeks. There were very few buyers in the fourth quarter 2023. Homes stay under contract for 30 to 40 days.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I I have buyers that are looking, but to find a house that you love enough to pay a high price for — and to be at over a 6.5% In Wise County , there were only 56 listings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

As mortgage rates continue to decline, Chad Earnest’s mantra with his referral partners in 2023 is “no buyer left behind.” He makes co-marketing investments and helps partners with their databases by looking for any missed opportunity in the market. The primary focus is on borrowers who may be credit-challenged.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising. Even if the imbalance of more sellers than buyers continues, more sales will happen, especially compared to last year at this time.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

That’s according to a Zillow report released Thursday in which the Seattle -based real estate company said that “lower mortgage rates and rising inventory are giving home buyers a window of opportunity at an unusual time of year.“ Buyers have more options to choose from for two reasons. Zillow noted that the U.S. 29 to Oct.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 24, 2024

Nearly two-thirds (64.7%) of homes on the market in June had been listed for at least 30 days without going under contract, according to a new report from Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. Overall, the market is fairly stagnant,” said Shay Stein, a Redfin Premier Agent in Las Vegas.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For what felt like a moment in time, buyers enjoyed the luxury of being incredibly picky, carefully selecting what felt like their dream homes in a market that had shifted towards more favorable conditions. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

Buyers are also avoiding earlier stages of the house-hunting process. Buyers are retreating primarily due to high home costs. Another explanation for the drop in pending sales is a scarcity of new, desirable listings for buyers to select from. The share of homes off the market in two weeks was 42.1%, down from 47% YoY.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Home sellers are returning to the market, but buyers are hesitant, according to a recent Zillow market report. In May, new property listings exceeded sales, allowing buyer competition and price rise to slow—and more price relief is expected. That has cooled competition for houses. year-over-year in April to 3.9%

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 23, 2024

of all homes under contract, being canceled in that month alone. Buyers are getting more and more selective,” said Julie Zubiate, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in the San Francisco Bay Area. of the residences that were under contract in that month. of homes that went under contract. of homes that went under contract.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you’re struggling to market your business on social media, or worse, haven’t even started yet, you might be in for a rude awakening in 2024. Prioritize reputation over reach The key to successful social media marketing is to build meaningful connections with people in your farm area who want to buy or sell real estate.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Year-over-year, contract signings increased in all four U.S. Despite higher mortgage rates in November and persistent affordability challengers, buyers took advantage of more inventory as pending home sales reached the highest level in nearly two years, said First American Deputy Chief Economist Odeta Kushi. in November.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What will the housing market look like in 2025? For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more. Mortgage rates continue to move higher and that’s impacting buyers. Frankly, it feels like the housing market is contracting a bit now in November.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

If we look at the housing market right now, sales are down, new listings are down and prices are decelerating. Good inflation data came in last week, the bond market rallied and mortgage rates took a notable dip below 7% for the first time in months. If so, how should we expect the housing market to react? Inventory is 38.5%

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Real Estate News

JULY 24, 2024

Upward of 56,000 home purchase contracts — nearly 15% of all such contracts from June — were canceled, a new report found, largely due to affordability issues.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Could the housing market change and slow again in 2024? The data does not show any slowing on any of the active market metrics. Sellers are coming back There are 499,000 single-family homes unsold on the market now. There are now 247,000 single family homes in contract. of the homes on the market have taken a price cut.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. The housing market won’t be like this forever.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. A lot of sellers are also willing to let buyers slip away because they don’t want to concede to repair requests,” Morre said.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

of homes on the market in May had been listed for at least 30 days without selling. Since March, when new listings increased but buyer demand remained sluggish, the share of properties on the market for at least one month has increased year-over-year, as it has since mortgage rates began climbing in 2022. set in October 2023.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Any sales growth momentum in the real estate market we might have had early in the year is gone. New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year — 4.9% Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As we near the fourth quarter of 2024, the traditional peak of the home-buying season has passed, and the real estate market is entering a period of transition. As of July, there were approximately 646,000 unsold single-family homes on the market in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

But now sellers are coming back into the market. There are still a lot of people who assume that mortgage rates need to fall before we see a rebound in home sales, but the data shows that we only need stability in the mortgage markets. Pending sales Last week saw 69,000 new contracts for single-family home purchases across the country.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 30, 2024

increase in the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a measure of future home sales based on contract signings, to 75.8, The amount of contract activity in 2001 is represented by an index of 100. Year-over-year, contract signings grew in the Northeast and West and were unchanged in the Midwest and South. September saw a 7.4%

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2024

This is precisely what the doctor ordered for the housing market. In March of 2022, we only had 240,000 active single-family homes available for sale, leading me to call the housing market savagely unhealthy as we simply had too many people chasing too few homes. With more sellers who are buyers, we have a tad more demand this year.

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