Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Association of Professional Builders (APB) notes that building companies are losing thousands of dollars due to extortionate price hikes brought about by shortages and increasing demand in the construction industry, fueled by record-low interest rates and buyer ‘fear of missing out.’ Be cautious when signing fixed-price contracts.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

“We calculate that over 80% of metro areas are meaningfully overvalued,” Zandi said during the Recursion webinar. “… First-time homebuyers are locked out because they just simply can’t afford to buy … and trade-up buyers are locked in [with interest rates well below current market levels]. “So, Inventories are rising across the country.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It created a massive demand for home purchases as consumers competed to win a sales contract and get a home with a low single digit interest rate. It boxed out many first-time homebuyers who found themselves unable to compete against buyers willing to place a non-contingent offer above full price.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. What are you expecting to see next year in terms of supply chain issues?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Rapidly rising interest rates and skyrocketing home prices pushed many would-be buyers out of the market and tanked the refinance market,” the MAXEX report states. Contacts attributed the decline in sales to rising mortgage rates, coupled with high price inflation that crimped buyers’ budgets.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Just how we do contracts now is so much faster. The back end systems, when we are listing something or putting something under contract, it is all just very seamless. We did have faxes, it wasn’t the beginning of time, but everything is almost instantaneous now.”. Brokerages Invest in Tech. In 2021, 6.12

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Hank Miller Team

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It's not a rosy outlook; expect home buyer frustration to increase in 2022. So what's in store for home buyers and sellers that have to make a move this spring? So what's in store for home buyers and sellers that have to make a move this spring? Home buyers are teed up and ready to write…once something decent pops.

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Clear Capital

MARCH 5, 2025

Floridas condo laws have created a buyers market with lots of properties on the market. contraction in GDP for the first quarter. We wont have the supply chain shocks of the pandemic years, nor will the Fed be buying mortgage-backed securities. quarterly decline and a 2.9% annual loss. A month ago, the model saw 3.9%

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Our land brokers anticipate steady demand from land buyers, other CRE investors, land developers, and tenants in Ohio, Central Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio. Low mortgage rates have steadied, welcoming batches of new buyers eager to own a home in the market. See below why we feel Ohio land for sale market is still ripe for growth.

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Hank Miller Team

JANUARY 9, 2024

How can variables like local and national economic conditions, consumer debt, consumer confidence, the Fed, global supply chains, wars and conflict and a hundred other wild cards be corralled? Buyers have largely adjusted to the rates and the expectation is that the Fed will begin cutting by mid year. They cannot.

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The Robert Weiler Company

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Consider your desired demographic of customers or renters and buyers and which amenities they would desire; attractions such as restaurants, malls, community centers, family parks, beaches, etc. Many buyers and renters worry about flood risk in today’s world. billion of new commercial real estate construction contracts in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Then there are the global supply chain issues, which have frustrated small-time homebuilders like Noel and the heads of publicly traded builders alike. The supply side of the equation has been extremely challenging, with no clear signs as to when things will get better,” Marshall said during the earnings call. Currently, over 1.7

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 30, 2022

Discerning buyers will know when a home has been left to, well, age gracefully. Surveys have shown that buyers tend to focus on the condition of the kitchen – including the age of appliances – and bathrooms (among other factors) to determine whether they wish to make an offer.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. A little more than a third of inventory is under contract. 1, was about 17% lower than Nov.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 14, 2022

The supply chain, already strained, may come under renewed pressure with threats to shipping lines and air travel. Similar fears exist for the energy supply, equity markets, currencies, electric and internet grids, and defense of nations aligned against Russia. Most home buyers focus on the direction of interest rates. “It’s

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

GROWING INVESTOR PRESENCE PLACES NEW BURDEN ON BUYERS You’re a first-time homebuyer who has found the perfect house within budget – only to be outbid by $10,000 to an LLC. Investors continue to snap up homes and convert them into rentals, frustrating traditional buyers. What in the H-E- L-L … C is going on?!

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Knowingly or not, associations can discriminate against potential home buyers by enforcing a community’s established rules that have the potential to limit people of certain classifications from purchasing a property. It’s working well for both builders and buyers. Buyers must qualify for the mortgage at the highest rate in the offer.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

The brighter news is that labor shortages and supply-chain disruptions are improving but it’s hardly “back to normal.” Home prices continued to confound buyers by climbing toward record highs as summer began. Another sale followed 11 days later and six others are under contract preparing to close.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

month backlogs of contract work, as of Q4 (latest data available), which is down from the peak of 4.8 In many cases, the long lag time to complete projects is no longer from dreaded supply-chain issues. Four other residences have traded hands this year and two more are under contract for sale. Why the desire to leave?

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

However, a new Pew study finds a shift in home preferences with more consumers saying they want a larger home, even if it means local amenities are further away, as this chart shows: SUPPLY-CHAIN DISRUPTIONS. There is a mini power surge of buyers wanting to purchase before rates go higher,” Lennox Scott, CEO of John L.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 7, 2022

After a cooling off period to enjoy the holidays and avoid severe weather, buyers were back on the prowl for a new home as sellers prepped their properties for the seasonal rush. Buyers will continue to outstrip sellers but with slightly less intensity than in recent years. The biggest variable is Covid.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 5, 2025

A third-generation builder, in 1984, he opened Hughes Construction, a general contracting business specializing in home building and light commercial construction. Last year, NAHB released a 10-point housing plan that seeks to improve affordability by addressing these impediments to increasing the nations housing supply.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

We need that supply to clear the construction market,” Jalbert said in an interview with HousingWire. ’s reliance on Canadian lumber can create problems if any disruption arises within the supply chain. Pending home sales rise yet again Altos’ weekly pending contract data helps to visualize demand in the D.C.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 7, 2025

And where would buyers go for comps? Builders, buyers, and investors are all reassessing their strategies in response to long-term economic realities rather than short-term fluctuations. This means that affordability challenges will persist, keeping many buyers on the sidelines. Why not do both?… Read that again.

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