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. While I hate to be the bearer of bad news, that era is almost most definitely drawing to a close. Change is on the horizon.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

Naturally, this has forced buyers to seek lower price points or has completely eliminated them from the market. Increasing DOM is not necessarily correlated with decreasing prices, but it does mean buyers will have more choices and will be able to regain some bargaining power in negotiations. So, how do you comp in this market?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Three researchers believe a first-of-its-kind dataset has enabled them to definitively answer a long-debated question: why have buyer agent commission rates been so stable historically? and relied on salaried agents rather than commission-paid agents, who typically cost sellers 5-6%.

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Movoto

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Seller concessions are a great negotiating point on both the buying and selling side of any home sale. They are exciting for buyers as they mean lower costs, while also helping out sellers who want to close quickly. But, what exactly are seller concessions and how can you make the most of them?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We are not seeing that same buyer frenzy we were seeing six months ago,” said Audra Fontanella, the broker-owner of Bergen County-based RE/MAX Venture Realtors. “We I am currently dealing with more buyers than before, but there is less pressure right now on buyers to pull the trigger and put in an offer on something.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Firstly, compensation offers will now be eliminated in MLSs, meaning that they will no longer be displayed or allow offers of compensation to buyer agents. This is a fundamental shift in how real estate transactions are conducted and will require both agents and buyers to adapt to a new way of negotiating and communicating about fees.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We We started to hear a lot about seller impersonation fraud early on in the year,” Tyler Adams, the CEO of CertifID, said. “We Oftentimes this leads to the discovery of vacant lots. million, according to NAR.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

housing market is split into two groups: first-time buyers struggling to enter the market and current homeowners buying with cash,” said Jessica Lautz, NAR Deputy Chief Economist and VP of Research. First-time buyers decreased to 24% of the market share (32% last year). For first-time buyers, this number jumps to 64%.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

With mortgage rates still hovering around 7%, economists believe buyers are waiting out the next few months until the Federal Reserve cuts benchmark rates, which is expected in September. “We’re We’re seeing a slow shift from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

” “There’s definitely activity happening behind the scenes,” Brett Ludden, managing partner at Sterling Point Advisors , said last week during HousingWire ’s IMB Summit in Dallas. Buyers are feeling better about the market and that they are more able to afford a deal. Rates are starting to go down.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

“Now they will have to come up with payment for real estate agent services, but that may be challenging for some who are already challenged in terms of coming up with enough down payment,” Hepp said of first-time buyers. “So, So, say it gets rolled into their mortgage or they have to get another loan to pay it off.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

17 is the need to educate customers about rule changes and have conversations about agent fees with buyers at the start,” Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather said in a statement. The settlement rules ban blanket offers of compensation to buyer agents on multiple listing services. Redfin agents say the biggest difference since Aug.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2024

It might go without saying that a junk-cluttered yard does a home seller no favors—in fact, six in 10 real estate agents estimate that an unkempt front yard decreases a property’s value by 20% or more. That means sellers in a hurry to close should concern themselves not only with their own property but also with their neighbors’.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Although I was certainly nervous about the process, I knew I was far better prepared — and had far more resources and industry experts available for consultation — than most first-time buyers. Lamacchia Realty is using its own buyer representation agreements , and I found the form straightforward and easy to understand.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

Slower growth of unsold homes on the market is a result of too few sellers on the supply side and stability on the demand side. New listings come at slow rate On the new listings side, we’ve covered the slow rate of sellers now for two full years. There’s no sign of any big surge in sellers. Texas inventory grew by 1.5%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

While a real estate agent’s commission is one of the most expensive costs, it definitely isn’t the only one. From staging fees, home improvements, repairs and seller concessions, there are several hidden costs involved in the selling process. To attract potential buyers, sellers have to make sure their home is aesthetically pleasing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the possibilities of working remotely, more and more people are looking to buy a house in Vermont’s largest city, causing a huge swell in demand in an area that was already flush with prospective buyers. Buyers from across the country have set their sights on Burlington. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We’re watching sales volumes , which are definitely up over past year but remain slow. Housing inventory When we look at the active inventory of unsold homes on the market, we can definitely see the impact of higher mortgage rates in the past month. We are also consistently measuring more sellers coming back into the market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their home. “A Buyers are taking their time and they definitely are being pickier,” Wallace said. There is no advantage for a seller to work with an offer like that.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the center of the plaintiffs’ complaint is the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation policy, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ brokers in order to list the property on the MLS. “In This would lead to competition among buyer brokers to offer lower commission rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

Going from a volatile rate environment in the latter half of 2022 to a market with lower, more stabilized rates, there’s optimism spreading across the industry that buyers will come back. Ben Cohen: I’ve definitely seen an increase in inbound calls from people wanting to get pre-approved to buy a home.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The housing market is definitely heating up for the spring, but it still feels frozen with so many buyers and sellers sitting right now. I recently talked about sellers sitting out of the market, but today let’s look at buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

They found liar buyers. We have rules, we have standards, and we all know the exact definition of value. The “official unofficial” government-related loan definition of market value is clear. It says buyer and seller are: Prudent and knowledgeable. Also part of the definition: Reasonable market exposure time.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Prior to the implementation of the current CCP in May 2020, listing brokers had two business days from the signing of the listing contract to either enter the listing into the MLS as “active” or submit a listing exclusion form, which had to be authorized by the seller, to the MLS. That should not be dictated by an association.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

More home sellers are coming back to the market each week. That makes a total seller count of 93,000 for the week, which is 20% more than last year at this time. At that time, there were more sellers and more sales. We’ll continue to see the number of sellers grow gradually.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

These rising costs are understandably impacting the ability or willingness of some buyers to purchase specific properties. We are seeing contracts fall through during the due-diligence period because of the sticker shock on insurance costs, so that is definitely a problem.” It is definitely a significant concern and issue,” Smith said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

There isn’t a whole lot of time during the year where it is super slow because we have a lot of vacation buyers, but pre-COVID, between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving, when the mountains were just starting to open, was typically slow. It really is just really slow from a buyer standpoint.” as of June 21, 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

When I originated loans, there were a certain number of people that just didn’t need an agent — because the buyers and sellers knew each other in some fashion. But we are definitely supporting a market that already exists — they don’t use real estate agents anyway. BR: On the surface, it does appear that way.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 23, 2024

“We’re seeing a slow shift from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market,” said Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist at NAR. Homes are sitting on the market a bit longer, and sellers are receiving fewer offers. More buyers are insisting on home inspections and appraisals, and inventory is definitively rising on a national basis.”

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Listing Spark

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Control and transparency : Empowers sellers with greater control over the process and clear understanding of costs. In contrast, a flat fee model caps costs and maximizes seller profit, appealing to those tech-savvy individuals or investors eager for efficiency and savings. A crucial part of this service is the MLS listing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

A typical commission dispute arises when, after signing a listing agreement or buyer-broker agreement: A seller-client “cancels” a valid purchase contract. A seller-client cancels a listing. A seller-client permits the property to be foreclosed upon. If there is no writing, courts may dismiss an action for a commission.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

The risk of an economic recession remains low, but the pullback in private-sector employment suggests that higher borrowing costs and uncertainty are definitely having an impact,” Sturtevant said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate ’s settlement agreement in two class action antitrust lawsuits dealing with buyer broker compensation raises important questions about the future of buyer’s agency and how other defendants are viewing the fast approaching trials. million in damages for both the Moehrl and Sitzer/Burnett suits.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The highly anticipated trial of the Sitzer/Burnett buyer broker compensation class action lawsuit kicked off in earnest on Tuesday morning, with opening arguments taking place in the Kansas City courtroom belonging to U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Bough.

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Realtor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Here are some things sellers can do—straight from the home appraisers’ mouths—to navigate the process of home appraisals. This usually takes at least a few days — and definitely more than a few hours. Lenders often require the use of their own, FHA-approved home appraiser. After all, who will notice?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

He noted that Anywhere is a big fan of the soon-to-be mandatory buyer agency agreements and the transparency they offer consumers. Anywhere is committed to a thoughtful rollout of buyer agreements, with two core concepts guiding our approach. Buyer agreements must be clear, concise and free of legal jargon,” he said. “So,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

While Danzey said the NAR’s decision to settle was not surprising, the quick turnaround for a July implementation date of the new rules definitely gave him a start — and he was not the only one. If the seller is willing to have that discussion, then you and your buyer can see what they would be willing to cover.”

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