Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Demand for “have-it-all” properties and the “forever dream home” will shape this spring’s luxury housing market, according to the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury 2024 Mid-Year Trend Report , which forecasts growing optimism among affluent consumers and an influx of desirable inventory. Among specialists, 32.8% elections. “A

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

A real estate agent at Compass Florida in Coconut Grove, Schechter has 12 years of experience in the real estate industry, so he’s familiar with its cyclical ups and downs. But today’s housing market has forced him to pivot to remain successful. The house sold for $1.5 for $895,000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

NARs 2025 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report found that Generation X buyers remained steady at 24% of the market. The data reflects shifting financial dynamics, as older buyers particularly boomers are increasingly purchasing homes outright with cash.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

A large majority of homeowners (88%) have concerns about selling their homes, with financial uncertainty and housing market conditions ranking among their top fears, according to a recent survey by Clever Real Estate. These markets also have larger supplies of homes, with about 3.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2021

That’s what real estate agents are here for. Almost 90% of buyers recently used a real estate agent or broker to purchase their home, according to the National Association of Realtors. A real estate agent is a licensed professional who can guide you through the homebuying process.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 1, 2025

According to the National Association of Realtors 2025 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report, baby boomers now comprise the largest generational group of home buyers in a shift that underscores the changing dynamics of todays housing market. Generation X buyers (ages 4559) held steady at 24% of their share.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. Rapidly accelerating home prices come with a variety of challenges for lenders and real estate agents, including one of the biggest pain points right now — the appraisal gap. It is just a super tight housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Real estate agents have white-knuckled their way through more than two years of suffocatingly high mortgage rates that have stymied sales, choked off inventory and pushed home prices to new all-time highs. I always think demand comes before supply in this situation,” said Redfin agent Justin Vold, who is based in Los Angeles. “If

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Stubbornly high interest rates, low levels of inventory and elevated home prices are putting a strain on the often-limited budgets of first-time buyers. Despite the initial concerns, many industry professionals say first-time buyers are currently faring no worse than other buyers — for now, at least.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Disaster-stricken areas can place undue hardship on real estate agents looking to sell houses and sales volumes often take a hit. And a report published this week said that agents in Florida, California and South Carolina are being forced to change tactics to survive in their markets.

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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). Buyer Demographics Vary Across U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

At the Tom Ferry event last month and at the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) going on right now, this attribute is on display everywhere. Speakers are motivated and motivating, focused on what real estate professionals can control in a crazy housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The trend is most pronounced in Atlanta, Las Vegas, Houston, and parts of Florida , where increasing housing supply is leading to a buyers market. With less competition, some buyers are backing out during the inspection period, hoping for a better deal. of pending deals falling through in January. Las Vegas 17.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“Given the erosion of housing affordability due to higher home prices and mortgage rates , the household income for those who successfully purchased homes jumped by nearly $20,000 and topped six figures for only the second time in our records,” Jessica Lautz, NAR deputy chief economist and vice president of research, said in a statement. “In

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A majority of agents believe 2025 is going to be a great year for the housing market. Around 85% have an optimistic outlook , and 70% believe the market will be more stable, according to a new survey from Clever Real Estate. That will likely make it a busy year for real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It’s a weird time to be a real estate agent , and I see it all around me here in the Denver metro. Brokers who rode the proverbial wave of real estate during the pandemic and have now had to reroute or pivot to figure out how to navigate a market that was once boasting the lowest rates in decades are disoriented.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

” Kanacki’s market, like many others, remains competitive as buyers continue to experience bidding wars amid historically low housing inventory and an uptick in home prices. “I Usually, Merchant said the Sacramento housing market slows down after Labor Day, but doesn’t see that slowdown this year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The HousingWire Pulse Survey for Q4 2024 provides valuable insights into the current state of the real estate market from various perspectives: brokerage leaders, mortgage professionals, and real estate agents. This diversity allows for a comprehensive understanding of the market dynamics.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

cities determined that Seattle is the top market for real estate agents to currently work in, and Corpus Christi, Texas, was deemed the worst. In studying the cities, two factors were considered — job opportunity and competition, and real estate market health. A recent WalletHub study of 179 U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Newly released data from the annual profile of home buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows just how dramatically this trend has manifested since the financial crisis of 2008. While the median age of buyers gradually increased over the course of two decades, the COVID-19 pandemic sped it up.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

If you’re looking to buy a home, you’ll stand the best chance in a buyer’s housing market, where listings are flush, demand is low and buyers have the upper hand — not to mention most of the negotiating power. Seller’s markets, on the other hand, are on the opposite side of the spectrum. A buyer’s market in 2021?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

In the age of COVID-19, Peck Barham knew that prospective home buyers would pepper him with questions about home offices as they decamped downtown Birmingham for the spacious suburbs. But the agent with TeamBarham, Keller Williams Homewood didn’t expect the grub question. The post Two home offices?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There’s no doubt we’re in a seller’s housing market. With inventory at record lows, demand surging and prices on the rise, buying — even just finding — a home in today’s market is quite the challenge. Are you hoping to buy a home in 2021’s hot housing market ? More for Real Estate Enthusiasts.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

The HousingWire Pulse Survey for Q3 2024 provides a detailed snapshot of current housing market sentiments and challenges faced by real estate agents, brokers, and mortgage professionals. The primary challenges across the board involve operational efficiency, training, recruitment, and adapting to market changes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Housing market inventory is low right now. Low inventory means fewer choices for homebuyers, but for years enterprising real estate agents have worked around tight market conditions by searching for off-market homes that fit their clients’ specifications. Historically low. compared to a year prior.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

These are the words real estate agents use when asked to describe the current state of the market and what it’s like to buy a home today. Buyers are facing unprecedented challenges, they say, due to a confluence of housing market conditions: Pricing. So, what does this mean for buyers?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

And while real estate agents repping luxury homes aren’t seeing as many bidding wars as they did this summer , their respective housing markets are still crazy right now. Koch said that since this summer — typically the home-buying off-season — was busy for buyers, he thinks it will only get crazier. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. Specifically, housing markets like Portland, Maine , Bay City, Mich. ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

In modern history, the housing market has never seen a month like March. Record demand and the lowest levels of inventory on record pushed sales prices to record highs in March and made life very complicated for buyers, real estate agents, builders and lenders across the United States.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We’ve all witnessed the housing market slowdown that has occurred over the last year. Across the country, homes are spending more days on the market as interest rates rise. Many sellers have returned to offering concessions and dropping prices to entice buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Real estate agents across the country have made it clear – low inventory and low mortgage rates have kept them busy throughout the pandemic, especially in typical vacation destinations. That trend is holding true for the housing market in Hawaii, located about 2,500 miles west of the mainland.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Cash buyers are pouring into the housing market this year, and they’re picking off more than half of available inventory in certain areas in Florida and New York. “I’ve never seen more cash in Boise’s housing market than I’ve seen in the past year,” Pendleton said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The housing market faced a lot of uncertainty when COVID-19 caused the real estate industry to pause under shut-downs, but low interest rates and the desire for more space has turned this year into a boom time for real estate agents. HousingWire caught up with real estate agents across the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this industry, some specific housing market terms bring about more worry to American consumers than others. While the term may sound scaryand is most definitely illegala new survey from CertifID showed how many first-time homeowners are at-risk or more likely to be victims of real estate wire fraud.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Outsiders to the real estate industry may assume that the tight market has real estate agents hanging up their hats. In reality, today’s agents are seizing the market and feeling confident. Real estate agents are still confident in the industry and the market.

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