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Median home prices, new listings move higher in Florida

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The hope is that a potential cooling of interest rates will contribute to a stronger market in 2024, according to Florida Realtors President Gia Arvin, a broker-owner with Matchmaker Realty in Gainesville. “New listings of single-family homes were up 16.7% ” Closed sales of single-family homes grew 0.6%

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“It seems impossible:” Bergen County, NJ’s housing market is vexing agents and buyers

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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 But now buyers are sick of waiting around and are deciding it is time to buy.”

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Buyers are struggling to compete in the white-hot Cincinnati market

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“I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. Buyers are really struggling.” We couldn’t even see it.

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Cincinnati’s housing market in a word? Unpredictable

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A substantial drop in new listings is a contributing factor. 1, weekly new listings were at 410 but have since dropped to 186, although new listings tend to drop in December as the holidays approach. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market.

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No seasonal slowdown this year as real estate agents report a busier-than-usual fall

Housing Wire

“There’s a lot of homeschooling going on in this hybrid world, and it’s difficult,” Realtor Vesna Kanacki with Century 21 Full Service Realty in New City, New York, told HousingWire. There were nine new pending contracts for every 10 new listings, a slower rate than the 9.9

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Rising insurance costs, ample inventory create a unique market in Southwest Florida

Housing Wire

In the nearby metro area of Cape Coral-Fort Myers , active single-family inventory over the previous 90 days averaged 6,500 listings as of March 15, above its March 2020 level of 5,044 listings and approaching its March 2019 level of 7,243 listings. Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Tampa housing market comes to a halt as Hurricane Milton looms

Housing Wire

Data from Altos Research shows that new listings and pending home sales have fallen off a cliff since the storm’s formation. New listings in Tampa were at 775 on Sept. Additionally, the storm has prompted buyers and home insurers to hit pause. 27, but they’ve since dropped to 555.