Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The authors suggest a two-fold recommendation — that more states and local municipalities pass “source of income” legislation so that tenants and homebuyers will be better protected; and for the U.S. of the U.S. mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3% in 2022, according to HUD. of the U.S. mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3%

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Lease-purchase arrangements are receiving renewed attention from legislators looking for ways to make homeownership more accessible, and theyre a great way to help buyers who cant qualify for a traditional mortgage or pony up the money needed for a down payment. But that doesnt mean there arent risks involved for potential purchasers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Sims was able to sell the properties quickly thanks to the deep and wide pool of buyers using Auction.com, with its more than 7.4 Like Richards, most Auction.com buyers are local community developers who have a deep knowledge of the markets and submarkets where they are buying. million registered users.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 22, 2025

While builders response has kept multifamily rent growth steady for several months and stubbornly high mortgage rates are limiting buyer demand and home value increases, detached single-family home rentals are still rising at an accelerating rate. Instead, in an effort to attract tenants, property managers are increasingly using concessions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In addition, her office alleges that EasyKnock violated some of Massachusetts’ landlord-tenant laws. “I Some of these changes include lowering rents for some existing tenants and complying with state landlord-tenant laws. Under the terms of the settlement EasyKnock must comply with all landlord-tenant laws.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

If you own a rental property , chances are you have tenants in it. If you decide to sell while you have tenants, you have a big decision to make. Once the tenants leave, you can fix up the home and sell it as a vacant home. Once the tenants leave, you can fix up the home and sell it as a vacant home. How will you sell it?

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Today, homes are selling faster than usual because of the shortage of inventory and high buyer demand. If your house is priced too high, it will turn buyers off, but if it’s too low, people may wonder what’s wrong with it. You don’t sell your home to the wholesaler; the contract gets transferred to a buyer the wholesaler finds for you.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It was a prime investment – cash flowing and competitively priced due to it being a buyer’s market. A Cautionary Tale from 2013 Let me start with a personal story. In 2013, I acquired an apartment complex in Austell, Georgia. For a while, we were the crown jewel of the submarket which gave us a competitive advantage when leasing.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 18, 2025

Please be aware that a home is deemed affordable if the monthly housing payment for a buyer who takes out a mortgage does not exceed thirty percent of their income. As a result, many affluent tenants who remained were able to obtain affordable properties for sale. To read more, click here.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2021

of rental listings in the country are located in areas that offer tenants protection against source of income or voucher discrimination. Today, both sellers and buyers expect to handle a majority of the process online. Christopher Roberts, Zillow senior vice president and general manager of Zillow Rentals, said 49.3%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

The pandemic hangover, which has left many tenants straining to make rent, translates to lower rent collections, and in turn less cash flow, for owners. Mission-based owners also offer tenant services such as meal deliveries, after school tutoring, job placement counseling, and digital literacy training.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

There are still plenty of buyers interested in this area. In fact, we had (number) offers, which means there are still ready, willing, and qualified buyers eager to make an offer! Buyer’s agents who can find their clients a home that’s not even on the market are instant heroes. Are you considering selling your property?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The metrics used include affordability, vacancy rates, rent increases and buyer demand based on 12 months of listing information and other public data. This trend signified a strong market for investors with little to no turnover among tenants. The list was compiled through an analysis of the 75 largest metro areas in the country.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

While the market for investors purchasing new homes has been slow, mom-and-pop buyers are surprisingly at the top, according to recent research by John Burns Research & Consulting.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash. Although demand for rentals remains strong, rent prices have shown slow growth due to a bevy of new apartments hitting the market, creating competition for tenants. In comparison, total U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pareja says that the first thing eXp did was to create a new one-page buyer broker agreement. He highlights the importance of having a simple document to preserve the buyer’s experience by making things simple and transparent. But these examples are too few and far between to require a complete revamping of the policy. “If

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Mortgage rates hold major power in the housing industry; most importantly, high rates exacerbate the current affordability crisis by walloping the buying power of would-be buyers and discouraging some would-be sellers – those with low, fixed-rate mortgages – from listing their homes, a drain on available inventories.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Its ability to remove friction from the buying and selling process, while adding assurance, flexibility, and customer-centricity, aligns perfectly with our core tenants here at Flyhomes. This deal strengthens our offerings and gives us more tools to serve more customers looking for a better way to buy and sell a home.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Notably, the market has contracted as fewer buyers can afford to purchase in today’s market with the rise in interest rates and the continual rise in home prices. One way to understand the competitiveness of the market is to look at buyers who are waiving contingencies. All cash buyers now stand at 24%. Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

Prices for homes are at record highs, inventory is at historic lows , and many middle- and lower-middle income prospective buyers are being edged out of the marketplace by established owners and those with credit scores in the upper 700s. That’s despite mortgage rates near historic lows for much of the past year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

One researcher said that the situations of older adults could be bettered by “improving and streamlining the federal HECM program, broadening the criteria for refinancing and [home equity line of credit (HELOC)] loans, and encouraging the development of more housing, including homes and apartments suitable for older buyers and tenants.”

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 24, 2021

This process has appraisers review location, condition, and other variables so they can assess whether buyers will be interested. It’s not uncommon for people to have tenants or roommates, but you’ll typically find that isn’t the case with single-family houses. However, things aren’t always as straightforward as they seem.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth, there are simply not enough affordable entry-level and first-time move-up options available for buyers. For local governments, ADUs can increase the number of tenants in areas where high-rise dwellings are not a desirable option. million homes.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

As a result, landlords can align rental prices, and tenants are limited in their ability to successfully negotiate counter offers or seek discounts. This type of conduct is egregious.” The complaint alleges that landlords using YieldStar agreed to provide RealPage “competitively sensitive data” that isn’t available to the public.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Tsai works with both homebuyers and tenants and while he says his business is typically split 50/50 between buyers and tenants, he has noticed a shift as mortgage rates have risen over the past six months. There are always flocks of buyers from out of state and out of county.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

” The Oakland, California-based company offers an online marketplace where buyers and sellers can both buy and sell rental homes in more than 70 U.S. Some of these properties have tenants already residing in them, giving investors the opportunity to buy and sell the home without the renters being forced to vacate.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

And I want to assure you that I will leave no stone unturned to find our perfect buyer. If the tenant did not pay and it took some time to evict them and clean up the property, would that place a financial burden on you?” and Mrs. Seller, I am delighted to have the opportunity to represent you in the sale of your home.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

In addition, her office alleges that EasyKnock violated some of Massachusetts’ landlord-tenant laws. Most recently, EasyKnock announced a $28 million series D funding round from new and existing investors including Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors , and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This greatly reduces the inventory of the homes that first-time buyers would normally seek. The impacts are felt by renters as well as potential buyers. The largest owner of rental homes raised rents 12% last year and sees the potential to keep boosting rents to a higher percentage of tenants’ disposable income.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The share of distressed property auction buyers who say they are owner-occupants nearly doubled over the last year, boosted by a game-changing government policy that took effect last August. That was nearly double the 8% of buyers who described themselves as owner-occupants in a February 2022 Auction.com buyer survey.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

According to a recent National Association of Realtors (NAR) survey, 86% of tenants renting single-family homes end up purchasing a home within five years. . These higher rates sidelined more potential buyers as mortgage rates hit a 10-year high, now hovering above 7%. And the numbers back up this counter narrative. requires up to 6.8

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

Whether cash buyers outbid you or you can’t get financing to cover the high costs, it puts a damper on your goal to add real estate investments to your portfolio. How will you take care of the property or find tenants? Not everyone can afford to invest in rental property in the area they live in. Rental Demand.

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Inman

AUGUST 21, 2024

How to build client roster by helping them invest in homes via the mid-term rental strategy Help buyers complete transactions by using mid-term rentals to bridge gaps in housing How realtors can make extra money by managing and co-hosting homes in the mid-term rental space (and also a way to find buyers via tenants) How […]

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 26, 2022

The streak continues: as affordability concerns begin to price some buyers out of the purchase market, the latest data from the rental market shows that tenants are experiencing double-digit rent hikes as well.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 26, 2022

The streak continues: as affordability concerns begin to price some buyers out of the purchase market, the latest data from the rental market shows that tenants are experiencing double-digit rent hikes as well.

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Tenants Buyers Appraisal Marketing 195

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Other agents: Other agents can be an excellent place to find referrals, find listings for your buyers that arent on the market yet and simply build working relationships with your fellow agents, which makes it easier when doing a deal together.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 13, 2024

Creating an effective MLS (Multiple Listing Service) listing is crucial for attracting potential buyers and expediting the appraisal process. This allows both a potential buyer and the appraiser to see where this property falls within the real estate market.

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