Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Markets The most common adaptive reuse project type is notably creative office-to-apartment conversions, which make up about 42% of the 168,500 upcoming conversion projects. It seems the Big Apple seems to stay on some sort of list when it comes to the housing market, doesnt it? billion square feet of office space nationwideor 14.8%

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Amid the whirlwind of economic forces impacting the housing market, one trend stands out. Imagine a young couple, burdened by student loan debt, and discouraged by the competitive housing market. Lenders can provide expert guidance on options like renovation loans, home equity solutions, and reverse mortgages.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As a founder / CEO, I’ve seen my fair share of market cycles. Today, I want to dive deep into the current rental market environment, share some personal insights, and most importantly, discuss how we can address these challenges head-on. New owners used their cost savings to renovate and undercut our rent rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash. It reflects another pressing issue of imbalanced supply and demand in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The goal is to help them avoid homelessness by funding affordable housing construction, home repairs and adaptations as well as giving out financial assistance. Home Depot’s recent earnings report could give context to its moves in the housing market.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

In today’s low-volume market cycle, mortgage originators can build business by focusing on purpose-built loan products designed to overcome the specific challenges homebuyers face in the current market. That is a significant increase from the 13% average between 2000-2019 in new construction.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

The Seattle area is a hot housing market. But a nonprofit organization in the Seattle area is seeking to help more seniors renovate their homes to age safely. Overall Seattle-area construction costs have stabilized in the last year, but remain 40% higher than pre-pandemic,” the Times noted. year over year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Construction is starting to pick up, so that should help alleviate things in the housing market. Four renovations to consider before selling your house. Worries about finding a replacement home in a hot housing market. Should homeowners get off the sidelines of this housing market? But existing homes?

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 14, 2025

In addition to buyers and sellers, this disruption might have repercussions for the economy, associated sectors, and the larger real estate market. From the sellers point of view, this leads to more market uncertainty and lengthier listing periods. Economic activity is also significantly influenced by the housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2020

Additionally, remodel volume – a subset of maintenance that includes renovations, additions, and alterations – increased 2.59% while spend decreased 1.59% year over year. Last month, Buildfax estimated if single-family authorizations and existing housing activity continue to gain, new construction could stabilize in the Fall.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

In a supply-constrained housing market , even landing a deal at foreclosure auction has become challenging, but those deals tend to be more readily available in markets or neighborhoods that are off the beaten path. It’s very, very market dependent right now. I’m still focusing on those markets with very low (retail) inventory.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

In a competitive market full of options, banks must rely on more than their rate sheet to compete for the business of third-party originators. We specialize in non-agency loans, including bank statement loans, government lending, new construction and renovation products, and HELOCs , positioning us as a leader in the industry.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

After months of slogging through a string of disappointments, Patrick turned to a renovation loan and started looking at fixer-uppers. Snover said that few real estate agents suggest that buyers purchase a home with a renovation loan, sometimes because they are unfamiliar with the process — which has its complexities.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 30, 2024

A new report from New Western, a national real estate investment marketplace, indicates that local real estate investors are poised to outperform traditional builders in several key markets. Surge in Home Flips In 2023, New Western operated across 42 markets, where there were 185,272 new builds compared to 163,894 home flips.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Last year might best be described as a risk-prone atmosphere for the single-family rental sector and the related fix-and-flip market. We didn’t call it a bear market, but we did call it a lack of liquidity, which I think is more accurate,” said L.D. In 2023, the landscape for home flipping across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Many real estate investors were serendipitously ahead of this shift even before the pandemic started, driven by both affordability and an affinity for overlooked markets. Currently I’m in some of the Southern markets like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Indianapolis, Ohio. See sidebar for more details on these markets.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 3, 2025

They also reported that, as of 2023, at least eight states have policies that preempt local bans of ADU construction. At that time, the study showed that ADU construction was rising by 8.6% A popular use for ADUs in the current market is also to rent out the space to earn additional income. per year over the last decade.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

While ground-up construction of new units by national homebuilders is part of the solution, these builders generally dont address the aging current housing stock, or the need to create additional density and living space in infill areas where each property may have different attributes. million homes and growing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

In his new role, Thompson will also be responsible for driving growth and expanding the company’s market presence while fostering relationships with real estate partners. The lender also provides rate-and-term and cash-out refinancing, along with construction and renovation loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are a few trends in financing that will continue to catalyze the construction of more ADUs: Expanded access to mortgage financing The Federal Housing Authority announced a new policy in October 2023 that has made it easier to finance construction of new ADUs, as well as making it more achievable to buy or refinance a house with an existing ADU.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He is the CEO and Founder of Bluebird Lending, a national private lender servicing real estate developers and investors with an array of loan products to acquire, construct, and refinance residential and multifamily properties. Michael has renovated and built from the ground up, over 75 single-family homes for sale and rent.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Employment in the construction industry continued to trend up in July, adding 19,000 jobs, especially in the residential construction space. Furthermore, residential building construction employment was flat year-over-year in July, while non-residential was up by 5.9%, according to First American Economist Ksenia Potapov.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Zillow will keep trying to sell existing home inventory, plus renovate and try to resell homes it has purchased under contract, according to a company press release. We have not been exempted from these market and capacity issues and we now have an operational backlog for renovations and closings. construction workers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (Neighborhood Homes) would begin addressing these challenges by developing or renovating 125,000 affordable homes in economically distressed communities. This cost gap all-too-often prevents the renovation of affordable houses that need a great deal of work.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

And for those who still want to build a home from scratch, rising construction costs , limited lot sizes, and excessive red tape can make the process seem insurmountable. Considering how much construction technology, materials, and techniques have evolved, building a new home should be far simpler than it is. Harder than it has to be.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

Low rates and increased demand mean prices are soaring on what stock is available – and what’s available isn’t staying on the market for long. The average home age in the United States is about 40 years old, so there’s a huge stock of homes that need to be renovated.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

Once the transfer of ownership occurs at foreclosure auction, a distressed property can be renovated and returned to the retail market as affordable housing for homeowners or renters. “[I My renovated homes are] reducing the number of rental properties , which in our town has become a source of demise.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with “substantial” renovation and rehabilitation. While the odds are stacked against this proposal ever passing Congress, a federal rent control law would be catastrophic to renters and our nation’s rental housing market.” Also on Tuesday, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

residential mortgage market and housing-related assets. It also has a niche in construction and manufactured home loan programs. Proprietary Capital expects to add products and gain market share across all channels after the ARF acquisition, the company said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2022

jobs report released Friday shows that 678,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in February, and the return of skilled labor in residential construction is reason alone for optimism. After losing 5,000 jobs in January, the construction sector rebounded gaining 60,000 jobs in February. After mixed results in January , the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Mortgage demand picked up in recent weeks due to rates declining to 6% levels and a massive backlog of homes under construction, as mentioned by HousingWire ‘s lead analyst Logan Mohtashami in a recent column. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market.

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Inman

JANUARY 30, 2023

million Series A for Freemodel to expand its approach to prepaid, fully managed market preparation renovations, according to an announcement sent exclusively to Inman. QED led a $19.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is a detailed report that helps real estate agents evaluate and determine the market value of a property. A CMA report includes information on similar, comparable properties in the area, including recent sales, active listings and current market trends.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2022

The housing market has been a roller coaster ride since COVID-19 began, and it hasn’t shown signs of stopping in 2022. Here are some buyer relocation trends to watch out for in 2022’s hectic real estate market. Millennials Still Prefer Renovating. More Second Home Purchases. 2021 to Jan. Greater Demand for More Space.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Mortgage lenders are betting on down-payment assistance programs, buy-down options and renovation products to provide brokers opportunities to win in a market with mortgage rates nearing 8%, a lack of inventory and high home prices. “There is too much distraction in the market; there are some negative folks out there.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Planet is pioneering the future of mortgage lending with novel products like Cash 4 Homes, 1st Year Flex, Purchase EDGE, one-time close construction loans, and bridge, renovation and manufactured home loans,” Long said. Its strategy has focused on acquisitions in both correspondent and retail channels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

commercial spaces/building and residential homes/townhomes) and inconsistent transactional processes, fragmentation in the market has prevented real-estate from adopting technology as quickly as other sectors – until now. While each of these digital companies successfully addressed a problem in the market, other pain points still existed.

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