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How appraisers value homes in a hot housing market

Housing Wire

Robin Sheridan, a real-estate broker with Compass Washington, recently listed a three-bedroom home in Seattle for $795,000. As anyone involved in the residential real-estate market knows, bidding wars – and contract prices exceeding the list price – are the norm today in many markets around the nation.

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Real estate’s strong 2023 housing market finish: Altos

Housing Wire

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. We have more homes going into contract each week now than we did a year ago — supply and demand are climbing together. There are now 258,000 single family homes in contract.

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Promising signs abound for 2024 housing market

Housing Wire

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. housing market in 2024.

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Real estate momentum slows as interest rates rise again: Altos

Housing Wire

For several weeks, I’ve been reporting data that shows the housing market growing in 2024. Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. New listings and new contracts both still show a bit of improvement over 2023, but the growth rates have slid back down.

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Scottsdale housing market: Not just for snowbirds anymore

Housing Wire

But the Scottsdale housing market, and Arizona as a whole, has seen an enormous uptick in out-of-state movers in the past 14 months — when the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading across the country, ultimately allowing people to work from home and seek larger, more cost-effective lots to live on.

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Housing market outlook for 2021…and beyond

Housing Wire

With it behind us, let’s look ahead at several housing market trends that are likely in 2021 and beyond. Using CoreLogic TrueStandings data, we estimate that there will be about 20 million home mortgages outstanding at the start of 2021, with a contract interest rate of 4% or higher. 2020 was a truly unprecedented year.

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Working with buyers in the nation’s hottest housing market

Housing Wire

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.