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Lease-Purchase Arrangements: Another Path to Homeownership?

Appraisal Buzz

Under a lease-purchase arrangement, the property seller also acts as the landlord. The buyer rents the home as a tenant first, typically paying an up-front fee or down payment under an option contract to preserve the right to purchase the property within a set time period.

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57 crucial real estate statistics that explain the 2025 market

Housing Wire

The market action index is 37, indicating that there is a slight seller’s advantage. 89% of sellers used an agent to sell their home. 70% of sellers are repeat sellers, 30% are first-time sellers. 70% of sellers are repeat sellers, 30% are first-time sellers.

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Fannie Mae clarifies ARM interest rate, ups cash-out refi term on manufactured homes

Housing Wire

Additionally, we added new language to the retail, third-party origination, broker and correspondent definitions to clarify that an affiliate, subsidiary, or parent company relationship with the mortgage seller are considered the same as the seller for the purposes of the definition of the origination type.”

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There’s no sign of the typical fall slowdown in home buying

Housing Wire

One-third of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within one week of hitting the market, a new report from Redfin found. In addition, the number of homes that went under contract within two weeks of listing rose to 46% from 42% during the same period in 2020. points from a month earlier.

Contracts 403
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Inventory needs to increase to balance housing market: Fed Beige Book

Housing Wire

Available home inventory has remained low since the previous Federal Reserve Beige Book report, which was released in November 2022, as many sellers decided not to list — affecting the New York and Boston districts in particular. Landlord concessions have also somewhat increased. However, housing affordability worsened.

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Need to sell your house fast? Here are 7 great options

Housing Wire

Roofstock Marketplace , for example, offers services to help sellers who need to sell their homes fast, including key market insights to help with pricing. You don’t sell your home to the wholesaler; the contract gets transferred to a buyer the wholesaler finds for you. The right pricing strategy may help to sell a property quickly.

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‘We’re keeping an eye on Florida’ says one of the housing market’s largest homebuilders

Empire Appraisal Group

Join Flock Homes CEO Ari Rubin in an exclusive webinar recording to learn about the 721 Exchange tax and retirement strategy for landlords. In the fourth quarter ending October 31, the homebuilder sold 2,658 homes, up 30% from the 2,038 homes signed under contract during the same quarter last year.