Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Having previously written about the Greater Boston housing market a few times for HousingWire, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know some of the area’s top agents and brokers. In what I found to be a pleasant surprise, the sellers of the two homes I put offers in on were offering buyer broker compensation.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their home. “A Despite the state’s tight inventory, the housing market is not as hot as one might expect.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Cooler fall temperatures have brought less intense housing market conditions to the once white-hot market of Bergen County , New Jersey. “We We are seeing some price drops start to happen and a little bit longer days on market.” “We are seeing multiple offers definitely in those medium price ranges.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this industry, some specific housing market terms bring about more worry to American consumers than others. While the term may sound scaryand is most definitely illegala new survey from CertifID showed how many first-time homeowners are at-risk or more likely to be victims of real estate wire fraud. For instance: WIRE FRAUD.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Warmer summer weather has brought cooler housing market conditions to Montana. The market right now just feels like it’s a bit lukewarm,” said Brian Huskey , a Billings, Montana-based ERA American Real Estate agent. This was the slowest June we’ve seen in many years in our market,” Durham, a luxury-focused agent, said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We still see more sellers than last year. Home prices aren’t falling but the growth signals are definitely softening. The housing market data has been changing very rapidly this year. We are in the normal range with price reductions, meaning sellers are generally fine, generally getting their prices.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

As movers flock to secondary cities in search of more land for less cash, the Utah housing market – land of ski slopes and mountain trails – has become a popular destination, especially for those leaving California. But when houses do hit the Utah housing market, they’re snatched up in a hurry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

So, it’s definitely not like selling a loan to a GSE (government-sponsored enterprise). You need a buyer and seller,” Brown said. mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Known for its rural communities, quaint towns, scenic lakes and mountain vistas, New Hampshire is probably not where you would expect to find one of the nations hottest housing markets but the data says otherwise. 18, with a market action index score of 55.77.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Inventory is too low, people need to decide to sell their houses,” Buchbinder told HousingWire. There are] a lot more buyers than there are sellers right now, causing an increase in purchase prices,” Buchbinder said. “A But the amount of buyers still definitely outweigh the listings that are out there. Presented by: TMS.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a recent selling guide announcement by Fannie Mae (November 6, 2024), it was mentioned that they had collaborated with Freddie Mac to update the standardized definitions for neighborhood and market area. The updated definitions are provided below, along with their corresponding definitions from the Appraisal Institute.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Both buyers and sellers are coming back to the market,” Fischer said. You can’t get anything you can move into, and I think those people are definitely getting tired. Despite the challenges, Fischer stands by his optimistic view of Indiana’s 2024 housing market. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

It is nearly April, which means temperatures in the Austin metropolitan area are heating up — and so is the housing market. The market is still strong,” said Wendy Cash, a broker at Austin area-based Century 21 Hellmann Stribling. Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

According to local real estate agents, the region’s housing market seems to have read the same memo, as June did not bring the same market boost as many have grown accustomed to. Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling. Local agents are not exactly sure what has caused this most recent market slowdown.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers from each city share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. 1 housing market for spring 2022, there is no doubt that the housing market in Rapid City is one to watch. Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Hesitant home sellers could be one reason there is such low housing inventory, according to a report from Zillow. Thirty-four percent of would-be home sellers said they are staying out of the market due to the uncertainty caused by COVID-19. “The catch is that waiting to sell may raise the cost of a trade-up.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vacation areas and luxury housing markets aren’t the only ones benefitting from a wave of pandemic buyers : southeastern locales are also filling up. I think people are definitely upsizing for that reason, so that they can spread out when everybody’s at home working and doing school remotely,” Vreeland-Abell said.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The housing market is definitely heating up for the spring, but it still feels frozen with so many buyers and sellers sitting right now. I recently talked about sellers sitting out of the market, but today let’s look at buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

After a couple weeks of big jumps for mortgage rates , we’re still seeing relatively surprising strength in the housing market. We’re watching sales volumes , which are definitely up over past year but remain slow. housing market for the week of April 22. There are 543,000 single-family homes on the market now.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

there is a big debate right now about private marketplaces, but the data shows that sellers generally can sell for a shorter period of time and for a higher dollar amount because of the MLS. In the U.S., Sanford said that eXp’s own operation in Egypt is being set up in conjunction with an eXp agent who works in the U.S. million to $113.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Sinking sales, rapidly rising inventory and prices at all-time highs — this is the state of the market for existing homes. That’s according to June’s existing-home sales data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which reflect the problems that have hampered housing markets since mortgage rates began to rise in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

Read on for more about Cohen’s business strategies for 2023, his take on the housing market and what mortgage products to pay attention to this year. Ben Cohen: I’ve definitely seen an increase in inbound calls from people wanting to get pre-approved to buy a home. Kim: So would you say it’s a seller’s market right now?

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

The good news for the housing market is that the pace of sales is gradually improving due to the expanded supply. housing market as we roll into May 2024. Housing inventory There are now just under 600,000 single-family homes on the market. More home sellers are coming back to the market each week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

Recently unsold inventory would rise later in the year, especially in the last two years as the market slowed when inventory climbed up to November. Slower growth of unsold homes on the market is a result of too few sellers on the supply side and stability on the demand side. There’s no sign of any big surge in sellers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

“Insurance was typically not a big factor in the decision making process, but given the cost now and even the availability of what properties can easily be insured and what cannot is definitely a factor in what properties our customers are looking at and considering.” The underwriting requirements for homes are getting a lot more strict.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing contracts fall through during the due-diligence period because of the sticker shock on insurance costs, so that is definitely a problem.” Literally since Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

We’re slowly emerging from a supply-constrained market. As sellers gently re-enter the market, more home sales can happen and are happening. Last year there were so few sellers each week and we now observe 10-15% more sellers each week. These are marketed as “Coming Soon” — they’re not actually listed for sale yet.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

In 2020, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller price index reported the highest annual housing growth since 2013. Due to low inventory, sellers are able to put their homes up at a higher rate. The problem is, rushing to buy property might force you to settle for a house that won’t reward you financially. Buy A Fixer-Upper.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

And just like the bears who are starting to wake up from their long winter naps, homebuyers and sellers are coming out of hibernation… or at least they normally do. The pandemic definitely changed the real estate market ,” Todd Alperin, a Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group agent based in Southern New Hampshire, said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

LOs across a variety of housing markets reported that inbound reverse mortgage inquiries appear to have risen since the beginning of the year, keeping them busy. “I I think things have definitely picked up,” said Tane Cabe, a broker with C2 Financial Corp., said in a recent interview. That seems to be the general feeling. “I

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

The risk of an economic recession remains low, but the pullback in private-sector employment suggests that higher borrowing costs and uncertainty are definitely having an impact,” Sturtevant said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We have rules, we have standards, and we all know the exact definition of value. The “official unofficial” government-related loan definition of market value is clear. It says buyer and seller are: Prudent and knowledgeable. Also part of the definition: Reasonable market exposure time. Typically motivated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

I think what we are definitely going to see is a fall-off of the old way of doing things,” Saunders told attendees at HousingWire ’s The Gathering. Through this, Saunders said, consumers began to realize the importance of staging, photography and online marketing. The way Saunders views it, today’s consumers are more savvy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2020

The National Association of Realtors found in its Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers in 2019 that 26% of all homebuyers said the quality of schools was important when finding a new home. The post In a virtual learning world, do you still need to buy a house in a good school district?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“I think there is a lot of fear with the election coming up, that’s going to play a big factor of our spring market as well [and] depending on how everybody is comfortable with leadership going forward,” Kanacki said. I think people used to say that [they] wanted to get settled before school started back in the day,” Merchant said. “I

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down. Meanwhile, trade groups representing lenders believe that more details on the settlement are needed to understand its coming impact on the housing market.

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