Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each week — for several months now — inventory levels of unsold homes on the market has been expanding compared to last year. Even as inventory declined this week, it’s relatively growing compared to a year ago. This week, inventory fell by half a percent. There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But it is growing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Finding an agent Like 43% of homebuyers , I began my search online, as I worked to get a sense for what the inventory in my preferred areas and in my price range looked like. I wanted to make sure I was comfortable with what the inventory in my price range might look like before I began taking up an agent’s valuable time.

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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

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 a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. Literally since Jan.

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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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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

First-time buyers face high home prices, high mortgage interest rates and limited inventory, making them a decade older with significantly higher incomes than previous generations of buyers. The highest documented average age of home sellers was 63 years old. A record 26 percent of homebuyers made cash payments.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We’re watching inventory , which continues to grow by 3% each week. We’re watching sales volumes , which are definitely up over past year but remain slow. Housing inventory When we look at the active inventory of unsold homes on the market, we can definitely see the impact of higher mortgage rates in the past month.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

Inventory increases aren’t occurring at a super fast pace, but the number of homes on the market across the country keeps expanding. Elevated mortgage rates slow demand so that inventory grows, but in years past, the total sales volume has been restricted by the limited supply. Let’s dig further into the details of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

There is currently an inventory of 642,359 properties. 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. 10% of properties have been relisted.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“We are seeing multiple offers definitely in those medium price ranges. It has definitely downshifted, but in most cases, I am still seeing listing agents putting out deadlines for best and final offers.” There is definitely frustration among buyers,” she said. “It As of Sept. It gets discouraging.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. The inventory put a cap on how much business Marquis’ team can do, which is one of the reasons why Marquis is now licensed in 22 states. In our market here in Boston, we have incredibly low inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

While I hate to be the bearer of bad news, that era is almost most definitely drawing to a close. With the coming together of interest rate drops, the persistent, continued low inventory levels and 2023 being recorded as the slowest year for U.S. Will we get more inventory? The strategy has changed for buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 23, 2024

“Homes are sitting on the market a bit longer, and sellers are receiving fewer offers. More buyers are insisting on home inspections and appraisals, and inventory is definitively rising on a national basis.” June Inventory Sees Record-High Home Prices Across All Unit Types As of the end of June, there were 1.32

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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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 Local agents say this is one of the main reasons why the state is struggling with housing inventory. They don’t want to give up their 3% rate for a 7% rate.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

We still have low inventory, but also not a lot of buyer activity, and now I’m seeing more inventory come on the market and still not as much buyer activity. Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling. So, this year, April and May were a little slower, so it felt like we were getting back to a normal market.

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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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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

But the question is, if the buyer agency fees are being paid by the seller or by the buyer, how will that change the final sales price if it gets added in or taken out of the final price?” If sellers are unwilling to offer help with buyer’s agent fees, Mohtashami said they are effectively making their homes more expensive for buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” Both buyers and sellers are coming back to the market,” Fischer said. Like elsewhere in the country, Indiana has struggled with housing inventory. Last year was a tough one for the Indiana real estate market. 23, 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

I think this trend is durable, but it’s definitely not a guarantee. I suspect if that happens we’ll see even more demand, with a strong pickup in home sales volume coupled with falling inventory levels, and a return to rising home prices. That’s the active inventory across the country.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

Due to low inventory, sellers are able to put their homes up at a higher rate. The definition of a “fixer-upper” varies. In 2020, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller price index reported the highest annual housing growth since 2013. Buy A Fixer-Upper. But in general, it’s a home that could use a few improvements.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling. We definitely noticed a downturn last year, which coincided with interest rates going up, and buyers just put the brakes on things and wanted to wait to see what was going to happen. I feel like the market we are in, from an inventory standpoint, feels similar to last year.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Roberts and thousands of other loan officers across the country continue to be hampered by a serious inventory shortage , which results in heavy competition for fewer deals. There’s just more buyers than there are sellers,” added Steven Grossman, chief strategic officer at NJ Lenders. Waiting for rates to go down is just a foolish bet.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this article, well cover the definition of a pocket listing, the pros and cons for both agents and sellers, and how to transact off-market legally and ethically. While Im sure there are instances where this is unfortunately the case, there are legitimate reasons why selling off-market is in the sellers best interest.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Supply of homes for sale is very low, and most of the year we’ve had more buyers than sellers. Inventory is very low and just inching up now week over week late in the summer. Inventory up slightly There are now just over 509,000 single-family homes active unsold on the market. Offers stopped and sellers cut their prices.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Prior to the implementation of the current CCP in May 2020, listing brokers had two business days from the signing of the listing contract to either enter the listing into the MLS as “active” or submit a listing exclusion form, which had to be authorized by the seller, to the MLS. That should not be dictated by an association.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

When I originated loans, there were a certain number of people that just didn’t need an agent — because the buyers and sellers knew each other in some fashion. But we are definitely supporting a market that already exists — they don’t use real estate agents anyway. How do you look at that?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

” Kanacki’s market, like many others, remains competitive as buyers continue to experience bidding wars amid historically low housing inventory and an uptick in home prices. “I Hamblen said that there’s about a month-and-a-half worth of inventory in the Long Island market and she is expecting a strong end to 2020.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Especially in the $2 million to $5 million range, there is quite a bit of inventory now sitting on the market and it is great property,” Durham said. “So, Agents say the lower list prices have been a hard bill for sellers to swallow. For properties priced around $2.835 million, the Market Action Index score has dropped to 29.74

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Research local market trends Stay informed about local market trends, such as inventory levels, demand, and median home prices. While the appraisal is not a guarantee of the final sale price, it can help you understand the fair market value of the home and can assist in making informed decisions during negotiations with the seller.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are definitely seeing an uptick in demand. Demand for approvals has definitely increased, but homebuyers are waiting to see if they will drop just as fast as they have come down recently, said Robby Oakes, managing director at CIMG Residential Mortgage. All eyes will be on the CPI report and Fed meeting this week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a sellers market. I am super busy right now, said Charissa Kennard , an agent for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty.There is a lot of inventory right now, which is good because there are a lot more options for clients right now.

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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. That’s a problem because mortgage LOs traditionally have not “forged as deep of inroads” with sellers’ agents.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

If there is a change in how inventory is managed in our industry, we’re going to be the No. And kind of what happens with our inventory, no matter how the market evolves, we’re going to be in the advantaged position with our scale.” We are definitely seeing and feeling more outreach and back and forth,“ she said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Sellers have brought up the affordability issue with housing and they have wondered how much resources buyers have and if they would be able to now all of a sudden potentially pay a buyer’s agent fee on top of their mortgage down payment and closing costs,” Alperin said. A wise agent right now is talking to buyers and sellers,” Brown said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“There’s definitely still a lot of regular home buyers who have been living and working here in Vermont forever and are just being kind of edged out of the market because of people coming from out of state with more cash to spend,” Kavenaugh said. Exacerbating the issue of soaring demand is an incredibly low level of inventory. “At

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