Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Just waiting for the market to correct and find balance,” wrote one Auction.com buyer, in response to a survey regarding the impact of market conditions on bidding and purchasing behavior at auction. The remaining 45% claimed that their inclination to purchase was unaffected by market conditions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sean Shallis, a “Recovering Realtor” and top-producing loan officer , is offering strategies to help realtors break through this stagnation by leveraging micro-market shifts to create urgency and inspire action. Leveraging micro-market shifts Realtors have an opportunity to use local market changes to drive urgency for their clients.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. Social media posts have fueled speculation that Austin’s rental market is in freefall. Gerli told HousingWire in an emailed response that normalizing market conditions would be indicated by a slow and gradual decline in rents.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to the Realtor.com September Rental Report, there remains a geographical gap in the rental market despite a national trend of overall rent declines. Despite a nationwide decline in rent, nine of the ten Midwestern markets included in the 50-metro survey experienced year-over-year increases in rent in September.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the “Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit Summit” on Tuesday, October 15 at HUD’s headquarters. Independent mortgage banks play a key role in making this a reality, and this summit will shine a spotlight on their essential contributions to our housing market.”

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To effectively support market condition adjustments in line with recent Fannie Mae guidelines, appraisers can use a variety of market analysis techniques. These methods provide a solid foundation for demonstrating how changing market conditions affect property values over time.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Glen Messina But Messina also explained that a major potential growth area for the company is the proprietary reverse mortgage market, which has much higher lending limits than can be found in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed HECM program. announced that it had developed a new proprietary product called EquityIQ.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

The panel dissected the housing market’s current state marked by rising inventory, affordability challenges, elevated mortgage rates , and investor uncertainty and what it all means for the rest of 2025 and beyond. Today’s COGS for long lead-time builders reflect development costs from four years ago. [09:58]

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

At the core of Zillows listing standards is the belief that if a listing is marketed to any home shoppers, it should be marketed to all home shoppers. Pareja said his viewpoint on this issue stems from leading a brokerage that operates in 23 markets outside of North America. where all the data is siloed, Pareja said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The oldest baby boomers are poised to turn 80 years old this year, which could bring the market of dedicated senior housing from a place of oversupply to a shortage. More than 560,000 new units are needed to meet all the demand by 2030, but only 191,000 will be added at current development rates, according to data service NIC MAP.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The single-family rental (SFR) market, which has outperformed the apartment rental sector in recent years, is showing clear signs of slowing. The report , which analyzed rental prices in 857 cities, highlights rising vacancies, shifting regional trends, and the impact of build-to-rent developments as key factors influencing rent prices.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

real estate market. While the Sun Belt region is the most dramatic example of this phenomena, insurance markets responding to the increasing awareness of climate risk are materially changing the calculus behind home ownership and the desirability of entire communities across the country. The post How the Climate Is Reshaping the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Climate change is having a pronounced impact on the housing market, particularly when it comes to the accelerating risks of extreme weather events in areas that were already vulnerable to impact. Developers continue to build in these areas with few obvious signs of slowing, the story said. “La

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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. A Cautionary Tale from 2013 Let me start with a personal story. But the tide turned quickly.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

The company which formally announced the arrangement on Thursday includes business and brand strategy, creative development and industry thought leadership initiatives, according to the announcement. Last November, FOA President Kristen Sieffert spoke about a desire to craft a new marketing approach for the company.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 8, 2025

Increased purchase expectations from buyers in the countercyclical foreclosure auction market point to more distressed buying opportunities in 2025, but other survey findings indicate buyers expect only a modest increase, said Jason Allnutt, Auction.com CEO. That decrease came mostly as a result of the sharp uptick in owner-occupant buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Every title company wanted a great piece of the current refi market and most would do about anything to obtain it.The problem; almost all were late to the party and not prepared. Unfortunate for most, whereas a few had prepared, most did not see the magnitude of this market anomaly! Consumers were refinancing in astronomical numbers!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. Adam Vellano was promoted to managing director of the South Florida market. And Erika Sheridan was promoted to senior director of marketing and operations in the Southeast.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2025

During the 10-minute conversation, Pieklo explores his new focus on developing AFR’s wholesale lending strategy, the competitive landscape of the mortgage market, and the company’s unique approach to differentiating itself from other big names in the wholesale space. We look to the secondary markets first.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the newest episode of the PowerHouse podcast, HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Greg Schwartz, CEO of Tomo , to discuss market recovery indicators and Tomo’s recent investments in artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike other lenders, Tomo doesn’t use market conditions to determine production goals or other critical metrics.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The 10-year yield and mortgage rates have been on a wild ride lately, even testing my top-end forecast at 7.25%, but today, the 10-year yield fell after remarks by Fed President Chris Waller about whether the Fed would do even more rate cuts than the market was anticipating. It’s not booming. It’s not falling.”

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT) has released a new AI adviser for mortgage capital markets called Atlas. platform, Atlas serves as a virtual capital markets expert and educational resource for MCTs mortgage lender clients. Now available within the MCTlive! No client data has been exchanged with or used to train Atlas, MCT says.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Volatility is becoming the new norm in today’s commercial real estate market. To help investors survive uncertain times, professionals must understand market trends and develop a game plan for success. His words contain valuable knowledge that investors need to thrive in this market. A change is needed.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 4, 2025

As new housing trends emerge and conditions change, new data has found that the single-family rental (SFR) market is expanding. For several years, the build-to-rent (BTR) sector of the single-family home construction market has experienced one of the fastest rates of growth, and 2024 was no exception.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent)* above the November 2023 estimate of 611,000 The charts below provide insight into the current state of the new home sales market. Over the past two years, new home sales have significantly outperformed the existing home sales market. percent (18.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Americas housing market isnt just cooling its frozen in place. policymakers scramble for answers, countries abroad have already developed and deployed practical solutions. With so few homes hitting the market , theyre forced to compete for a shrinking slice of inventory, often at inflated prices. And while U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Tech Trendsetters are made up of the top product and technology leaders who have been essential in bringing innovative tech solutions to market for mortgage and real estate clients. Congratulations to the 2024 Tech Trendsetter honorees! Take a look at the full list below.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Mortgage rates recently hit a year-to-date low, coinciding with ongoing market disruptions from tariffs. The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. With a backdrop of market volatility, the spreads got worse last week. Stay alert for breaking news.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In this monograph, we discuss the absolute necessity of developing more than one skill set as part of becoming a competent and professional real estate appraiser. At its core, real estate appraising involves the due diligence necessary to form a credible opinion of the market value of a particular property.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Araya’s data will come from CoreLogic‘s 360 Property Data suite, which offers property and marketing intelligence.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Why most teams struggle to scale Scaling a real estate team to $100 million in production is a daunting challenge, but the biggest roadblock isn’t market conditions or competition — it’s outdated strategies. Delegate or outsource tasks where weaknesses exist, such as transaction coordination, lead follow-up, or marketing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our economy faces many challenges persistent high mortgage interest rates , a declining rate of existing home sales, elevated costs for basic goods and services, labor market imbalances, and rising health care costs to name just a few. The FHLBanks are also key players in affordable housing and community development initiatives.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Cash buyers dominate the market, accounting for 42% of home purchases. Insurance market freefall Florida’s property insurance crisis has reached catastrophic levels with average annual premiums jumping 60% since 2019, Cotality reported. New York remains the top feeder state for Florida at 18% of all incoming residents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Valon intends to use the fresh capital to boost product development and expand its reach to new markets. Valon has built a fundamentally better and more comprehensive solution for a market that has been characterized by limited technological innovation for decades,” Dart said in a statement. The firm is currently valued at $1.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

New home sales continue to be a bright spot in a dismal housing market. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development shows new-home sales registering at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000, good for a 6.7% Inventory continues to be an issue in the existing-homes market. The December report from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? Why do you think brokers should work with a specialist instead of a multi-product lender?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Mortgage and title clients are undergoing a significant transformation with the shift from Encompass Software Development Kit (SDK) to Encompass Partner Connect (EPC). Increased software development needs : New integrations often require more development resources to ensure compatibility with existing systems.

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