Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 3, 2025

in February of previous year, indicating that sellers are becoming more accustomed to the present market conditions. over the previous year, making 2019 February the most active month for sellers since 2021. Sellers also listed their homes at higher rates than the previous year, with the number of newly listed homes rising 4.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

California law generally prohibits charging a price that exceeds, by more than 10%, the price a seller charged for an item before a state or local declaration of emergency, the alert stated. Those are a couple of strategies that we’ve seen in other developments, she said.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2025

This suggests that local community developers who were purchasing distressed properties at auction gained more confidence in the 2025 real estate market after the election results. Even while sellers kept their prices the same for the quarter, that bid-ask spread shrank. How Much Are Distressed Properties Worth?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

“Looking at markets by hotness tells us the strength of demand versus supply in each area relative to others and which markets heavily favor sellers.” High mortgage rates, which remain in the upper-6% range, have also kept many potential buyers and sellers on the sidelines. We just don’t have a way at the local level.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With Q4 in full swing, many realtors are seeing buyers and sellers paralyzed by high interest rates and stagnant inventories. Shallis, with over three decades of experience in the real estate industry has helped realtors, buyers, and sellers navigate all types of market conditions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows new-home sales in October clocking in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000 — a 17.3% This could put a ceiling on new-home sales in the near term, although the ability to offer mortgage rate buydowns still gives builders an advantage over many existing-home sellers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When you include the 9,400 immediate sales, the total is 13% more sellers than a year ago. Last year at this time, the market was in deep retrenchment — both buyers and sellers were walking away. We’ll see if this trend continues, because consistently more sellers would signal a transition to new market dynamics. Some 39.4%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As a panel of real estate leaders gathered to discuss the future of the MLS at the National Association of Realtors ‘ NXT conference in Boston, Errol Samuelson , Zillow ‘s chief industry development officer, found himself and his company in a bit different standing than usual with the audience of several hundred agents and brokers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

According to the motion, if approved, the settlements would bring meaningful relief to home sellers as well as certainty and closure to highly contentious and costly litigation with the Settling Defendants. This motion comes despite backlash against the settlements from plaintiffs in other home seller commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From fine-tuning the initial listing to completing the mountains of paperwork needed for closing , homebuyers and sellers can find themselves juggling a wide range of issues. Find your audience Not every real estate transaction is the same because not all buyers and sellers are the same.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

It proposed on Friday a compromise on CCP that it believes respects seller choice, enhances competition and safeguards MLS integrity. We have spoken to our members around the country and developed this plan with a working group and the leadership of our trade group, Haber told HousingWire in an email.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

But as the housing industry has gotten better at tackling it, fraudsters have been hard at work developing more creative scams. Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We Cronkright II, Executive Chairman of CertifID. million, according to NAR.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Broadening our reach, we have a tremendous network supporting agents, buyers, and sellers at William Raveis,” they said in a statement. ” Beaulieu also said the company focuses on developing talent with training, coaching and technology solutions for marketing and sales.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Having spent the past several months covering the NAR settlement and the business practice changes outlined within, I was curious about how listing agents and sellers in my market were handling offers of buyer broker compensation. The listing agents disclosed this to my agent via text or phone call when we inquired.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Building on existing relationships is the quickest and easiest way to keep your pipeline filled with active buyers and sellers, so you dont have to worry about dry spells. We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

After 29 years and thousands of listing presentations, I have found that sellers, more than ever, want an agent who has solid negotiation chops and who is willing to use them on their behalf. In most cases, a buyer wants to get a fair deal on a house that the seller wants to sell at a fair price. I calmly reply, I understand.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A large portion of the new development on the market has been purchased by homebuyers. A lot of sellers are worried about finding their next house because even though listings are rising, there’s still a housing shortage,” said David Palmer, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Seattle. Below 4% : Approximately 59.4% in Q1 of 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A referral estate referral occurs when a licensed agent or broker passes along a prospective buyer or seller to another licensed agent to handle a transaction. The receiving agent becomes the buyer or seller’s primary point of contact and representative, and the referring agent receives a referral fee if a transaction closes.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Demand at distressed property auctionsfor both foreclosure auctions and bank-owned (REO) auctionshas drifted lower to end 2024 as market headwinds such as rising retail inventory and higher-for-longer mortgage rates intensified for the local community developers buying at auction.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2024, the American Land Title Association (ALTA) highlighted the persistent challenge of seller impersonation fraud (SIF) within the real estate industry. Delivering an excellent experience also builds a foundation of trust, which becomes critical when navigating seller impersonation fraud and other scams involving title.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

To do so, develop strategies and programs that cater to buyers and sellers at every stage. Stuart Sim is the Head of Industry Development & Brand Ambassador for Lofty. For buyers, focus on delivering second-to-none service and support. And for real estate professionals, its only a matter of keeping up and staying valuable.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The family-run brokerage firm recorded some legal w ins and losses , developed new tools for agents and clients , and navigated one of the slowest years for home sales in nearly three decades. The past year had its fair share of ups and downs for Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

According to the Wall Street Journal , land sellers are now asking for roughly the same value of their lands estimated pre-fire valuation, following the rule of thumb that a land plot is worth between 40% and 60% of a propertys overall value in Los Angeles. Communities are also encouraging their neighbors not to sell to developers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

FHA will move forward with its proposal that permits contributions by the property seller, real estate agent, builder, or developer to HECM for Purchase borrowers’ closing costs,” the update said. The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) quickly lauded the development, according to an announcement issued by the organization.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

These buyers are primarily local community developers who purchase distressed properties and then resell or rent those properties on the retail market following rehab — a process that typically takes six to 12 months. . Home sales bottoming out as sellers eventually capitulate on price. Cincinnati and Miami.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

Several real estate groups recently criticized the Consumer Federation of America’s support for uncoupled buyer and seller agent real estate commissions, writing in HousingWire that, “CFA has seemingly lost sight of its core purpose advocating for those most in need of consumer protection.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The combined share of millennials, both younger (ages 25 to 33) and older (ages 34 to 43), made up a combined 38% of the home purchase market last year, up from 28% in 2022, according to the 2024 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Howard Hanna Real Estate declined to comment on the development. While the suit pertains to homebuyers and not sellers, the issue of real estate agent compensation is central to the suit. The Batton II suit is the second lawsuit filed by this group of homebuyers. In her ruling Wood $5.36

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Buyers and sellers are spoiled for choice when it comes to finding an agent or lender, so the more you’re able to stay top of mind the more they will remember you when they need you. This panel will explore best practices to capitalize on the tremendous potential of having loyal followers including regulations you need to be aware of.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Ironically, the technology he’s developed can be a benefit to real estate agents as well. SW: Why did you want to develop this platform? 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.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Sellers Technology 448

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The partnership extends Offerpad’s reach by allowing seller requests from areas outside of Offerpad’s current markets to be served by certified agents affiliated with the Anywhere Leads Network , a nationwide network of 500 brokers and more than 100,000 real estate agents. “As Offerpad operates in 14 states.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Not helping FHA, VA borrowers get off the sidelines Under current FHA rules, sellers can contribute up to 6% in concessions to FHA borrowers to cover closing costs, prepaid expenses and discount points. It was through seller incentives that loan originator Ryan Grant helped his FHA borrower buy down 3.5 points from the 7.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD), state attorneys general and fair housing organizations to start applying this legal framework to homebuyers FHA loans accounted for 15.6% of the U.S. mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3% in 2022, according to HUD.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

On a national level, housing sentiment was largely unchanged in August despite some positive developments for affordability, including a meaningful decline in actual mortgage rates and an uptick in home listings in certain markets, particularly in the Sunbelt,” Mark Palim, Fannie Mae’s vice president and deputy chief economist, said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 22, 2025

Concessions Rise as Rents Remain Sticky Multifamily rents are proving to be sticky, even with the overall increase in apartment development. Pittsburgh, whose single-family building has increased dramatically over the last five years, had a low 14% differential, while Detroit had the least delta percentage at 9%.

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Inventory Home Value Tenants Property Management 370

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Qualia on Tuesday said the new product provides closing agents with the ability to securely collect and share wire instructions with buyers and sellers, and it features systems for earnest money deposit collection, automated wire matching, wire-sending integrations, wire fraud detection , and seller ID verification.

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