Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Homeowners with mortgages gained $2.9 trillion in equity in the second quarter of 2021, a 29.3% year-over-year increase, according to a new report by CoreLogic released Wednesday. This marks an average gain of $51,500(!) per borrower since the second quarter of 2020. The amount of equity for a property is determined by comparting the estimated current value of the property against the mortgage debt outstanding (MDO).

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Goodbye single family zoning. If you didn’t know, two weeks ago SB9 was signed into law in California, which now allows property owners to build a duplex on any residential lot or subdivide to build up to four units. This is massive news, so let’s talk about it. I’d love to hear your take in […].

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Capital One is hiring a Sr. Manager-level Commercial Real Estate Reviewer! appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

All three states that I’m licensed in, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, are non-disclosure states. I’ve never worked in a disclosure state and so I’m always a bit surprised when I’m. Read More.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In most parts of the country, real estate appraiser’s main source of data is the multiple listing service. (MLS) We use it to find homes that are comparable to the ones we are valuing, to determine what buyers are paying for similar homes. We also use the MLS to analyze the market trends and to make market-based adjustments for things such as changes in sales prices, as well as features of a home that have a major impact on market value, like finished square footage, bedroom, and bathroom

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

One year ago this month, I coined the term forbearance crash bros , an updated name for the housing bubble boys who never got their housing crash in 2020 so they moved the collapse of housing to 2021. Many other articles were written in tribute to this wonderfully talented group of internet crash callers. As we are in September 2021, we can safely say the housing crash has been moved once again to next year.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We’re seeing more price reductions lately. Does this mean the market is starting to collapse? Are things beginning to turn? Is this 2008 all over again? I’ve been getting great questions like this lately, so let’s talk shop. Teaching my favorite class: On September 28th from 9am-12pm I’m teaching my favorite class at SAR called […].

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For the second month in a row, the economists at Fannie Mae revised expectations for near-term real GDP growth downward—and outward—due to persistent supply chain disruptions and labor market tightness, according to the September 2021 commentary from the GSE’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. Those factors, they say, will affect the housing market as the … The post Supply Constraints Could Hinder Home Sales appeared first on theMReport.com.

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The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Appraisers have been accused of being “speed bumps” in the lending process. We frustrate buyers, sellers, loan officers and, sometimes, real estate agents. In some ways, I can understand their. Read More.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

I’ve been thinking of a good time to talk about this topic. I’ve gone back and forth on when to bring it up. It feels like now is as good a time as any to talk about the birds and the bees. Hey now! This is not the kind of “birds and the bees” conversation parents have with their children. Today I am talking about literal birds and bees. Chickens and honeybees to be precise!

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The last four weeks’ mortgage purchasing and refinancing activities, as reflected in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest weekly application surveys, shows a general withdrawal of refinancing and a very slight increase in purchasing from the prior month. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate hovered 3 basis points above 3 percent, consistently, for the last three weeks.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though the demand for homes remained strong across the United States in August, there are clear signs that the housing market is past its peak. A report from residential brokerage Redfin found that pending sales across 400 metro areas were up 6% year over year in the four weeks that ended Sept. 5. Still, the 69,563 homes that went into contract represented a 9% decrease from the high point set in May 2021.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Normal? That’s not a word we’ve used much to describe the housing market lately, but we are finally starting to see some normalcy. Many parts of the country are showing what looks to be normal seasonal slowing and that is a sight for sore eyes. Anyway, let’s talk about this and then I have lots […].

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Time management challenges are a big issue for many property appraisers. Your income depends on how many appraisal assignments you can complete each month and each year—and you need time to produce each report. In other words, time is money. Last month we asked appraisers, “What’s one thing you wish you could STOP doing to save time in your workday?

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The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Technology is important to your business. Sometimes, it can be a challenge to keep your computer, your systems, your network, your internet, and the software you use all running and. Read More.

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Realtor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It's a seller's market, but not everything you hear about buying a home today is true. We asked real estate agents to weigh in on some homebuying myths. The post 6 Things People Say About Buying a Home Today That Actually Aren’t True appeared first on Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com®.

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In August, consumer prices increased at its slowest pace since February 2021. Prices for several travel-related categories declined in August, as the delta variant spreads. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.3% in August on a seasonally adjusted basis, following an increase of 0.5% in July. Excluding the volatile food and.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales for August came in at a very tiny beat of estimates at 5,880,000. Now that we are a few days away from October, we can again say that the housing bubble boys and the forbearance crash bros have whiffed just as severely in 2021 as they did in 2020. So far this year, every existing home sales print has been higher in 2021 than the closing level of sales in 2020, which was 5,640,000.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Are buyers finally gaining more power? Yes. The truth is the market is still ultra-competitive, but there is a slightly better chance buyers can get into contract these days and maybe not pay as much above the asking price (maybe). Teaching my favorite class: On September 28th from 9am-12pm I’m teaching my favorite class at SAR […].

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

House prices rose nationwide in July, up 1.4% from the previous month, according to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI). House prices rose 19.2% from July 2020 to July 2021. The previously reported 1.6% price change for June 2021 was revised upward to 1.7%. For the nine census divisions, seasonally adjusted monthly house price changes from June 2021 to July 2021 ranged from +0.8% in the West North Central.

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George Dell

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Many of you ask why we only teach courses using a data science approach to valuation. The answer is quite simple: It’s comprehensive, covering existing aspects of valuation. It sharpens the judgment involved with traditional methods. It increases usefulness, enabling appraisers to provide more than one service. Teaching only data science is also the topic […].

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The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Small changes can lead to big improvements. At some point, within almost every coaching session, I believe that some version of this topic comes up. I’ll suggest a fairly minor. Read More.

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The U.S. Census Bureau Survey of Construction’s (SOC) 2020 estimates of the shares of the number of bedrooms in new single-family homes showed a sharp upswing in the percentage of new homes started with 4 or more bedrooms, unlike in prior recent years. The most recent SOC data show the shares in the varying number of bedrooms in new homes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today the Census Bureau ‘s new home sales report came in as a beat of estimates at 740,000, but the most important aspect is that revisions came in positive for the prior months, which shows a more stable market as revisions are always key with new home sales and housing starts. From the Census Bureau: “Sales of new single?family houses in August 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 740,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A former executive at loanDepot dropped a bombshell on the mortgage industry late Wednesday, alleging in a lawsuit that the California-based nonbank lender, in a ploy to drum up money during the refi boom and in preparation for its initial public offering, closed thousands of loans without proper documentation. The suit, filed by Tammy Richards, former chief operations officer, accuses loanDepot’s CEO, Anthony Hsieh, of ordering the sales team to “trust [their] borrowers” and close loans, disreg

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Today’s pending home sales came in at a big beat of estimates, running at 8.1% for this report. More importantly, this data line looks just right. One of my main goals for sharing housing sales data in 2021 is to give people a sales trend range to work off this year to know if home sales are doing well. Last year we had an abnormal burst of housing demand that was just make-up demand from the COVID-19 pause in the second half of 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Despite several indicators of a slowing housing market, prospective home buyers should not get too excited – inventory remains limited and changes are in line with the traditional seasonal slowdown, according to RE/MAX ’s August national housing report. The report analyzes MLS data from 51 U.S. metropolitan areas and includes all residential properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

U.S. homebuilders started construction on 1.615 million homes in August, up 3.9% from July 2021 and 17.4% higher than a year ago, according to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Across the country, 1.728 million building permits were pulled, which is 6% above the revised rate from a month prior and 13.5% higher than the August 2020 rate.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The average 30-year-fixed mortgage rate rose 13 basis points to 3.01% for the week ending Sept. 30, according to Freddie Mac’s latest PMMS survey. Mortgage rates had been roughly flat for seven weeks, and this is the first time it rose above 3% since June. Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement that rates rose across all loan types, in conjunction with the 10-year U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

July marked the fourth consecutive month in which the growth rate of home prices set a record, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index Report released on Tuesday. The index showed a 19.7% annual gain for the year ending in July 2021, up from 18.7% a month prior. This is the highest annual rate of price growth since the index began in 1987 and the fourteenth consecutive month of accelerating prices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that housing starts hit 1,615,000 for August and housing permits came in nicely at 1,728,000. These data lines beat expectations, and we had slight positive revisions to the previous months — overall, a good report on all fronts. I have always been mindful that the month-to-month housing starts data can be wild, both positive and negative, so the trend is what matters the most.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As the summer comes to an end, several issues are top of mind for everyone: the impact of the Delta variant, the debate over when the Federal Reserve will taper its asset purchases, the situation in Afghanistan, and the federal debt limit and budget debate. When it comes to housing and mortgage markets this fall, most attention is being focused on the expiration of eviction and foreclosure moratoria and the pending completion of forbearance terms for many homeowners.

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