Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

Since May 29, we’ve witnessed a decline in the 10-year yield, which has been favorable for mortgage rates. The critical question is: Can this trend persist? Clues from the recent Fed meeting and the softening inflation data hint at a potential continuation — if the labor data gets softer. How is this affecting the weekly housing data? Let’s delve into the details and find out. 10-year yield and mortgage rates After the intense jobs week data , we ran straight into CPI and PPI inflati

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 18, 2024

Despite the construction boom that happened shortly after pandemic restrictions began being lifted—that has since slowed—the U.S. housing shortage grew to a 4.5-million-unit deficit, up from 4.3 million units in 2023, according to a new analysis from the real estate firm Zillow. The deepening housing deficit is the root cause of the housing affordability crisis According to Zillow, at its core, the housing market is driven by supply and demand; when the number of people who want a home increase

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

A seller thinks his property is worth about one million dollars more than it actually is because he hijacked a price per sq ft from a different house down the street and applied it to his own. Doh!! This happens all the time unfortunately, and it’s an example of how simple real estate math can […] The post Real estate math gone wild first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 20, 2024

The path is more clear for MLSs than brokerages, according to a top industry lawyer. The National Association of Realtors, meanwhile, had no comment.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) is calling on both houses of Congress to adopt a mortgage interest credit as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is currently set to expire in 2025. This is according to a letter the organization submitted to leaders in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In the lead-up to its 2017 passage, CHLA representatives “aggressively advocated for a Mortgage Interest Credit (MIC) during debate on the 2017 tax bill, when it became clea

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

ATTOM has released its Q1 2024 U.S. Home Flipping Report , which shows that 67,817 single-family homes and condominiums in the United States were flipped in Q1. Those transactions accounted for 8.7%—or one out of every 12 home sales overall—from January to March 2024. The latest figure was up from 7.7% of all home sales in the U.S. in Q4 of 2023, representing the second consecutive quarterly increase.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 21, 2024

The California Association of Realtors informed members that the DOJ expressed concern over new forms related to the NAR settlement and MLS practices.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

The importance of housing as a social driver of health cannot be overstated, yet the intricate pathways connecting housing conditions to health outcomes remain inadequately understood. This knowledge gap is particularly impactful for low-income families who face unique challenges in establishing a sense of home. My experience as a pediatrician at WakeMed has shown me firsthand how critical stable, and quality housing is to the health and well-being of children and their families.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 18, 2024

Rapid rent increases mixed with widespread financial hardship pushed the number of cost-burdened renters to a record high of 22.4 million households in 2022, according to a new analysis from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. With housing costs outpacing income gains, low-income renters have been hit especially hard—median residual income remaining post-rent has sunk to $310 a month, far less than the minimum for an adequate standard of living, and turning food, healthcare, and childcar

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Inman

JUNE 17, 2024

Using artificial intelligence, the latest technology represents an opportunity for the real estate industry to rebrand itself at a time when solutions are sorely needed, writes Inman founder Brad Inman.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 21, 2024

The median sale price for existing homes hit a record $419,300 in May, NAR reported, but home sales were lackluster and new construction has cooled.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

From rising home prices to rising mortgage rates and inflation , the millennial generation hasn’t had it easy when it comes to homeownership. But new data from Realtor.com shows that millennials aren’t overly burdened in comparison to previous generations. The analysis of historic home prices, income levels and mortgage rates found that baby boomers — Americans between the ages of 60 and 78 this year — “arguably faced the toughest housing market ever for first-time buyers.“ In 1980, when boomers

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

According to new Redfin research , more than three in five—an estimated 61.9%—of homes on the market in May had been listed for at least 30 days without selling. That’s up from 60% a year ago and around 50% two years ago. Since March, when new listings increased but buyer demand remained sluggish, the share of properties on the market for at least one month has increased year-over-year, as it has since mortgage rates began climbing in 2022.

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Inman

JUNE 15, 2024

From bad "dad jokes" to checking our tire pressure, dads have many unique ways to show love. Trainer Rachael Hite writes that real estate dads have mastered the Acts of Service love language.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 20, 2024

There could be a window of opportunity for would-be buyers as mortgage rates continue to ease and homes sit on the market longer, prompting price cuts.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

In 2021, HousingWire published an article spotlighting Austin as one of the hottest housing markets in the country. The Texas capital was a COVID-era darling, but the city had been attracting employers and homebuyers well before the pandemic. As noted in that article, Austin had ranked No. 1 in population growth for eight straight years and The Wall Street Journal named it the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 21, 2024

Existing-home sales fell somewhat in May, while the median sales price reached a new high, according to a new study from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR). In the four major U.S. regions, sales fell month-over-month in the South but were steady in the Northeast, Midwest and West. Sales increased in the Midwest but decreased in the Northeast, South, and West over the previous year.

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Inman

JUNE 17, 2024

The awards recognize over 150 individuals and their companies for their innovation and impact in the mortgage and financial services spaces.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s all about housing, which has an outsized effect on the Consumer Price Index — and is contributing to the Fed’s lack of action on interest rates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2024

Both existing housing inventory and home prices have been rising together year over year, which might seem odd at first glance since existing home sales are trending near all-time lows. However, I can clear up any confusion on this topic. Let’s keep it simple: total active listings are still below 2019 levels nationally, and the days on market are under 30 days today.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 19, 2024

A new survey of 137 top rental markets of large-scale properties with at least 50 units found that at least two-thirds of renters are choosing to stay put and re-sign their leases. Overall, the survey found that Miami remained top-dog among rental markets as the most competitive market in the country and further strengthened Florida’s overall appeal among apartment dwellers.

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Miller Samuel

JUNE 21, 2024

Now that two and a half years have passed since the early 2022 Fed pivot resulting in the steepest ascent of interest rates in fifty years, pent-up demand has been building. Homebuyers have been waiting for rates to come down – a sign of better things to come. At the same time, the rate cut conversation keeps pushing the first cut expectation backwards.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 18, 2024

The company, which has been dubbed a “repeat offender” by regulators, faces another penalty for submitting inaccurate loan data.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued to inch toward the 7% mark following last week’s meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers and new inflation data that showed further cooling of consumer prices. On Tuesday, HousingWire ‘s Mortgage Rates Center showed that the average 30-year rate for conforming loans was 7.08%. That was down 11 basis points from the same time last week and exactly 50 basis points below this year’s peak rate that was recorded in early May.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

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George Dell

JUNE 18, 2024

The seminal appraisal model was espoused by George Schmutz in the 1940’s. His “appraisal process” followed the works of others starting in 1927 with Arthur Mertzke who translated economic principles to the unique economic features of real estate. Those works presented “systematic procedures” for applying the three traditional approaches to value. Editor’s Note: Find Part […] The post Model or Algorithm?

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Real Estate News

JUNE 17, 2024

ATTOM researchers found that counties around Chicago and NYC, as well as several in inland California, would be the most vulnerable in a housing downturn.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

Wells Fargo ’s program that provides up to $5,000 in closing costs for low- and moderate-income families to purchase a home has been extended to an additional 16 metro areas, the bank announced on Monday. The credit is available for borrowers with combined incomes of up to 80% of their area’s median income who are seeking to purchase a home as a primary residence.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 21, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has announced its conditional approval for Freddie Mac to engage in a limited pilot to purchase certain single-family closed-end second mortgages. This conditional approval follows FHFA’s first publication of a proposed new product by either Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae (the GSEs) for public comment under the new process mandated by the Prior Approval for Enterprise Products regulation, which became effective in April 2023.

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Inman

JUNE 17, 2024

CoStar Group founder and CEO Andy Florance shares the next chapter of Homes.com's $1 billion marketing push and the fallacy of "pure buyer agency" as portals recalibrate their strategies amid a coming commission crunch.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 17, 2024

June 18 is the deadline for those not covered by the NAR settlement to opt in and pay damages, or risk further litigation in the commissions cases.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed that lender and servicer Freedom Mortgage Corp. pay $3.95 million for alleged violations of a 2019 consent order and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) when it submitted incorrect mortgage data. The proposed order was filed on Tuesday in a U.S. district court in West Palm Beach, Florida, following setbacks in recent months for both parties in an ongoing lawsuit.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 21, 2024

According to the Fannie Mae Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group’s June 2024 analysis , affordability restrictions continue to limit the amount of buyers wanting and able to make home purchases, despite an increase in for-sale home listings. As a result, the ESR Group reduced its total home sales prediction to 4.82 million in 2024, marking a moderate 1.3% annual rise vs the previously projected 2.8%.

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Inman

JUNE 18, 2024

CEO Dawar Alimi writes that choosing a modern and advanced pricing engine can unlock new opportunities for growth, profitability and success in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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