Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. What is reverse purchase financing?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

home sellers received four or more offers on their home in 2021, according to Zillow’s latest consumer housing trends report. Typical sellers received two offers, which is the same as the past three years. Overall, sellers were typically white (72%) and selling in suburban areas (51%) in the South (41%).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

All the dominant trends in the housing market this year seem like they would indicate home prices declining. With just a few local market exceptions, home prices nationally will finish the year up again and will go into 2025 with some upward momentum. The median price of all the homes on the market is $439,000.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The majority of homebuyers are still expecting sellers to cover their agent’s compensation, according to The Real Brokerage ’s August 2024 agent survey. While it appears that most sellers are still offering some level of compensation, 12% of agents reported they were still unsure of what the emerging trend will be. 30 and Sept.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While inventory of unsold homes in the housing market in each of the last two years headed higher during September and October due to mortgage rate spikes, we’re seeing a more normal seasonal pattern now with inventory beginning to decline. We’re also seeing more home sellers withdrawing their listings to try again next year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. If a seller has those multiple offers, they are looking first at cash offers and may even consider a lower cash offer because they don’t have to worry about the property appraising for that price,” Garrett said. “If It is just a super tight housing market.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The most common way buyers have secured below-market rates is through special financing offers from sellers or home builders. Homebuyers face challenges due to the volatile mortgage-rate environment, which limits their options and, in certain situations, keeps them from joining the housing market at all.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Mortgage professionals : Lenders primarily consisted of loan originators and mortgage brokers, providing a perspective on financing. Real estate agents : Real estate agents provided insights based on their direct interactions with buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Although there is no doubt that business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement are going to impact how real estate industry professionals operate, economists aren’t too sure they’ll have much bearing on the housing market. “I

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

While recent housing market reports and trends have shown that older homeowners are unwilling to sell their homes for a variety of reasons, one of them may be the expected requirement to pay capital gains taxes stemming from the post-pandemic explosion of home-price appreciation, according to a report from Business Insider.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2024

There seems to be continued debate among appraisers, reviewers, and underwriters regarding seller concessions. A particular point of contention in this debate is whether or not it is appropriate to adjust seller concessions on a dollar-for-dollar basis. You just learned the basics of handling seller concessions!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

housing market. This means that baby boomers have the most economic power when it comes to housing markets, as sellers are more likely to accept offers where financing is least likely to fall through.” Retirement often signals a major shift in a person’s life.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. When the market is hot like during the Pandemic there were more buyers than sellers in Q1 so inventory kept declining until March or April. One signal Im watching with this current market is whether inventory builds starting now. When will that be?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market. It’s looking like we’ll end 2023 with higher housing inventory than this time last year. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. When you include the 9,400 immediate sales, the total is 13% more sellers than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

About one in three (35%) received special financing, while 26% made their purchase offer contingent upon a lower rate. Zillow home trends expert Amanda Pendleton noted a trend of new buyers thinking outside the box when it comes to mortgage financing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Like the vast majority of the country, the city’s housing market has been stymied by high mortgage rates, low inventory and mismatched expectations between buyers and sellers. Buyers think it’s a buyer’s market. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Denver has been one of the hottest markets in the country having absorbed considerable inbound migration from California, New York, Texas, and Chicago, among other areas. This gave sellers the upper hand, but the market has turned in recent months.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2025

When the National Association of Realtors (NAR) first started its Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers in 1981, it found that single women were the second largest demographic in the U.S. housing market , trailing only married couples. But Lautz also said that finances have a lot to do with the purchasing power of men and women.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) But the housing market in the second half of 2022? over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. The industry is in a deep housing recession this year. If we get lucky with mortgage rates, though, we might just be at the bottom of the housing market recession right now. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Although the Greater Boston area may still be plagued by persistently chilly temperatures, its housing market is still red-hot. According to data from Altos Research , the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH metropolitan area was the hottest housing market nationwide as of Feb.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

As of March 29, the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area was the fourth-hottest housing market in the country. The Bay Area metro had a 90-day average Market Action Index score of 61.19, according to data from Altos Research. Altos considers anything above a Market Action Index of 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close soon, housing inventory has been rising very late in the year. Last year at this time, sellers and homebuyers hit the brakes hard. Watch the weekly housing market recap video above to get the latest housing market data download from Altos Research.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2022

home sellers made a pretty penny in 2021, with the nationwide realized profit growing by 45% year-over-year, according to a new analysis published by real estate data vendor ATTOM this week. For comparison sake, in 2019 a home seller’s realized profit averaged out to about $55,000, the report said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The “ silver tsunami ” — a colloquialism referring to aging Americans changing their housing arrangements to accommodate aging — could have more of an impact on the housing market this year, according to analyst Meredith Whitney in a conversation with Yahoo Finance. “[T]he

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Having previously written about the Greater Boston housing market a few times for HousingWire, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know some of the area’s top agents and brokers. In what I found to be a pleasant surprise, the sellers of the two homes I put offers in on were offering buyer broker compensation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Despite this drop, investment returns for home sellers is still up from 48.8% This has resulted in a growing supply of homes for sale, and in turn pushed home prices down (though not in every market). Metro results for home sellers. FHA-financed purchases. of all single-family home purchases in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the housing market like no event since the 2008 financial crisis, but some of the trends induced by the pandemic are starting to reverse. That’s evident in the annual profile of home buyers and sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which provides data on dozens of real estate trends.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

The HousingWire Pulse Survey for Q3 2024 provides a detailed snapshot of current housing market sentiments and challenges faced by real estate agents, brokers, and mortgage professionals. The survey reveals a generally cautious optimism among these sectors, despite varied expectations regarding market trends over the next three months.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

People seeking more space to accommodate working from home led to a minor outflow of residents that put the housing market on pause. The anticipation of lower mortgage rates has frozen many buyers who think they can get a better deal if they wait a few months, not to mention sellers who are loath to give up mortgages in the 3% range.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Many of the distressed properties Sandoval encounters are not in good enough condition to qualify for traditional financing. That means the buyer will need to pay in cash or use non-traditional financing such as a hard money loan. Sometimes the seller wants one month rent back.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 19, 2024

With affordability still a major factor in home buying decisions, knowing which markets offer lower home prices, high military homeownership rates, and a lower forecasted unemployment rate can help military households across the U.S. Factors in ranking markets In seeking out the 10 U.S. find the best town for their family.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

If we look at the housing market right now, sales are down, new listings are down and prices are decelerating. Good inflation data came in last week, the bond market rallied and mortgage rates took a notable dip below 7% for the first time in months. If so, how should we expect the housing market to react?

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Warmer summer weather has brought cooler housing market conditions to Montana. The market right now just feels like it’s a bit lukewarm,” said Brian Huskey , a Billings, Montana-based ERA American Real Estate agent. This was the slowest June we’ve seen in many years in our market,” Durham, a luxury-focused agent, said.

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