Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As low inventory levels, elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices keep the housing industry stagnant, short-term real estate investors — aka fix-and-flippers — faced market turmoil during the third quarter of 2024. On a national scale, 46% of investors reported facing more competition for deals than expected.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Real estate investor sentiment rose 16% from the prior quarter and 60% of surveyed investors view the current housing market more favorably than a year ago. ” In terms of forward-looking sentiments, 61% of respondents expect the market to continue improving, compared to 14% who expect it to decline.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Many investors prefer to close in the name of an LLC.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Real estate marketplace Redfin released a report on Tuesday that included county-level sale records for homes purchased between January 2014 and December 2024. Redfin attributes the decline in cash purchases to a smaller share of real estate investors in the marketplace. in 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 30, 2024

A new report from New Western, a national real estate investment marketplace, indicates that local real estate investors are poised to outperform traditional builders in several key markets. Boston investors sold flips at 7.8% In Boston, 4,347 flipped homes were sold in 2023 versus 3,166 new homes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Lax lending standards and cheap credit, plus a popular belief that real estate values never decline, created a massive bubble. Growing demand While there is a chance of real estate assets in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Real estate investors spent a record $63.6 billion to purchase homes in the third quarter, up 78% from a year earlier, with an intense housing shortage fueling their returns, according to a Redfin report published on Monday. In total, investors acquired 90,215 homes in the third quarter, an 80.2% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

Single-family rental (SFR) investors are worried about the rising cost of home insurance, but the majority expect to buy more properties in the next year as mortgage rates cool and home-price growth subsides. Louis led the nation’s 20 largest markets for a second month in a row at 6.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

A recent article published by CNBC showed that internet searches for the term “housing crash” had gone up 2,450% in the past month. A lot of folks are concerned about a housing market crash. This is why I stress that housing is the cost of shelter to your capacity to own the debt, not an investment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 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

MARCH 18, 2022

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. However, a seller is also a natural homebuyer, unless they’re an investor.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Roughly 80% of real estate investors surveyed are selling single-family homes at or above asking price after fully renovating the properties to make them habitable, according to a report from real estate marketplace New Western. 50%), Charlotte, NC (49%), Jacksonville, FL (48%) and Houston, TX (46%).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Real estate investors are buying more properties, but paying less for them, according to a report from RealtyTrac released Thursday based on ATTOM Data Solutions home sales data. In the second quarter of 2021, investor purchases accounted for 15.4% of the market. of the market. discount), Michigan (60.0%

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Dubbed “Investors Flex,” the non-QM product for real estate investors, offered purchase and refinance loans up to $2 million that could be used to finance up to 20 properties by using each property’s monthly rental income to qualify.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Just when you think you can anticipate the next trend in real estate, get ready for a new twist. Despite all the external factors cooling down overall home sales – high interest rates, less spending power among residents, lack of inventory— real estate transactions are still hot in certain key areas.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Real estate agents have white-knuckled their way through more than two years of suffocatingly high mortgage rates that have stymied sales, choked off inventory and pushed home prices to new all-time highs. But the one component of the CPI that remains stubbornly high is housing costs, which makes up a third of the index.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Compass has a new head of investor relations. On Wednesday, the brokerage firm announced that it has appointed Soham Bohnsle to lead its investor relations division. Bohnsle has more than a decade of experience covering the housing sector, most recently as a senior analyst at BTIG. year over year, respectively. ”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the biggest questions in real estate right now is how rising interest rates will impact the housing market. More expensive money also meant fewer investors holding homes so inventory would climb too. Look for slightly more inventory, slightly longer market time in these markets.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

Investor activity in the U.S. housing market saw a significant uptick in the second quarter of 2024, with purchases rising 3.4% year-over-year—the largest increase since mid-2022, according to a new report by Redfin, a real estate brokerage. Despite the renewed investor interest, overall home purchases in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We We didn’t call it a bear market, but we did call it a lack of liquidity, which I think is more accurate,” said L.D.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Homeowners are in a better financial position than stock traders, which is why the idea of mass panic selling doesn’t reflect housing reality. You don’t get a margin call at noon and are forced to sell your house in seconds. The goal is simple: We need total housing inventory to reach a range of 1.52-1.93

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Midwest and Northeast regions seem to be the new hot spots for real estate investors. This week, Realtor.com named markets in Ohio , Michigan , Pennsylvania , New York and Connecticut among the top markets for real estate investment opportunities in 2024. Dayton, Ohio, holds the No.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

housing market this year? If we stick to the facts, however, we can glean a few important take-homes as to what risks the housing market faces for 2021 and beyond. The post The biggest risk to the housing market right now appeared first on HousingWire. Expect hilarity to ensue! Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

After three straight quarters of declines, home purchases by investors rose 2.7% Looking to take advantage of the hot housing market and a soaring stock market, investors bought about 1 of every 7 U.S. Investor purchases of single-family homes rose 4.8% Investor purchases of high-priced homes jumped 19.8%

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

real estate investors and affordable homes. The June housing starts data beat estimates with positive revisions, however, this doesn’t change the housing market recession call that I made last month. One might even say this housing market is still savagely unhealthy.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ruimy noted that the BPL sector accounts for a significant portion of residential mortgage originations, with large investors increasingly turning to BPL lenders like Dunmor. What does this mean for the residential real estate sector and how business-purpose mortgage lenders are trying to expand?

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

A full month of sub-3% mortgage rates , ongoing housing market supply constraints, and a 300% increase in lumber prices over the past 15 months has prompted Fannie Mae ‘s Economic and Strategic Group to revise several of its 2021 forecasts. months of housing market supply sat ready on the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

“With many homebuilders feeling the impact of rising mortgage rates on new-home sales, delivering units for rent is expected to continue to become a larger segment of the overall single-family housing market.”. Single-family homebuilders, too, are looking to capitalize on the build-for-rent market, with Lennar Corp.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Real estate investors purchasing distressed properties at foreclosure auction have been telegraphing a possible housing market slowdown for the last six months. A deeper dive into foreclosure buyer behavior shows which markets are most likely to see a home price correction in the next six months.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. We are not taking the unhealthy housing market theme off this marketplace.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Less business for lenders and real estate brokerages, in return, is hurting title companies, tech vendors, appraisers and mortgage insurance firms. But any market that pushes some businesses to the brink of insolvency also will create opportunities for others. The culling. ” Brokerages prepare for leaner times.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s been a brutal 15-month period for the housing market since the Federal Reserve began escalating its benchmark interest rate in March 2022 to combat rising inflation. Since then, the Fed has bumped rates 10 times, effectively putting the brakes on what had been a hot housing market. I’d say 4.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

This also closed the books on 2020’s housing market as we finished out the year at 5,640,000 total existing-home sales — a 5.6% The COVID crisis of 2020 was responsible for a lot of abnormal metrics in the housing market. We saw hints of this prime housing market period as early as February of 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

And while the slower sales pace may not be great news for real estate professionals, it has resulted in an uptick in inventory , which is good news for homebuyers. But individual investors or second-home buyers who are responsible for many cash sales purchased 16% of homes in September, down three percentage points from August.

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