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Appraisal Modernization & FHFA’s New Policies

Appraisal Buzz

From appraisers to lenders and even homebuyers, we explore how this modernization will impact all key players in the housing market. The post Appraisal Modernization & FHFA’s New Policies appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch our episode premieres every Wednesday!

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Tight inventory is challenging Illinois’ ‘steady Eddie’ housing market

Housing Wire

Despite the frequency of departures, real estate agents in the state say the housing market remains strong. On the balance, there are still more buyers with their eye on a purchase than there are houses on the market. Statewide, the housing market has a 90-day average Altos Market Action Index score of 44.18

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House passes bill to modernize VA appraisals

Housing Wire

This legislation is an important first step towards broad modernization of VA appraisal processes and could make veterans’ home purchase offers more viable in today’s competitive housing market.”. The post House passes bill to modernize VA appraisals appeared first on HousingWire.

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These were March’s hottest housing markets

Housing Wire

In modern history, the housing market has never seen a month like March. Waiting for the market to cool could take many months, and at that point we may have missed out on the opportunity to benefit from these super-low mortgage rates and price gains in the year ahead.”.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

This time the hit on demand is much more challenging as we are working from a savagely unhealthy rise in home prices since 2000, and mortgage rates have skyrocketed in the most prominent fashion in modern history. Also, I believed the risk to the housing market was if home prices grew more than 23% over the five years of 2020-2024.

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Clear Capital launches APIs to make adopting modern valuations solutions easier 

Housing Wire

Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital rolled out two application programming interfaces (APIs) that aim to make adopting and deploying modern valuation solutions easier, ultimately closing loans faster. The post Clear Capital launches APIs to make adopting modern valuations solutions easier appeared first on HousingWire.

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The Federal Reserve’s housing recession dilemma

Housing Wire

The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. The existing home sales market does not align with their dual mandate of ensuring stable personal consumption expenditures (PCE) or consumer price index (CPI) prices, as these measures account for rent.