Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What will the housing market look like in 2025? For a more comprehensive look, read our 2025 Housing Market Forecast covering home prices, home sales volumes and more. New listings One way reason it will be hard for inventory to grow more than 17% next year is that there are still not enough sellers to get there.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Despite 2025 housing market predictions changing fast , there are still key themes and trends for real estate leaders to watch to best serve their clients and business. See what she had to say below and register today for the Housing Economic Summit on Feb. HW: What housing trends do you think will continue in 2025 and why?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

That’s 12% more sellers than a year ago. It seems more sellers are coming out every week and that will keep inventory pushing upward. Those scenarios are possible, and its going to be fascinating to see how the bond markets react to new administration policies. Sellers are up, but sales are down. This week, 33.9%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Its hard to imagine something more disruptive to a housing market than a hurricane. 9, housing markets in the Tampa area came to a complete halt as sellers took their homes off the market. 9, housing markets in the Tampa area came to a complete halt as sellers took their homes off the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. There’s just so many people here that are still looking for houses, Bradford said.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 23, 2025

Home Sales Report , which shows that home sellers made a $122,500 profit on typical sales nationwide in 2024, generating a 53.8% Margins fell back as the increase in home values failed to keep up with larger price spikes recent sellers had been paying when they originally bought their homes. ATTOM has released its Year-End 2024 U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite their potential to draw in vandalism and spread community blight, zombie foreclosures continue to have little to no effect on the majority of local housing markets. That phenomena is still one of the many long-lasting consequences of the 13-year-old housing market bubble that has occurred across the country.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

If youre thinking about buying or selling a house and wondering about the housing market, youre not the only one. The real estate market has seen a lot of unusual trends in the past couple of years, so it makes sense that youd want the latest market update before you make any major decisions! Is It a Buyers Market?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The housing market got some much needed relief in the fall when mortgage rates began to drop, but it was short lived. The turbulence in rates has trickled down to individual markets like Cincinnati, where real estate agents say they dont know what to expect from sale to sale. It’s just become a more common theme.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Lets look at last weeks data and see if we can tease out the signals for impact on the 2025 housing market. Housing inventory It is December, of course, so inventory is falling for the season. There will be fewer homes on the market each week until February or so. Can there be too many homes for sale?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

The surge in first-time homebuyers during 2020 has led to a new trend: first-time home sellers. Many who bought during the pandemic are now rethinking their decisions, citing changing lifestyles, financial miscalculations, and shifting market conditions, according to new data from Opendoor. With the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The role of the real estate agent has been under the microscope of late as a result of class-action litigation over agent commissions, but the feedback agents want most about their practices comes from two sources — home buyers and sellers. The survey also shed light on the different methods by which agents are marketing homes for sale.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the current focus is rightfully on containing the blazes and protecting residents, its worth taking stock of where housing markets stand in the affected parts of the Los Angeles metro area. Data from Altos Research shows an area with expensive housing, rising inventory and conditions that lean favorable to sellers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The share of homes on the market with price reductions ticked up this week, which is unusual this early in the season. Potential home sellers notice weak demand, fewer offers and price reductions, prompting them to back away from the market. As such, housing inventory isn’t shrinking. Take a look at the chart above.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Zillow anticipates a more active housing market with more buyers obtaining the upper hand in 2025. In 2025, Zillow projects that buyer markets will expand to the Southwest as inventory continues to become stranded in reasonably priced cities. With more properties available to buyers, sellers will be under pressure to compete.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The stagnant 2024 housing market is one the real estate industry cant wait to get away from, but not so for the niche luxury market. Elevated mortgage rates have stymied the broader housing market in 2024, but the luxury segment is somewhat insulated from that because wealthy buyers are less likely to need a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Higher prices, higher mortgage rates and limited inventory are making for a slow market among buyers and sellers alike. Home sales in 2024 have been well below historic norms. Real estate investors tend to be more insulated from these dynamics, particularly from mortgage rates, as they are more likely to buy properties with cash.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As inventory builds and, as there are fewer offers from homebuyers , more sellers feel the need to reduce the asking price of the homes for sale. We regard this metric, the percentage of homes on the market with price reductions from the original list price, as a leading indicator for future sales prices. There are 27.7%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Data from Altos Research shows that higher mortgage rates aren’t necessarily keeping sellers from listing their homes. The 15-year conforming rate has increased even more sharply since the Fed’s decision, rising from 5.7% 18 to 6.15% on Tuesday. For-sale inventory of single-family homes is up 33% from a year ago.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

It’s great news that 2024 performed better than the 2023 housing market. Seeing more buyers and sellers able to participate is absolutely what we want to see. Let’ get into it. Skim quickly by topic or digest slowly.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Existing home sales ended the year on a positive note , which aligns with our weekly Housing Market Tracker data, but something surprising is that home prices firmed up late in the year as well. However, housing demand surged when mortgage rates fell in the early 1980s during a recession. Also, the monthly supply is 3.3

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 24, 2025

A major economic downturn (29%) is the most reported reason sellers would delay their plans, while a property tax increase (43%) would be the biggest motivator to expedite selling. !function(e,n,i,s){var For those in slower markets, patience may be required, while in fast-moving areas, sellers could still find strong demand.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Fluctuating interest rates have been a feature of the housing market over the last three years. Our 2025 housing market predictions are based on the assumption that lower mortgage rates will spur demand and boost the number of homes sales transactions. There were nearly 7% more sellers last week than the week prior.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Buyers and sellers alike continue to rely on the expertise of Sothebys International Realty agents to successfully navigate an ever-changing market and achieve their real estate goals, White said. She highlighted wealthy buyers as the driving force behind last year’s growth in the luxury market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The housing market in 2024 was about as frustrating for the real estate industry as you can imagine. Thats the highest share for new sales since 2005, which was during the building boom driven by cheaper housing, looser credit requirements and high demand for mortgage-backed securities. million and Bright MLS expecting 4.4

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

The housing market is heating up, but it’s not blazing hot. UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 1/31/25 Prime Real Estate […] The post The housing market is warm. UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 1/31/25 Prime Real Estate […] The post The housing market is warm. Let’s unpack that today. Any thoughts?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

A large majority of homeowners (88%) have concerns about selling their homes, with financial uncertainty and housing market conditions ranking among their top fears, according to a recent survey by Clever Real Estate. These markets also have larger supplies of homes, with about 3.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

But that only represents part of how consumers feel about market conditions. Higher mortgage rates and home prices are still keeping many buyers and sellers away from the market, according to Fannie Mae. The share of respondents who believe it’s a good time to sell a home remained unchanged from December at 22%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

And it is a little bit early, but some of the preliminary data I have looked at show that sellers are continuing to pay buyer agent compensation.” I think ultimately, though, sellers should be looking at their net (profit).

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

What can we expect ahead for the housing market? Today, I have three quick points, and while these visuals are specific to my area, some of the language use can be used in many different markets. What’s January going to be like in 2025? This is my last blog post of 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. New listings To get a lot of homes on the market though we need some sellers. In total, it was another week with fewer home sellers that last year. Its hard to grow inventory too much when there arent many sellers. There are 28.7%

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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

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

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. And seller growth is happening pretty much everywhere across the country, with Florida and Texas leading the way. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The spring housing market is still trying to spring. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. There are plenty of weak signals in the housing market, of course. The unsold inventory of homes on the market across the country is 28% greater than last year at this time.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Pending sales activity had been higher in October and November, and there was some growing optimism that the 2025 housing market could start out strong. However, with mortgage rates rising in December and pushing above 7% in January, buyers and sellers are hesitant. Sturtevant said in a statement.

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