Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

As mortgage rates fluctuate based on decreasing housing inventory volume, the appraisal market is more volatile than ever in key areas such as urban and rural communities states like California and Texas. In fact, almost 20% of modern companies are fully remote as of 2024 , according to the U.S. Career Institute.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

These are the two most destructive wildfires in modern California history, and probably the modern history of the country, I would imagine, said Jesse Gundersheim, senior director of market analytics for Orange County and the Inland Empire at CoStar Group , the parent company of Homes.com.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The variety of modern digital solutions offered by the homegenius family of companies helps add a level of quality and efficiency to nearly every point in the home buying and selling process, all the way from search to close and beyond. homegenius, Inc.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Modern Buildings Being Reused, Conversions Rise Across U.S. This rise indicates that people are becoming more interested in reusing contemporary buildings (perhaps because they are easier to modify for new purposes and fulfill modern standards). According to CommercialEdges Conversion Feasibility Index (CFI), over 1.2

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inventory, which has been falling for years, broke to all-time lows in 2020. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. Of course, this has brought back some inventory, as demand weakness always creates inventory through accumulation. million active listings, but at just 1.28

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

And nobody understands the modern day law officer better than I do, because I’m one of them. SB: Some of the challenges are affordability, lack of housing inventory and slow sales. But my biggest focus initially is going to be the loan officers. SW: What’s the biggest challenge for loan officers right now?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 million Historically inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5 Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5% to a high of 7.37% — purely savage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

Amanda Hill: Lenders see appraisal modernization as a top priority by Maria Volkova. Amanda Hill: There will be a lot of eyes on rising mortgage rates and inventory of available homes for sale. The GSEs are implementing big changes this year that will allow for modernization to kick into high gear.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The new updates seek to expedite the home production process by cutting red tape and eliminating the need for manufacturers to obtain alternative construction approvals for materials that already meet or exceed HUD standards—helping build more manufactured homes and boost the nation’s housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The last two years of soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices have brought the fastest erosion in housing market affordability in modern history, and it’s hurt first-time homebuyers the most. Inventory remains one of the driving forces in this difficult housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Total Inventory data fell in this report from 1.31 It doesn’t even look like we will breach the lower level of my inventory wish list of 1.52 I am a big fan of inventory to 2019 levels. Even though 2019 inventory levels were historically low, they were at four-decade lows before 2020; they’re a more effective pricing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This facilitated the biggest decline in existing home sales for a single year that we will ever see in modern-day history due to the high level of sales in January of 2022. However, the second is that inventory is simply too low, with too many people chasing too few homes, which means too many bidding wars. million — looks bad now.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

New construction pros and cons Buyers drawn to modern living may find the benefits of new construction appealing, though they should be prepared for some drawbacks. Renovating to modernize can add to the long-term cost of a resale home.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

In modern history, the housing market has never seen a month like March. Record demand and the lowest levels of inventory on record pushed sales prices to record highs in March and made life very complicated for buyers, real estate agents, builders and lenders across the United States.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By integrating HousingWire’s industry-leading content and proprietary data into their offerings, Ohio REALTORS is equipping its brokers with the tools necessary to succeed in the modern real estate market. “At Ohio REALTORS, our mission is to be the indispensable professional partner for our members and brokers. ”

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 16, 2024

Today, there is a greater emphasis being placed on manufactured homes—both for borrower and lender—as a means for entry-level housing that can help address the steep inventory shortage nationwide. Over the last several years, these homes have become even more modernized. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

So it’s no surprise that home sales over the last two-plus years have been at some of the lowest levels in modern history. Many of those same sunbelt markets with high insurance costs are also markets with the greatest inventory growth of unsold homes on the market in 2024. At some point, interest rates ease back down.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Details of the latest membership count comes as the trade group works to implement a series of major rule changes stipulated by the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit settlement agreement, as well as fewer market opportunities for members due to historically low levels of existing-home sales inventory. Membership dipped just below 1.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

High mortgage rates and depleted housing inventory have exacerbated an already existing housing availability crisis. As a frame of reference, a 20/1,000 turnover rate is a fairly typical for the modern housing market. This policy fed, over the years, into the housing inventory crisis.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While some may choose to move out of their homes, this could also create issues for new inventory that may require some kind of renovation work. One of the best tools to assist with fashioning homes for aging-in-place goals is through the use of modern smart-home technology, something that has a large swath of support among older Americans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Investor activity : Institutional investors purchasing single-family homes for rentals have reduced inventory for individual buyers. A modern solution for an evolving market The American Dream of homeownership is at risk but adopting longer mortgage terms could restore that dream for millions of middle-class Americans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today, modern technology , including Pretium’s platforms, cut out the middleman by allowing firms to invest directly in assets, decide the kind of leverage they want and determine how Pretium will manage the assets over time. Burns segues the conversation to explore other areas that Pretium is interested in entering.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To make matters worse, some of that inventory is extremely dated. The typical house is now 39 years old — a far cry from the modern, move-in ready property that most homebuyers are looking for. For these reasons, the fix-and-flip sector is poised for growth.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

It seems increasingly likely that the COVID refi boom will prove to be the most consequential event in housing in modern American history. If we’re going to see inventory unlocked, this is one segment it will have to come from. Where do you think existing home inventory will come from? It reset the board.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Census Bureau over a five-year period shows that prices for manufactured homes have risen by nearly 60% as the nation continues to contend with a housing affordability crisis that stems in part from a shortage of sufficient inventory. The study from LendingTree found that the average price of a new manufactured home sold in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A simple, ancient practice, one that often goes unnoticed despite the critical role it plays in the lives of millions of Americans, is getting modernized. They have developed technologies that update the process to mirror the modern way you do your banking, shop, and do pretty much everything else: by using the internet.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Construction loans Inventory levels in the real estate market arent what they used to be. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. Qualifying home types include single-family, townhomes, 2-4 units, and condos.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

HousingWire recently sat down with Polly CEO Adam Carmel to discuss how lenders can break old habits and redefine the mortgage process through innovation and modern, advanced technology. annualized in the third quarter of 2022 due to strong net export and inventory investment activity, before contracting 0.7% Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Tomo, founded by former Zillow executives, is built on the premise that homebuyers need to gain an edge, especially in a market largely defined by limited inventory and fierce bidding wars. . They’re used to modern experiences with great service and digital experience.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

million units , and some experts say it could reach 8 million if there were more inventory. Shifting Toward Modernization. In response, the FHFA is looking to modernize the appraisal process to ensure more streamlined and accurate valuations. Total year-end sales volume ended at 5.64 Therein lies the problem.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

An increasing number of people are choosing to rent long-term, seeing it as a lifestyle choice that fits with the modern mobility of a remote work-driven world. While many markets are chronically plagued by a housing shortage and low inventory, others are struggling with a rising oversupply and stalled sales. cultural narrative.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Housing inventory remains persistently low, home prices are at all-time highs and affordability is becoming out of reach for more people with every passing day. The same trend is seen in existing-home sales due in large part to a lack of inventory of available homes for sale. Median new-home sales prices rose 17.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finally, anyone who thinks that pricing is really the result of a fine-grained process and not fetishism refuses to see the evidence from the decades of claptrap called modern economics. In addition, in the case of housing the externalities related to lack of homeownership militate against the commonweal.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Or omit the MLS link and tease out the listing with stats and photos in your newsletter, and invite your audience to contact you directly for more information.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, for the first time in recent modern-day history — due to supply chain issues and other factors — housing completion data has lagged behind housing permits and starts. New homes are always more expensive than older cheaper existing inventory so the builders are mindful of the competition.

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