Sacramento Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The housing market has shifted, and today I have some practical advice for buyers and sellers. This is coming from hundreds of conversations every month as well as stats I'm pulling. Some new memes too. Enjoy if you wish. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 8/11/22 Realtist Lunch & Learn (sign up here (open to anyone)) 8/15/22 YouTube

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

California Regional MLS (CRMLS) has decided to remove fields listing seller concessions from its platform. Additionally, CAR’s updated RLA form does not include any references to seller concessions. One such change outlined in the settlement is the banning of offers of buyer broker compensation from the MLS.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Seller impersonation fraud is on the rise. A study conducted by NDP Analytics found that 28% of title companies experienced at least one seller impersonation fraud attempt in 2023, and in April 2024 alone, 19% of firms experienced at least one of these attempts.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Dear Sellers, if you’re overpriced, I have some thoughts for you today. I hope this […] The post An open letter to overpriced sellers first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog. This is coming from a good place, and I want you to have success in selling your home if that’s what you really want to do.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

For Linda O’Koniewski , the broker-owner of Leading Edge Real Estate , one of the largest hiccups so far was when one of her agents brought a buyer offer that included concessions to a seller. The seller basically told them to drop dead,” O’Koniewski said. “So, This allows them to keep their net but lower the price.

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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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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

That pretty much describes sellers. But in 2024 there’s a flicker of hope as sellers have thawed out just a bit. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 01/31/24 Joel Wright […] The post Are sellers finally starting to thaw out? Any thoughts?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Conrad discusses best practices for transparent conversations between listing agents and sellers, the value of educating sellers on the new buyer agent compensation agreements , and ways to show your value as a professional agent. Velt chimes in and shares how important it is to be transparent with sellers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

We all know that sellers hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe when it comes to how market conditions will impact the sale of their home. It is still a sellers’ market, just not the frenzy that it has been. Below I share some of my scripts for having those tough conversations with your sellers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Redy , an online marketplace that rewards home sellers for selecting a real estate agent who best aligns with their sales goals, announced its launch in five markets on Tuesday. The Redy online platform is now available to home sellers in Atlanta , Dallas , Orlando , Phoenix and San Diego.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Home sellers are returning to the market, but buyers are hesitant, according to a recent Zillow market report. Buyers and Sellers Butt Heads as Inventory Jumps Sellers’ new listings increased by 8% from April to May, and are now 13% higher than last year’s record low. So, what does this means for buyers and sellers?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Sellers can just wait it out, and it looks like the U.S. I think it’s worth examining if sellers will indeed just wait it out now. That is 13% more sellers than last year at this time, but it’s not expanding any more this summer. The pace of sellers has plateaued for the year. housing market is seeing that now.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

A newly released episode of the Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered Podcast explores the future state of buyer and seller relationships in the housing market after the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) business practice changes take effect Aug. Zorn explained how he would approach a seller in the new market.

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Real Estate News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

An aging seller pool reflects a trend also seen among buyers — but sellers have retained the upper hand, rarely reducing prices or offering incentives.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As real estate practitioners adjust to the practice changes that took effect in August, and the industry waits for final approval of the NAR settlement from the court in November, questions continue about seller offers of compensation. Lowering commissions will not cause sellers to reduce their prices.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. In this week’s Altos Research video, I look at how home sellers and sales are up, but that doesn’t mean prices will climb in 2024. Could we see new inventory from distressed sellers if we see a deep recession?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

eXp Realty recently released forms that make it clear it is firmly up to the seller to decide whether or not they will offer buyer broker compensation. In the spirit of this arrangement, Real President Sharran Srivatsaa said the firm is leaving it up to sellers as to how and if they advertise offers of buyer broker compensation. “It

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The post Buyers and Sellers Embrace Market in Wake of Mortgage Rate Dip first appeared on The MortgagePoint. The post Buyers and Sellers Embrace Market in Wake of Mortgage Rate Dip appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. With a growth rate of 21.4% during the previous five years, these larger units had the highest growth rate.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

But it will be their sellers who make the decision on an offer of compensation to a buyer broker. In the agreement, sellers have the option to choose to pay their listing broker an exact dollar amount, a percentage of the gross purchase price of the property or an undefined “Other.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) Freddie Mac this week released an industry letter encouraging seller/servicers to take the accelerating pace of cybersecurity threats seriously, and to ensure that processes and tools are maintained to limit exposure to potential security risks. “A These included incidents of social engineering (e.g.,

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Simultaneously, home sellers reduced the number of newly listed properties on the market, with a -0.9% In April we noted that rising for-sale inventory was likely to lead to more balance between buyers and sellers. Similar to buyers, sellers reduced their offering in August as newly listed properties dropped 0.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The complaint argues that the NAR and the brokerage defendants collude “to impose, implement and enforce anticompetitive restraints that cause home sellers to pay inflated commissions on the sale of their homes, in violation of federal antitrust law.” Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e.,

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While home-seller profits remain historically high, the national margin has declined almost every quarter from a 64% peak hit in 2022. The leveling of prices during Q3 also led to typical raw profits for sellers staying about the same, near an all-time high of just under $130,000.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Sales are sluggish because high homebuying costs are making both house hunters and prospective sellers skittish. Even though homes are selling for higher prices than ever before, many sellers are still having to drop their list prices after putting their properties on the market—one positive sign for potential homebuyers. Ongoing U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our customers for many years have said, ‘I also work with sellers, can we nurture them as well?’” According to Flachner, despite initial hesitancy for fear of biting off more than they could chew, RealScout began “peeling back the layers of the onion on seller nurture.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

In such an environment, buyers may feel pressure to bypass steps in the transaction to make their bid more attractive to the seller, but they should be wary that taking shortcuts can expose them to fraud. Secret Service reported a steep rise in seller impersonation in an advisory it issued this year. We can reverse this trend.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

And to close deals, sellers are increasingly coming to the table with concessions and rate buydowns. . According to industry watchers, sellers are attracting buyers to their homes through mortgage rate buydowns. In the third quarter of 2022 and the fourth quarter of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

of home sellers gave concessions to homebuyers in Q4 of 2022, through money for repairs and mortgage-rate buydowns. In Q3 of 2022 and Q4 of 2021, sellers gave concessions in 30% of home sales. Sellers realize they’re not going to get $80,000 over the asking price like their neighbor did last year,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

With low housing inventory nationwide, agents are using innovative ways to find real estate seller leads and convert them into listings. To help you snag more listings, we updated our list of proven strategies to win more real estate seller leads in 2024. If you want a shot at generating seller leads online, you need one, too.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

home sellers reaped slimmer profit margins on median-priced single-family homes and condominiums during the first quarter of 2024. Investment returns for sellers fell for the second straight quarter. The good news for potential home sellers is that limited housing supply could push home prices higher this spring.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. Home prices ebb and flow, pricing was working in the sense that sellers met homebuyers to a degree. With more inventory, sellers have to be less stingy; this is why I am a fan of getting total inventory data back to 2019 levels.

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Real Estate News

AUGUST 30, 2024

With new rules in place, listing agents need to consider several factors when helping sellers determine their approach to buy-side compensation.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We still see more sellers than last year. We are in the normal range with price reductions, meaning sellers are generally fine, generally getting their prices. More sellers with price cuts than a year ago. It can be hard to communicate all this with buyers and sellers. Now, mortgage rates are 100 basis points higher.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

This might manifest itself with lower offers that are acceptable to the seller, but price isn’t the only aspect of a transaction. Anecdotally, sellers are worried that the threat of increasing interest rates with continue to erode buying power which will have a negative effect on their sale price now and especially in the future.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

The recent settlement involving the National Association of Realtors and major real estate firms revolves around the practice of “broker cooperation,” where agents representing sellers share commissions with agents representing buyers. Last year, mortgage rates increased from 3% to 8% and home prices still increased in most markets.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 18, 2022

And sellers are losing it. Buyers are gaining power. I have some new visuals to show what the market is doing right now. These are for Sacramento, but I suspect many areas look similar. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/20/2022 Beer & Stats at Out of Bounds (sign up (for real estate agents)) 7/26/2022 Navigating […].

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Many sellers have returned to offering concessions and dropping prices to entice buyers. Now more than ever, sellers expect an agent who will confidently create a plan to get them top dollar for their home. But in the case that a roof is leaking or falling apart, it’s best to recommend sellers get it repaired or replaced.

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