Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Federal Reserve didnt raise or cut interest rates today, but the meeting highlighted something I have been emphasizing since 2022: the Fed is shaping its policy around the labor market more than inflation. However, the Fed only cut rates when they believed the labor market was softening in the second half of 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a changing real estate market , mortgage lenders face increasing demand. The primary and secondary mortgage markets may be separate business components, but mortgage originators must understand both businesses intimately. Originators can bring new products to market when their underwriters can avoid the associated learning curve.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Interestingly, employment for residential construction workers typically one of the first areas to experience declines before a recession has not yet seen its usual downturn. The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. We will soon find out. percent (10.6 percent (11.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. Social media posts have fueled speculation that Austin’s rental market is in freefall. Gerli told HousingWire in an emailed response that normalizing market conditions would be indicated by a slow and gradual decline in rents. by September.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

The stock market reacted negatively to the news regarding tariffs, resulting in significant selling and a shift towards the bond market. In this week’s Housing Market Tracker , I mentioned that the 10-year yield level was stubbornly resistant and that we needed bad news to break through it.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

However, employment for residential construction workers hasnt fallen at all, even with the decline in housing starts and permits. For those looking for recession signals , a decrease in the number of residential construction workers is usually an early sign. Why haven’t the homebuilders started doing layoffs? This is 11.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

housing market remains challenging for prospective buyers as concerns over mortgage rates , home prices and affordability persist in 2025. I believe the concerns for the market at this point are dramatically related to geographics. As home prices have continued to rise, affordability has only worsened. ADU is a big requirement now.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. These strong fund flows are resulting in tighter credit spreads, higher prices, and an increased focus on sourcing new originations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

While the unemployment rate was up compared to the start of the year, the job market ended the year up, with 256,000 jobs added to the economy in December according to data released Friday by the U.S. Residential building construction added 3,500 jobs from November, while residential specialty trade contractors added just 500 positions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The company also notes that it will work with Stone Points leadership to expand and improve the agent branding and marketing resources as well as it offers, as well as the educational, coaching, data and technology resources it offers its franchisees, brokers and agents. The monetary terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

Now, the labor market is getting softer from its torrid pace of job creation and wage growth from 2021 to the end of 2023, but the labor market’s softening is right in line with my 2024 forecast for jobs. First, let me briefly explain my model and how I viewed the labor data going into 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The agreement, announced on Monday, will aim to address “critical residential housing needs across the U.S.,” The deal is an execution for captive capital, but the Wrightwell platform has the potential to assist any market participant with their real estate needs, DePalma added. according to a statement from Wrightwell. “We

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

housing market slowed down in the third quarter due to rising home prices and higher mortgage rates , investor purchases also ramped down, according to a new report by Redfin. ” Low-priced homes — those priced in the bottom one-third of their local market — comprised 45.7% As the U.S. Investors purchased $38.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Todays new home sales report beat market expectations, just like last weeks existing home sales report. However, a detailed analysis of the data explains why housing permits continue to remain at recession-level figures. Builders are struggling to get clarity on how many homes they can sell in this rate environment in the future. percent (19.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While shoppers flock to malls and online retailers for Black Friday deals, M/I Homes is shifting the focus to residential real estate with holiday incentives that rival traditional doorbusters. The discounts come as homebuilders’ confidence in the market remains muted. That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

RLTY Capital acquires pending residential and commercial commissions, allowing agents to access that money on an expedited timeline. The funding is led by Altriarch, a credit asset management company that invests in fragmented markets. The funding gives agents and brokers access to all of RLTYcos services effective immediately.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

As the 2025 spring homebuying season begins, the national housing market continues to struggle with supply shortages. But increased activity in residential construction , particularly in the South, is helping to alleviate affordability challenges in certain regions, according to ananalysis from First American Financial Corp.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

1 and Sept 30 of this year based on prices for closed residential sales. Homebuyers in these locales boosted the luxury real estate market by 70%, according to the report. A recent report from real estate data provider PropertyShark ranked California , New York and Florida as the states with the most expensive ZIP codes in 2024.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Understanding that real estate housing markets are hyperlocal, the RealTrends Verified City Rankings represent the newest evolution of RealTrends agent and team rankings. reflecting the importance of localized expertise in today’s evolving market. Production data represents residential transactions only.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology. The rule will implement a congressional mandate to establish consumer protections for residential PACE loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Chris Raveis, the company’s president of residential sales, welcomed the JRE team in a statement. ” Grimshaw and and Callahan expressed their excitement over joining William Raveis and tapping into the company’s robust network of agent support across multiple markets. “We welcome JRE to our family company.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

For the sake of simplicity, I will keep my comments restricted to residential real estate in the US. While there are many elements of this market that are extrapolatable to other markets, I will stick with what I know best. To some, any suggestion that AI is anything but liberatory is heresy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Saluda Grade , an alternative investment firm with a focus on residential real estate finance, announced this week that it hired Jim Boothby as its head of global business development. Boothby has more than 25 years of experience in credit , business development and investor relations. billion in 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Platinum brings a 2,500-agent team with a presence in markets across Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Missouri. . Meanwhile, Braklow highlighted an agent-centered approach to marketing and education at United as major factors behind partnering with the real estate giant. The financial terms of the merger were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Like those settlements, the parties here have negotiated proposed Settlements that resolve on a nationwide basis Plaintiffs claims for damages and injunctive relief against the Settling Defendants for their alleged anticompetitive practices in the market for residential real estate brokerage services, the filing states.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

In addition to the slowing job growth, the cooling labor market conditions were also evident in a 0.2 When broken out, the residential construction sector added 31,700 jobs month over month, while the number of residential specialty trade contractors rose 7,400 from a month prior. Data from the U.S. million people unemployed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Looking at the repair and remodeling market by demographic, JCHS found that households headed by a person of color contribute more to the home improvement market. Immigrant homeowners also account for a growing share of the market, up from 8% of expenditures in 2003 to 13% in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

9, 2025, require title insurance companies to identify the true, natural owners behind shell companies involved in non-financed residential property purchases. real estate market to launder illicit money, its announcement stated. The renewed orders, which are effective Tuesday and run through Oct.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Formerly known as a collective of McEnearney Associates and Middleburg Real Estate/Atoka Properties , the firm’s agents serve both residential and commercial real estate clients across the Greater D.C. The Corcoran Group is making moves in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. area’s urban, suburban and rural communities.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

These changes perpetuate the status quoalleged to be the product of collusion among competing brokers through MLS PINand neither protect nor restore competition to this important market. The DOJ claims that it has been fighting to inject competition into residential real-estate markets. million to $3.95 million to $3.95

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We had no growth in residential construction work hiring earlier in the year when rates were higher. However, even with that reality, when mortgage rates were at 7.50% earlier in the year, housing starts and permits were heading lower, single-family permits were heading lower and the builder’s confidence was falling. percent (±14.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

For investors in the private-label securities (PLS) market, the earlier signal was enough to unleash a boatload of money that had been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the “peak” to arrive, according to several market experts interviewed recently by HousingWire. My guess is we’ll do 10 or 11 deals this year in the $5.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Saxton has over two decades of experience working in residential real estate technology, digital marketing and management consulting. The executive changes at RE/MAX continue. He most recently served as the executive vice president of enterprise solution at T3 Sixty. The company is currently looking for someone to fill that position.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Business-purpose residential mortgage lender Dunmor announced Thursday that it has received a minority equity investment from Newfi Lending , a nonagency mortgage lender owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management. According to Dunmor, the investment is an extension of an original partnership initiated in June 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

The future production of housing units at risk I am bringing this up because economic recessions tend to see residential construction workers lose their jobs first. As you can see in the chart below, residential construction workers aren’t losing their jobs yet. While that was happening, we also had 5-unit permits expand as well.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Matterports cutting-edge 3D capture and AI-powered property insights have already transformed how residential and commercial properties are marketed and experienced, Andy Florance, the founder and CEO of CoStar Group , said in a statement. The firms residential North American network generated $58.9 CoStar paid $1.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Monarch Mortgage provides mortgage banking services, including the origination and processing of residential mortgages primarily for sale on the secondary market. A press release from Blue Ridge confirmed that the division, currently operating as Monarch Mortgage , is being sold to an unrelated third-party mortgage company. ”

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