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New construction vs. resale homes: How agents can guide buyers in today’s market

Housing Wire

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Tom Davis shares non-QM opportunities to capitalize heading into 2025

Housing Wire

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Many investors prefer to close in the name of an LLC.

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The 11 do’s and don’ts of buying a new build

Housing Wire

Navigating the home buying process often begins with deciding between a new build or an existing homeand while new construction offers exciting possibilities, it also comes with unique challenges. Cosmetic updates like flooring, paint or finish work can sometimes be done after closing at a lower cost.

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Nearly half of home sellers are offering concessions

Housing Wire

According to a new report from Redfin , 44.4% of home sales from January through March included concessions such as money toward repairs, closing costs or mortgage rate buydowns. a year ago and close to the record figure of 45.1% Thats up from 39.3% at the start of 2023. That figure nearly doubled from 36.4%

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Midwest, Northeast housing markets stay hot amid national cooldown

Housing Wire

Our new listings have gone up slightly but not enough to keep up with demand. So that really kind of hinders our actual total sales and total closings. I think that we’ve underbuilt for 13 years in this country and in this state, so definitely, new construction is in order, she said. year over year, respectively.

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Realtor.com addresses housing supply gap in new report

Housing Wire

This was driven by an increase in both single-family and multifamily construction. Importantly, new construction activity outpaced household formations for the first time since 2016. At 2024’s pace, closing the gap would take 7.5 But as Hale pointed out, the U.S. still faces a supply shortfall of 3.8

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Home sellers who didn’t list on the MLS lost $1B in sale proceeds: Zillow

Housing Wire

To classify these sales, Zillow identified sales that were reported pending or closed with at most one day active and with a buyer and seller represented by the same agent or by agents within the same brokerage office, the report stated. Zillow said only this subset of off-MLS transactions was included in the analysis.

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