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

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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

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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. Close one loan for a real estate investor and you have a repeat client for life! TD: DSCR loans are one of the easiest and quickest loans to close.

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Midwest, Northeast housing markets stay hot amid national cooldown

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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

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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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Deephaven’s Tom Davis: ‘Either you take market share, or someone takes yours’

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For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors. And, its focusing on areas like construction, non-QM, the fix-and-flip and second lien production.

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RE/MAX closes out fall months with new top-producers, franchisees

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Ruehrwein, who became a licensed agent in 2017 after working in the new construction industry for 28 years, serves clients in Rehoboth and surrounding Massachusetts towns, as well as East Providence and the Narraganset area of Rhode Island. “My According to the release, the firm closed more than $350 million in volume in 2022. “We

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Zillow’s Orphe Divounguy says homebuilders need help to address affordability

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The conversation closes with Divounguy sharing his framework for tackling the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. Even if we had a massive increase in that number of new listings, that would not be enough to get affordability to get the kind of price declines that we need. Divounguy: We revised the sales number down slightly.