Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Home sales are significantly better than they were last year at this time. These are homes that will generally close in November and December. Another tricky part of communicating this news is that home sales aren’t suddenly great. Another tricky part of communicating this news is that home sales aren’t suddenly great.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

We counted 10% fewer home sales for the week than the same week a year ago. In the fourth quarter of 2024, sales were coming in at 5% to 10% more than the year prior. Those sales gains have evaporated and even reversed. Sales are slow, so inventory of unsold homes is building. Ill share some of those signals in a minute.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Real estate closing gifts personalize and ultimately strengthen the relationship between you and your client, which can lead to a string of referrals. We curated some standout closing gift ideas for buyers and sellers and assembled this guide to help you navigate the closing gift process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Since our income is (usually) tied directly to closings, many real estate agents wonder how to close deals faster. Faster sales not only allow us to help more clients each year, they also help alleviate some of the stress and anxiety that come with a commission-only career. Who are these motivated clients?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ill share everything you need to keep the homebuying process running smoothly from your first meeting to closing and beyond. From choosing a property to navigating the closing process, youll need to do a deep dive into their wants, needs, and deal breakers. Think of this as building a roadmap for their homebuying journey.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

TD Bank confirmed to American Banker that it intends to close 38 branches in 10 states and Washington, D.C. And a recent bulletin from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) show that Flagstar Bank is closing 24 branches in five states. The affected TD branches will close by June 5, the bank said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Today’s existing home sales report shows that the existing home market is now almost balanced. We are very close to getting this balance nationally and in some markets we’re already there. regions posted sales declines. Year-over-year, sales waned in the Northeast, Midwest and South but were unchanged in the West.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) this week announced that it rebranded to Flagstar Bank , laid off 700 employees and anticipated the transition of another 1,200 to Mr. Cooper Group as part of the sale of its third-party origination (TPO) business and mortgage servicing rights (MSRs).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Tom closed over $17 million in volume in his second year in real estate. Tom Brennan: By the numbers Market: Charlotte, North Carolina Niche: Luxury homes Year one sales volume: $1.9 The local competition in Charlotte was fierce, and with only a handful of closed deals, he knew he couldnt compete with experienced agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2025

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% McVay said concessions have become a strategic way for sellers to meet buyers financial needs without lowering their sale price.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The existing home sales market does not align with their dual mandate of ensuring stable personal consumption expenditures (PCE) or consumer price index (CPI) prices, as these measures account for rent. Instead, the existing home sales market is more about transferring commissions rather than causing significant job losses in the economy.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

The weekly pending home sales rate is above last year at this time. There are just slightly more home sales happening now than last year at this time. There are more sellers each week, and there are more sales, but the supply side is growing faster than demand. Its getting close. Those do not seem imminent.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

If there are too few homes for sale, they dont have to be affordable to everyone, they only have to be affordable to a few people. In 2024, we saw a notable increase in buyer demand when mortgage rates got close to 6%. At that time in the fourth quarter, home sales picked up and home prices did too. housing market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

The company has raised close to $16 million in investments from Second Century and over 100 real estate professionals since it’s founding in January 2021. Final Offer currently operates in 11 U.S. states alongside Ontario and Alberta, Canada.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

First American Data & Analytics has launched a new product designed to help lenders identify title issues earlier in the mortgage and home equity loan process, with the goal of cutting delays and reducing closing times. VeriTitle is available via an API and can be integrated into widely used loan origination and point-of-sale systems.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

The pace of home sales remains near a 30-year low point as home prices and mortgage rates keep potential borrowers in wait-and-see mode. Simonsen noted that the 60,000 pending sales of single-family homes are down 3% year over year even as the 639,000 homes available for purchase are up 28%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In the last few months, the market finally saw some sales growth over the previous year. Theres another set of sellers that we call immediate sales. There were only 5,000 immediate sales this week. Total pendings increase When we look at sales volumes, there are 269,000 single-family homes under contract.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

What had previously been a surprisingly mild 2024 hurricane season closed with two devastating storms that hammered Florida and North Carolina. The state more broadly saw precipitous drops in new pending home sales, and the western coast of Florida experienced the sharpest declines. New home listings stood at 770 on Oct.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

Whats frustrating is that home sales had been ticking up in recent weeks. Weekly pending home sales are starting to come in a couple percent above the year-ago levels. Weekly pending home sales Lets start today with the weekly pending home sales. There were another 15,000 condo sales newly pending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

range are positive to grow sales, whereas rates at 7% and above especially 7.50% or higher significantly impact the builder data. When analyzing new home sales data and housing starts, it’s important to remember this rule of thumb. This is why it’s essential to monitor builders’ forward-looking outlooks closely.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Over the last month, home sales have definitely picked up, especially when compared to last years very low levels. Weekly pending home sales counts have been at or above the year-ago levels for four weeks in a row now. more weekly pending home sales than last year at this time. more sales started than the same week in 2024.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Since a Fed president makes this claim, it’s worth examining the data closely as he and his staff should be able to see the same housing data we are all looking at. We should note that existing home sales are in the third consecutive year of the lowest sales on record when you adjust to the workforce size.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We’re watching sales volumes , which are definitely up over past year but remain slow. The backward-looking price data, which look at actual sales prices, are up about 6% year over year. The leading indicators for future sales prices aren’t nearly that strong. We’ve been talking about sales growth over the past year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Despite the crazy negative headlines, existing home sales aren’t crashing based on the data we are seeing now. Weekly total pending sales The latest weekly total pending contract data from Altos offers valuable insights into current trends in housing demand. As we can see, the outlook for 2025 appears to be different.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Home sales in 2024 have been well below historic norms. According to data from CoreLogic, investor purchases have tracked closely with consumer home sales, and the share of home sales attributable to investors is down as well. But even investors have purchased fewer homes this year. markets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The deal involves two of the nations top-four brokerages by sales volume in 2024, according to data from RealTrends Verified. billion across more than 177,000 home sales. billion across nearly 236,000 sales. That deal is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2025. Compass ranked No. 1 last year with $184.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And for all talk about getting a good deal on a purchase or sale, people still just want to find the right home and have a smooth process. 1 need, while only 14% said they wanted help in negotiating the terms of the sale. The survey also shed light on the different methods by which agents are marketing homes for sale.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Via filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the $155 million in cash that Compass paid as part of the acquisition aligns closely with the $155 million of shareholder equity in @properties at the end of September.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Elevated mortgage rates, high home prices and a lack of for-sale listings continue to hamper U.S. home sales, with Redfin reporting Friday that sales in May 2024 dropped to one one of the lowest levels of the past decade. The annualized rate of home sales, adjusted for seasonality, fell below 408,000 last month.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

1 and Sept 30 of this year based on prices for closed residential sales. The nation’s most expensive neighborhood — Atherton, California — saw its median sale price jump to $7.9 The nation’s most expensive neighborhood — Atherton, California — saw its median sale price jump to $7.9 million this year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales! Chicago’s offerings include doorbuster deals on Quick Move-In homes, which reduce pricing up to $93,850 if the home closes this year. In Charlotte , borrowers to lock in a lower rate on select Quick Move-In homes that can close by the end of the year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New home sales have been one of the brighter housing stories since the home sales crash in 2022 — as we can see in the chart below, new home sales have been able to grow since then. When we take a more extended look at new home sales, we aren’t working from an elevated level — slow and steady wins this race.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

The companys free title monitoring service alerts homeowners of any changes to their propertys title after a sale, allowing them to respond quickly to potential threats. Dovidio noted that standard title insurance policies typically only cover issues that arise before a sale is finalized.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Can there be too many homes for sale? While we have 27% more homes for sale now than last year, we have 22% fewer homes on the market than at the end of 2018. How will that impact home prices in 2025?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Company Name Company Website Markets Served Company HQ RES.NET Real Estate Systems res.net/ Servicing, Appraisal / Valuation, Title and Closing Foothill Ranch, CA PropStream propstream.com/ Real Estate Data and Analytics Lake Forest, CA Qualia qualia.com/ Real Estate Sales San Francisco, CA Property Shield propertyshield.co/ Real Estate Sales Atlanta, (..)

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

million sales price is less than 3% of what four MLSs paid for the company in October 2021. The deal, which is expected to close in the next two weeks, was first reported by Inman News. The joint venture initiated a voluntary bankruptcy in March 2025, allowing it to put Remines assets up for sale. million in cash at auction.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group downgraded its forecasts for 2024 and 2025 home sales based on a number of reliable metrics that have “barely budged in response to the more favorable rate environment.“ million home sales in 2024 (down from 4.81 million sales in 2025 (down from 5.26

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