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. Without more clarity on mortgage rates , substantial growth in housing permits is unlikely.

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 27, 2025

Let’s face it — buying a home can feel like a challenge with today’s mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

New home sales continue to be a bright spot in a dismal housing market. The December report from the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development shows new-home sales registering at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000, good for a 6.7% rise year over year and 3.6% higher than November. Even better, new home sales for the calendar year 2024 are estimated at 683,000, which is 2.5% more than 2023 and the highest sales have been since 2021.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Less stringent requirements for consumer contact will stay in place for a year, FCC says, as it delays TCPA changes that wouldve required one-to-one consent.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Recently, weve shared that the inventory of unsold homes is growing. In recent weeks, home sales also faltered in the face of 7% mortgage rates. Now were noticing some signals in the data that national home prices could turn negative this spring, showing year-over-year home-price declines for the first time since early 2023. There are already plenty of markets nationwide where the inventory of unsold homes has built up over the past few years and home prices have ticked down.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Sales were up at the end of 2024, and for the full year, increased by 2.5% over 2023 in contrast to existing home sales, which fell short of 2023 numbers.

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Inman

JANUARY 27, 2025

Sixty-nine percent of agents since 2020 have recommended their sellers list on a private listing network. However, sellers still favor listing on the multiple listing service, a Zillow survey said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this month published an issue spotlight that takes a closer look at home equity contracts, or what the industry refers to as home equity investments (HEIs) that offer a lump sum payment to clients in exchange for a stake in their home equity. At the time the contract is settled, the homeowner must pay a lump sum back to the provider, an amount that is also partially based on the homes value.

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Inman

JANUARY 27, 2025

Cheap rates on existing loans are holding well-off homeowners in place. But others insist they're unable to buy at today's high prices whether rates come down or not, Intel survey data suggests.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Have a seat and buckle in. The real estate industry is already in a whirlwind and the year has barely kicked off. To put it simply, the industry appears to be in its rapid evolution era. What does this look like? Firstly, real estate professionals are facing an unyielding storm of new challenges. For example, changing agent commission guidelines and emerging lead contact regulations are keeping professionals up at night.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Watch the conversation with NARs general counsel as she answers the big, lingering questions about the commissions deal, gives an update on appeals and more.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Home negotiations technology platform Indigo just received a large investment to expand its operations in 2025. The company announced this week that it secured $8 million in funding to offer better insights and cohesiveness to real estate agents. Pete Flint at venture capital firm NFX , Clelia Warburg Peters at Era Ventures and Paul Irving at GTMfund led the seed round along with contributions from 1Sharpe Ventures and Jake Seid.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Baird & Warner and Real Estate One will add another $3.7 million to the fund, while the MLS PIN case moves forward after an extended pause.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Interest rates have risen from their record lows, housing inventory is tight and more homeowners are staying in their current properties, which means it is more important than ever for servicers to retain the customers they have. To help servicers boost retention and recapture strategies, ICE offers a mobile and web-based solution called Servicing Digital.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Joe Rand, of Howard Hanna | Rand Realty, and Sean Roberts, CEO of Villa, advocated for the acceptance of smaller homes built off-site as a solution to the inventory crisis.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Real estate agents are in the clear when it comes to dealing with changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) thanks to a last-minute ruling by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday night. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) first established that companies and individuals sending marketing calls or texts must have prior express written consent before issuing a call or a text in 2012.

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Inman

JANUARY 27, 2025

RentSpree and Realtor.com have agreed to work together on a rental syndication partnership. This ups the total of industry websites using RentSpree listing data to nine and the potential consumer reach to 30 million.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Members of the U.S. home remodeling industry report that while market conditions are stalling larger-scale remodeling projects, consumers seeking remodeling work are focused on efforts that could serve to increase home values and to future-proof homes for later life and aging in place. This is according to a report at Kitchen & Bath Design News , based on a quarterly gauge of market conditions compiled by one of the outlets sister publications.

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Estate Agent Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

Homebuyers are avoiding entering the property market due to fears of getting gazumped or gazundered, research suggests. A survey of more than 1,000 people by proptech firm iamproperty found more than 14% listed the risk of being gazumped or gazundered as the top deterrent to making a home purchase.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

In this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast , host Tracey Velt sits down with RealTrends founder Steve Murray. The duo explore the current state of mergers and acquisitions, team-based brokerage models, commission compression, and growth opportunities for agents and brokers. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. To start the conversation, Velt and Murray dive into the current state of mergers and acquisitions in the real estate industry.

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Brownstoner

JANUARY 27, 2025

In the News Congestion Pricing Results Mixed, Some Commutes Improve [NYT] Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Cant Wait for a Whiff [NYT] Vandals Hit Park Slope Israeli Eatery, Owner Pledges to Leave It [NYP] Burg Business Burned in Large Overnight Fire [NBC] Exhibition Brings Gowanus Industrial Heritage to New Development [BP] Plans for IBX Train… Read More > The post Daily Links: Williamsburg Pharmacy Goes Up in Flames in Four-Alarm Fire appeared first on Brownstoner.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) and News Corp., along with several of its subsidiaries such as Move , Realtors Information Network and OpCity , are looking to have the Bandy fraud suit dismissed. Filed in U.S. District Court in California in August 2024 by 13 real estate professionals, the suit is seeking class-action status and alleges that Move made misrepresentations regarding the quality of the leads provided to Connections Plus subscribers.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 27, 2025

As the Clear Cooperation Policy became a nexus of controversy and debate last year, with a plethora of brokers, CEOs and everyday agents across the country weighing in, maybe more notable than any of the folks who spoke out in favor (or against) the policy were those who didnt say anything at all. One notable… The post CRMLS CEO Hones in on Mandatory Submission Amid Clear Cooperation Pressure appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Distressed home sales marketplace Auction.com released a new report Monday highlighting a drastic drop in foreclosure auction property volume in the fourth quarter of 2024. But auction buyers are still willing to enter the market as the new presidential administration settles into office. Auction.com’s Auction Market Dispatch report is released on a quarterly basis.

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Brownstoner

JANUARY 27, 2025

In a city where brownstone values continue to soar, savvy Brooklyn multi-family homeowners are discovering a smarter approach to insurance. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all policies that force owners to pay for coverage they don't need. "The traditional brownstone insurance market has been treating these unique properties like cookie-cutter homes… Read More > The post How Brooklyn Brownstone Owners Save on Insurance With Custom Policies appeared first on Brownstoner.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Lone Wolf Technologies , a real estate technology company that has been in business for decades, unveiled its reimagined brand identity last week as an effort to “blend technology with human-centered design to better serve real estate professionals,” per a release from the company. “This isn’t just a new coat of paint,” said Lisa Lausten, senior vice president of marketing at Lone Wolf. “Our brand evolution represents a deeper transformation in how we serve ou

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Multifamily leaders are banding together in response to the devastating wildfires that have destroyed as many as 12,000 structures and displaced tens of thousands of people. Fifteen leading multifamily firms and commercial real estate industry groupsBenedict Canyon Equities, California Apartment Association, Camden, Christina Real Estate Investors, Cityview, CREDE Group, Hanes Properties, LaTerra Development, Lincoln Property Co., Marcus & Millichap, Mata Construction, NAIOP SoCal, North Pal

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Can you build a thriving real estate business on TikTok? Kina Desantis did. She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. No cold calling, no door knocking just (patiently) educating new and move-up buyers with quick-hit educational TikTok videos. When we caught Kina on a recent episode of the Real Estate Rockstars podcast, we had questions lots of them.

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Bigger Pockets

JANUARY 27, 2025

AirDNA recently released its annual report on the Best Places to Invest in Vacation Rentals, providing valuable insights into the markets investors should target.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Who owns photos of a real estate listing? The broker? The photographer? And what exactly happens when a photo used in marketing material looks essentially identical to an already copyrighted photograph? Based on suits filed on Friday by builder, real estate broker and professional photographer Alexander Stross, the answer is legal action. Stross filed two suits on Friday in U.S.

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