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.

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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. The current stress in the CRE and C&I loan markets further highlights the advantages of residential mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

New home sales missed estimates , showing that demand isn’t crashing but not growing much either. 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. months at the current sales rate. This represents a supply of 9.1

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Residential real estate activity picked up in most Districts despite continued low inventories of homes for sale,” the report states. In return, the lack of inventory of homes for sale pushed demand for rental properties in some areas — including New York, Chicago, St.

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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

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. Dont obsess with finding the perfect first home.

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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. In October, the typical sales price for an investor-owned home was 55% — or $181,567 — more than what most investors paid. As the U.S. Investors purchased $38.8

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Weve built an incredible foundation and as we focus on each agents personal development and their continual sales growth, we welcome the partnership and backing from the team at Stone Point Capital. During his time there he led the companys $629 million IPO.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

CoStar Group , the parent company of real estate data giant CoStar , has made an offer to acquire OnThe Market , the third most visited residential property portal in the United Kingdom. The announcement bolsters the claim that CoStar is “playing for keeps in the residential real estate market.” portal for £1.10

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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. That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales! The discounts come as homebuilders’ confidence in the market remains muted.

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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

MARCH 13, 2025

The average loan size decreased, signaling that first-time homebuyers remain active in the market, Kan said. MBA estimated that single-family new-home sales often a leading indicator of the U.S. Census Bureau ‘s new residential sales report hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 634,000 units in February, up 2.9%

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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. However, Leading RE agents and team bested the sales volume.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this week’s episode of the Power House podcast, host and HousingWire President Diego Sanchez chats with Tom Davis , chief sales officer at Deephaven Mortgage. Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market.

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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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

This is key because, traditionally, residential construction workers are the first to lose their jobs before every recession since higher mortgage rates hit housing first. Now that new home sales are trending lower , with fewer permits, are we getting closer to the end of this cycle? months at the current sales rate.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

People say that housing leads the economy into a recession: this is true when new home sales and housing permits fall together. This is one reason I raised my fifth recession red flag for Housing on June 16, 2022 as I saw that higher mortgage rates would impact new home sales and housing permits. months at the current sales rate.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Though the demand for homes remained strong across the United States in August, there are clear signs that the housing market is past its peak. A report from residential brokerage Redfin found that pending sales across 400 metro areas were up 6% year over year in the four weeks that ended Sept. Presented by: Nomis Solutions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! I have never believed in this concept because of how the housing market credit channels work.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

New home sales increased in December — a sign that new residential sales have continued to rebound in recent months. Last month, new home sales increased by 2.3% In addition, the median sales price of new houses that were sold in December dropped to $442,100, and the average sales price dipped to $528,400.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

Tuesday’s report on new home sales came in as a miss of estimates and prior revisions were all negative. This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. However, for the new home sales sector, it would put their business model at risk.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

California -based mortgage lender loanDepot (LDI) has made two additions to its sales leadership team. On Wednesday, the company confirmed that Justin Andrews has been hired as the new area sales manager in the Seattle region. In late April, Jeff Wilkish joined loanDepot after seven years at Movement Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

It will get worse for the housing market – and mortgage industry – before it gets better. That’s the takeaway from a group of economists at Fannie Mae who slashed their forecast for 2022 home sales this week. Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group expects total home sales to decrease 16.2%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders award recognizes the most creative and influential marketing minds in the housing economy. This year’s winners have demonstrated exceptional creativity, strategic thinking, and the ability to adapt in a rapidly-evolving landscape. Congratulations to this year’s honorees!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. Sales fall. Then we had the biggest mortgage rate shock in recent history and yet even with that, we will have over 5 million total home sales this year. Home sales.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “The bond market is forcing the Fed to pivot.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

This dip can be partly attributed to the recent acquisition of 3D scanning company Matterport , as well as the costs associated with the Homes.com marketing campaign during the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast in February. In the first quarter, the sales team for Homes.com generated nearly $40 million in net new bookings. billion. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

on Thursday announced that Blue Ridge Bank has entered into a definitive asset purchase and sale agreement to sell certain assets of its mortgage division. Monarch Mortgage provides mortgage banking services, including the origination and processing of residential mortgages primarily for sale on the secondary market.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Census Bureau and Housing and Urban Development, show sales of new single-family homes in January 2025 plunged to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 657,000, down 10.5% from December 2024, which raked in 734,000 residential sales. decrease year-over-year from the 664,000… The post New Home Sales Down 10.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A mortgage industry veteran with over three decades of experience, Saso was previously a divisional sales manager at Nations Lending. In his role as chief production officer, Saso will be responsible for overseeing sales on a national level.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Miami stands as one of the most dynamic and valuable real estate markets in the United States. While not yet reaching the trillion-dollar mark, Miami ‘s total real estate value, including both residential and commercial properties, was estimated at approximately $650 billion as of 2023, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Move Sales , OpCity Acquisitions , OpCity Inc. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants’ scheme was “so widespread that it has caused harm to the goodwill of each prospective class member and the residential real estate agency (and brokerage) business as a whole.” The suit claims that NAR, along with Move Inc., and REA Group Ltd.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Still, even the single-family rental (SFR) market, including the BFR sector, faces an uncertain future in the year ahead, given the ongoing volatility in interest rates and inflation.

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