Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. Some markets are much slower than others. Inventory is up There are now 632,000 single-family homes unsold on the market around the U.S. When will that be?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Many who bought during the pandemic are now rethinking their decisions, citing changing lifestyles, financial miscalculations, and shifting market conditions, according to new data from Opendoor. Delaying the next purchase, setting priorities With affordability concerns looming, many first-time sellers are hesitant to re-enter the market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. The market is different now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Todays builder survey gives us more clues about what stage they’re in, and it isnt good. If mortgage rates rise from todays level, this will be a negative for the labor market, which has already been shedding government jobs in 2025. The chart below is not very encouraging.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction. In turn, millennials , who were just starting to enter the housing market, were faced with fewer choices as homebuilding activity fell to its lowest level in 60 years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in a turbulent housing market , it may have been this innovation that ultimately ended Redfin’s run as a standalone company. They still have to bear the cost of those agents, despite production not being there in a terrible housing market.” Redfin leaned into that, and it didn’t work.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

. “ERA Real Estate has always been a powerhouse, steadily increasing its market share through community-focused initiatives,” said Alex Vidal , president of ERA Real Estate. Additionally, ERA will host “Day at the Park” events with MiLB teams in select markets. ”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Is the home being marketed effectively? Is the price aligned with current market conditions? Here are the initial items to check on: Marketing photos and description: Start by reviewing your marketing strategy. Inside, staging can make a huge difference. Sellers market : This happens when demand outweighs supply.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What stage is the company in right now? Divya Aathresh: We are still very early, in the pre-seed stage. In terms of options, we’re very fortunate to have some of the top brokers in the country working with us on a product suite we will soon take to market. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

After a year filled with rate swings, unpredictable markets and a bit of drama (thank you, inflation), the real estate world is ready for a fresh start. Whether youre looking to buy your first home, upgrade or simply gain clarity on the current market , this guide is your insiders playbook to tackle 2025 with confidence.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Working in this arena, you see all kinds of different markets, and the common denominator is that once a senior is in that stage of life, it remains and continues to be an opportunity. I applaud him, and also challenge other leaders in other markets to follow his lead.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The labor market isn’t tight anymore and that will eventually be good news for mortgage rates. The current state of the labor market results from a series of events, with COVID-19 being a significant catalyst. Today the labor market is less tight, but the Fed would love to see this number even lower, down to 7 million.

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Mortgages Marketing Staging Land 513

Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The announcement comes shortly after Rocket unveiled the first stage of its rebrand and is a part of the company’s conscious effort to unify Rockets many companies under a single umbrella. Per a release from the Detroit-based fintech, the Rocket.com website is an AI -driven, “intuitive” experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Of the surveyed pool, 42% have sold since late 2022 as rising mortgage rates cooled the post-pandemic market. In August, directly after the NAR settlement went into effect in most markets, Redfin reported that the typical U.S. Nearly 1 in 4 sellers (24%) view the polarizing FSBO method as the worst way to sell a home.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On Thursday, MLS leaders took center stage at several conference sessions, including discussions of the business practice changes driven by the NAR commission lawsuit settlement and how the role of the MLS — and the MLS-broker relationship — has evolved as a result. “And

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

On Thursday, the firm announced that Forsythe was joining eXp as its new chief marketing officer. According to the release, in this role, Forsythe will be responsible for building the firm’s marketing strategies and global initiatives, working to expand the company’s brand visibility. “I’m absolutely thrilled to join eXp Realty.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. While a robust housing market is generally a positive thing, this is not all good news to every person. There are millions of would-be homebuyers who are simply priced out of the market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2024

Redfin is expanding its Redfin Next agent payment plan into 25 new markets starting in August 2024. They also have all marketing expenses for listings paid for — including photography, staging, yard signs and other collateral materials. In an announcement on Friday, Redfin said that the payment plan would be rolling out Aug.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. However, that has changed recently, so it’s time for the housing market to put up or shut up for spring 2023.

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Marketing Mortgages Staging Sales 534

Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Unlike a lot of forecasters in the mortgage world, a few months ago our projection included the notion that with strong jobs data and some inflation fears, the bond market could indeed push mortgage rates over 7%. Those scenarios are possible, and its going to be fascinating to see how the bond markets react to new administration policies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Wallace brings more than 30 years of experience as a leader of tech-focused mortgage, asset management and capital market platforms. ” Daniel Wallace MAXEX chairman and co-founder Tom Pearce shared Decker’s praise for Wallace, highlighting the new COO’s vision for building an accessible central mortgage market platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“This has created an even less durable final rule that does not reflect market, technological , and practical realities.” He said the “stage is set for a more data-driven lending environment.” “Consumers now control their financial data, sharing it securely with third parties.

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Banks Mortgages Lending Staging 448

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Denver-based Realtor Bret Weinstein took on a client whose house had been on the market for 60 days. The deal is indicative of how details matter in a market like Denver where home-price growth has slowed dramatically after a surge in post-pandemic migration to the metro area caused valuations to rise sharply in a short period of time.

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Marketing New Construction Finance Staging 468

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. And the third is the most important one at this stage of the cycle: 3. However, the labor market isn’t breaking: jobless claims data is almost below 200,000. Does this mean the labor market is breaking? 9, 2020: 1.

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Marketing Staging Land Construction 511

Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. housing market at the end of April 2024. Housing inventory There are now 556,000 single-family homes on the market. from last week, with slightly more than 13,000 additional properties on the market now than a week ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

They explored affordability issues in today’s real estate market and how agents should leverage their knowledge for success. After an ice-break segment, the pair dove into the first topic: major trends in the real estate market. The gap between housing costs and income growth has created some market pressure.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Since the summer of 2020, I have believed the housing market could change in terms of cooling down, but it would require the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%. However, we aren’t at that stage yet. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

Mortgages 544

Mortgages Marketing Staging As-is 544

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The race is on for brokerages to capture clients in an incredibly difficult housing market, and Compass believes a new technology offering will give it an advantage. It also provides market analyses, a calendar of upcoming events and a list of taks to complete tasks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Now that I believe the seasonal inventory bottom is in, we can focus on the next stage: tracking the weekly data on how much inventory growth we can get this year before the seasonal inventory starts to decline.

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Inman

MARCH 18, 2025

Learn from real estates best and brightest in the business, all while growing your network and meeting like-minded passionate and driven professional peers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. Today, the weekly Altos Research -tracked active market data shows signals for this spring that more markets are softening and fewer are pushing higher.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

FinLocker details that the initiative will eliminate verification costs at all stages of the mortgage journey, from prequalification and underwriting to final reverification before closing. FinLocker also explained that it aims to offer a “competitive edge in a challenging market with a tangible cost” for loan officers.

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Mortgages Loan Officer Technology Loans 326

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

A more efficient and intuitive customer relationship management system (CRM); tools to create better marketing materials; streamlined client communications; and a place to manage the deal pipeline, transactions, and checklists in one place. What accounts for this difference? Technology is part of the story. is one of our current investments.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

Is the labor market finally normalizing? Jobs Friday data came in as a beat of estimates, but the labor market is clearly starting to come back to earth, killing the fear of 1970s wage spiral inflation. Part of my COVID-19 recovery model on the labor market was that job opening should reach 10 million in this recovery.

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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. It is crazy to think we are seeing these four things happen in the housing market considering that even in March of this year we were seeing bidding wars accelerate before mortgage rates rose.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

It is the ballet of our lives being rendered on a stage we can finance thanks to a robust secondary market. Over the past few years, the noisy misdirection of data had us thinking homeownership was cerebral. Its storytelling. You walk in to a new listing with a price and a plan. And how do we help?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The acquisition gives Compass a firm footprint of high-end homes in an area with an expensive housing market. WFP has 150 agents and has executed $43 billion in sales volume over the past 25 years.

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