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 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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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

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

As the category leader it is important that every aspect of the Rocket brand lives up to this iconic ideology, Jonathan Mildenhall , chief marketing officer of Rocket Companies, said in a statement. Homeownership is a fundamental building block of the American Dream.

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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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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The market is not great, so we aren’t often dealing with multiple-offer situations. Due to these conditions, Dwiggins and other industry professionals believe there won’t be much of an impact on first-time buyers until the housing market strengthens, leading some sellers to potentially stop offers of buyer broker compensation. “If

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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

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%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best. 2022 marked a unique time for homebuilders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The honey badger labor market is still going strong as we got another solid jobs report Friday, which pushed bond yields higher at first. This will be important to think about going into 2023, especially if the labor market does what the Federal Reserve wants it to do, which is slow down enough to create a job loss recession.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a video discussing its marketing strategy, also released this week, CoStar tells real estate agents that it plans to run the Homes.com ads on streaming platforms, broadcast TV and digital radio, as well as during major events. The firm is no stranger to large marketing spends. This is the next stage in the development of Homes.com.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. This marked the lowest market share for new homes in three years. market share, while first-quarter 2022 saw a record high of 34.4%. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

told attendees from the Palladium stage. Serhant relayed a story from the early stages of his career, in which he met a couple looking to buy a property in New York City. I mean, you have to fake it until you make it,” Goldentayer said about agents looking to break into the ultra-luxury market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

Market Leader is an all-in-one solution for generating real estate leads, nurturing them with automated tools, and converting them into long-term clients. Its suite of tools includes a robust CRM, a real estate website, predictive analytics, marketing automation, and much more. Summary Key specs How does Market Leader work?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Total mortgage delinquencies rose slightly in the third quarter of 2023 as the job market cools and inflation puts more pressure on homeowners. The increase was driven entirely by a rise in earliest-stage delinquencies – those 30-days and 60-days past due.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This shift is welcomed good news given the tough origination market over the last two years. With purchase originations recovering and a refinance market surfacing, lenders must pick up their quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) practices before it’s too late. One critical shift is the adoption of pre-funding QC reviews.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. As you can see in the chart below, there is a big difference between the current housing market and those looking for a repeat of 2008. Mortgage rates in a regular market should be 5.25% today but are at 6.5%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Last week was relatively calm for the housing market after the fiasco of the banking crisis. The banking crisis has stressed the mortgage backed securities market , pushing rates higher than usual. Last week had the potential for fireworks, but it was pretty tame, this week we have four labor market reports to deal with.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

today should be between 158 million and 159 million , or in a weaker labor market growth scenario, between 157 million and 158 million. Now let’s look at the labor market on all fronts from the data we got this week to get a comprehensive view of the labor market today. Some college or associate degree: 3.2% From the St.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Finance of America Companies (FOA) Chief Marketing Officer Chris Moschner found himself working for the lender in the wake of its acquisition of American Advisors Group (AAG), and Moschner previously told RMD about his journey to the position and the “intoxicating” opportunity he sees in the reverse mortgage space. So, that’s really it.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. Join their waiting list for access to a treasure trove of digital marketing tools and some sweet discounts.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Facing a challenging housing market can be daunting for agents and loan officers alike. As industry professionals grapple with uncertainties, market shifts and evolving dynamics, the key to thriving lies not only in adapting to change but also in embracing it as an opportunity for growth.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is alarming because this was the moment last year when the market turned south. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. There are now 519,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S. There are 345,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you’re struggling to market your business on social media, or worse, haven’t even started yet, you might be in for a rude awakening in 2024. Prioritize reputation over reach The key to successful social media marketing is to build meaningful connections with people in your farm area who want to buy or sell real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, data-driven marketing can be more cost effective, helping you focus your marketing budget on homeowners who are most likely to sell, and on buyers who are actively looking for their next home. Need more examples? Visit Top Producer 2.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due) accounted for 1.5% In March 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8% in March 2023. “The

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due), accounted for 1.5% As later-stage delinquencies decrease, the share of mortgages in foreclosure remained at 0.3%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

In a 30-second TV spot, Mansbridge takes a stage to answer questions from an audience resembling a press pool. Mansbridge takes a turn at answering some of the biggest questions about retirement.” The debut TV spot featuring Peter Mansbridge for HomeEquity Bank. Most Canadians prefer to age in their homes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. The market has now faced a contraction in existing-homes sales for nine consecutive months, while home prices and rates rise.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Real estate agents now have a new tool to remove these distraction from home staging photos — and no, it’s not Apple Intelligence. Defurnish is one of a number of new tools Matterport rolled out this week as the company seeks to improve how agents market properties.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Creating a real estate marketing plan can be harder than it sounds. If your marketing isn’t aligned with your niche, personal brand, and skills, you’ll waste time, money and effort pursuing it. Finally, I’ll wrap up with the three marketing tools every agent needs to hit the ground running in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

My father had been diagnosed with stage four liver failure at that time, and we were aggressively looking for a home so he could move in with my family. The focus, of course, will be the mortgage rate, which is almost half what the current market mortgage rates are today. We live in a weird market. So maybe it was that.

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