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

JUNE 27, 2023

The CMO Playbook speakers are forces in the industry with interesting backgrounds and paths to their current role,” said Jennifer Laws, senior vice president of sales at HW Media. “We Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage during the Marketing Leaders sessions. The CMO Playbook sessions are especially interesting.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

After a near decade high in January, new home sales for single-family houses plummeted 18.2% However, continued demand by homebuyers did manage to push new home sales 8.2% However, continued demand by homebuyers did manage to push new home sales 8.2% As for the West, new sales dropped 9.3% year-over-year jump.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The majority of recent home sellers overwhelmingly prefer traditional full-service real estate agents, with 77% choosing this method for their sale — nearly eight times more than those who opted for a ‘For Sale By Owner’ (FSBO) transaction (10%). Why would they do this?

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Now that new home sales are trending lower , with fewer permits, are we getting closer to the end of this cycle? New home sales aren’t collapsing but they’re not growing anymore either, so the ball is in the Fed’s court now. months at the current sales rate. They will build as long as new home sales are growing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Everyone knows it’s been a very dry 18 months for home sales. All of these signals point to rising home sales in 2024. There are still a lot of people who assume that mortgage rates need to fall before we see a rebound in home sales, but the data shows that we only need stability in the mortgage markets. Why the difference?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

In recent weeks, home sales also faltered in the face of 7% mortgage rates. There are many ways to measure home prices and even more signals about future sale prices. The median price paid for newly pending home sales has been averaging just 2% more than a year ago. There were 4% more sellers, including the immediate sales.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We may be nearing the bottom in home sales even if mortgage rates don’t decline. This would be the first inkling of a housing market where sales could start to post year-over-year gains. Soaring mortgage rates stifle buyer demand There are only 319,000 single-family homes in the contract- pending stage.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. This gives good sales agents room to prove themselves. You also have a more educated buyer on how commissions work.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

Sales of newly built , single-family homes fell to the lowest pace in a year, down 5.9% Regionally, new home sales rose in two of the four regions in May. Sales grew 33% in the Northeast, 6.7% Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, new home sales are still 9.2% The average sales price was $430,600 in May.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

The CMO Playbook speakers are forces in the industry with interesting backgrounds and paths to their current role,” said Jennifer Laws, senior vice president of sales at HW Media. “We Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage at the Marketing Leaders section. The CMO Playbook sessions are especially interesting.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to a survey released Tuesday by John Burns Research & Consulting , the top 50 MPCs sold more than 34,600 new homes in 2023, up 24% from the nearly 28,000 sales in 2022. And in 2023, each of the top 50 communities sold at least 368 homes, although that’s fewer than the 2021 record of 460 sales per community.

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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. Our head of sales is a life-long Realtor, one of the first people I hired when I was at Better. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January. Very early on, I brought on people from Better who understood the industry.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. From NAR Research : “Total existing-home sales notched a minor contraction of 0.4% million in August.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

WFP has 150 agents and has executed $43 billion in sales volume over the past 25 years. Compass shares our passion for empowering clients at every stage of their homeownership journey and has been a powerful leader in driving positive change within our industry, Thomas Anderson, president of Washington Fine Properties, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yun took the stage on Tuesday at NAR NXT , the trade group’s annual conference in Anaheim, California. However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said. In 2023, new-home sales are up 5% year to date, Yun said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Back then, we had higher sales, higher inventory, and less price growth, but we had a massive credit bubble. Today we have fewer sales, few listings, and much hotter home-price growth. Las Vegas some sales were down 24% year over year as median sales price was up 21% year over year. housing market as savagely unhealthy.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Real estate technology company Knock has announced the launch of Knock Nest, a standalone sale-leaseback solution that allows homeowners to access the cash they’ve built up in their home while continuing to live in it. The post Knock launches new sale-leaseback solution, Knock Nest appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Even with historically low levels of inventory, rising mortgage rates and uneven job growth, experts still believe 2021 will be a record year for home sales. Officials are predicting sale numbers to easily eclipse $1 trillion by years end. trillion in home sales, followed by the West with $696.3 How much will be spent on homes?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, bringing this technology to the point-of-sale stage allows lenders to screen candidates more effectively. The new partnership will allow lenders who use the Revvin platform to automatically verify any borrower at any point of the loan application process, according to a news release.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Last year, the change in mortgage rates was rapid enough to drive home sales prices down. There’s no getting around the fact that sales are slow , demand is held back because the cost of money is so much higher than it has been recently. It’s notable that home sales prices are not yet declining rapidly like they did last fall.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

for purchase mortgage origination, and he is taking the stage at HW Annual. Register Weaver spoke with HousingWire to share his excitement for HW Annual and give attendees a sneak peak at the t opics he’ll discuss on stage. More critical than training on skills is training on having a strong mindset,” said Matt Weaver. 1 LO in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Tje rapidly rising site traffic at Homes.com took center stage at CoStar Groups Q4 and full year 2024 earnings call with investors Tuesday evening. Additionally, in January 2025, CoStar reports that the Homes.com sales team sold $3.73 According to Florance, some of this growth can be attributed to the growing Homes.com sales team.

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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 We’ve come a long way since then.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Setting the Stage for 2025 Heres the good news, 2025 is set to stabilize. By March, were likely to see a healthy uptick in sales. Despite this, the Las Vegas housing market held its ground with steady appreciation, climbing 5-7%. The key takeaway? and 6%, with potential dips below 6% by mid-year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Exuma believes that the platform will provide transformative change to every stage of homeownership. “My Private equity firm Exuma Capital Partners announced that it is the lead investor for a newly launched, AI-powered homeowner management tool called Property.com.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Now, she has recently been appointed president of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate (BHGRE), where she is tasked with leading the company’s global network of more than 12,000 affiliated brokers and independent sales associates. What are you hoping your time on stage accomplishes? GW: I’m really excited to attend the event.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Whenever there is a change in the marketplace because interest rates go up 300% from their trough, or there are concerns that business practice change may lead to downward pressure on commissions , agents become worried about how many sales are going to be out there and how much money theyll be able to make on those sales.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example: What do you hope to achieve in the sale of your home? It also helps include them in solution-building, setting the stage for a negotiation that everyone leaves satisfied with. This shows you care and sets the stage for the other party to do the same. For example: Im sorry if I missed something.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

From staging fees, home improvements, repairs and seller concessions, there are several hidden costs involved in the selling process. Staging Costs. According to HomeAdvisor , the average seller pays almost $1,500 in staging costs. According to Redfin, the average real estate commission is 5%–6% of the home’s sale price.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Consider these two similar searches: “Multi-generational living homes for sale in Louisville, KY” “Homes for sale in Louisville, KY under $2,000,000 for multi-generational living” Google’s treatment of these searches evolved. It creates both challenges and opportunities for the industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

These include requiring “clear, meaningful” notice at each stage of the tax foreclosure process; ensuring both owners and inheritors of ownership receive notice of foreclosure stages; creating alternatives to tax-initiated sales; and making redemption costs both “affordable and accessible.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

1, 2024, when Snyder, the CEO of Lower , steps on to the main stage at the George W. In his session at the HousingWire IMB Summit, Snyder will take the stage with HousingWire Managing Editor James Kleimann and Brett Ludden , managing partner at Sterling Point Advisors. This changes on Oct.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sales isnt for everyone you have to earn it Sales is not for everyone. Focus on repetition over perfection At this stage, its more important to consistently show up and do the work than to be the best. Invite the local sales professionals youve connected with and encourage them to bring guests.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. month supply at the current sales pace. Inventory is always seasonal.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Let’s see how this has played out in different stages of the economy. Home sales hit their highest levels in a decade right before COVID-19 hit our economy. All of these factors set the stage for what happened next. On March 18, 2020, purchase application data broke out to pre-cycle highs in demand.

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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. CoStar -backed Matterport unveiled three other proptech tools that are not directly related to marketing homes for sale.

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