Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Higher prices, higher mortgage rates and limited inventory are making for a slow market among buyers and sellers alike. According to data from CoreLogic, investor purchases have tracked closely with consumer home sales, and the share of home sales attributable to investors is down as well. Same with the iBuyers.

Investor

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

As the industry moves toward faster, more digital-first transactions, AI is playing a pivotal role in redefining how agents operate, market, and compete. Traditionally, preparing a property for market has been time-consuming, expensive, and deeply fragmented. The result is not only a faster process, but a more consistent, scalable one.

Marketing

Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

While the housing market seems like the least of our financial worries right now as stock markets are melting down around the globe, we track housing here at HousingWire, so it opens the question: how quickly could we see impact in the housing market and in which data would we see it first? Which force wins?

Marketing

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years. more than a year ago.

Marketing

Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For Willoughby, founder of The Jaymes Willoughby Team with Keller Williams Realty , off-market listings are a gamble that rarely pays off for sellers. Some agents use off-market listings as a way to double-dip commissions, Willoughby said.

Agents

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The housing market got some much needed relief in the fall when mortgage rates began to drop, but it was short lived. The turbulence in rates has trickled down to individual markets like Cincinnati, where real estate agents say they dont know what to expect from sale to sale. A substantial drop in new listings is a contributing factor.

Marketing

Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. There’s still a lot of first-time homebuyers in the market too. They keep the market healthy.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

As the real estate industry faces unprecedented transformation, Century 21 Real Estate has stayed active through aggressive franchise growth, market consolidation and engagement with evolving homebuyer demographics. We announced numerous recent moves in markets including California , Florida , Oregon , Georgia , Colorado and Nevada.

Industrial

Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Rising personal home insurance rates, fueled by escalating claims costs, increasing property values and the growing frequency of natural disasters, will all have a profound impact on market dynamics and homeowners insurance costs. For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, these shifts present both challenges and opportunities.

Marketing

Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

During last week’s earnings call, PennyMac Financial Services chairman and CEO David Spector said during a Q&A with investors and analysts that the company’s goals include continued growth in its broker direct channel and 10% market share by the end of 2026 a goal of more than 100% growth over the next 18 months.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a changing real estate market , mortgage lenders face increasing demand. The primary and secondary mortgage markets may be separate business components, but mortgage originators must understand both businesses intimately. How do we get a loan from I want a house to its closed and done before they walk away?

Marketing

Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Preparing for the summer season typically a peak period in most real estate markets requires strategic planning and a keen focus on the client experience. Competition can heat up quickly and as a global brokerage, heres how were preparing for a successful luxury summer selling season across the markets we serve and how you can do the same.

Marketing

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

They point to programs like Compass Private Exclusives, which allow sellers to “pre-market” their homes to an internal network before listing publicly. A narrowing of opportunity and reduced market visibility that runs counter to the spirit of fair housing. of total market volume and an industry-leading 11.3%

Marketing

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. The existing home sales market does not align with their dual mandate of ensuring stable personal consumption expenditures (PCE) or consumer price index (CPI) prices, as these measures account for rent. We will soon find out.

Construction

Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

Dubbed Rate Portfolio, the new products are being introduced in a competitive purchase market. Another option allows borrowers to qualify based on assets alone or in combination with income including retirement accounts, investment portfolios, money market funds or inheritances. Top 10 U.S.

Closing

Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2025

Housing inventory growth has been a blessing for the existing home sales market, cooling price growth and giving homebuyers a bit more advantage in 2025. However, I believe we need to separate the existing home sales market from the new home sales market to know how to understand what’s going on. That, however, seems unlikely.”

Construction

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In 2024, we saw a notable increase in buyer demand when mortgage rates got close to 6%. housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. By the end of May there were 38% more homes on the market than the year prior. California and Arizona have 45% more homes unsold on the market now than a year ago.

Sales

Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2025

During the 10-minute conversation, Pieklo explores his new focus on developing AFR’s wholesale lending strategy, the competitive landscape of the mortgage market, and the company’s unique approach to differentiating itself from other big names in the wholesale space. We look to the secondary markets first.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The jump in sales gives the market momentum heading into 2025, which is expected to outperform 2024. The existing-home sales report comes as major real estate companies are releasing their forecasts for the 2025 housing market. million sales in 2025, a number that is close to the current rate of 4.15 million, a 4.8%

Sales

Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2025

of home sales from January through March included concessions such as money toward repairs, closing costs or mortgage rate buydowns. a year ago and close to the record figure of 45.1% a year ago and close to the record figure of 45.1% According to a new report from Redfin , 44.4% Thats up from 39.3% at the start of 2023.

Seller concession

Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2025

Typically, mortgage rates around 6% are necessary for significant growth in the housing market. Why aren’t home sales crashing as they did in 2022? But, housing demand continues to hold up, surprising people who can’t explain why home sales aren’t crashing anymore given elevated mortgage rates. So, let me try to make sense of it.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

This is why it’s essential to monitor builders’ forward-looking outlooks closely. As shown below, housing activity related to permits remains minimal, with single-family permits crucial to the market growing slowly. Historically, such a decline has served as a reliable indicator of upcoming shifts in the market cycle.

Mortgages

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. These are homes that will generally close in November and December. more homes on the market than last year.

Sales

Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2025

“So we don’t think we’ve really come close to sort of tapping out on overall demand. ” Secondary market factors Egan said that another huge driver of business is the development of the HEI securitization market over the past two years. “Everything is more expensive. Home insurance is more expensive.

Equity

Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2025

Mortgage rates recently hit a year-to-date low, coinciding with ongoing market disruptions from tariffs. The more encouraging story, however, is that the spring season is shaping up positively for the housing market. With a backdrop of market volatility, the spreads got worse last week. 2025 has been much different.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Marketing Marketing is essential for building awareness and staying competitive in the title industry, yet many professionals struggle to find the time. In fact, 88% of marketers now believe their organization must increase its use of AI to meet customer expectations and remain competitive.

Title

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This has caught my attention and is something I am following closely. I figured those increases would produce the same weakness in purchase apps that we saw earlier in the year. However, surprisingly, demand has held up better than I anticipated. We aren’t growing like before, but we aren’t as negative as I thought either.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The company’s newest National Housing Market Outlook shows that buyers are gravitating toward government-backed loans in their search for affordability. It also ties into architects and builders creating smaller, denser homes to help close the affordable housing supply gap. Sean Zalmanoff, founder and chief loan officer at St.

Debt-to-income ratio

Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

March figures to be a crucial month for gauging consumer interest in the 2025 housing market. The 10-year yield is all over the map this morning, ranging between 4.11% to 4.18% as the stock market sells off more and more money is going into bonds. would been as a sign of stability for a housing market that has been volatile of late.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

These off-market listings not only harm sellers, but they limit exposure to potential buyers, possibly deepening inequities that have long existed in real estate. These off-market listings not only harm sellers, but they limit exposure to potential buyers, possibly deepening inequities that have long existed in real estate.

MLS

Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

First, let’s start with my 2025 forecast for mortgage rates and the bond market, where I anticipated the following ranges: Mortgage rates will be between 5.75% and 7.25% The 10-year yield will fluctuate between 3.80% and 4.70%. The market nonetheless believed the economy would weaken. The answer is yes.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

13 among mega teams by closed sales volume. “It fits the luxury market and the entry-level market. We focus on one thing; converting from appointments to closings. It’s three things; generate appointments for your agents, train them daily on conversion, and give them tools that actually help them close deals.”

Technology

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

However, if home prices hadn’t skyrocketed alongside mortgage rates , we would have more younger homebuyers entering the market and we would have a slightly higher homeownership rate than todays 65.7% Our population was too young or old to actively participate in the home-buying market actively, tilting the scale toward renting instead.

Loans

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Why most teams struggle to scale Scaling a real estate team to $100 million in production is a daunting challenge, but the biggest roadblock isn’t market conditions or competition — it’s outdated strategies. Delegate or outsource tasks where weaknesses exist, such as transaction coordination, lead follow-up, or marketing.

Development

Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2025

The Bruen Team — a small but rapidly growing real estate agency based in Morristown, New Jersey — recorded its best year ever in 2024 by closing nearly $40 million in sales volume and earning a spot in the 2025 RealTrends Verified rankings for small teams. Best year ever The Bruen Team closed $39.93

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

The tight housing market of the last few years gave home sellers a substantial edge. Although many predicted the housing market would loosen up in 2025, economic uncertainty and high mortgage rates have upended those hopes. Many buyers had to bid over a homes asking price just to have their offers considered.

Closing

Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heading into the 2025 housing market, we havent had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. The more folks with expensive loans, the greater the available inventory of homes on the market. In 2025, we expect unsold inventory of homes on the market to get very close to the 2018 levels.

Mortgages