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Miami Real Estate Luxury Home Sales Continue Surging 

Realty Biz

Rates leveled off before recently rising again. Rates on March 1, 2022 were 3.90%. Home sales are sensitive to mortgage rate changes. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.35% as of May 11. Miami Distressed Sales Remain Low, Reflecting Healthy Market Only 1.3%

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Miami Real Estate Records Best August Sales Month in History

Realty Biz

According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage was 2.84% in August, down from 2.87% in July. The average commitment rate across all of 2020 was 3.11%. NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun expects the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to remain below 3.5%

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Miami-Dade Luxury Sales Surge

Realty Biz

Pending Sales and Showing Appointments Rise for Second Consecutive Month Total pending sales rose 16.9% Pending sales are an indicator of future sales, but it takes up to 40 days for pending transactions to close and not all pending sales end in deals. Short sales and REOs accounted for 0.1%

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Miami Real Estate Records 4th Best Sales Year Ever 11 Years in a Row

Realty Biz

While the Fed doesn’t set mortgage rates, it affects them through its conduct of monetary policy. According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.31% as of December 15. In 2009, distressed sales comprised 70% of Miami's sales.

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Miami Real Estate Posts 10th-Highest Total Home Sales Month in History

Realty Biz

Look for fewer bidding wars, more days on market, and a cooling of the growth rate of pricing in the months ahead.”. Second-Best May Sales Month in History Miami’s total closed sales in May 2022 outperformed nearly every other May in history despite higher mortgage rates, lower supply, and higher sale prices.

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131 Real Estate Terms & Definitions Your Clients Expect You to Know in 2023

The Close

After all, great communication leads to closed deals. Furthermore, in today’s market, understanding our complex mortgage industry could actually help you close more deals and maybe even save clients money. So we’ve included a handy download with questions your clients should ask their mortgage broker. Assumable mortgage.

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Las Vegas Real Estate Market 2020 Overview

Marco Santarelli

In July, the median sales price of previously owned single-family homes, which comprises of the bulk of the Southern Nevada's housing market, increased to $330,000, a year-over-year increase of 8.9 Closed sales increased by 34.9 Redfin, a real estate brokerage, reported that 42.3% of all sales one year ago, 4.3%

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