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The 11 do’s and don’ts of buying a new build

Housing Wire

Navigating the home buying process often begins with deciding between a new build or an existing homeand while new construction offers exciting possibilities, it also comes with unique challenges. Cosmetic updates like flooring, paint or finish work can sometimes be done after closing at a lower cost.

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New construction vs. resale homes: How agents can guide buyers in today’s market

Housing Wire

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Tom Davis shares non-QM opportunities to capitalize heading into 2025

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Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Many investors prefer to close in the name of an LLC. Close one loan for a real estate investor and you have a repeat client for life! TD: DSCR loans are one of the easiest and quickest loans to close.

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Nearly half of home sellers are offering concessions

Housing Wire

According to a new report from Redfin , 44.4% 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% Thats up from 39.3% at the start of 2023. That figure nearly doubled from 36.4%

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Home sellers who didn’t list on the MLS lost $1B in sale proceeds: Zillow

Housing Wire

To classify these sales, Zillow identified sales that were reported pending or closed with at most one day active and with a buyer and seller represented by the same agent or by agents within the same brokerage office, the report stated. Zillow said only this subset of off-MLS transactions was included in the analysis.

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Midwest, Northeast housing markets stay hot amid national cooldown

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Our new listings have gone up slightly but not enough to keep up with demand. So that really kind of hinders our actual total sales and total closings. I think that we’ve underbuilt for 13 years in this country and in this state, so definitely, new construction is in order, she said. year over year, respectively.

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Deephaven’s Tom Davis: ‘Either you take market share, or someone takes yours’

Housing Wire

For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors. And, its focusing on areas like construction, non-QM, the fix-and-flip and second lien production.