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Why industry experts don’t expect mortgage rates to fall

Housing Wire

Despite new language in the Federal Open Market Committee statement that suggested a potential slowdown in curbing inflation, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell maintained a hawkish tone on raising the federal funds rates during Wednesday’s press conference. million units from 6.18 million in September 2021.

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Fed’s Beige Book offers grim news for housing industry

Housing Wire

The economic standoff between rising inflation and rising interest rates continues to weaken the housing market nationwide, with home sales falling across all 12 Federal Reserve districts, according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book report. Existing-home sales continued to fall slightly.

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The silver lining in the existing home sales report

Housing Wire

year-over-year decline in existing home sales in September and total inventory has now fallen on back-to-back reports. Earlier in the year, I labeled this a savagely unhealthy housing market based on the premise that Inventory would break to all-time lows, creating forced bidding and causing days on the market to collapse.

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Buyers are being picky — here’s how you can navigate it as a real estate agent

Housing Wire

home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrate buyers, the market is reshaping real estate once again, placing buyers on the back foot and swinging the pendulum back to favoring sellers. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Pending Home Sales Slip 10.6% in February

RIS Media

Demand is booming and mortgage rates are still low, but pending home sales continued to contract in February due to a razor-thin inventory, according to the latest report from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). Only the upper-end market is experiencing more activity because of reasonable supply. 13% MoM — 133.2

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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

Housing Wire

This is especially effective if you’re newly licensed, just moved to a new area, or simply as an introduction if you’ve haven’t previously told your neighbors that you’re in the real estate industry. You’ll want to include the list price, sale price, and days on market. Great news! Your neighborhood is hot!

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DataDigest: Yes, buyer agents steer clients, new study claims

Housing Wire

In metros across the country, decade after decade, pre-internet and post-internet, buyer agents almost always get 2-3% of the sale price, paid by the seller, the researchers note. That theory, which is fiercely denied by many in the industry, is not new. One of the researchers, Will Fried, had a hunch.

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