Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2025

billion in career sales to Compass. “After much discussion and exploration, we concluded that moving to a brokerage built on technology will enable us to streamline our services, giving us the time and tools to provide the personalized touch that is missing in so many modern experiences.” metro area — has joined Compass.

Principal

Marco Santarelli

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Well, the 2025 housing market predictions suggest that while there will be more home sales due to pent-up demand, many people like you might end up renting instead. home sale price to rise steadily throughout 2025, ending the year 4% higher than it was in 2024. Home Prices Will Rise 4% in 2025 Redfin expects the median U.S.

Marketing

Redfin

JUNE 27, 2025

Have your eye on a brand-new home, but it’s just out of budget? There’s actually ways to negotiate new construction homes so you leave with a good deal and your dream space. Key takeaways New construction homes typically have less wiggle room on base price, but plenty of room on incentives.

New Construction

Seattle Times Real Estate

JUNE 29, 2025

The real estate market remains sluggish as builders cope with steep borrowing costs and expensive construction materials. With interest rates stubbornly high, many homebuyers are on the sidelines or leaving the playing field altogether, slowing the pace of sales. New construction has stalled. The result?

Development

Marco Santarelli

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Strong Job Market: San Diego boasts a diverse and robust economy, with strong sectors in technology, biotech, defense, and tourism. Faster Sales: Homes may sell more quickly, so be prepared to act fast if you find a property you like. A growing job market naturally attracts more residents.

Marketing

Lab Coat Agents

APRIL 21, 2025

Combining AI with Human Insight From property values to sale histories, most real estate data can be overwhelming to analyze manually. Over time, comparing AVMs predictions against final sales prices can help you learn how to leverage this powerful tool best. Without advanced tools, detecting patterns can take a lot of time.

Agents

GeekEstate

MAY 14, 2025

The eight companies selected for the 2025 REACH class are: Foyer : a financial technology company offering a “401(k) for homeownership” and personalized guidance to accelerate the journey to homeownership. This week, the 2025 US Resi Cohort was announced.

MLS

Marco Santarelli

JUNE 19, 2025

Several factors are at play: Surging Construction Costs : The price of materials, land, and labor has increased significantly, making new construction more expensive. Slower Market Pace : High rates and high prices have cooled down home sales considerably.

Marketing

Marco Santarelli

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Non-Residential Construction : Contrarily, growth in the non-residential construction sector is projected to slow down to about 2% in 2025. However, individual segments, particularly those related to healthcare and technology, are expected to see considerable growth.

Construction

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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.

New Construction

Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

New home sales in May rose 12.2% Sales of new single‐family houses came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 763,000, according to estimates released jointly Tuesday by the U.S. They now supply about 30% of the residential sales market. The average sales price for new homes was $487,300.

Sales

Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

While some buyers still enjoy finding their new construction home the old-fashioned way —spending a Saturday driving through neighborhoods — the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that 97% of homebuyers, regardless of age, use the internet in their home search.

New Construction

Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Real estate technology firm Rechat announced a strategic partnership on Monday with Peerage Realty Partners that aims to expand tech tool and service offerings for Peerage agents and brokers. ” Peerage Realty Partners serves luxury home markets through 206 offices and 6,100 sales representatives across the U.S. and Canada. .”

Technology

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“With access to cutting-edge tools like Performance Tracker, Compass AI , and the innovative Compass Collections, we are poised to enhance our client experience and deliver unparalleled service through the industry’s leading technology platform.” The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction.

New Construction

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s why they’ve introduced the homegenius Platform, an integrated solution consisting of advanced technology , data science, machine learning and AI designed to drive value and bring ease to consumers through the home buying and selling journey. The process of finding, buying and owning a home today is disjointed, antiquated and messy.

Closing costs

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher: Real Estate Owned (REO), acquired by lenders , banks, or financial institutions typically due to mortgage loan defaults, involves the strategic marketing and sale of existing properties to mitigate losses on outstanding loans. Balancing supply and demand is a delicate dance between new construction and existing properties.

Due diligence

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As technology continues to rapidly reshape nearly every aspect of real estate and mortgage, HousingWire’s Tech100 award has become an industry staple, spotlighting the companies driving this transformation each year. “Kiavi launched a new construction financing product. Click here to nominate a tech organization.

Industrial

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Des Moines housing market has had a record-setting year for home sales, which local Realtors credit to low mortgage rates, the work from home phenomenon and Des Moines’ affordable lifestyle. That, along with the tech jobs Des Moines has to offer and low mortgage rates , means new builds are more affordable for younger buyers.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Not only does Flagstar offer brokers direct access to seasoned sales, support and underwriting teams, it also provides a product set that includes specialty lending options like Advantage non-agency loan, jumbos, new construction, renovation products and HELOCs, and in the pipeline, loans to foreign nationals, seconds and investor property loans.

Lending

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. It’s fair to say that 2022 has been a depressing year for homebuilders.

Construction

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Supply-side” solutions that focus on new construction and the preservation of the existing housing stock are equally important. The supply of homes for sale is limited as well. At the beginning of 2022, active home sale listings fell below 500,000 for the first time. The quantity of new, entry-level homes has?

New Construction

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

He was not hired to restructure loanDepot and sell it, even though “every public company is for sale,” in his general opinion. Despite the fact that the market is so bad, we’re investing quite a bit of money in re-platforming and in some of the key point-of-sale systems. That’s new construction.

Technology

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, a silver lining in the subdued housing market is the strength in new-home sales. On the production side, the mortgage business is in recession because the levels of existing-home sales are back where they were at the end of the great financial crisis at around 4 million units. That’s very low historically.

FHA loan

Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

I appreciate HousingWire’s diversity in approaching all sides of real estate, from technology to economics. I was called into my boss’ office, where he said to me, “Nicollette, we don’t need sales people anymore. With resale inventory shockingly low, 1 out of 3 single family homes for sale is new construction.

Title

Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Homepoint’s “New Build program” connects homebuilders with business purpose construction financing through in-region mortgage brokers, with loan amounts up to $4 million per unit or $25 million per project.

Loans

Realtor.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

Getty Images Many first-time homebuyers might presume they’re better off going used rather than new—in other words, purchasing a pre-existing property rather than pricey new construction. Unless you want to be waiting a long time to buy your first home, you should consider new-construction homes.

New Construction

Realty Biz

AUGUST 14, 2022

Proptech startup Hover , which has created technology that uses smartphone photos to build digital twins of properties, is expanding its capabilities to include blueprint uploads. In other words, it now supports both existing homes (through smartphone photos) and new constructions.

New Construction

Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Gain-on-sale margins posted for the second quarter of 2023 was 267 points, up from the previous quarter’s 239 points. Rocket generated $22.3 billion in origination volume in Q2, up about 31% from $17 billion in Q1 2023. The second quarter production represents a 35% drop compared to the same period in 2022.

Loans

Real Trends

MARCH 29, 2023

Here are a few trends and predictions I see happening with new construction buyers: Don’t expect massive price drops Here’s the reality: We will not see the massive price drop that occurred between 2008 and 2011. The post Opinion: will we see massive price drops in new construction? appeared first on RealTrends.

New Construction

Inman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Construction technology company Higharc closed a $53 million Series B round of financing led by Spark Capital and Pillar VC.

Construction

Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. In 2020, we estimate that there were only 65,000 new entry-level homes completed, less than one-fifth of the entry-level homes constructed per year in the late 1970s and early 1980s.”

Construction

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Our agents skew younger because we use a significant amount of technology , and we fund tools and resources. That’s not to say we don’t have 22-year-olds coming over and doing $50 million in sales in their first year — because we definitely do. We turn down more wannabe real estate influencers than anything.

Brokerage

RIS Media

MARCH 31, 2021

” Of the new construction being built, many of them are more energy efficient and have more technology integrated into the homes. “These are really high efficiency homes with modern technology,” said Krieg. . “These urban infill type projects are getting really popular.

Construction

Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Craig Rowe reviews Homebourse, an online resource for new construction sales and offer facilitation focused on urban high rise projects and remote buyers.

New Construction

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Over half of Realtors said that social media was their top lead-generating technology tool, according to an October survey report from the National Association of Realtors. They have been really effective in the luxury market and new construction segments.”.

Agents

Realty Biz

MAY 9, 2022

The growth of technology has transformed the conventional real estate industry as clients demand smarter solutions while real estate businesses demand efficiency. The entire gamut of technologies for real estate business falls under the label of ‘PropTech’ (Property Technology). For the integration of smart home technology.

Technology

Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 27, 2023

When it comes to investing in residential real estate, there are only two basic types of property you can invest in – new construction and resale. New construction properties are those that are purchased directly from the builder or developer who constructed the property. In short, they are considered brand new.

New Construction