Zillow names Charlotte as 2023’s hottest housing market

Zillow’s 10 hottest markets are based on factors such as expected home value growth and buyer demand Charlotte will be this year’s hottest housing market, according to a Zillow® analysis. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Dallas and Nashville join Charlotte in the top five of the Zillow 2023 hottest markets list. “This year’s hottest markets will feel much chillier than they did a year ago,” said Anushna Prakash, economic data analyst at Zillow. “The desire to move hasn’t changed, but both buyers and sellers are

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Easing Mortgage Rates and Home Prices Provide Slight Boost to Homebuyer Sentiment

HPSI Inched Upward in December but Remains Well Below Pre-Pandemic Highs The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) increased 3.7 points in December to 61.0, but the index remains only slightly above its all-time low set in October. Three of the index’s six components improved month over month, including those associated with homebuying conditions, mortgage rate outlook, and job security. Only 21% of respondents believe it’s a good time to buy,

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HINES 2023 GLOBAL OUTLOOK: DISRUPTION BRINGS REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITIES

Report analyzes transaction volume, debt availability and asset pricing and identifies opportunities in the Americas, Asia, Europe Hines, the global real estate investment, development and property manager, released its global outlook titled “2023: Navigating Through the Labyrinth“. Following the turbulence in 2022, opportunities will abound this year due to repricing, continued outperformance of high-quality office assets, and deflation in some key sectors. Global Chief Investment Officer David Steinbach said, “In a period of global

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Veros Reports That Its National Housing Market Annual Forecast Goes Negative for the First Time in More Than a Decade

Veros® Real Estate Solutions, an industry leader in enterprise risk management and collateral valuation services, released its 2022 Q4 VeroFORECASTSM that anticipates home prices will turn negative overall and depreciate on average by -0.5% for the next twelve months. This is a significant drop from the 1.5% annual appreciation forecast just one quarter ago. VeroFORECAST evaluates home prices in over 300 of the nation’s largest housing markets. Veros is committed to the data science

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Cooling Housing Market Will Divide the Country in 2023

Knock Buyer-Seller Market Index shows that buyers will have more leverage in the West, while sellers will maintain an advantage in the East As the reality of high home prices and higher mortgage rates sets in, U.S. homebuyers will gain some leverage in 2023. However, shoppers are in for very different experiences depending on where in the U.S. they are looking to move, according to the Knock Buyer-Seller Market Index 2023 forecast,

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Annual Home Price Growth Slows to Two-Year Low in November

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI™) and HPI Forecast™ for November 2022. Year-over-year home price growth ended its 21-month streak of double-digit momentum in November, posting an 8.6% gain, the lowest rate of appreciation in exactly two years. Although 16 states bucked the national trend and saw annual double-digit increases, appreciation is decelerating in many popular housing markets across the country.

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