Newly built homes carry a median list price premium of about $60,000 over existing homes nationally, but lower energy and major-system costs give new-home buyers an average $25,335 advantage in total cost of ownership over the first 10 years, according to a Realtor.com analysis using Pearl SCORE data. What the Realtor.com study found National gap: […]
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Most lost deals in a brokerage are invisible. They don’t show up in a report. Nobody flags them. They just never happen. A buyer reaches out, an inquiry comes in, and somewhere in the first few minutes the momentum is gone. The deal didn’t fall through on price or inventory. It fell through in the
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The conventional wisdom says tighter credit slows lending volume. The agencies proved that wrong last year. Combined multifamily originations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac topped $150 billion, which was up roughly 25% from 2024, but property values are still sitting 28% below their mid-2022 peak. The agencies grew because borrowers trusted the process enough