
Buckle in for a brutal free-fall in home prices and US housing is in a massive bubble, experts say
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Home price growth of the sort we've seen in recent years simply cannot be sustained without a continued commitment to easy money from the central bank, and it shows.
South Florida homebuyers are priced out of the market as it becomes one of the most unaffordable places in the US to buy a home with mortgage payments jumping by a staggering 96%
Prices are falling now, and the decline will accelerate but not fast enough to revive a housing market that has soured dramatically.
For much of the past year, as the housing market cratered, potential middle-class homebuyers who found themselves locked out of buying a house due to the explosive surge in mortgage rates, had no choice but to continue renting in the process pushing
So-called "cosmetic work" can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Homebuyers feel the squeeze as vanishing inventory, soaring mortgage rates, and near-record-high home prices spark one of the worst affordability crises in decades.
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In a prelude to the next existing home sales report by the National Association or Realtors tomorrow, Redfin has some numbers today.
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...but multi-family permits soared...
Renting is at the highest level in half a century, with 43.7 million households renting. Population-adjusted numbers are another matter. But what does it mean?
Since Fringe Finance has started, I've scoured the Earth far and wide to try and bring a perspective on real estate to the blog that is going to be both no bullshit and an unfiltered on-the-ground opinion that I know and trust (and could add value
Since Fringe Finance has started, I've scoured the Earth far and wide to try and bring a perspective on real estate to the blog that is going to be both no bullshit and an unfiltered on-the-ground opinion that I know and trust (and could add value
Mortgage rates hit 20-year high of 6.92%: Amount banks are prepared to lend average buyer has fallen $100,000 since January to $343,000 (which would get you a trailer in LA)
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The impact of work-from-home arrangements is clearly visible in rental preferences. City crime is likely another "get me out of here" factor.
The pace of mortgage applications has fallen to a multi-decade low amid high housing interest rates, according to the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).
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A new report from renowned real-estate brokerage firm Redfin has indicated that clients are backing out of contracts in the Sun Belt due to unaffordable rates and home prices.
Doubles are long gone. Mortgage rates are 250 percent of what they were at the start of 2021.
The latest real-time rent data from the property research firm CoStar Group shows apartment rents in the US are fading from record highs for the first time in almost two years, according to WSJ.
Analysts expected Case-Shiller Home Price growth to continue its modest deceleration in August (the latest available data in this heavily lagged and smoothed data set), but the result was a doozy:
Mortgage rates soar to over 7% - the highest level in 21 years - as luxury home purchases fall 28% and rest of market tanks 19.5% - as monster Fed rises hit borrowers
The -2.3% difference between the July and August rates of annual increase in the National Composite Index was the largest deceleration in the history of the index.
This is probably not what the Fed wanted to see.
Last November, housing consultancy firm Zillow lobbed the first warning shot that the housing bubble had burst, when it shocked markets by firing 25% of its workforce, and announcing it had scrapped its robo-flipping program after losing hundreds of
Rocket CEO outlines plans to navigate the dramatic decline in mortgages
The proposal is to bring thousands of new homes to the city built with technology-based infrastructure, industry with high paying jobs, and a communal society based on self-reliance, agricultural development, onsite utilities and economic opportuniti