Housing Market
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September 4, 2024
Condo inventory is soaring and pending sales are dropping in major Florida and Texas metros like Miami, Jacksonville, Austin and San Antonio, causing prices to decline. Surging HOA fees, high insurance costs and destructive natural disasters are making buyers question the feasibility of owning a condo. Condo prices are falling in major Florida and Texas […]
August 29, 2024
Homebuyers need to earn roughly $80,000 to afford the median-priced starter home, up 4.4% from last summer and only about $500 below the all-time high. That makes starter homes just barely affordable to families earning the median U.S. income, and unaffordable to families earning less than the median income. In half of the 50 most […]
August 29, 2024
Pending home sales posted their biggest decline in nearly a year, despite the median U.S. housing payment dropping to its lowest level in five months. Would-be homebuyers are waiting for clarity about the NAR settlement, the presidential election and whether mortgage rates will fall more. Pending home sales fell 6.9% during the four weeks ending […]
August 28, 2024
The typical homebuyer put down 18.6% of the purchase price, up from 15% a year ago. Nearly 3 in 5 homebuyers put down more than 10% of the purchase price, one of the highest shares on record. All-cash purchases made up just over 30% of all sales, while FHA loans made up the lowest share […]
August 27, 2024
The mortgage rate lock-in effect is prompting many homeowners to stay put, contributing to America’s housing shortage. But the lock-in effect is slowly easing because eventually, people have to move; 86% of homeowners with mortgages have interest rates below 6%, down from 91% in 2023 and a record 93% in 2022. Nationwide, 85.7% of U.S. […]
