New listings are down more than 20% from a year ago as homeowners hang onto low mortgage rates. That’s causing buyers to snap up homes quickly and keeping prices from falling further; prices are down by roughly 3% annually, similar to the declines we’ve seen over the last month. New listings of homes for sale […]
The share is more than twice that high in Phoenix and Las Vegas, both pandemic boomtowns. Investors are selling at a loss as elevated mortgage rates curtail homebuyer demand. Roughly one of every seven (13.5%) U.S. homes sold by an investor in March sold for less than the investor bought it for. That’s comparable with […]
Gen Zers are tracking ahead of their parents’ homeownership rate: 30% of 25-year olds owned their home in 2022, higher than the 27% rate for Gen Xers when they were the same age. But the Gen Zers who didn’t take advantage of the pandemic-era’s low mortgage rates could be left behind. Millennials are tracking behind […]
Despite high housing costs and a limited supply of homes for sale, many people are out house hunting. The typical U.S. homebuyer’s monthly housing payment hit an all-time high of $2,538 as average weekly mortgage rates rose to 6.39% after five consecutive weeks of declines. The new high comes in spite of the median home-sale […]
Pandemic boomtowns and pricey coastal markets, including Austin and San Jose, saw among the largest price declines. In many more affordable areas, prices continued to climb. Pending home sales dipped to the lowest level since the start of the pandemic as elevated mortgage rates curtailed buyer demand and a lack of homes for sale limited […]
The median asking rent fell 0.4% in March to the lowest level in 13 months. Austin and Chicago saw the largest declines, while Raleigh and Cleveland experienced the biggest gains. The median U.S. asking rent fell 0.4% year over year to $1,937 in March. That’s the first annual decline since March 2020—when the coronavirus was […]