Elevated mortgage rates, along with prices that remain high–despite posting a 1% annual drop– pushed monthly housing payments to a record high of nearly $2,600. That’s dampening demand and preventing many would-be sellers from listing their homes. The typical homebuyer’s monthly payment hit a new all-time high of $2,563 this week, up 29% from $1,988 […]
The share of U.S. homes worth at least $1 million has fallen to 7% from 8.6% last June as the housing market cools. Just over 7% of U.S. homes are worth $1 million or more. That’s down from June 2022’s all-time high of 8.6% and essentially unchanged from a year ago–but it’s up from 4.2% […]
The median U.S. home-sale price declined 0.6% year over year in February, marking the first annual drop since 2012–but high rates mean homes aren’t more affordable. The milestone comes as daily average mortgage rates hit 7.1%, dampening homebuying demand. U.S. home-sale prices have fallen from a year earlier for the first time in more than […]
Homeowner tenure is down slightly from the peak reached in 2020, but it has nearly doubled over the last couple decades, contributing to the lack of for-sale inventory. Baby boomers are driving the general trend of longer homeowner tenure; more than one-third of homeowners 65 and older have held onto their home for at least […]
Pending home sales improved slightly, but an ongoing affordability crisis and lack of homes for sale kept many house hunters on the sidelines. Pending home sales rose 0.5% from a month earlier in January on a seasonally-adjusted basis. That compares with December’s revised month-over-month increase of 1.4%, which was the first gain in 14 months. […]
As mortgage rates rise, serious homebuyers are scarce. But plenty of people are searching for homes online and touring them, waiting until rates decline to buy. The median U.S. home-sale price was $348,000 during the four weeks ending February 19, essentially unchanged (+0.1%) year over year. That’s the first time since at least 2015, when […]