Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Housing Affordability Declines As Prices Rise




By Octavio Nuiry, Managing Editor, RealtyTrac Foreclosure News Report


Octavio Nuiry
Housing affordability is fading rapidly for hundreds of thousands of homebuyers in some of the nation's pricier metros as three important measurable real estate variables —home prices, mortgage interest rates and household income — collide to form a perfect storm in a handful of high-priced real estate markets.

Tight inventory, pent-up demand and investor activity —both domestic and foreign — is driving more and more buyers to the sidelines. 

In certain costly metros — including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. — prices are appreciating at rates not seen since 2000, when the housing bubble was being inflated by then-Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's subprime- driven housing expansion.

Now, as then, homebuyers longing for the American Dream are increasingly thwarted by rising prices, multiple offers, the fear of rising interest rates and a virtual housing run, creating frenzied demand by institutional cash buyers that has pushed prices to double-digit annual gains in some of the nation's most expensive housing markets.
  
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