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Fortune has an interesting story on the worst housing markets for 2009. 2008 was a brutal year across the country, but the experts predict that it will get a lot worse for quite a few cities over ...
Median cost to purchase a home by U.S. state Median cost to purchase a home by U.S. metro area Fig. 1: Robert Shiller's plot of U.S. home prices, population, building costs, and bond yields, from Irrational Exuberance, 2nd ed. [1] Shiller shows that inflation-adjusted U.S. home prices increased 0.4% per year from 1890 to 2004 and 0.7% per year from 1940 to 2004, whereas U.S. census data from ...
This greatly increased the cost of lending, especially for loans indexed to the Fed's rates, including short-term adjustable rate mortgages. Many borrowers, especially subprime, saw their mortgage payments skyrocket as much as 60% after periodic resetting to their index. 2005: United States housing market correction ("bubble bursting").
According to Shiller, one of the main purposes of futures and options trading in the Case-Shiller indices is to allow people to hedge the real estate market. [14] The problem, however, is that the volume of trading in these markets is small enough as to make them relatively illiquid which creates a risk for the investor in these securities.
Days on market: With high prices and mortgage rates putting a purchase out of reach for many, homes are taking longer to sell. In June, the median length of time homes spent on the market was 22 ...
People who bought at 3% interest rates simply don’t want to sell now and take on a much higher loan. Builders are trying to keep up, but only so much is possible, and construction costs remain high.
The costs include search costs, real estate fees, moving costs, legal fees, land transfer taxes, and deed registration fees. Transaction costs for the seller typically range between 1.5% and 6% of the purchase price. In some countries in continental Europe, transaction costs for both buyer and seller can range between 15% and 20%. Long time delays.
In July, the housing market had a 4.0-month supply of housing inventory, a 19.8 percent improvement over last year but still below the 5 to 6 months needed for a healthy, balanced market — one ...