The climate of high mortgage rates in the United States has left both home buyers and home sellers in different kinds of binds in 2022. Buyers face massive down payments and surging monthly mortgage costs, while sellers are pinched by a more tentative marketplace with dampened demand. Even with mortgage rates climbing above 7% — […]
As the clean-up effort for Hurricane Ian continues in Florida, the state’s real estate market faces difficult consequences from the impact of the storm and the threat of others to come. The financial toll of Ian is beginning to come into focus, with an estimate of between $53 billion and $74 billion in privately insured […]
The cooldown of the U.S. housing market has been evident for several months now, a trend driven by rising mortgage rates that have moderately slowed demand for homes in many parts of the country. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Florida real estate market has often been held up as a clear case of overinflated prices. […]
The much-discussed “correction” of the U.S. housing market is becoming more evident with each passing month. The question is no longer when it will come, but how steep the declines will be in residential markets across the country. The latest quarterly assessment home prices conducted by Moody’s Analytics found that 210 U.S. housing markets could […]
Tight monetary policy to contain inflation in the United States has dampened the red-housing market seen in 2020-2021, when historically low mortgage and home scarcity collided with a surge in buyer demand. With higher mortgage rates now in the area of 5.5%-6% for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, demand has cooled off significantly in 2022 […]
The U.S. housing market slowdown in 2022 may be chipping away at some of the trends that took hold during the first two years of the pandemic. That could be good news for renters in Florida, who have seen the cost of apartments skyrocket due to migrating remote workers who wanted to set up shop […]
While many industries underwent uncertainty and disruption in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, residential real estate became a magnet for people hoping to change their fortunes over the past few years. It’s not hard to understand why working as a real estate agent became so appealing. The housing market took off in 2020, buoyed by […]
It’s tempting to look at the U.S. housing market in 2022 and gasp at the turn of events this year, compared to the frenzy of the previous two. The 30-year-fixed mortgage rate has gone up from about 3% in January to about 5.8% at the end of June, part of broader strategy by the Federal […]
The rise in mortgage rates resulting from the Federal Reserve’s effort to slow the economy and inflation by raising interest rates is cooling the housing market, causing the inventory of homes for sale to grow and home prices to drop in many areas. At the same time, however, inventory is still low enough and prices […]
Florida’s real estate market traditionally has been understood as a mixture of hospitality-oriented properties and second homes used for vacations and rentals. There’s certainly truth to this, but the Sunshine State has increasingly become a primary place of residence for people and businesses. The state’s population increased by 211,000 people from July 2020 to July […]
