Real Estate Trends

Real Estate Trends

  • Jennifer Stuckey
  • 01/29/22

Home prices have risen nationally three times faster than incomes since the turn of the century, which has made homeownership an impossibility for more Americans than ever before.

In many large cities, home prices have outpaced income. In Miami, for example, incomes have risen 16 percent, while home prices have increased 58 percent since early 1998. New York's Long Island suburbs have seen just a 14 percent rise in incomes as compared to an 81 percent increase in home prices. Boston home prices have gone up 89 percent, while incomes have increased only 22 percent.

Even with a downturn in the real estate market looming on the horizon, home sales are still headed for another record year.

The first sector to show slowing is the high-end home market. Because of “over personalized” big-ticket properties, the pace of house auctions nationwide has surged.

Low-interest rates are the only continuing positive trend of the housing market. Low rates average now less than 6 percent for 30-year fixed-rate loans, the lowest since the 1960s.

Real-estate analysts believe that if the housing market stalls, some areas will continue to grow modestly while other markets gradually go soft, rather than pop.

According to several mortgage brokers and top real estate agents who have been in the business for more than 20 years, the interest rate will be up to pass 5% by the end of 2018. Why wait until you need to borrow more for buying your home? Call me and I will be happy to help you!

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