January 8, 2016 - Buying Bedford Real Estate

The number of homes nationwide gaining value on a monthly basis are expected to fall by 12 percent over the next 10 months as the housing recovery slows. Just over half, 51.3 percent, of America’s homes will continue to appreciate by October 2016, according to forecasts by Weiss Analytics.

The percentage of homes losing value nationwide are expected to decline, but fewer than the decline in appreciating homes. Some 23.2 percent of homes are expected to depreciate on a monthly basis, a 6.4 percent drop from October 2015.

The forecasted decline in appreciating homes will continue a multi-year decline. Since July 2014, the percentage of appreciating homes has fallen from 65.2 percent to 58.4 percent in October 2014 despite a 4.5 percent uptick in August. The Weiss forecast predicts a 21 percent. decline over a 27-month period in the number of homes nationwide that are gaining value on a monthly basis.

Among the metros forecasted to be among the top ten appreciating markets in the nation by October 2016 are several that suffered some of the greatest losses in median home prices when the housing bubble burst in 2007. These include Reno NV, forecast to have 98.3 percent of its homes appreciating on a monthly basis; Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL, forecast to have 93 percent of homes appreciating; Stockton-Lodi, forecast to have 89.1 percent of homes appreciating; Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ, to have 84.4 percent of homes appreciating and Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC, to have 83.3 percent of homes appreciating.

Metros that will have the lowest appreciation rates in October 2014 are all from the South and Midwest. Raleigh, NN will have the lowest appreciation rate of 1.2%. Only 3,757 of the 306,901 Raleigh homes in the Weiss database will be gaining value on a monthly basis.

“During the past three years the recovery has generated year over year double digit annual price increases.[1] Our data and analytics show that the pace of change in home values is slowing down—both among homes that are losing value as well as those that have been appreciating. This retrenchment may delay the return to price parity in some markets but it in others it will help to prevent the formation of bubbles of overvalued properties that could result in defaults,” said Allan Weiss, CEO and founder of Weiss Analytics and former CEO and co-founder of Case Shiller Weiss.

http://www.realestateeconomywatch.com/2015/12/recovery-will-slow-in-2016-as-fewer-homes-gain-value/

Fourteen years ago, improving minority homeownership was front burner issue. In 2002, the Bush Administration even set a goal of expanding the number of minorities who owned their own homes by 5.5 million—approximately the number of existing homes sold in a very good year.

The subprime crash and housing depression put a sudden end to that effort. Minority homeownership plummeted and, surprisingly, never achieved the attention from top policy makers in two Obama administrations that it enjoyed under their predecessor.

For homeownership in general, the housing depression was depressing. For minorities, it was a disaster. For African-American households, the homeownership rate peaked at 49.4 percent in 2004 and bottomed out at 41.9 in the first quarter of this year, a decline of 7.5 points. Hispanic American homeownership reached a high of 49.8 percent in 2006 and fell to 44.1 percent in the first quarter of this year, down 5.7 points. By comparison, white non-Hispanic homeownership peaked at 76 percent in 2004 and fell to 73.4 percent by 2013 when the housing recovery officially began, a decline of only 2.6 points.

Do Higher Prices Help Minorities?

Conventional wisdom maintains that rising prices are bad for minorities because they are priced out of affordable housing, especially in gentrifying urban neighborhoods where today young Millennial whites are driving prices sky high. However, a new study by two economists at the Federal Trade Commission published in the Journal of Housing Economics this month suggest the exact opposite is the case. Higher prices mean better times for minorities.

Rising prices are good for minorities, the economists argue, because they are accompanied by a loosening of lending standards. Rising values alter lenders; judgments about acceptable levels of risk and expected rates of return on housing-related assets. “This variation may then translate into changes in the out-comes experienced by minority borrowers relative to non-minorities,’ they concluded

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