{"id":568,"date":"2022-06-08T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T23:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/home-affordability-has-collapsed-in-2022-what-to-expect-next-according-to-bofa\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T23:25:29","slug":"home-affordability-has-collapsed-in-2022-what-to-expect-next-according-to-bofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/home-affordability-has-collapsed-in-2022-what-to-expect-next-according-to-bofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Affordability Has \u2018Collapsed\u2019 in 2022. What To Expect Next, According to BofA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The double whammy of surging mortgage rates and skyrocketing home prices has led to \u201ccollapsed\u201d housing affordability in America, according to Chris Flanagan\u2019s team at BofA Global Research.<\/p>\n

The situation has gotten so bad that it now compares to the \u201chistorically low affordability readings\u201d in the fourth quarter of 1987 and the first quarter of 2005, according to the BofA team.<\/p>\n

Notably, those years coincide with the \u201cBlack Monday\u201d\u00a0stock market crash of 1987<\/a>, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average\u00a0tumbled about 22.6% in a single trading session, and the start of the subprime mortgage crisis as\u00a0home prices roared higher from 2000 to 2005<\/a>,\u00a0and hit a multiyear high in 2006.<\/p>\n

Existing home sales tumbled 33% in the wake of the 1987 crash and 45% in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage debacle. \u201cIn this cycle, we think a 35% peak-to-trough existing-home-sales decline is plausible,\u201d Flanagan\u2019s team wrote, in a weekly client note.<\/p>\n

After home prices shot up\u00a0a record 20.6% annually in March<\/a>\u00a0they probably \u201care at or near the peaks for this cycle,\u201d the team wrote, considering that a chunk of the appreciation likely stems from historically low\u00a0mortgage rates that have since vanished<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cost of a 30-year fixed mortgage nearly doubled to about\u00a05.25% in May from 2.75% last winter<\/a>. The move higher came as the Federal Reserve began fleshing out plans to raise interest rates and trim its nearly $9 trillion balance sheet in a bid to tackle inflation that recently hit a near 40-year high.<\/p>\n

While home prices have continued to climb this year, household wealth tied up in stocks and bonds has suffered, with the S&P 500 index off 14% from its Jan. 3 closing high through Monday and the Nasdaq Composite Index\u00a0nearly 24% below its peak, according to FactSet data.<\/p>\n

However, even in a somewhat \u201cdraconian\u201d scenario, where the \u201csupply side for housing is meaningfully altered by reduced affordability, the supply side remains exceptionally supportive\u201d for home price appreciation, Flanagan\u2019s team wrote.<\/p>\n

Why? Blame the subprime mortgage mess and decades of underbuilding. Those catalysts led to record low supply of existing homes (see chart), which will take time to \u201cnormalize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Home supply was tight before the pandemic made it worse, as many families looked for bigger houses outside of big cities to adapt to remote work. That remains a key factor in BofA\u2019s forecast for home prices to climb 15% for 2022 and 5% for 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cShelter is still scarce and residential real estate is still a good inflation hedge: To the extent there is any distress in housing,\u00a0and forced sellers emerge,\u00a0we think owner-occupied or non-owner-occupied buyers will be there\u00a0to at least partially absorb the sales,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

The post Home Affordability Has \u2018Collapsed\u2019 in 2022. What To Expect Next, According to BofA<\/a> appeared first on Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com\u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getty Images The double whammy of surging mortgage rates and skyrocketing home prices has led to \u201ccollapsed\u201d housing affordability in America, according to Chris Flanagan\u2019s team at BofA Global Research. The situation has gotten so bad that it now compares to the \u201chistorically low affordability readings\u201d in the fourth quarter of 1987 and the first…Read More→<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}