That’s good news for first-time homebuyers. Foreclosures are gradually returning closer to pre‑pandemic levels in 2022. This is good news for many first-time homebuyers priced out of the fever dream that was the pandemic housing market. Why? Because most of those foreclosures will be renovated and resold to owner‑occupants at affordable price points. “We love [...]
Zillow recently reported U.S. housing stock gained $6.9 trillion in 2021, the most in a single year. Single-family homes values rose considerably faster, with the average homeowner seeing gains of $50,000. Record low supply, coupled with increased demand, dramatically drove up prices. The chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, Lance Yun, reported that, [...]
What Does That Mean for Private Lenders and What is Going to be Affected? As of this writing, Jerome Powell informed the world that the Federal Reserve was raising the federal fund rates 75 basis points (bps) or 0.75%, bringing the total charge to 1.75%. The go-to primary inflation control valve of the Federal Reserve, [...]
Here are five reasons a significant market correction may be on the horizon. During the past two years, the real estate industry has been waiting for a market correction that has yet to occur. Even though concern among lenders has decreased, numerous factors point to a significant correction. The state of the industry as a [...]
Private lenders should anticipate these five developments among CRE asset classes in 2022. Despite the initial shockwaves felt at the onset of COVID-19, certain sectors of the real estate market have proven to weather the storm with resounding resilience, and some asset classes have barely missed a beat. Soaring e-commerce sales have accelerated the demand [...]
Here’s a look at markets with the most overinflated home prices and those with the biggest backlogs of distress. A home price slowdown and possibly even a correction is a growing risk facing U.S. housing markets for the second half of 2022. Rising inflation is forcing the Federal Reserve to implement contractionary monetary policy that [...]
Housing supply gradually began to increase in the second half of 2021, both in the larger retail market and in the narrower distressed property market—as predicted in a July 2021 article in this publication. The inventory of existing homes for sale increased to an 11-month high of 1.3 million in July 2021 and remained near [...]
Private lenders must be aware of the new trends emerging in the residential asset classes. The real estate market of 2020 transitioned from uncertainty to unforeseen heights, but where is it now, in 2021? And what trends have emerged from a market movement that took on a life of its own? Although they navigated a [...]
What will the long-term impacts look like? Albert Einstein once stated, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” In response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the economy, new thinking has been employed because of lessons learned from the 1998 financial crisis and [...]
While macros are unlikely to change, investors and lenders should take local people movement into consideration. During the last decade, before the pandemic, a simple rule governed housing investment: The lesser the density, the higher the risk. The lesson emerged from the financial rubble of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. The view was caricaturized [...]
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