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Home Prices Show Biggest Rise in 6 Years
Posted on 2/8/13 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 2/8/13 at 8:55 pm
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Home Prices Show Biggest Rise in 6 Years
by Richard Davies - ABCNews
Feb 5, 2013
Home prices are accelerating in most local markets. CoreLogic, a real estate data provider, says average home prices rose 8.3 percent in December compared with a year earlier, the biggest annual gain since May 2006. Prices rose last year in 46 of 50 states.
Home prices also rose 0.4 percent in December from the previous month: a healthy increase given that sales usually slow over the winter months.
Steady increases in prices are helping fuel the housing recovery. They’re encouraging some people to sell homes and enticing some would-be buyers to purchase homes before prices rise further.
Higher prices can also make homeowners feel wealthier. That can encourage more consumer spending.
CoreLogic says January home prices, including distressed sales, are expected to rise by nearly 8 percent on a year-over year basis from January 2012, and fall by 1 percent compared with December, reflecting a seasonal winter slowdown.
Excluding distressed sales such as foreclosures and bank short sales, the average home price index is expected to rise more than 8.5 percent compared with the year before.
“December marked 10 consecutive months of year-over-year home price improvements, and the strongest growth since the height of the last housing boom,” says Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. “We expect home price growth to continue in January.”
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quote:Anecdotes aside.
Phoenix area home prices rise 34% in 2012
by Catherine Reagor
The Republic | azcentral.com
Feb 7, 2013
The median price of a metro Phoenix home climbed 34 percent in 2012. The rapid rise in home prices over the past 12 months means that many homeowners have regained more than one-half of the value their houses lost during the crash.
At the end of last year, the region’s median home price was $164,000, compared with $122,500 the year before.
Home prices climbed last year for two key reasons: Homes resold by lenders typically sell for lower prices, and foreclosures plummeted 51 percent in 2012 compared with 2011. Also, the supply of houses on the market fell 6 percent, according to a report released Thursday by Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business.
“Foreclosures and short sales have gone down, eliminating the sources of many cheap homes, so the more expensive types of transactions, like normal resales and new-home sales, went up,” said Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at ASU.
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This post was edited on 2/9/13 at 5:27 am
Posted on 2/9/13 at 10:39 am to NC_Tigah
Lenders lending money for mortgages is what will stimulate the housing market. It doesn't matter what my house is worth if half of the buyers out there can't qualify for a mortgage.
Posted on 2/9/13 at 10:42 am to VABuckeye
quote:50% cash deals is a stunning stat.
Investor home purchases in the Phoenix area began to decline in the fall, Orr said. Overall, about 36 percent of all home sales were cash deals last year. Early in 2012, cash deals made up more than 50 percent of all transactions.
Speaks to your concern about lenders IMO.
Posted on 2/9/13 at 10:43 am to NC_Tigah
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Home Prices Show Biggest Rise in 6 Years
Great for me... I bought a foreclosure back in 2011 and with the increase, I'm up 50K over what I bought it at.
I just hope we aren't creating another bubble
Posted on 2/9/13 at 12:41 pm to Lsut81
Up 66% here, fun times right now. 4 houses in my hood under construction, nothing under 4000 sq ft or 775k, two are builders personal homes.
Ditto
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I'm up 50K over what I bought it at.
Ditto
Posted on 2/9/13 at 7:53 pm to NC_Tigah
Right or wrong, I keep holding out hope that in a few years interest rates will be higher, oil prices will be lower, and it will be a better time to buy a bigger house.
In the Woodlands, at least...where prices are currently ridiculous.
In the Woodlands, at least...where prices are currently ridiculous.
Posted on 2/9/13 at 9:31 pm to NC_Tigah
Im going to go out on a limb here.
Loans are still a big problem. Its very laborious even for folks that have enough cash to do the entire purchase.
Also, as most of you know, these numbers are overall and real estate is local.
I think there will be an inevitable slow down when rates hit 6+ percent just because we have all been spoiled.
Also, I fear, the gubbermint will seek to do away with the mortgage interest rate deduction which will crush larger homes.
And if our gubbermint doesn't figure out how to increase permanent jobs .......than all of the above is moot.
Loans are still a big problem. Its very laborious even for folks that have enough cash to do the entire purchase.
Also, as most of you know, these numbers are overall and real estate is local.
I think there will be an inevitable slow down when rates hit 6+ percent just because we have all been spoiled.
Also, I fear, the gubbermint will seek to do away with the mortgage interest rate deduction which will crush larger homes.
And if our gubbermint doesn't figure out how to increase permanent jobs .......than all of the above is moot.
Posted on 2/9/13 at 10:58 pm to Bayou Tiger
How is the woodlands area ridiculous? Other than property taxes. You can easily get an average home for less than $100sqft.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 12:27 am to C
quote:This summer we were looking at 3000-3500 sqft east of Kuykendahl and south of Research (non-Creekside) and didn't see anything close to that range.
You can easily get an average home for less than $100sqft.
Just checked and most are currently listed for $135-$150/square foot. Maybe that is the new normal in that area, but it just felt high to me. Certainly it wasn't a price that I felt was a great time to be making a move just for the sake of upgrading.
It's hard to imagine oil prices staying this high and interest rates staying this low for the next few years, and what would a correction in those two items do to prices in the area? I figured I would just stand pat for now and check back in a couple of years.
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Posted on 2/10/13 at 9:14 am to NC_Tigah
If you are a believer in housing starts/home price increases in terms of consumer confidence as a leading macroeconomic indicator then this is good news..
Posted on 2/10/13 at 2:34 pm to Bayou Tiger
Agree to disagree I guess but the woodlands is not overpriced when you look at similar upperclass neighborhoods with great schools nation wide. Sure it's a ~10% premium over similar houses in the surrounding areas, but it's still very affordable.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 2:48 pm to NC_Tigah
I thought the problem with the housing market was that the average consumer was paying more than what they could afford. Home values increased more than median salaries.
If home prices go right back up to where they were, then have we really fixed the problem. Are we not just reverting back to the bubble?
If home prices go right back up to where they were, then have we really fixed the problem. Are we not just reverting back to the bubble?
Posted on 2/10/13 at 3:07 pm to NukemVol
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then have we really fixed the problem
A big difference is mortgage interest rates are nearly half what they were in 2002-2006 when most of the mortgages that defaulted originated. So if you are reducing your monthly payment by 20-25% people can afford to pay more. even if incomes haven't increased much.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 3:19 pm to C
quote:Maybe "overpriced" was a bit strong. I just feel like the odds are that the prices will be lower in two years rather than higher.
Agree to disagree I guess but the woodlands is not overpriced when you look at similar upperclass neighborhoods with great schools nation wide.
And if I'm wrong, then that's just an extra two years of saving money towards the next house versus jumping into a mortgage and higher taxes now, which would soften the blow.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 3:39 pm to Bayou Tiger
What area are you in today. I've been in Creekside for 4 years. I hate to move as my kids will start school soon but I wouldn't mind a larger home and yard. With the grand parkway coming in two years, a lot of nice size lots out to the east and west will be comfortable commutes to work.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 3:47 pm to C
quote:I have also been in Creekside for 4 years. My oldest just started Kindergarten, so this summer we were looking at moving north before either of them started school - for continuity. The combination of higher than expected housing prices and my son getting into the private school we applied to made it an easy decision not to move just yet.
What area are you in today. I've been in Creekside for 4 years. I hate to move as my kids will start school soon but I wouldn't mind a larger home and yard.
However, I'm glad you mentioned the Grand Parkway. The commute is the main reason that I didn't want to move too far out west, but the parkway might make this a non-issue.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 5:21 pm to NukemVol
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I thought the problem with the housing market was that the average consumer was paying more than what they could afford. Home values increased more than median salaries.
I don't think that really gets to the heart of what the problem was.
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If home prices go right back up to where they were, then have we really fixed the problem. Are we not just reverting back to the bubble?
Well I seriously doubt that they are going to reach December 2005 levels in terms of real prices any time within the next decade.
Nonetheless, I am in a very general sense sympathetic to your viewpoint here, and as I said in that ZIRP thread I created a couple of months ago, I think Bernanke has been making a huge mistake with monetary policy ever since the beginning of 2011, similar to what Greenspan did (with Bernanke's voting support) in 2003.
So is another housing bubble being created? No, I very much doubt that. At the same time, however, I do think that monetary policy is generally causing artificially high asset prices, and that includes housing. The U.S. appears to be running into what I previously thought would never happen--Japanese-variety ZIRP-style problems where artificially high asset prices, low growth, and low inflation become an entrenched phenomenon that acts sort of like a macroeconomic tar baby. It really is a terrible thing to behold.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 5:59 pm to Doc Fenton
quote:That's gong to depend on location.
Well I seriously doubt that they are going to reach December 2005 levels in terms of real prices any time within the next decade.
Anecdotally, we received an unsolicited cash offer out of the blue >20% over acquisition price on an upper end property purchased <1yr ago.
Not selling, because we love the place. But was basis for the OP.
Obviously as with any investment, YMMV.
Posted on 2/10/13 at 6:20 pm to NC_Tigah
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That's gong to depend on location.
Only if you're talking about a rather specific location, as prices are still about 40% below their Dec-05 highs in real terms.
Even Charlotte & Denver, the best 2 out of the 20 major markets at holding value, are down close to 15% according to Case-Shiller. I would be surprised if housing in those places appreciated by that much above inflation in the coming decade, although I guess anything is possible.
Now certain trendy new developments will always occur on the local level, and there are always boomtowns like Williston, but just in the main, I don't see housing getting anywhere near its old levels anytime soon.
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YMMV
What does that mean?
Posted on 2/10/13 at 6:33 pm to Doc Fenton
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Even Charlotte
Charlotte is the best?
Well there it is.
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