Mortgage rates moving from 7 to 8% since July means around 5 million fewer households would qualify for a $400K mortgage.
The potential borrower pool has now shrunk by -56% since in 2021 when rates were 3%.
Mortgage applications just plummeted to the lowest level since 1995. 📉
Down 50% from pandemic highs.
Not good. Sellers will need to reduce the price to bring buyers back in.
Traders are scaling back their bets on how high the Bank of England will hike interest rates
@krisaqnews explains what's going on: https://t.co/yu2yR4HHuV
The land market is on fire again, per 55% of the 78 land brokers we just surveyed.
This is the hottest the market has been in 15 months, & comparable to the market strength from 2018 through early 2020, as shown below.
Our local consulting experts here: https://t.co/ueB5lrWnCt
The headlines from March’s banking crises have receded, and balances at some of the Fed’s emergency lending facilities are starting to fall. But, there are still signs of a slow-moving credit crunch.
Listen to the Odd Lots podcast: https://t.co/eieWHGBLRI
US SENATOR WARREN, WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAS FAITH IN SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL RESERVE PRESIDENT MARY DALY IN WAKE OF SILICON VALLEY BANK'S COLLAPSE: "NO, I DO NOT" - CBS INTERVIEW
Small-time flippers and regular homebuyers are doing better than Wall Street and Silicon Valley's big institutional buyers during the real estate downturn https://t.co/41bPN9Iuai