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Home sales plunge in Miami in 2022, strong sign of housing market slowdown
Despite falling home sales last year, South Florida’s median prices for houses and condos increased as people competed for homes to buy. This is an aerial view of North Bay Village, near housing hotbed Miami Beach. MATIAS J. OCNER [email protected] Home sales in Miami-Dade County plummeted in 2022 compared to the prior year, the strongest indication the frenetic homebuying spree that defined South Florida during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic finally has ended. The county recorded 32,627 single-family house and condominium sales last year, a 20{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} drop from 39,394 sales in 2021, according to the Miami Association of Realtors housing sales report released late Friday. The median prices in December for…
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U.S. housing prices could plunge 20{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9}, Dallas Fed warns
America’s house prices could plunge as a great deal as 20{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} due to the sharp rise in mortgage loan rates in 2022, which are greatly rising household ownership costs and “enhance the odds of a significant household cost correction,” in accordance to investigation from the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Dallas. To be sure, the potential for the nation’s properties to drop as a great deal as a single-fifth of their price represents a “pessimistic state of affairs,” Dallas Fed economist Enrique Martinez-García noted in a report on Tuesday. But other economists have signaled equivalent fears, with Pantheon Macroeconomics Chief Economist Ian Shepherdson before this yr predicting a identical slump…