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A house price slump is coming. Rising unemployment could make it much worse
London CNN Business — Last year, Auckland’s largest real estate company couldn’t sell properties quickly enough to meet demand in New Zealand’s biggest city. Houses were “flying out the door,” said Grant Sykes, a manager at real estate agency Barfoot & Thompson. “There were chin-dropping moments when agents stand around the room and are gobsmacked at the prices being achieved,” he told CNN Business. In one example, a property sold for 1 million New Zealand dollars ($610,000) above the asking price in an auction that lasted all of eight minutes. (Most homes in New Zealand are sold at auction.) That was in May 2021, when sales attracted thousands of bidders…
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Could This U.S. Housing Market Crash Be Worse Than 2008?
Mauricio Graiki In a matter of months, the pandemic housing boom has turned into a rapidly spreading bust. Incredibly, recent reporting shows that home prices are now falling faster than they did during the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Prices are falling as much as 4{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} per month in some formerly red-hot markets. 30-year fixed mortgages are at 7.3{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} and rising after the Fed meeting. Mortgage applications for purchases are considered to be the best leading indicator of future sales that will close in the months ahead- they’re down 42{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} year-over-year and continue to fall each week. Decreased demand comes just as a tsunami of new supply is about…
