With mortgage interest rates having risen a full point over the last two months, there has been a lot of renewed talk about how interest rates will affect the housing market. We talked about this recently (Déjà Vu: Mortgage Interest Rates Panic), but I thought now would be a good time to post a collection…
Tag: Interest Rates
Déjà Vu: Mortgage Interest Rates Panic
Looks like it’s that time again… Recent headlines have described an increase in mortgage interest rates from 3.35% to 4.0% with hyperbole like “Mortgage Rates Soar,” and “Soaring U.S. Mortgage Rates.” If this sounds familiar it’s because we heard the same nonsense when rates moved from 5.0% to 5.3% in 2010. These types of articles…
Poll: Buyers: What interest rate would price you out of the market?
This poll was active 06.09.2013 through 06.15.2013
Low Rates Prop Up the Affordable Home Price
As promised in yesterday’s affordability post, here’s an updated look at the “affordable home” price chart. In this graph I flip the variables in the affordability index calculation around to other sides of the equation to calculate what price home the a family earning the median household income could afford to buy at today’s mortgage…
Home Affordability Tanking in 2013
It has been over four months since we had a look at the local affordability index, So let’s have a look at what the numbers look like with the price increases we’ve seen so far this year through April. As a reminder, the affordability index is based on three factors: median single-family home price as…