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The Schizophrenic US Housing Market In One Chart
For those who are looking for just one chart with which to summarize the US housing market, here it is courtesy of the NAR, which earlier today reported July existing home sales, which despite beating expectations, were still 4.3% below the 5.38 million annualized homes sold a year ago.
The chart shows that while the housing market for the low-end continues to collapse (the 12.9% drop was "only" -12% three months ago), and the mid-range is virtually frozen, all the upside activity, activity which pushes the median price ever higher ( in July it was $222,900, 4.9% percent above July 2013 and the 29th consecutive month of year-over-year price gains), was in the ultra-luxury segment, or houses which cost over $1 million as the "1%", both foreign and domestic, continues to convert their pieces of fiat paper into hard real-estate assets
Source: NAR
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Lookout below! Gold be a tumblin'.
Even I might back the bike up soon.
yes, right along with treasury yields...
Yes, and Silver...and sanity...and ethics...and...
Time for me to jump in again.
@ $17 per ounce over spot for a brand new bar, i figured my bug out bag needed some universal emigration papers just in case.
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Wealth effect.............Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!
Bye Bye middle class
Around here, 100k price range wouldn't get you a dbl-wide crack house down by the river. Might explain the 12% drop.
If I can only hang on, my house will be worth....one billion dollars! I hope I can still find the wheels for it.
This makes total sense.
Po people don't got no money.
Bring on the middle class flop houses.....
Oh just btfd!! and stfu!!
not schizo, just more proof the 1% are fine.
The high-end of the market is on fire... credit has definitely opened up there.
90LTV loans with no MI. Hell, I can even do you a loan on a $700,000 purchase, 5% down and no MI
Mind you, there is a proctology exam required for Underwriting. Any problems... sorry sweetie, better luck next time.
The low-end?
Sorry, only FHA deals for people with foreclosures and bankruptcies or investors that are going to rent them out. But the rate is +5% and you have to put 20%, or 25% down if you have more than three mortgages.
The weather MUST BE better in wealthier neighborhoods!
Another one of these charts. The bottom end of housing has fallen off because insititutional investors have either exited the space are have slowed down/reduced acquisitions from their extremely heightened pace the past 2 years. Yes entry level buyer's are probably slightly negative as well but when comparing to last year's buying fest in those price ranges it would be expected for there to be a dip, even if the retail market was healthy.
It just noise, the trend is clear; S&P 5,000 in a couple years as the DOW trades 36,000.
Its a given that we are going higher and there is close to zero downside risk.
The only reason to sell anything here (aside from that worthless pile of shit gold) is if you don't have enough cash on the sidelines already to buy more AAPL.
gold is worthless? last I checked it was trading around 1275.
this is a recovering
sub prime car loans and house loans, Banks? no loans period.
biz loans, drop dead. Europe? in a depression Kaput; Gold ? wake me up at $ 800 an oz.
watch the Titanic its breaking apart pushing the stern stock market to all time highs, Lol.
yea, sure pal, there will be a bunch of gold laying around for you at $800 when you "wake up".
>>>all the upside activity, activity which pushes the median price ever higher<<<
Median price rising??????
The median price is the price of the unit which has half of the units carrying a higher price and the other half a lower price. If all of the high end prices rise, and the low end prices fall, the median won't change.
Given the sequence: 1 2 3 4 4 4 8 8 10, the median is 4. If we change that to: 1 1 1 4 4 4 10 10 10, the median remains at 4. Have I forgotten my statistics?
A better question would be in what manner is NAR using statistics to stretch the truth.
Does it matter as long as the Fed keeps buying MBS - taper or not? I mean...don't they own them all by now. They aren't like Treasuries where the governmet manufactures a few billion new one every minute.
Good point.
"A better question would be in what manner is NAR using statistics to stretch the truth."
The answer is: in every way possible.
They, like Obama are only spreading positivity, for the good of the people.
And everyone wants to be told they are beautiful, especially those who know you are lying. You actually care enough to lie. That is why Obama is so loved. They love him FOR his lies. He does it for the folks.
The low end did not collapse. There are simply fewer houses available under 100k. Three houses that I bought in Phoenix 3 to 4 years ago under 100k are all now worth well over 100k. You can't find a decent house in Phoenix anymore under 100k.
What a coincidence! You bought three. I bought six of 'em. A buddy of mine who drives a taxi in Vegas just bought two. All in Phoenix! Yeah, we all wonder why the sub-$100,000 price range for a decent home in Phoenix has vanished. Hmmm ...
The best part is, no one has ever lost any money flipping houses....
Property managment is the place to be...if you have the stomach for it. A piece of the action for eternity and you don't own shit. All these "investors" buying these house up are going to have to sell them (and hopefully not all in the same month as last time) or rent them out.
Good luck (from someone who owns rental houses)
The trick to making money in the slumlord business is to 1) buy the property dirt cheap, 2) do all the work yourself. Everytime you call someone (contractor, manager) you're throwing money down the drain.
If the plan is to just collect mailbox money then expect to get fucked. Remember, there is only one kind of rent and that is low rent.
The wife is the slum lord, I just do the dirty work, and it is dirty. Our properties are mid range so its not really slums, but renters are only renting, its not their house. As you say, if you rely on contractors, there is no profit, which makes me wonder how these large corporate outfits can survive, as well as the small time people who have no skills beyond signing checks. We started out hiring a manager but it sucked and they took all the income, leaving us the bills. Now we do most of it ourselves but I have been in construction my whole life so it is just more of the same...at lower pay, and a mean boss.
Perhaps they've added plumbing and wiring to the entry level rotations at Goldman and JPM.
I was going to comment the same thing. While interesting, one chart only leads to more questions than answers.
And that's a bad indicator for me because 80-90% of humans in the Phoenix area can't qualify for 100k or more.
Probably works for your rentals though...
The housing marking in my bucolic Elysium Support Class college town is goin' like gang-busters. Once again, there's two separate economies: the bottom 70% in the Trash Class, and the non Trash.
A rising tide does not float leaky boats.
Only with a large bilge pump (the fed)
Come on now! lets give them smart n savy the big high five! And don't be hangin with them bottom 70% losers anymore, ya hear?
The rents you can get for the college crowd are sick.
With another round of new students, I don't seem to remember quite so many BMW's, Mercedes, and Lexus's driven by parents (CU, Boulder) as I see now.
So screw it, in the comparatively small realm of student housing, soak the rich.
Could probably do another about the last 12 month total permits by type, builders confidence index and then on the other side what actually gets built and sold which would likely show a 5x disconnect between what is supposed to happen vs. reality.
There is no confidence in our economic fundamentals, only in our government's willingness to do just about anything to prevent a "numerical" backslide in the economy. Housing or stock market, its all the same. Of course there is the possibility that things could actually escape their control....nah, that could never happen, besides they would see it comining, right?
Correction: your house doesn't really worth more, it's demand and the multiplying effect that's creating its "new" value. Untill of course that evaporates!
Good luck to you multiple home owners.
Steal from the poor, give to the rich. It's an ancient game.
The reason is simple there is no <100k homes....
>> there is no <100k homes....
I've run across a few. Problem being they are worth less than half the asking price, and they're getting it. I wouldn't mind moving, again, but the property tax implications keep me here. Not a bad place, really, but I'm a rolling stone at heart. But if dump this place and pick up a similarly price house in another location, my taxes go from $850 to about $2,500 a year. Escalating prices are only a boon to the tax man, the banker and the insurance man. It's fools gold to owners really. All things considered, I'm just happy to be "stuck" where I'm "stuck".
Here a '70s era tract home around 1500 sq. ft. is running $200K on average. You can get cheaper houses in nearby towns, but the schools are very poor quality, as in below standard vs. exemplary. Turn key properties are selling in 3-4 days.
My 70's style home I sold recently for 225K, I paid 150K 6 years ago for it. This is defintely a seller's market. Problem is finding a good neighborhood with decent folks and clean stores. House styles/decor dont matter, quality of the area around me does.
Essentially, sales of homes for less than $750k are down. Wonder why?
The peeps is broke, mofos.
Obama's cronies living it up!
That is CHANGE in sales. Actual sales is much different. All actual sales are quite good. But who really cares.
Income inequality, Chart B.
750K and under more relo's than move up buyers IMO.