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...Homeowners who have locked in on low mortgage rates are reluctant to sell, limiting the supply of houses for sale....
...Sales of existing homes fell to levels not seen since the depths of the financial crisis as rates on the standard 30-year mortgage nearly tripled to around 8 per cent last autumn New listings tumbled, as...
...Even the inventory of new homes dipped a bit in 2023, as high mortgage rates put a damper on Americans’ desire to finance anything....
...As mortgage rates hover around 6 per cent, nearly 70 per cent of Manhattan homes purchased in the final quarter of 2023 were bought without a mortgage, according to Pamela Liebman, the chief executive of...
...Americans are also extremely fond of their fixed-rate certainty. “It’s just so nice,” said one American, a fellow FT columnist, of his home loan....
...Sales of higher-margin discretionary items like home decor were down 12 per cent....
...At the same time, as higher mortgage rates have increased the monthly costs of owning a home, co-op boards have introduced new measures to ensure running costs are met....
...Fink said at the time that the debate references were “a sad commentary on the state of American politics”....
...For the less well off, who summer locally, do not own a home and tend to be younger, these conditions are less felicitous....
...“Getting a mortgage for 3 per cent, rather than the 7-8 per cent rates in the US, made it seem a good investment right now....
...Basically, I defined what was wrong with mortgage markets. These “modified mortgages” entailed you buying the home, borrowing the money and paying 1 per cent on the mortgage for three years....
...“We have seen demand for new homes start to dry up.”...
...American companies so that they can pay for their coke....
...Economists estimate that the changes could cut the $100bn Americans pay annually in real estate fees by as much as 30 per cent....
...That is because the flow of new home loans to back new MBS issuance has all but dried up as American homeowners blanch at mortgage rates approaching 8 per cent — the highest level in at least two decades...
...Fixed-rate mortgages, at around 2 per cent, are still relatively low, though it’s hard for Americans to get loans....
...Already, there has been an uptick in new mortgage applications and pending home sales....
...Research from property broker Redfin in February showed that 36 per cent of young Americans had financial help from family when buying their first home....
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...Since 1975, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act has required banks to report mortgage lending by race and ethnicity, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently issued a rule that requires lenders...
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