Sunday, January 15, 2017

Phoenix Real Estate Update. Show me the money.

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 Phoenix Real Estate Update. Show me the money.

By: Payam Raouf
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I don’t want to be misleading but I have to be honest, this is a tough market to predict. I have over 70,000 readers and in the past 10 years this is the first time I am going back to the basics!!!!

Overall, rents and home values have substantially gone up  throughout the valley in the past 6 to 12 months and you never know what the BEST price to buy, sell or rent is till you do extensive research and try it out. 

I would not rely as much on Zillow, Trulia and other zestimator web based real estate companies to figure out the true value of my properties as I would on MLS. On MLS, you can get down to the differences or similarities of all the homes that were sold in the past six to 12 months. Take EVERYTHING into consideration,  the floor plan, subdivision, the  builder etc, etc, etc. Then you must go see the house, drive the neighborhood maybe even pull over talk to a resident or two... to come up with as close as a market value you feel is right and up that by a reasonable percentage just to be safe. Of course you MUST take into account the buyers/sellers or tenants it may attract and have your marketing plan A, B and Cs in Place. 

It is such a mixed market, some of our investors are selling and quite a few are buying!!!  Most of the ones selling are the ones that were upside down in the past 7 to 10 years on their mortgages.  The ones buying are pretty solid investors. They are buying location, location, location! Homes in the mid 2500 to 3000 sq ft with all amenities in $275000 to $400000 range. N Peoria, N Phoenix, Gilbert, Chandler, Scottsdale are among a few to mention.

The other group buying homes are the first time home buyers or tenants who have been  renting for the past 5 to 6 years. They have got the home prices in the $150000 to $275000 going through the roof.  30% of tenants are buying homes and the same ratio of landlords seem to be selling as well. There are a lot of grants available for the first time home buyers and sellers make a decent contribution towards their closing costs.

Too many apartments are either build already and or are in the process of and that market is not looking as good right now. It looks like rents are leveling off and are heading down a bit from their highs. On the other hand, with 30% of investors selling and the lack of affordable single family homes, many tenants see apartment living specially the new ones as an alternative and that may level things off or even raise the rents in the future. We will see.

Older buildings in the central Phoenix may not be the best rentals but may be good flips. Downtown Phoenix, Tempe, Arcadia Area, Scottsdale are in play to name a few. If you can find a deal and have the right contractor to team up with, go for it otherwise, be careful. That market is softening a bit as prices have skyrocketed and real comps are hard to get.

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Realtor.com: Phoenix will be No. 1 housing market in 2017

 Catherine Reagor , The Republic | azcentral.com 

Real estate website predicts Valley home prices to climb 5.9 percent, and sales to jump by 7.2 percent next year; LA is No. 2

Drum roll please….
The top housing market in the U.S. in 2017 will be metro Phoenix, according to a new realtor.com
forecast.
It’s about time.
The Valley’s steady growth in sales and price increases, tighter new home market and short supply of foreclosures make it one of the healthiest in the country. Plus a wise housing analyst who tracks home sales and trends every day told me last year that 2017 would be the big year for the Phoenix-area housing market. Realtor.com, a national real estate website, is predicting Valley home prices to climb 5.9 percent, and sales to jump by 7.2 percent next year. That’s not the biggest projected price increase on its list of top 10 markets in 2017, but it’s the biggest sales increase.

It makes sense since one of the Valley’s top selling points for buyers is more affordable home prices, particularly in the West. And that’s the intro for Los Angeles, which ranked No. 2 on the list with a predicted 6.9 percent rise in prices and 6 percent increase in sales. Two other cities in the West, Sacramento and Riverside made the top five for housing market gains. All are pricier to buy a home in than the Valley.

There's also good news for Phoenix’s southern neighbor Tucson. The real estate group ranks it as the ninth best housing market in 2017 with an expected 6.1 percent jump in prices and 5.5 percent gain in sales.

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Should You Invest In Arizona Real Estate?


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Quick Hits: If you’re planning to buy a home in Phoenix, Flagstaff or Prescott, do it now, because prices are going up for the next few years. Investments in single-family rental properties have good potential mainly in Phoenix. Apartment developments have the best potential in Phoenix, where splitting homes into rental units is also attractive, and in Tucson. Mortgages and construction loans have average risk. Best bets for investments in retail are Phoenix, especially the southeast suburbs; worst bets are Tucson and Prescott.
Investing in Arizona no longer means dubious retirement projects in the desert – a kind of Florida West with sand instead of swamp. You can find those too, if you like taking a flyer, but Phoenix and Tucson have grown up and offer investors a range of  possibilities. In addition to the big cities, Prescott does cater to retirees, Flagstaff has a younger demographic, and Yuma has a heavily immigrant population; all have different housing needs.
The strongest economic growth, and therefore strongest demand for housing, is in Phoenix, where jobs are being added at twice the national rate many of them in healthcare, retail, and the large finance sector. Job growth has also been strong in Prescott, mostly in the retail and healthcare sectors as you would expect from the retiree population. Growth in Tucson, on the other hand, has recently been slow. Flagstaff depends heavily on the cyclical tourist trade.
Home prices in all Arizona markets rose and fell sharply in the boom and bust; but afterwards prices in Phoenix – and somewhat in Prescott – went through a mini-boom of speculation in foreclosed properties. It looks like those have now been flushed through the system, so we can take at face value the recent price increases – strongest in Phoenix, Flagstaff and Prescott, weaker in Tucson and Yuma. I expect Phoenix prices up at least 25 percent over the next three years, which means you shouldn’t wait if you plan to buy there. Prices have been strongest in Phoenix itself, slightly weaker in the southeast suburbs.
Flagstaff, Tucson and Phoenix have a high proportion of renters, almost 40 percent, but because home prices in the former two are high compared to rents, investing in single-family properties to rent them out is most feasible in Phoenix – where the ratio is much more favorable and where housing needs encourage splitting single-family homes into multiple rental units. The relatively lower pay in the growing retail and healthcare sectors will expand renting in future years.
Mortgages are a good investment right now. Because home prices will keep rising the next few years, the equity cushion for new mortgages will grow quickly; yet prices are in balance with local incomes, so the risk of default will stay average. Construction loans also will have average risk in the growing markets, especially Phoenix, where I expect 60,000 new single-family homes built over the next three years and 60,000 apartments. In Prescott I expect a modest 5,000 homes built and in Tucson 5,000 apartments. In Flagstaff and Yuma I expect less than a thousand new housing units, mainly apartments.
Because of the rapid population growth, investments in retail stores and restaurants are favorable in Phoenix; the suburbs in Pinal County are greatly underserved for both. Such investments in Flagstaff face stronger competition and the cyclicality of tourism. The retail sector has been flat in Prescott and has actually shrunk in Tucson. The large growth of finance and healthcare in Phoenix will probably call for more office space.



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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Blackstone Tenants Get a Shot at Buying Their Rental Houses

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Dear Subscribers, If you are planning to take some profits off the table or can no longer afford hanging on to your rental propertiy(ies), this could be the right opportunity to sell it.

Home values have substantially gone up in Arizona since it bottomed out in 2010. In some areas we have surpassed the values at the height of the market in 2005!!!

There are approximately over 300,000 rental properties in Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Majority of them are held by large Equity Funds. They have now quietly started taking some profits off the table by selling to our #1 buyers, the tenants. This trend will accelerate next year and as fierce competition amongst these equity funds heat up, they are going to flood the market with thousands of unsold inventory driving prices back down again.

If you are planning to sell your property, you should price it according to the market and offer the right terms to avoid getting caught at the exit. We have years of experience selling rental properties with or without tenants in place and short sale.
 

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Blackstone Tenants Get a Shot at Buying Their Rental Houses
 
BY: Heather Perlberg
July 5, 2016 

Firm’s Invitation Homes unit is selling in Arizona, California

Single-family landlords have been losing renters to home buying

Melissa Suniga and her mother had been renting a three-bedroom Phoenix house for less than a year when their landlord, Blackstone Group LP’s Invitation Homes, gave them the chance to buy it.
Suniga, a 40-year-old childcare worker, used her security deposit and $2,000 she’d saved from her income-tax refund, along with a county grant and a credit from Invitation Homes that together provided her with $10,600 more for her down payment and closing costs. She expects to complete her purchase of the $150,000 house this week.
“When I started renting, I thought, ‘I wish I could buy this home,’” Suniga said in an interview.
U.S. landlords who built rental businesses by buying homes en masse are now consolidating and streamlining their operations, in part by selling for a profit properties that have soared in value or no longer fit their business models. Invitation Homes is the first of the large rental companies to give residents a shot at owning their houses, seeking to benefit from having its own pool of ready buyers who are constrained by a market starved for affordable homes.
Blackstone has amassed about 50,000 rental houses in the past four years. While Invitation Homes is still buying selectively, spending about $5 million a week, it expects to cull about 5 percent of its properties annually, Chief Executive Officer John Bartling said.

Staying Put

Selling rental homes to tenants is a way for investors to make more money than they would selling in bulk, and saves them the costs of renovating and carrying the properties until they sell on the open market. It’s also a way to help people stay put, keep their kids in the same schools and stabilize neighborhoods, according to Bartling.
“This is an important part of the maturation of the industry and for Invitation Homes as we grow over time,” he said in an interview.
About 25 percent of Invitation Homes renters who move out each year are leaving to become buyers, according to the company. That’s similar to what the industry’s other large firms are experiencing. Colony Starwood Homes has reported losing about 23 percent of departing tenants to homeownership, and American Homes 4 Rent has said its figure is about 30 percent.


American Homes 4 Rent, the No. 2 single-family landlord, with about 48,000 houses, didn’t respond to requests for comment about whether it would be selling homes to tenants. Colony Starwood, the third-largest, with about 31,100 homes, declined to comment, spokeswoman Caroline Luz said.

Homebuying Option

Selling homes to renters is “an evolution of the business model,” said Jade Rahmani, a Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. analyst. “The differentiating factor in this industry is they can sell to an owner-occupant as well as an investor.”
Renters may have better luck buying a home from their landlords than venturing into the open market. Inventory is tight, and home prices nationally are up 32 percent since the 2012 low -- and have risen even more in areas hit hard by the housing crash, with increases of greater than 50 percent in Phoenix and Miami from their troughs. And soaring rents are causing some tenants to view homeownership as more economical.
Invitation Homes started selling houses to renters in Phoenix and Sacramento, California, this year, with plans to expand the program, to be called “Resident First Look,” in all 14 of its markets across the U.S. in the next few months.
The company’s decision to sell a home is based on a variety of factors, including the concentration of properties it wants to have in individual markets, prices and whether it wants to reallocate funds in other parts of the country, Bartling said.

Rising Prices

Invitation Homes bought Suniga’s house for $83,000 in 2013, according to property records. Values in Phoenix have since risen about 25 percent, and rents in the area have climbed 15 percent in the same period.
Now, Suniga is buying the renovated place for $150,000 with a loan from the Blackstone-owned Finance of America Mortgage LLC. A bankruptcy from more than a decade ago, along with a past sale of a home for less than what was owed on it, had raised flags with other lenders Suniga talked to, even though she’s brought her credit score up to 660, she said.
While Invitation Homes said its renters-turned-homebuyers are free to use any lender they want, the company is working with a small number of mortgage providers that are more familiar with the new buying program, including Finance of America.

Similar Payment


Suniga’s monthly mortgage payment will be $920, about $65 less than her rent, she said. Her down payment wouldn’t have been large enough without the help of the Maricopa County, Arizona, homebuyer-assistance program, which required both her and her mother to take an eight-hour online course. She also received a $5,000 credit from Invitation Homes for closing costs and used her security deposit toward the down payment.
That kind of help might lead to questions from lawmakers and regulators in Washington, according to Isaac Boltansky, an analyst in Washington with Compass Point Research & Trading LLC.
“There’s inherent skepticism in D.C. regarding Wall Street’s motivations in the mortgage-finance market,” he said. “Novel forms of credit access are going to be scrutinized closely even though they purport to increase homeownership.”
Some housing advocates have pressed rental companies to allow renters the opportunity to buy their homes before properties are sold to investors.

‘Help Households’

“A first look for renters, as long as the renter can afford the home and purchases it on fair terms, could help households get on the road toward building equity and limit turnover in the neighborhood,” said Sarah Edelman, director of housing policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington. “It’s important, though, that they shop around for a mortgage.”
Smaller investors, such as Axonic Capital LLC, have been offering renters the chance to buy their homes for years.
“We definitely see it as one of the best ways to sell, because there’s no down time or rehab cost between tenants,” said Jonathan Shechtman, portfolio manager for residential strategies at the $2.7 billion investment firm.

More Flexibility

Like Invitation Homes, Axonic -- which owns fewer than 1,000 properties, all in Florida -- has more flexibility on timing when selling to existing residents, many of whom are getting low-down-payment loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration, Shechtman said.
Suniga, the Blackstone tenant, is planning to replace some carpeting and upgrade the kitchen cabinets once she officially owns the rental home she had thought was unattainable.
“I’m thankful for the opportunity,” she said. “It’ll be a shock until I know it’s mine.”
 


 
 
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Monday, June 6, 2016

Metro Phoenix housing market has best month in a decade.

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  Catherine Reagor, The Republic | azcentral.com 10:19 a.m. MST May 27, 2016

Foreclosures low, home building high, prices affordable and buyers are moving to the area.

 
April just might have been the best month for metro Phoenix’s housing market in a decade.

A look at key indicators and some national rankings show why the Valley’s housing market appears to be stronger than it’s been since the boom and crash.

Foreclosures fell to the lowest level since 2006. Home building continued to rebound. Phoenix kept its spot as one of most affordable big metro areas for home buyers. And a national moving survey shows the Valley is one of the top 10 U.S. areas where people are moving.

Also, many of the buyers needed for the Valley’s housing market to finally fully recover are here.
An April Street Scout survey of Valley home buyers and sellers found Millennials and boomerang buyers who lost houses to foreclosure during the crash are buying metro Phoenix homes at a pace the market hasn’t seen before.
  • Home sales in metro Phoenix climbed to 9,041 in April, an almost 8 percent jump from last April, according to data compiled for this column by Arizona housing expert Mike Orr of The Cromford Report. Condominium sales reached 1,637 last month, up 1,514 from April 2015.
  • The Valley’s median home price rose to $235,000, up from $215,000 a year ago. The median condo price reached $146,500 last month, compared with $142,000 a year ago.
  • Banks foreclosed on only 231Phoenix-area houses in April, the lowest level since December 2006, according to The Information Market.
  • Home building in the Valley is up 25 percent from last year’s pace, according to RL Brown Housing Reports.
  • Despite home-price increases, metro Phoenix is still the eighth most affordable big U.S. metro area to buy a home, according to the latest quarterly ranking from national mortgage firm HSH.com. The Valley has held that spot for the past year.
  •  And finally, moving company U-Haul’s annual survey for the most one-way rentals in 2015 came out this week. Metro Phoenix ranked 10th nationally for the most popular place for people to move.
Despite the upbeat signs for the housing market, Orr is careful in how he describe its current status.
He told me the Valley's housing market is a bit "complicated" now.


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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Inventory for sale is low, demand is high and prices are holding steady but rents are going up.

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Inventory for sale is low, demand is high and prices are holding steady but rents are going up.

Market is moving at a moderate pace. More tenants and first time home buyers are purchasing homes. Cali-vestors are back at it as they get more bang for their buck in Arizona. Not much flipping is going on. Margins are not simply there.

There is a shortage of rental homes throughout the valley. Rents have gone up considerably and homes prices are holding steady in most areas. It looks like market is leveling off.

Multi-Family sale prices have skyrocketed. As they are a more affordable alternative to single family home rentals.

Inventory of single family Homes for sale is low. We are hovering around 18500 (3/12/2016) active homes for sale on MLS. For a city the size of Phoenix Metro, normal is around 35000. This has made the condo prices go up substantially.

Many investors are holding on tight hoping the shortage is going to help the rents and home prices to  higher.  One good indication that home prices have reached their peak is when condo prices per sq ft get close to home prices in the same neighborhood.



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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Forecast Says U.S. Home Prices Are Overvalued, Will Peak In 2016

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By Nick Timiraos 
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The U.S. home price rebound has nearly run its course, and Americans should prepare for several years of home prices that don’t increase much, if they rise at all, according to a report published by bond strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Most economists expect home prices to rise around 5% this year, before rising at around 3% over the next few years. Home price increases in recent years have been driven primarily by supply shortages, and some economists have said that prices could continue to outpace income or rent growth if more homes aren’t made available for sale.

To be sure, U.S. home prices have been especially difficult to predict in recent years. Many analysts prematurely called a bottom in 2008 or 2009, and others called for continued declines in 2012, after prices had started rising.

Analysts Chris Flanagan and Gregory Fitter concede that their view is “well out of consensus.” They say that U.S. home prices, after being undervalued relative to household incomes by around 6% at the end of 2011, have now rebounded to levels that are 9.7% overvalued. Their model uses the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index.
They estimate that home prices will rise another 3% annually in each of the next two years, well below the 9.5% annualized growth rate since the end of 2011, when the market hit bottom. That would leave prices around 12% above the “fair value” level implied by household incomes. The model then forecasts modest declines in the following years, resulting in net annualized home-price gains that are flat through the middle of 2022.

So does this mean U.S. housing markets are in another bubble? If it is, it’s much less pronounced than in 2006, when home prices peaked at levels that were overvalued by nearly 59%, resulting in price declines of nearly 35% over six years.

Messrs. Flanagan and Fitter say that the regulatory framework enacted since the financial crisis in 2008 should largely prevent a return to the loose-lending standards that inflated the housing bubble. Against that backdrop, flat home prices between 2016 and 2022 “seems to us to be a fantastic outcome and exactly what policymakers had hoped for when establishing the new regulatory framework,” they write.

They also point to recent home-price indexes that show that the pace of increases has already slowed, suggesting that the post-crisis boom in home prices witnessed over the last two years “is most likely over.” A new period of “exceptionally low home-price growth” in which prices will rise by just 1% a year, on average, over the next eight years “most likely has started,” they write.

Why Arizona real estate may not be a good economic bet in 2016


  Phoenix Business Journal
Francine Hardaway Guest blogger
 
If I were the type of person who extrapolated from data to form a conclusion I wished would be true I’d say that there will be much more money for Arizona entrepreneurs in the future than there has been in the past.
The reason is that an economic forecast for 2016 I attended last month predicted real estate would be a lousy investment in the foreseeable future. And if Elliott Pollack is saying that – he of the endlessly optimistic forecasts since the '80s – it must be grim for the money in Arizona that knows no other investment.

According to Pollack, next year will be just like this year. There’s no irrational exuberance and the debt ratio is low, as low as it was in the 1980s. Inflation is low, and oil prices are low. We are now down to importing only 21 percent of our oil, compared to 65 percent in 2005, which means as a nation we’re saving about $420 million a day on oil.

The dollar is stronger, mostly because the U.S. is the prettiest house on an ugly block. In times of crisis, people flee to the dollar, and that means foreign goods are cheap here, but our goods are expensive overseas. It’s a good time to go on an international vacation.

So there’s no recession coming.

However, the remaining debts are auto debt and student loans. In manufacturing, which largely means automobiles, inventory to sales ratios are out of line, which means cutbacks in manufacturing even though the average age of a car in the U.S. is 11.5 years.

For the first time in 40 years people have had to live within their incomes, because there are no bubbles, either in the stock market or housing, which would allow them to feel wealthy.
Moreover, the number of people in their peak earning years (45-54) is decreasing and won’t increase again until 2023. Only 26 percent of people 18 to 34 are married, so millennials won’t get to the suburbs with their kids until the mid 2020s.

Predictions for the 2016 Housing Market

The Fed has raised interest rates, millennials are getting older...so what does next year's housing market look like?

No housing expert has a crystal ball, but Svenja Gudell, recently appointed chief economist for the housing site Zillow.com, has looked at enough data to make a pretty good guess.

She examines vast amounts of housing market statistics—everything from about where people are going to want to live to what areas will be hot to what the future could hold for renters—on a daily basis.

Reuters asked Gudell to share her insights on what she thinks the 2016 housing market will be like.

Reuters: What markets do you think will be places to watch in 2016?
Gudell: Next year, the combination of unemployment, population growth and the home value growth will make markets like Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Omaha, Nebraska, stand out.
Denver, Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth and Portland, where inventory has been declining in the last year and demand continues to rise, will also be hot locations in 2016.

Are there some areas we should just give up on, instead of waiting for them to recover from the recession?
No. Cities are pretty good at reinventing themselves. There’s a city out there for everyone.
Location always matters in real estate, but are there any adjustments to that rule in 2016?
We have fairly low inventory in the cities. So next year, we’ll see first-time home buyers looking at suburbs—not just any suburbs, but those that are more dense, more walkable.
We’re also going to see an uptick in the number of condos being sold – especially for first-time home buyers. For a lot of folks, life happens not just inside their four walls but outside of them. Location, cost itself and nearby amenities will be most important.

Now that the Federal reserve has officially started to raise interest rates, what will the ripple effect be to the mortgage market in 2016?
Markets really haven’t reacted much. A lot of the expectations of the rate increase have already been built in.
As rates continue to rise—there will probably be four increases of 25 basis points each – we will start to see more of an impact at the coasts, in areas like Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and Miami.
These are already markets where people are already stretching. But, overall the effects will be relatively muted.

Is 2016 going to be the year millennials begin buying houses, now that they are older and the market is more recovered?
I feel like that was our prediction this year and it turns out we weren’t right.
Millennials are going to be bigger and bigger buyers in the market going forward. I don’t think next year we’re going to see a flood of millennials in one month or another. They’ll just trickle in.
They’re taking their time getting to the market and buying a home. They’re getting married later on in life. They’re having children later on in life. So they’re making home buying decisions later on in life.
One issue is that inventory is very low, especially on the bottom end of the price distribution. There are very few of those available, especially in these markets that have the most jobs. That’s particularly the case on the coasts. It’s a challenge for them. It’s a tough market. There is a lot competition.

What kind of new house trends are on the horizon for 2016? Are there any upgrades that are must-haves?
It’s tough with how few new homes are available, but there is a trend among builders to build larger homes on smaller lots. Land is fairly expensive so they are trying to maximize their profits given the high land costs.

Should we be optimistic or pessimistic or patient about housing in 2016?
I’m an optimist. I like to see the silver lining, but there’s going to be a lot of hurdles.

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Here’s what the housing and mortgage industry will look like in 2016

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One insider's look at 2016
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December 8, 2015

Lynn Effinger

Lynn Effinger is a veteran of more than three decades in the housing and mortgage servicing industries. He serves as president of Effinger Consulting and is the author of the inspiring memoir, Believe to Achieve – the Power of Perseverance.

As an interested observer and active participant within the housing and mortgage servicing industries for more than three decades, I have opined on many industry-related subjects over the years, and each year also present my own predictions for the coming year. Why not, since predictions are like opinions and noses… most everyone has one?

There are numerous reports and other predictions out there pointing to positive improvement for the housing sector in 2016, or that indicate there are signs that we will continue to experience a housing recovery next year (which has actually only been true in specific markets, i.e., the Bay Area, Manhattan, Southern California, Denver and Salt Lake City to name a few). My opinion is that although 2015 looked a lot like 2014, next year will not mirror them in this vital sector.

Before I list my predictions, it is important to note that everyone’s predictions are relative to the economy in general, and the housing sector in particular is subject to unforeseen domestic and global disasters, man-made and otherwise.

Therefore, since 2016 is shaping up to be a potentially chaotic, unstable and unprecedented year of upheaval around the world, and is perhaps the most important national election year of my lifetime, it is quite possible that my predictions will not come to pass after all.
That being said, the following are some of my housing and mortgage industry-related predictions for 2016:

1. Interest rates 
Interest rates will rise not only in December by at least one-quarter percentage point, but will continue to rise throughout the year for a total increase of more than 1%, due to actions of the Federal Reserve. Each uptick in mortgage rates will prevent many potential first-time buyers (and others) from qualifying for a loan. This will impact days on market of homes listed and will put pressure on listing prices to be reduced. If there are not enough first-time buyers entering the housing market there is less opportunity for existing homeowners to move up, which will also add days on market and impact pricing.
2. Luxury housing 
A continued drop in luxury home prices, as reported in HousingWire, will influence a similar drop in home prices of nearly all price categories, which, combined with higher interest rates as stated above, will have a negative impact on the health of the housing sector.
3. Mortgage credit 
Credit will remain tight in 2016, despite efforts by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make more 3% down payment loans. This means that rental properties will continue to be in high demand causing ever increasing rents, which, like many mortgages today represent 40% – 50% of the income of renters and homeowners, which, with stagnant wages is unsustainable. This will negatively impact consumer confidence.
4. Consumer confidence 
Consumer confidence in general will be negatively impacted because of the continued lackluster growth of our domestic economy. Until there is a dramatic change in the direction of this country with respect to deregulation of businesses (especially small businesses) and the creation of meaningful full-time jobs, the housing sector will not gain the strength it has had in the past.
5. Delinquent housing inventory 
Inventories of delinquent and foreclosed loans have not disappeared and will only grow, further negatively impacting home prices in many markets, as reported by Ben Lane in HousingWire. In his article, Lane said, “Based on the number of past distressed loan sales and the amount of non-performing loan sales and re-performing loans that still exist on the books of Fannie, Freddie, HUD and commercial banks, even if the number of NPL and RPL sales stays at its current post-crisis high, there are still four years’ worth of potential NPL sales volume and six years worth of RPL sales volume left to sort out.”
And that is assuming, as Lane noted, that no more additional loans become delinquent, which is unlikely in the extreme.
With dramatic improvement in the quality of leadership in Washington and elsewhere, perhaps a more positive outlook is possible, but I can only call ‘em as I see ‘em.
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