Rock-bottom mortgage rates, limited supply of homes and pent-up demand from consumers are keeping housing market strong.
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, out Tuesday, climbed 18.4% in October from a year earlier. The gain marked a slight deceleration from a 19.1% year-over-year increase in September but was about in line with what economists had been expecting.
All 20 cities in the index posted double-digit annual gains. The hottest markets were Phoenix , Tampa and Miami . Minneapolis and Chicago posted the smallest increases, 11.5% each.thanks to rock-bottom mortgage rates, a limited supply of homes on the market and pent-up demand from consumers locked in last year by the pandemic.
It remains unclear if that shift is permanent or an aberration, said Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices."We have previously suggested that the strength in the U.S. housing market is being driven in part by a change in locational preferences as households react to the COVID pandemic,'' Lazzara said.
Mortgage rates fell last week — to 3.05% for the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate home loan and 2.66% for the 15-year fixed-rate offering. The persistently low rates signal that credit markets appear more concerned about the Omicron variant depressing economic growth than about the highest inflation rates in nearly 40 years.
To keep up with home-buying demand, iBuyers — companies that use technology and real estate data to make an automated offer on a home — have introduced bots to the market as a fast, convenient way to sell. Though they are one of the few true innovations to hit the real estate industry in recent years,The National Association of Realtors reported last week that sales of previously occupied homes rose for the third straight month in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.46 million.
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