February home prices rose 10.2% from year ago levels, the largest annual gain in nearly seven years and the 12th consecutive month of national home price growth, CoreLogic said Wednesday.
The real estate analytics firm attributes the steep rise to rapid price appreciation in several West Coast states—namely California, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Read more here:
http://www.housingwire.com/news/2013/04/03/corelogic-home-prices-rise-most-seven-years
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Those are the national prices for February that are up 10%, how did the local market do last month? Here are the March detached-home sales for NSDCC:
Year | #Sales | Avg. $/sf |
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Year-over-year the sales are up 20%, and average pricing up 13%!
Buy now or be priced out forever?
BTW The Obama administration seems to think the housing recovery is leaving too many people behind, so guess what the solution is. Make loans available for people with weaker credit. Housing bubble 2.0 here we come.
Washington Post Story
The government can do anything they want, but it won’t change the market around here.
Real estate is for rich people.
Those with FHA financing can step to the back of the line, and as long as there is competition, they won’t have a chance. Every agent tells their seller to take cash offers and big down payments before even looking at FHAs.
One example:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22930687/bay-areas-average-homebuyers-shut-out-by-cash
i don’t get it. why would an agent recommend their seller to take a cash offer over a bigger offer with financing? Are financed offers, fha and otherwise, falling through these days? and are sellers expecting prices to fall in the meantime? or, the cynical option, are agents just telling their sellers to take the offer that pays the commission quickest?
if the story is simply that cash offers win because these cash guys can find an extra $5k to make it theirs, then, it’s not really a story about financing it’s a story about prices.