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May 12, 2016
Starter Home Prices Are Rising Faster in the Ongoing Housing Crunch
The Spring 2016 homebuying season will soon mark the sixth year into the housing recovery. With steadily rising property values and homeowners’ equity, the housing market continues to regain its footing while mortgage delinquency and home foreclosures are falling to all-time lows since the 2007 housing downturn.
Heading into the busiest homebuying season, one of the biggest stories about the spring market is, once again, a tale of inventory shortage and inadvertently, escalating bidding wars. In other words, this spring appears no different from 2013, 2014, and 2015, in that the limited supply of homes for sales continue to constrain would-be buyers in their ability to finding a suitable home to purchase.
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