{"id":1460,"date":"2021-02-09T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phphouses.com\/blog\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:51:20","slug":"3-reasons-definitely-not-housing-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phphouses.com\/blog\/3-reasons-definitely-not-housing-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons We\u2019re Definitely Not in a Housing Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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3 Reasons We\u2019re Definitely Not in a Housing Bubble<\/p><\/div>\n

Home values appreciated by about ten percent in 2020, and they\u2019re forecast to appreciate by about five percent this year. This has some voicing concern that we may be in another housing bubble like the one we experienced a little over a decade ago. Here are three reasons why this market is totally different.<\/p>\n

1. This time, housing supply is extremely limited<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The price of any market item is determined by supply and demand. If supply is high and demand is low, prices normally decrease. If supply is low and demand is high, prices naturally increase.<\/p>\n

In real estate, supply and demand are measured in \u201cmonths\u2019 supply of inventory<\/strong>,\u201d which is based on the number of current homes for sale compared to the number of buyers in the market. The normal months\u2019 supply of inventory for the market is about 6 months. Anything above that defines a buyers\u2019 market, indicating prices will soften. Anything below that defines a\u00a0sellers\u2019 market<\/a>\u00a0in which prices normally appreciate.<\/p>\n

Between 2006 and 2008, the months\u2019 supply of inventory increased from just over 5 months to\u00a011 months.<\/strong>\u00a0The months\u2019 supply was over 7 months in twenty-seven of those thirty-six months, yet home values continued to rise.<\/p>\n

Months\u2019 inventory has been under 5 months for the last 3 years, under 4 for thirteen of the last fourteen months, under 3 for the last six months, and currently stands at\u00a01.9 months<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a historic low.<\/p>\n

Remember, if supply is low and demand is high, prices\u00a0naturally increase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2. This time, housing demand is real<\/strong><\/h4>\n

During the housing boom in the mid-2000s, there was what Robert Schiller, a fellow at the\u00a0Yale School of Management\u2019s International Center for Finance<\/em>, called \u201cirrational exuberance<\/strong>.\u201d The\u00a0definition<\/a>\u00a0of the term is, \u201cunfounded market optimism that lacks a real foundation of fundamental valuation, but instead rests on psychological factors.<\/em>\u201d Without considering historic market trends, people got caught up in the frenzy and bought houses based on an unrealistic belief that housing values would continue to escalate.<\/p>\n

The mortgage industry fed into this craziness by making mortgage money available to just about anyone, as shown in the\u00a0Mortgage Credit Availability Index<\/a>\u00a0(MCAI) published by the\u00a0Mortgage Bankers Association<\/em>. The higher the index, the easier it is to get a mortgage; the lower the index, the more difficult it is to obtain one. Prior to the housing boom, the index stood just below 400. In 2006, the index hit an all-time high of over 868. Again, just about anyone could get a mortgage. Today, the index stands at 122.5, which is well below even the pre-boom level.<\/p>\n

In the current real estate market, demand is real, not fabricated. Millennials, the largest generation in the country, have come of age to marry and have children, which are two major drivers for homeownership. The health crisis is also challenging every household to redefine the meaning of \u201chome\u201d and to re-evaluate whether their current home meets that new definition. This desire to own, coupled with historically low mortgage rates, makes purchasing a home today a strong, sound financial decision. Therefore, today\u2019s demand is very real.<\/p>\n

Remember, if supply is low and demand is high, prices\u00a0naturally increase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3. This time, households have plenty of equity<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Again, during the housing boom, it wasn\u2019t just purchasers who got caught up in the frenzy. Existing homeowners started using their homes like ATM machines. There was a wave of cash-out refinances, which enabled homeowners to leverage the equity in their homes. From 2005 through 2007, Americans pulled out\u00a0$824 billion dollars<\/a>\u00a0in equity. That left many homeowners with little or no equity in their homes at a critical time. As prices began to drop, some homeowners found themselves in a negative equity situation where the mortgage was higher than the value of their home. Many defaulted on their payments, which led to an avalanche of foreclosures.<\/p>\n

Today, the banks and the American people have shown they learned a valuable lesson from the housing crisis a little over a decade ago. Cash-out refinance volume over the last three years was less than a third of what it was compared to the 3 years leading up to the crash.<\/p>\n

This conservative approach has created levels of equity never seen before. According to\u00a0Census Bureau<\/em>\u00a0data<\/a>, over\u00a038% of owner-occupied housing units are owned \u2018free and clear\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0(without any mortgage). Also,\u00a0ATTOM Data Solutions<\/em>\u00a0just released their fourth quarter\u00a02020 U.S. Home Equity Report<\/a>, which revealed:<\/p>\n

\u201c17.8 million residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0meaning that the combined estimated amount of loans secured by those properties was 50 percent or less of their estimated market value\u2026The count of equity-rich properties in the fourth quarter of 2020 represented 30.2 percent, or about one in three, of the 59 million mortgaged homes in the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we combine the 38% of homes that are owned free and clear with the 18.7% of all homes that have at least 50% equity (30.2% of the remaining 62% with a mortgage), we realize that\u00a056.7% of all homes in this country have a minimum of 50% equity.\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s significantly better than the equity situation in 2008.<\/p>\n

Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This time, housing supply is at a historic low. Demand is real and rightly motivated. Even if there were to be a drop in prices, homeowners have enough equity to be able to weather a dip in home values.\u00a0This is nothing like 2008<\/strong>. In fact, it\u2019s the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

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