When will housing recovery happen? "The bottom line is that we will not see a real housing recovery until mortgage rates fall below 6%, and it will take 30-year Fixed rates moving closer to 5.5% to see any dramatic improvement at all," said MarketNsight Chief Analyst John Hunt. MarketNsight takes a look at December stats. Home sales improved the first week of[...]
Homes below $300,000 are almost nonexistent “The housing shortage will get worse over the next year,” MarketNsight Chief Analyst John Hunt said at MarketWatch Atlanta. To get back to normal, Atlanta needs 66,000 additional homes on the market over the next 12 months. “We simply don’t have enough supply,” Hunt said. Before the Great Recession, housing starts and population growth tracked together,[...]
As inflation continues to rise, the cost of roofing materials follows suit. Shingles, the most common choice for residential roofs, have seen steady increases in new roof costs over the past few years. Flat roof materials, such as modified bitumen and single-ply membranes, have also experienced a rise in price. Even metal roofing, a more durable option that often has[...]
Atlanta Housing Market - Increased sales, limited lot supply, Gwinnett is HOT! St. Bourke, an Atlanta-based asset management and property development company, gives a snapshot of the Atlanta housing market at the end of Q2. Economic indicators remain positive; however, home affordability has weakened against inflation, rising interest rates and the threat of recession. Demand is still present, and inventory is[...]
Innovations Drive Georgia Economy toward Normal, Wild Cards Notwithstanding Seventy percent of Georgia’s employment and income are generated in the Atlanta metro area, which “took a huge hit from the 2020 Covid-19 shutdown by devastating the bread and butter of the city’s economy: its convention and meetings business,” said Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s Robinson[...]
Forecaster Says Return to Normalcy in 2022 Also Means Return of Pre-Pandemic Economic Concerns Economic optimism about emerging from the pandemic’s shadow is progressing in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back manner, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. “Case in point: 2021 was a tale of two halves. The U.S. economy grew[...]
Chief Economist Dr. Rob Dietz with the National Association of Home Builders spoke to delegates about the state of the housing market during Fall Leadership Meetings in Houston, Texas earlier this month. He cited ongoing supply chain challenges and housing affordability as two of the biggest challenges facing the new home building industry. Government regulations, material and labor price increases[...]
So Much for the End of the Housing Boom: MarketNsight offers an abbreviated update for the month of August. According to MarketNsight Principal John Hunt, July trends continued as resale pending sales were up in the last week of August more than 40% over the same period in 2019, and even up 10% over an incredible 2021 (See chart 1 below).[...]
The Georgia economy is outpacing the nation in terms of recovery from the 2020 pandemic shutdown, but further disruptions of the global supply chain could be felt from the port of Savannah to the boardrooms of Atlanta, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Georgia Recovery Highlights Georgia will[...]
Housing analysis firm MarketNsight recently added six new markets across five states to its service area in the Southeast. Customers across more than 35 cities can now access the latest housing, pricing, product and location data through the Feasibility Matrix® program, exclusive to MarketNsight. Additionally, Atlanta customers can access mortgage data through the firm’s new Mortgage Matrix® program. As MarketNsight continues[...]