Housing Market under COVID-19: Regular Folks Retreat, Foreign Investors Blocked, Large US Investors Gone, iBuyers Frozen by Wolf Richter • Apr 22, 2020 • 176 Comments Demand is a lot weaker in some places than in others. Here are the 20 cities with the largest drops.
How Will Covid-19 Lockdowns Hit the Housing Market? It Gets a Little Clearer by Wolf Richter • Apr 16, 2020 • 167 Comments “In May, what market? I don’t see no market”: Realtor.
Going to be Tougher for Lots of People to Even Get a Mortgage. Expensive Housing Markets Most Affected by Wolf Richter • Apr 12, 2020 • 205 Comments Availability of Jumbo Mortgages Plunges.
“Mortgage Forbearance” is Suddenly Hot, Hits Shadow Banks, which Clamor for Bailout from Taxpayers and the Fed by Wolf Richter • Apr 10, 2020 • 234 Comments “The mortgage market has more risk than previously acknowledged.”
Week 3: How Lockdowns Impact Housing & Mortgage Markets by Wolf Richter • Apr 8, 2020 • 149 Comments Expensive markets face a new reality: lenders get skittish about jumbo loans.
Week Two: How COVID-19 Lockdowns Impact US Housing Market. Mortgages Give Clues: It Gets Uglier by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2020 • 169 Comments “Nobody has any taste for risk anymore. All of those exotic loan programs have ceased. All investors buying that paper are gone”: mortgage broker.
How Will Coronavirus Lockdowns Impact the US Housing Market? First Data Points Are Out. They’re Ugly by Wolf Richter • Mar 25, 2020 • 223 Comments And it’s just the first inkling of what’s in store for home sales.
Lockdown in San Francisco, Silicon Valley & the East Bay: We’re to “Shelter in Place.” What it Means Now & Long Term by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2020 • 300 Comments The eeriness of the whole situation may leave permanent marks on consumers and business-decision makers.
Los Angeles Housing Market Carved Up by Unaffordability & Divergence in Demand by Wolf Richter • Feb 26, 2020 • 52 Comments Low Tier Skyrockets. Super-Luxury in Trouble. Condo, High-Tier House Prices Have Gone Nowhere since mid-2018.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, Feb. Update by Wolf Richter • Feb 25, 2020 • 137 Comments Prices in San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago, New York at early-2018 levels. But Phoenix, Tampa, Charlotte show surging house-price inflation.
