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US housing market still falling by Dominic Rushe
US house prices dropped by 3% in the first quarter of 2011 – their worst fall in three years, according to housing analysts Zillow.com.
American property prices have declined for 57 consecutive months. Values fell 1% between February and March and 8.2% from March 2010. The cumulative decline in house prices since the market peak in June 2006 are now 29.5%.
A record proportion of homes sold in March (37.7%) went for a loss and negative equity reached a new high – with 28.4% of all single-family homes with mortgages underwater.
Almost the entire country continued to suffer over the first quarter – with Detroit, Atlanta, Ocala in Florida and Pueblo in Colorado the worst hit.
Those lower down the property ladder were hit hardest. Prices in the bottom tier fell 13.9% year-on-year, homes in the middle tier fell 8.7% and homes in the top tier fell 4.3%.
Nearly three-quarters (74.5%) of homes in the US lost value from the first quarter of 2010 to the first quarter of 2011. That was up from the final quarter of 2010, when 69.2% had lost value, but is down substantially from a peak of 85.5% in the first quarter of 2009.
The housing market showed some signs of improvement last year with the rate of decline slowing in some markets. The improvements were spurred by government programs that gave buyers up to $8,000 (£5,000) in tax credits but the subsidies' impact proved fleeting.
The Zillow figures follow Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Composite 20-City Home Price Index, which showed prices are now 33% below the 2006 peak.
The Bad News.
America is in one of the worst housing crisis in history. According to Zillow, 70% percent of all homes in the United States have lost value in the past 12 months. And according to a recent report by Reuters, “The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011 from 26 percent…” In the same report, experts are predicting houses to decline another 15% through 2011! Some markets in the US have seen prices drop 67% from their peak!
The news gets worse. According to Realty-Trac, through 2009 there were more than a million bank-owned properties on the market. That means nearly one-third of all the homes for sale in the US are bank-owned foreclosures.
In 2009, 45% of all the homes that sold were distressed homes, i.e. homes that were either facing foreclosure or already foreclosed on. And all this in spite of federal programs recently put in place to combat the unrelenting pace of foreclosures. Experts are stating that the most likely scenario is that we will be working through this inventory of distressed property well into 2013. The worst of the foreclosure crisis is still ahead of us.
A recent study indicated that the recent mortgage meltdown and liquidity crisis have eliminated more than 200 multi-billion dollar lenders, and more than 3,000 available mortgage loan products. Current lending guidelines now disqualify more than 75% of the buyers in the marketplace who were qualified for a mortgage just 12 short months ago. In fact, for every 1 qualified buyers out there looking for a home, there are 9 sellers! Never has it been that high before.
Now more than ever, Americans are seeking alternatives to conventional bank financing to obtain their dream of home ownership.
“At first I was skeptical of how to go about selling my house in a non-traditional manner. I had always thought that you really only sold a house by listing it with a Realtor. But this can be an expensive and time consuming way to get your sold. In talking to neighbors who had their houses for sale in the traditional way, we had as many interested buyers in one week as they had in a month. While other houses had been sitting on the market for 6+ months, we found a buyer in 2 weeks. This is definitely the way to go.” – Stephanie
The Good News
What would you think if we could?
- Help move your property in a short period of time without a real estate commission.
- Put good people in the home that will take care of it, as if it were their own.
- Stop your financial hemorrhage (in the case of vacant property with mortgage payments).
- Start getting positive cash flow, instead.
- Eliminate almost all of your management “headaches.”
- Sell the property for a decent price in the near future (usually within a year or less).
- We can save you money, help you sell your house faster, and get you full price!
Virtually every seller we talk to would prefer to sell their home than rent it. We understand! The reality of today’s market is that a quick sale may not be possible. Still, you have options beyond just renting your home to someone who isn’t committed to owning a home.
What would you say if we could show you how to get full price for your home, not pay any Realtor commissions, get above market rents, not worry about maintenance and repairs, and get on-time rent every month? Why not Lease Purchase your home to someone who desperately wants to own a home, but can no longer qualify?
The best part is that you risk nothing by enrolling your home in our Lease Purchase Program. You may continue marketing your home, and if you sell or rent before we do then you owe us nothing!
We know you might be thinking – why let you lease my home for me when I can do it myself and pocket the option money?
We believe that we can help you lease your home quicker and to a better tenant-buyer than if you go it alone. Because we are marketing so many homes, we have an enormous database of clients who are looking to Lease Purchase a home right now. We currently have more people wanting homes than we have homes! There is a huge imbalance between the supply and demand of Lease Purchase homes. In fact, only 4% of all homes listed for sale on the MLS right now are available for Lease Purchase.
Our tenant-buyers aren’t just looking for somewhere to move – they are looking to turn their lives around and they are serious about home ownership. If they aren’t serious, they aren’t a candidate for our program.