- Housing News
- August 6, 2021
Homeowners Keep Gaining More Equity as Prices Continue to Rise
The constant increase in home prices over the last few years has continued to provide more financial benefits to owning a home.
Ben is the Managing Editor for New American Funding. In this role, Ben helps with content creation, news coverage, and serving our audience of borrowers, real estate agents, loan originators, and other housing professionals. Prior to joining New American Funding, Ben worked at HousingWire, a top housing media outlet. Ben joined HousingWire in 2014 as a reporter and was later promoted to Senior Financial Reporter, Editor, and eventually to Managing Editor. During his time at HousingWire, Ben helped elevate HousingWire to national acclaim and record traffic growth. He was also honored with multiple awards for his work, including an Eddie Award from Folio Magazine and a Gold Award for Best Trade Magazine Story from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
The constant increase in home prices over the last few years has continued to provide more financial benefits to owning a home.
Considering that May 2021 was the best month of May for real estate contract signings in 16 years, it may not come as a surprise that things cooled a bit in June. But the cooldown was ever so slight.
Thanks to the rise in remote work over the last 18 months, for many people, the days of being required to live in the same city as their job may be over. As a result, people are looking to live somewhere else, perhaps more than ever before.
Considering that mortgage applications for new home purchases were down in June, it probably shouldn’t come as a shock that when the new home sales data for June came out, it showed that sales were down too.
All the data indicated that existing home sales would rebound in June…and it looks like that’s just what happened.
If it seems like there's a new 'house prices just hit a record high' story every month, it's because there is. But it isn't just how high home prices are rising; it's also about just how fast they are rising.
While homebuying may have picked up in June, new data shows that the increase may have been felt only in the sales of existing homes.
There's some good news on the new home front, as construction of new single-family homes continued increasing in June. But the news isn't all good as prices continued rising as well.
It appears that neither rising home prices nor a lack of available inventory can slow down the housing market these days, as a new forecast shows that home sales are still expected to increase this year over last year.
The most recent pending home sales data from the National Association of Realtors indicated that home sales were likely to bounce back in the coming months after declining for several months in a row. It looks like that's just what is happening.
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