Looking Beyond 'Housing Recovery' Headlines - Real Property Management - Sarasota Property Management Company

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) just released a report that underscores the fact that all is not as it may seem with respect to the so-called "housing market recovery."  Some interesting facts reported in the report include:

• Millions of owners are still struggling to make their mortgage payments.
• Credit conditions for home-buyers remains extremely tight.
• Homeownership rates are down.
• Consumer spending on housing as a portion of income is up.
• “Severely burdened households” (those spending more than 50% of 'pre-tax' income on housing) have increased 49% since 2001.
• Market conditions are pushing more households into rentals.
• The share of households owning homes is now at its lowest point since record-keeping began in 1976.
• While declining, foreclosures and delinquencies remain at historically elevated levels.
• With 1.4 million homes still in foreclosure, that equates to more than four times the average rate between 1974 and 1999.

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