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Costa Mesa House Hunters Could Face Less Competition

Last month ended with a continuation of the same housing market conditions that had held for most of the summer—adding only a glimmer of optimism for Costa Mesa house hunters. The big picture for the U.S. on Labor Day, 2022, was still a slowing of the volume of pending home sales everywhere except in the West (which notched a minuscule monthly gain). But slowing transaction totals didn’t seem to have created much market turmoil—certainly, sellers weren’t listing en masse.

Although many homeowners had relished checking into websites that showed estimates of their home’s value that leaped by thousands of dollars seemingly every month, many of those estimates were now coming down. Still, there was ample reason to suspect that this was merely a correction from over-exuberant levels. In fact, as NAR® Chief Economist Lawrence Yun pointed out, home prices were still rising by double-digit percentages year over year.

The glimmer of optimism for Costa Mesa house hunters was signaled in a month-ending financial analysis by Fortune’s Lance Lambert, who described reasons why a housing correction could be thought to be underway. Certainly, the headline opened that possibility: “The housing correction intensifies—Blackstone to stop buying homes….”

Fortune’s analysis centered on a pullback by market giant Home Partners of America. Last year, mega-investment banker Blackstone had acquired Partners for $6 billion—but now they were announcing “a halt to single-family home purchases.” Those were grounds enough to raise Fortune’s question: “Are deep-pocketed Wall Street firms simply pausing their buying plans because they think better discounts (i.e., falling prices) await?

The answer was a teeter-tottering ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ Home Partners planned to back off in only 38 of its 76 regional markets—and it seems that those were areas where it hadn’t pursued much activity, anyway. “We are pausing in markets that represent less than 5% of our recent activity,” according to Blackstone. Headline or not, this seemed to be a pretty mild housing correction “intensification.”

Nevertheless, qualified buyers might soon expect a dip in competition for the still-meager supply of U.S. properties. Data shows that a typical U.S. family ceases to be able to buy a median-priced home when mortgage rates rise above 5.7%. At that point, a family would need to spend more than 25% of their income on the monthly mortgage payment—that’s not recommended. And by Friday, Fortune cited the 30-year fixed rate at 6.23%...

Even given today’s challenging market, the good news is that we are able to help qualified Costa Mesa house-hunters find and land suitable properties. Call for details!

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