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Misc says

Still not as good as interest only like we had in Housing Bubble 1.0

A 40 year (or more) mortgage is almost the same thing as an interest only mortgage.

California moves closer to Communism by taking a 20% stake in new home purchases...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-front-20-down-payments-0-interest-homebuyers-incomes-211000

https://www.redfin.com/news/demand-down-second-homes-march-2023/

Demand For Vacation Homes Is Down More Than 50% From Pre-Pandemic Levels

NuttBoxer says

California moves closer to Communism by taking a 20% stake in new home purchases...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-front-20-down-payments-0-interest-homebuyers-incomes-211000

Nope. This is a means to keep people in the state. I lived it in IL. CA is going through the exodus phase. It's going to get bad as CA as a state is the 5th largest country on its own GDP wise. You guys are in for some rough times overall, not just real estate.

Get involved in government is all I'll say. You guys had 6' plus of snow in the mountains and will have water shortages because of some spider or beetle might die off or go extinct so they don't build more reservoirs. In one of the covid vax threads we saw human action make things happen with Mountain View. Something as simple as water for the people you're suppose to be governing you can't get done with copious amounts of water?

People would stay and move there in droves. I spent 20-30 hours on the math of moving there. It makes no sense to live in CA. I'd put it at 5% making sense and that's mostly athletes, Hollywood, wine and golf. A doctor or nurse makes the same here or in Texas. Same with a mechanic, HVAC, plumber, electrician, etc while the COL is 1/2.

CA has two AR's in their hands pointed at their feet and they can't let go of the trigger.

WookieMan says

NuttBoxer says

California moves closer to Communism by taking a 20% stake in new home purchases...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-front-20-down-payments-0-interest-homebuyers-incomes-211000

Nope. This is a means to keep people in the state. I lived it in IL. CA is going through the exodus phase. It's going to get bad as CA as a state is the 5th largest country on its own GDP wise. You guys are in for some rough times overall, not just real estate.

Get involved in government is all I'll say. You guys had 6' plus of snow in the mountains and will have water shortages because of some spider or beetle might die off or go extinct so they don't build more reservoirs. In one of the covid vax threads we s...

As asinine and for some outrageous this program may sound, it's limited in funds, and it will only drive up house prices for those who already own, so it's going to be beneficial wrt driving up asset inflation. It will make purchasing a house for the majority who won't get into that program even harder though, but whatever. Those braintards voted for it, so we'll enjoy continued gains. Thanks! There will be no housing crash in CA, net people leaving don't make enough dents in the scarce inventory. Prices will continue to march up with inflation (lesser in shithole cities, more so in beautiful rural areas) as long as the same politics/policies stay in place.

zzyzzx says

My townhome HOA about 2 miles from the beach in Florida panhandle started in 2004 and finished the last unit in 2017. There were 3 bedrm, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage townhomes that peaked around $285,000 in 2007. They then sold between $115,000 and $140,000 2010 to 2012.

The recent peak price has been around $330,000. I wonder if the they will crash and drop below $285,000. So the bottom of this real estate market (in 2024 ?) is equal to the peak or top in the last market (set 2007).

We bought a brand new one in 2016 for around $185,000 with a 3% mortgage with the Veteran Affairs and local bank.

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NuttBoxer says

California moves closer to Communism by taking a 20% stake in new home purchases...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-front-20-down-payments-0-interest-homebuyers-incomes-211000

No need to get sensational with Communism stuff with this program. It’s a very generous program if you ask me. People are taking advantage of it. $300M program to help 2,300 home buyers. Hardly make a dent in the entire state purchases. At the same time, it helps to hold up the lower end real estate market for a few weeks.

zzyzzx says

This chart is not correct. Have to move the red arrow to the right by a year.

WookieMan says

CA is going through the exodus phase

Good. We need it.
The dysfunction about NIMBY, Proposition -13, tranny liberalism, etc etc just makes things even worse. It's too damn expensive here because it's too crowded. Traffic, high housing, fires, floods: those Four Horsemen trampling the state. Overcrowding, elbowing out one another, etc.

We're way beyond the carrying capacity for potable water. What you may call being in the sh*tter is a welcome, needed correction.

zzyzzx says

Demand For Vacation Homes Is Down More Than 50% From Pre-Pandemic Levels

Checked out housing up in Arrowhead after visiting for vacation. For one, there were lots of properties available on short notice, and two, a lot of the vacation rentals are being turned into long-term rentals. Seems to confirm your link.

WookieMan says

Nope. This is a means to keep people in the state.

How the fuck will that happen when they only have 300 million in the fund? We've signed our lease, moving out of state in June. Kiss my ass commie-fucks.

Eman says

No need to get sensational with Communism stuff with this program.

What do you call it when your property ownership is shared with the state?

NuttBoxer says

Eman says

No need to get sensational with Communism stuff with this program.

What do you call it when your property ownership is shared with the state?

Who will give you 20% in equity upfront with 0% interest for the duration of your ownership? All they ask is that they share 20% of the appreciation when you sell? It’s a very generous program IMO. They are basically a silent 2nd lender with 0% interest in exchange for future appreciation not to exceed 20%

Eman says

NuttBoxer says

Eman says

No need to get sensational with Communism stuff with this program.

What do you call it when your property ownership is shared with the state?

Who will give you 20% in equity upfront with 0% interest for the duration of your ownership? All they ask is that they share 20% of the appreciation when you sell? It’s a very generous program IMO. They are basically a silent 2nd lender with 0% interest in exchange for future appreciation not to exceed 20%

It's completely misguided though and only props up existing home prices. The reason is nobody is their right mind would lend these people money at the going interest rates which are still not high enough to combat rampant inflation. Moral hazard 2.0, reloaded. People buy any property if they get into this program, because if they fuck up and can't pay at any point, they only lost a few months of mortgage payments. So it's like state sponsored rent to own. Of course they'll burn through that money quickly, which limits the overall impact, but it surely will stoke asset inflation.

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Mortgage demand for second homes has dropped 50% from pre pandemic levels.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2023/04/11/demand-second-homes-plummets-75-percent/11637036002/

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zzyzzx says

So actually UP $150,000 then?

NuttBoxer says

California moves closer to Communism by taking a 20% stake in new home purchases...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-front-20-down-payments-0-interest-homebuyers-incomes-211000

LOL! CA state is adding new demand to housing that almost do not allow to build under commie Prop 13! that means, this can push the shack values up soon!

Blue says

LOL! CA state is adding new demand to housing that almost do not allow to build under commie Prop 13! that means, this can push the shack values up soon!

I see a lot of coordination between blue states like California, Oregon, Washington, etc. and the Birdbrain Biden admin. They need to keep housing propped up at least until November 2024.

Just saw that the federal government has given approval for the 40 year mortgage. This will help also keep housing from crashing a lot.

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mell says

It's completely misguided though and only props up existing home prices. The reason is nobody is their right mind would lend these people money at the going interest rates which a...

I agree it’s misguided and only helps to prop up existing prices short-term, but it’s not communism. Communism only cheats and steals from others. I came from a communist country. I’ve witnessed it first hand.

Like any assistance program, the intention is good, but the end result is mixed. $300M is a drop in the bucket. I don’t expect it to make a dent in real estate prices.

Fuck building. I'm in progress of redacting the plans with my name and information and making a build post. If building costs as much as what we're quoted we're kind of fucked as a nation. $670k.... 2,200 sf ranch. New post coming soon. We're becoming a country of landlords. $670k where I live.... you can eat shit and die. This is a normal fucking house outside of the pool build. $400k tops.

I'm going to get fucked on this. So I'm prepared. I'll fuck them just as hard and make sure they're broke and family dies. Yes I'm a sick fuck.

WookieMan says

Fuck building. I'm in progress of redacting the plans with my name and information and making a build post. If building costs as much as what we're quoted we're kind of fucked as a nation. $670k.... 2,200 sf ranch. New post coming soon. We're becoming a country of landlords. $670k where I live.... you can eat shit and die. This is a normal fucking house outside of the pool build. $400k tops.

I'm going to get fucked on this. So I'm prepared. I'll fuck them just as hard and make sure they're broke and family dies. Yes I'm a sick fuck.

Building costs are insane at the moment. Just got quoted 115K and at least 3 months out for a deck that would have been maybe 20K 3 years ago. I get it, they are busy and don't need to work now. They could have just told us that.

https://www.investopedia.com/underwater-mortgages-7377653

A Tenth of Recent Home Buyers Are Underwater on Mortgage

zzyzzx says

https://www.investopedia.com/underwater-mortgages-7377653

A Tenth of Recent Home Buyers Are Underwater on Mortgage

So, 1%?

GNL says

So, 1%?

Yep.

"About 11% of recent homebuyers had properties worth less than the debt owed on them in February."

Overall for the entire housing inventory of the USA, the underwater rate is 1.42%.

I go back to the 1990s when I bought my first home and the median home price to household income ratio was around 3.

It has risen to 5 as that was the ratio which applied to our purchase of a townhome in 2016.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/foreclosures-on-us-properties-continued-to-rise-in-first-quarter

More Americans Are Losing Their Homes as Foreclosures on US Properties Rise

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/18/joe-biden-hike-payments-good-credit-homebuyers-sub/

Biden to hike payments for good-credit homebuyers to subsidize high-risk mortgages

Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon encounter a costly surprise: a new federal rule forcing them to pay higher mortgage rates and fees to subsidize people with riskier credit ratings who are also in the market to buy houses.

The fee changes will go into effect May 1 as part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s push for affordable housing, and they will affect mortgages originating at private banks across the country. The federally backed home mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will enact the loan-level price adjustments, or LLPAs.

Mortgage industry specialists say homebuyers with credit scores of 680 or higher will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000. Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees.

The new fees will apply only to Americans buying houses or refinancing after May 1.

Lenders and real estate agents say the changes will frustrate homebuyers with high credit scores and homeowners seeking to refinance because the rule punishes them for their relatively strong financial positions.

“The changes do not make sense. Penalizing borrowers with larger down payments and credit scores will not go over well,” Ian Wright, a senior loan officer at Bay Equity Home Loans in the San Francisco Bay Area, told The Washington Times in an email message. “It overcomplicates things for consumers during a process that can already feel overwhelming with the amount of paperwork, jargon, etc. Confusing the borrower is never a good thing.”

He said the rule will “cause customer-service issues for lenders and individual loan officers when a consumer won’t understand why their interest rate and fees suddenly changed.”

“I am all for the first-time buyer having a chance to get into the market, but it’s clear these decisions aren’t being made by folks that understand the entire mortgage process,” Mr. Wright said.

The new fees “will create extreme confusion as we enter the traditional spring home purchase season,” said David Stevens, a former head of the Mortgage Bankers Association who served as commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration during the Obama administration.

“This confusing approach won’t work and more importantly couldn’t come at a worse time for an industry struggling to get back on its feet after these past 12 months,” Mr. Stevens wrote in a recent social media post. “To do this at the onset of the spring market is almost offensive to the market, consumers, and lenders.”

The housing market has been hit hard by a series of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes that have driven mortgage rates above 6%, roughly double the level from early 2022. The Fed has raised rates rapidly to bring down inflation, which hit a four-decade high of 9.1% last summer.

“In the wake of a 3-percentage-point increase in mortgage rates, now is not the time to raise fees on homebuyers,” Kenny Parcell, president of the National Association of Realtors, told the Federal Housing Finance Agency earlier this year.

Under the new mortgage financing rules, homebuyers with riskier credit ratings and lower down payments will qualify for better mortgage rates and discounted fees.

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson, a Biden appointee, said the fee changes will “increase pricing support for purchase borrowers limited by income or by wealth.” The agency calls the overall fee changes “minimal” and said the moves will ensure market stability.

After a storm of criticism, the agency delayed to Aug. 1 an upfront fee for debt-to-income ratios of 40% or more. The ratio is calculated by dividing the homebuyer’s monthly debt payments by gross income. It’s one of the key measures lenders use to determine whether a mortgage applicant qualifies for a loan.

Ms. Thompson said the postponement will help “to ensure a level playing field for all lenders to have sufficient time to deploy the fee.”

The fee changes are intended to subsidize higher-risk borrowers by imposing “an intentional disruption to traditional risk-based pricing,” Mr. Stevens said.

“Why was this done? The answer is simple, it was to try to narrow the gap in access to credit especially for minority home buyers who often have lower down payments and lower credit scores,” he wrote in a post on LinkedIn. “The gap in homeownership opportunity is real. America is facing a severe shortage of affordable homes for sales combined with excessive demand causing an imbalance. But convoluting pricing and credit is not the way to solve this problem.”

He predicted that the Federal Reserve will soon complete its course of tightening its balance sheet and mortgage rates will fall.

“Demand for homes will begin to rise and the same challenges for first-time homebuyers will return,” he said.

Lenders also are worried about the impact of the debt-to-income fee that takes effect in August because homebuyers might feel as if they are in a game of “bait and switch” on their projected borrowing costs.

“When a lender is quoting a borrower, there’s a lot they don’t know yet, such as what the property taxes and insurance payments are per month,” Mr. Wright said. “Changes happen to the mortgage payment and income during escrow, so this will cause frustration to borrowers and lenders for the sudden rate/fee changes. Most of us loan officers will then say let’s ‘eat’ the cost for the borrower to keep them happy (resulting in losses for the lender and loan officer).”

He said the added uncertainty will cause delays “during an already competitive real estate market lacking inventory.”

“For example, due to the low inventory and fierce competition, many buyers must close their transactions in less than 30 days to get their offer accepted,” Mr. Wright said. “The sudden rate changes will cause lenders to ‘re-disclose,’ adding additional days to the transaction. This puts extreme timeline pressure on the buyer and lenders forced to re-underwrite the file for the changes.”

In a letter to Ms. Thompson in February, Mortgage Bankers Association President Bob Broeksmit said the timing of the fee changes was “especially troubling” and that the debt-to-income ratio fee creates “operational issues and quality control” for lenders.

“A borrower’s income and expenses can change several times throughout the loan application and underwriting process, especially considering evolving assumptions concerning the nature of debt and income, and the growth in self-employment, part-time employment, and ‘gig economy’ employment,” Mr. Broeksmit said.

zzyzzx says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/foreclosures-on-us-properties-continued-to-rise-in-first-quarter

More Americans Are Losing Their Homes as Foreclosures on US Properties Rise

I saw on news that FHA has approved the 40 year mortgage for those who have mortgages and are having trouble paying for them.

By the way, Ocala Florida is a great location for working and middle class to buy a home:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2023/04/18/homeowners-wealth-vs-renting-housing-market/11683922002/

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zzyzzx says

Biden to hike payments for good-credit homebuyers to subsidize high-risk mortgages

Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon encounter a costly surprise

Its a typical neo-Marxist / Democrat tactic as far as "transfer payments" just like with Obamacare / Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Examine how much it costs for ACA such as silver plan for single payers earning at least $60,000. The large premium is to subsidize the premium for those making $30,000 to $50,000.

I believe this is the same with the universal fee that is charged for cell phone service. I think it is around 45 cents which goes to subsidizing the Affordable Connectivity Program (or Obama-phone program).

And examine how California is going to apply a similar "transfer payment" system for electricity rates.

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Why is this surprising?

I'm in northern Virginia, there's NO HOUSING BUST HERE.

At. All.

GNL says

I'm in northern Virginia, there's NO HOUSING BUST HERE.

There is no bust in CA either, aside from shithole ultra-marxist cities. In fact we just reached an all time high valuation again in our rural area. All of this subsidy programs for lower income earners will keep demand and prices high.

zzyzzx says

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson,

Northern Virginia housing bubble burst when the government collapses.

1337irr says

Northern Virginia housing bubble burst when the government collapses.

I think there's a lot of bullshit being spread about a housing bust period.

Eman says

Like any assistance program, the intention is good, but the end result is mixed. $300M is a drop in the bucket. I don’t expect it to make a dent in real estate prices.

According to ZeroHedge, the program ran out of money in 12 days. 2400 people were helped, so that's $125,000 per person (not counting administration fees).
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/californias-dream-all-home-down-payment-program-ran-out-money-12-days

I want to know what happens if you default? The taxpayer is out of luck? Anyway, looks like the no-money-down type loans that caused the 2008 crash are effectively back!

Now is the time for people of color to get into real estate ownership, and start building generational wealth.

Misc says

Now is the time for people of color to get into real estate ownership, and start building generational wealth.

Barney Frank would approve.