First-time home buyers stretched
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First-time home buyers now take out mortgages worth, on average, 3.31 times their income, a watchdog says.
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It started with subprime mortgages. Now owners of McMansions are defaulting, and the effects of the housing bust are beginning to ripple through the economy.
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House hunters shied away from buying in July, driving down sales of previously owned homes to a 2 1/2-year low. The inventory of unsold homes climbed to a record high.
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A jump in starts on single-family  housing pushed total U.S. housing starts to a nearly 21-year  high in January, but home mortgage applications dipped last  week, according to data reported on Wednesday.
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Even when experts were declaring the economy healthy, many Americans voiced a vague, but persistent dissatisfaction. True, jobs were relatively plentiful over the last few years. It was easy to borrow and very cheap. The sharp rise in the value of homes and plentiful credit cards encouraged a nation of consumers to get out and buy. But to many people, something didn't feel right, even if they couldn't quite explain why.
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Sales of previously owned homes nudged up in November, but that didn't improve the broader picture of a feeble housing market racked by record-high foreclosures and harder-to-get credit.
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When Delmy Diaz decided to buy a home, she first looked in Columbia Heights. That's where her friends and relatives and favorite stores were.
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THERE WAS a time when purchasing a home was something only married couples did. However, increasingly, single, widowed, and divorced women with and without children are making the choice to purchase a home on their own. Yet, the economic and social consequences of subprime lending practices on them are subjects few are discussing.
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For the first time since March, sales of new homes rose in August.
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The market's turmoil may be especially unsettling for middle-aged homeowners.
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For a long time, Paul and Amy Woodhull's house on Capitol Hill was a honey pot. Through multiple refinancings over nearly a decade, they pulled out money to fix it up, buy a car, pay down credit cards, buy three other properties and improve them, too.
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As home prices peaked in the first half of this decade, roughly 40 percent of buyers took out two loans -- often from two lenders -- to cover the purchase.
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The rate consumers pay on, for example, a 30-year, $200,000 home loan will likely rise 0.2 percentage point -- an extra $9,200 -- as the largest US buyer of mortgages slows growth to meet regulators&#39; request to boost capital, an analyst said Friday.
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Growing numbers of people are being squeezed out of the housing market, researchers have concluded.
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The bursting housing bubble squelched expansion in some of the nationâs fastest-growing states in the year that ended July 1, according to an analysis of census figures.
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Many regretful or resentful buyers may seek redress from the agents who found them a home and arranged its purchase.
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Home prices have plunged by 10 percent or more in some parts of the United States and interest rates on mortgages are at enticing levels, but many potential buyers are waiting for prices to fall further.