price ranges, sales, credit issues?
By Howard Sumner, Your Real Estate Source, Your Results Solution!!
(Howard Sumner Consulting)
Looking at trends in pricing over the past few years it got me to wondering about why with a 16% drop in interest rates from 2011 and a 47.1% drop from 2007, what was the makeup of the factors causing a 3% rise in price from 2011 and a 3% rise from 2007 when size is factored in, or said another way based on size, prices in 2007 and 2011 were identical even though interest rate environment was radically different from 2012 and in theory that differential should produce more pronounced changes in price movement. So that leads to the question how have the price ranges performed in terms of sales. In looking at the information below my interpretation is, credit standards have greatly affected the lower portion of the market and somewhat in the higher end, in buyers ability to obtain mo...
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