US Home-Price Growth Slows Most on Record as Market Hits Brakes
Bloomberg
Published Oct 25, 2022 09:00AM ET
Updated Oct 25, 2022 09:18AM ET
US Home-Price Growth Slows Most on Record as Market Hits Brakes
(Bloomberg) -- Home-price growth in the US slowed the most on record as a doubling of borrowing costs has sapped demand.
A national measure of prices increased 13% in August from a year earlier, down from 15.6% in July, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday. That’s the biggest deceleration in the index’s history.
The housing market has started to slump as the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates to curb the hottest inflation in decades. Even with the deceleration, prices remain high compared to last year. Coupled with mortgage rates that are edging closer to 7%, many would-be buyers have been shut out, while some sellers have retreated.
“The forceful deceleration in US housing prices that we noted a month ago continued,” Craig Lazzara, a managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said in the statement. “Given the continuing prospects for a challenging macroeconomic environment, home prices may well continue to decelerate.”
A measure of price growth in 20 US cities gained 13.1% in August, down from the 16% increase in July. All of those cities posted lower price increases in the year ended August as compared to the year ended July. Miami and Tampa, Florida, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina, posted the biggest gains.
The market’s shift in recent months has started to cool the pandemic boom, when houses were quickly snapped up. Sales of existing homes fell for an eighth straight month in September, according to National Association of Realtors data, while new home construction also dropped in September, according to recent government data.
“As we move into the colder months of the year, we can expect further declines in home sales and continued downward adjustment in prices,” said George Ratiu, manager of economic research at Realtor.com.
Homebuilders have been hit by the sudden market slowdown. PulteGroup Inc (NYSE:PHM) reported Tuesday that canceled deals spiked and third-quarter orders plunged as demand faltered.
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