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The housing market downturn isn’t overRight out of the gate in 2023, the slumped U.S. housing market experienced an uptick in activity. Open houses got more foot traffic. Buyers started making serious offers. And, if priced right, homes in some markets received multiple offers.“I got five new [buyer] leads in one week, which was unheard of in [late] 2022…[and] I have experienced a few transactions that astonished me,” Kristen Riffle, a real estate agent in Las Vegas, tells Fortune. “I wrote an offer on a home that was on the market for one day, in a subpar location…The agent got back to me and said she had multiple offers and the highest was $20,000 over list.”What’s going on? Between early November and early February, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate slowly declined from 7.37% to 5.99%. Those lower rates, coupled with the start of the busy season and inventory levels remaining tight, gave the U.S. housing market a small but noticeable boost in activity to start the year.But brokers and agents shouldn’t get too excited: Just as the U.S. housing market started to show some signs of life, mortgage rates rose again, making it harder to escape the ongoing housing market slump. In fact, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate of 6.78% on Thursday is the highest since early November.This latest mortgage rate jump stings. Just look at the numbers.A borrower who took on a $500,000 mortgage in early February at a 5.99% fixed rate would have gotten a monthly principal and interest payment of $2,995. At a 6.78% rate (i.e., the average rate on Thursday), a borrower would have a $3,253 monthly payment on the same size loan.The reason mortgage rates are rising again is pretty straightforward: Recent economic data, including strong retail sales and job numbers, suggest it might take longer than expected for the Federal Reserve to tackle inflation. In anticipation of the Fed holding rates higher for longer, financial markets are already putting upward pressure on long-term rates like the 10-year Treasury and mortgage rates.Even before mortgage rates jumped back up to 6.87% this week, homebuying activity was still in the gutter. In fact, mortgage purchase applications for last week were down 43% on a year-over-year basis. That’s hardly a recovery.Not to mention, January’s slight rebound in buying activity hasn’t stopped the bifurcated home price correction. Among the 400 biggest housing markets tracked by Zillow, 169 markets saw home prices tick lower in January. That includes hefty one-month declines in markets like Austin (–1.4%), Phoenix (–1.24%), and Atlanta (–0.44%).Since home prices started declining last summer, 276 of the nation’s 400 largest housing markets have seen seasonally adjusted home prices fall from their 2022 high point. That includes sharp declines in overheated markets like Austin (–7.9% from its 2022 peak), Boise (–8%), and Bend, Ore. (–8.2%). (Without seasonal adjustment, markets like Austin and Boise are down –12.6% and –11.6%, respectively.)How can the U.S. housing market sustain a recovery?The answer is that housing affordability, which the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimates is worse now than it was at the height of the housing bubble in 2006, needs to improve. To achieve it, there are three levers: rising incomes, falling home values, and falling mortgage rates. Of those levers, mortgage rates can make a short-term difference.When housing activity does begin to rise again, it doesn’t guarantee that home prices have bottomed out. Indeed, many housing analysts and economists believe national home prices will be the final housing metric to bottom out this cycle.“Home prices are usually the last indicator to find a floor in a housing downturn, and we still think there’s a good amount of time ahead of us until that happens as long as rates stay 6% plus,” Rick Palacios Jr., head of research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, tells Fortune.
Ayer el primer ministro portugués presentó unas medidas para gestionar la crisis de vivienda del país, como la que sufre medio mundo. Las medidas se someterán a debate público en el parlamento portugués en marzo, donde el gobierno socialista tiene mayoría absoluta.En portugués, pero es fácil de entender.As 10 novas medidas do pacote para combater a crise da habitaçãohttps://www.publico.pt/2023/02/16/economia/noticia/10-novas-medidas-pacote-combater-crise-habitacao-2039256Claves del plan de choque contra la crisis de vivienda en Portugalhttps://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/portugal-vivienda_claves-del-plan-de-choque-contra-la-crisis-de-vivienda-en-portugal/48293444- Se trata de un programa con 900 millones de € para intervenir el mercado de la vivienda.- Se prohíben nuevas licencias para airbnb "alojamento local en portugués", en 2030 se van a revisar las actuales licencias pudiendo quitarlas. Solo quedarían fuera zonas rurales aisladas.- Rebajas fiscales a los propietarios que realicen contractos de larga duración, creo que el actual es del 28% de impuestos en el IRPF (IRS en portugués). Los contratos de duración entre 5 y 10 años bajan del 23% al 15% y entre 10 y 20 años del 14% al 10%. Para los contratos de duración superior a 20 años, el tipo impositivo baja del 10% al 5%.- El Estado ayuda a pagar las hipotecas, pero con muchas restricciones, solo para hipotecas firmadas con posterioridad a julio de 2018, en los que el incremento del tipo de interés sea tres puntos porcentuales superior al inicial, y aún cuyo valor del préstamo sea de hasta 200 mil euros. En estos casos, la bonificación de intereses será del 50% del importe que supere los tres puntos porcentuales de incremento del tipo de interés. Solo para las familias con rentas inferiores a 36.000€ anuales. Cuando el diferencial del tipo de interés sea inferior al 3% no se aplica.- El Estado se ofrece a alquilar las viviendas disponibles a precios de mercado durante cinco años para subarrendar y asume el riesgo por el propietario.- Incentivos para que pisos turísticos regresen al mercado de vivienda- Será obligatorio alquilar las casas desocupadas durante más de un año (hay unas 730.000).- Fin de la concesión de las golden visa (conseguir la nacionalidad por la compra de vivienda). Se comprobará que las viviendas compradas dentro del golden visa sirvan para residencia del propietario o están en alquiler.Falta aún mucha letra pequeña, pero en la rueda de prensa el primer ministro dijo "no queremos matar la gallina de los huevos de oro".A mi entender esto es un aviso al mercado al mismo tiempo que intentan tranquilizar a los hipotecados y propietarios, pero con mucho ruido, grandes titulares y pocas nueces. Como la ayuda de los 200 € de Pedro Sánchez.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2023-02-16/chinese-provinces-plans-to-ask-developers-not-to-sell-homes-until-they-are-built-101998849.htmlCitarChinese Provinces Plan to Ask Developers Not to Sell Homes Until They Are BuiltA number of Chinese provinces have said they will start trial plans to require developers to only list finished homes for sale, as an ongoing industrywide liquidity crisis has highlighted the presale model’s problems, such as the widespread stalled construction that triggered mortgage boycotts last year.Provincial housing departments in Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Sichuan will start, or encourage eligible cities to start, such pilot programs this year, according to their work plans announced between Jan. 31 and Feb. 7.(...)
Chinese Provinces Plan to Ask Developers Not to Sell Homes Until They Are BuiltA number of Chinese provinces have said they will start trial plans to require developers to only list finished homes for sale, as an ongoing industrywide liquidity crisis has highlighted the presale model’s problems, such as the widespread stalled construction that triggered mortgage boycotts last year.Provincial housing departments in Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Sichuan will start, or encourage eligible cities to start, such pilot programs this year, according to their work plans announced between Jan. 31 and Feb. 7.(...)
Ya sabéis de mi querencia por ir a buscar el dato en lugar de estar hablando de entelequias. [...]
La mala gestión detrás de estos casos estriba en «una maraña de procedimientos internos, procesos de calidad, acciones de verificación y supervisión, incapaces de atajar los problemas a tiempo». También en una «mala gestión del conocimiento» derivada de un relevo generacional que se está ejecutando de tal manera que los prejubilados salen sin haber formado a quienes les relevan. El colegio denuncia «deficiencias en la coordinación entre organismos», llámense Adif, Renfe o la Agencia Estatal de Seguridad Ferroviaria.
Porque si el plan es hacer la "formación" como se ha hecho durante mucho tiempo en las consultoras, soltarte en la jaula de los leones con un par de manuales, un par de mendrugos de pan, y allá te las apañes, no hace falta esforzarse mucho para imaginar las consecuencias que vendrán.