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Why the housing market is going from tough to terribleWashington, DC CNN — Mortgage rates are nearing 8%. Prices have climbed for the past three months straight. And there were fewer homes on the market in September than any September ever. No wonder home sales just hit a 13-year low. It is a crummy time to try to buy a house.In unwelcome news to homebuyers, none of this is expected to change soon. Prices are expected to stay high, inventory is expected to stay low and rates may climb even further.The current housing market offers a crushing affordability picture for would-be-homebuyers and is keeping many out of the market. And it has been steadily worsening for the past two years.With the average 30-year fixed rate loan currently at 7.63%, according to Freddie Mac, it now requires a monthly principal and interest payment of $2,528 to afford a median-priced home with a 20% down payment, according to ICE Mortgage Technology, which recently acquired mortgage data provider Black Knight.That is up 91% from two years ago and an increase of $1,204 a month, ICE found.The monthly payment on an average-priced home now requires 40% of the median household income, making housing the least affordable it’s been since 1984, according to ICE.“The last time home affordability was this tight, interest rates were at 13.6% — roughly 6 points higher than today — and the average home price was about 3.5 times the median household income,” said Andy Walden, vice president of enterprise research at ICE Mortgage Technology. “Today, after years of low interest rates helping to drive purchase prices up, the average home costs six times the median income.”To bring affordability back to long-term averages, he said, it would take some combination of up to a 37% decline in home prices, mortgage rates dropping by 4 percentage points, or a 60% growth in median household incomes.“Unfortunately, the upward shift in Treasury yields this week will likely make returning to ‘normal’ an even more challenging target to hit,” Walden said.Rates may go over 8%Inflation is still above the Fed’s stated target of 2%, which means the central bank’s benchmark rate will likely stay higher for longer.Ahead of the central bank’s upcoming two-day policy meeting, which starts on October 31, financial markets are pricing in another pause on rate hikes. But the chances of an additional pause in December are much lower, at around 61%, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.“Longer term Treasury yields — which mortgage rates tend to follow — depend on expected economic growth and inflation expectations,” said Orphe Divounguy, senior economist at Zillow. “Inflation expectations are moving higher. Political dysfunction in the nation’s capital and rising government borrowing are also likely contributing to the increased pressure on yields.”But even if mortgage rates do reach 8%, it wouldn’t make things that much worse for buyers, said Nicole Bachaud, senior economist at Zillow, partly because the market is already so unaffordable.A buyer making the median household income and putting a 10% down payment on a typical home in August would have spent almost 40% of their income on their mortgage payments. To get that down to the recommended 30%, which is a standard threshold commonly used as a guideline for an affordable home, a household would need an annual income of almost $107,000, according to Zillow. The median household income was $74,580 in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau.If mortgage rates rise to 8%, Bachaud said, the income needed to afford the typical US home would rise to nearly $114,000.“Buyers are already in a tight spot and the housing market isn’t likely to look markedly different with rates above 8%,” she said.But with a strong labor market and Fed rate cuts pushed out into, perhaps, the third quarter of 2024, the market could stay at this level for a while, said John Toohig, head of whole loan trading at Raymond James.So how long can home prices stay strong? And how much longer can would-be homeowners keep putting off buying a home?“For much of this year I’ve hunted for good news as to how we will endure ‘higher for longer’ but not see the world break,” Toohig said.“An aggressive Fed that is prone to overcorrecting can do real damage,” he said. “Good news in the economy causes rates to stay higher for longer — but the longer rates are higher, the more likely something in the market goes ‘boom.’”
One of S.F.’s biggest apartment buildings reportedly loses half its valueThe NEMA apartment building at 10th and Market streets, seen in 2022, has reportedly lost half of its total value.NEMA, one of San Francisco’s largest apartment buildings, has lost almost half its value in five years as it faces an “imminent default” risk on its mortgage, according to a new report.The 754-unit apartment tower was valued at $543.6 million in 2018 but is now valued at $279 million by real estate data firm Trepp. That’s below the value of owner Crescent Heights’ $384 million mortgage, an ominous sign indicative of the Mid-Market area’s struggles.Crescent Heights didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but said in August that “the property’s cash flow can no longer cover the monthly debt service,” according to Trepp. The developer could lose control of the property if it becomes late on mortgage payments and lenders seek to foreclose.San Francisco landlords have struggled with mortgage payments or given up properties around downtown, including at the San Francisco Centre mall; the Parc 55 and Hilton Union Square hotels; and a huge portfolio of apartments owned by Veritas.NEMA, at 8 10th St., is next to two major office buildings that have emptied during the pandemic: 1355 Market St., where X (formerly Twitter) slashed most of its staff following Elon Musk’s acquisition; and, to the west, 1455 Market St., which lost its two anchor tenants, Uber and Block. Uber moved its headquarters to Mission Bay and put its space up for sublease, while Block’s lease expired last month.Occupancy at NEMA was 92% as of March, up from 72% in 2020 but down from 96% in 2018, according to Trepp. The building will require further investment to maintain its “good” condition, according to an inspection report in September.San Francisco Business Times and the Real Deal earlier reported NEMA’s slashed valuation.NEMA, which is short for “New Market,” opened in 2013 as the last decade’s tech boom gathered momentum. Its amenities include three outdoor terraces, a 60-foot lap pool, a fire pit and grills, while tech workers said its proximity to fast-growing tech companies was a draw.But COVID was a heavy blow to San Francisco’s apartment market as tens of thousands of residents moved away.Natixis originated NEMA’s loan in 2019 and a special servicer has been appointed, indicating a default is possible.
Se acaban los ahorros y los créditos se encarecen. Vamos a pasar del cachondeo festivo al parón total en muy poco tiempo. Y la temporada turística del año que viene me parece a mí que va a ser muy diferente, especialmente en turismo internacional.Aquí el sector, o mejor dicho los sectores, siempre cuentan con los 13 millones de naves de Raticulín que les salven la temporada.
The American semiconductor boom faces a massive obstacle: A lack of immigrantsThe US is experiencing a boom in semiconductor production after the passage of the CHIPS Act, but that progress could be impeded by a serious labor shortage in the industry.According to a July report from the Semiconductor Industry Association, an industry trade group, and Oxford Economics, there will be 85,000 new technical jobs in the industry by 2030. But the report's projections indicate that nearly 80% of those jobs could go unfilled.And crucially, one-third of the semiconductor industry workforce is foreign-born — meaning that immigration hurdles are exacerbating the shortage.In July, Taiwan’s TSMC (TSM), which was scheduled to open its first plant in Arizona in 2024, announced that the semiconductor behemoth would be delayed another year due to a shortage of specialist workers.“While we are working to improve the situation, including sending experienced technicians from Taiwan to train the local skilled workers for a short period of time, we expect the production schedule of N4 process technology to be pushed out to 2025,” TSMC chairman Mark Liu said on the company's Q2 earnings call.Many foreign-born skilled workers are already studying in the US, but current immigration laws make it difficult for them to stay.“It’s incredibly, incredibly hard to imagine that we’re going to be able to build the semiconductor industry in the future if we don’t reform our immigration law,” Todd Schulte, president of immigration and criminal justice reform advocacy organization FWD.us, told Yahoo Finance.A new analysis by FWD.us found that about 5,000 international students in the US will graduate in the next academic year with advanced degrees in semiconductor-related computer science and engineering fields. At least 4,000 of those students have expressed interest in staying in the US.“If you need to build these semiconductor fabs, you need a particular set of workers,” Schulte said. “You can have that in the United States, or you can have that in other places here. The idea that jobs are a fixed entity — that if they don’t exist for one person, they’ll exist for someone else — it just isn’t true.”“I think you’re seeing that,” he continued. “You’ve seen chip manufacturers saying, 'We need this workforce. We want to build in the United States for a lot of reasons here, but we need an immigration system that isn’t built from the middle of the 20th century,' meaning an immigration system that allows our country to respond to the economic needs in the middle of the 21st century.”(...)
La vivienda bajará por fin el próximo año pero volverá a las subidas en 2025Bankinter espera un aumento del 1% en los precios de aquí a fin de año debido a la fortaleza del mercado laboral. Las transacciones retrocederán un 7% en 2024El respiro que podría dar el precio de la vivienda a los españoles el próximo año –con una caída de hasta el 2%– será meramente coyuntural, pues a partir de 2025 volverán a la senda del crecimiento, con un repunte estimado de al menos el 1%, según las previsiones publicadas el viernes por Bankinter. Para ese momento, creen que el Banco Central Europeo podría comenzar a bajar los tipos de interés, por lo que el euribor a 12 meses aflojaría desde el 4,1% de este año hasta el 3,4%. Pese a este incremento, la entidad descarta por completo una burbuja inmobiliaria y aseguran que la accesibilidad a un piso se mantiene en línea con la media histórica, si bien admiten que hay zonas donde hay una clara oferta por mayor concentración de población.A pesar de la ralentización de la economía y las subidas de tipos de interés que se han registrado en 2023, los precios de la vivienda se mantienen en senda alcista, por lo que el banco prevé un incremento del 1,2%, frente a su anterior estimación en la que apuntaba una caída del 3%. Además, y pese a que barajan una caída de hasta el 2% para el año que viene, creen que se trata de un escenario menos probable debido a la resistencia del mercado laboral y a que el endurecimiento de la política monetaria suponen un factor de disrupción temporal.Las cifras que la entidad baraja para final de año son similares a las de otros analistas. El portal inmobiliario Idealista espera un aumento del 2% debido a que la oferta de casas en el mercado se ha reducido. Tinsa y Fotocasa esperan que el precio se estabilice hacia finales de 2023, aunque no precisan una cifra, mientras que Beatriz Toribio, directora adjunta de Masteos, asegura que se terminará con una leve subida de entre el 0,5% y el 1%. La principal explicación que da Bankinter para este repunte se encuentra en el mercado laboral; en particular en el sector servicios, cuyo buen desempeño este año se ha traducido en miles de empleos nuevos y en una subida nominal del salario próxima al 5%.En cualquier caso, es una tendencia a nivel global. :biggrin:En Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, el consenso elaborado por Reuters sostiene que la vivienda no caerá en 2023. Y la misma tendencia se produce en buena parte de Europa, con dos excepciones: Alemania y Reino Unido, aunque por circunstancias locales. En el primer caso, por ejemplo, se debe a que los precios han subido más de un 80% desde 2007. Sin embargo, según Bankinter, en España y la mayor parte de los países del continente, el parámetro sigue en niveles similares a los de esa época.Al contrario de lo que ocurre con los precios, las transacciones de vivienda se han visto reducidas. Las previsiones de la entidad bancaria fijan una caída del 14% en 2023 y del 7% en 2024. A pesar de que en términos porcentuales parece un gran frenazo, en realidad supondría volver a la media histórica de 500.000 transacciones, pues en 2022 hubo niveles no vistos en 15 años Los analistas consideran que este nivel es sostenible a medio plazo y debería repartirse en unas 100.000 transacciones de vivienda nueva y 400.000 de segunda mano.Por último, en un entorno de subidas muy moderadas de precios de vivienda y mayores costes de construcción, por materias primas y mano de obra, se espera que los precios de suelo caigan un 5% en 2023 para rebajar costes de financiación.