July 2023's pending home sales pace inclined 0.9% from last month but fell 14.0% from a year ago.
While recent economic and market indicators remain mixed, commercial real estate continued to slow down in July 2023.
Mortgage rates jumped this week to 7.23% from 7.09% last week, the highest monthly mortgage payment since June 1, 2001, when they were 7.24%
July’s existing home sales reached a 4.07 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. July’s sales of existing homes weakened 16.6% from July 2022.
Mortgage interest rates are now officially above 7%, hitting 7.09% this week, up from 6.96% the prior week, and is the highest rate in more than 20 years.
Compared to one year ago, affordability fell in June as the monthly mortgage payment climbed 12.1% and median family income rose by 4.2%.
Median home prices rose by 8.5% in Q2 2023 compared to Q1, however, national median prices fell 2.4% year-over-year to $402,600.
Mortgage rates continued climbing today to 6.96% from 6.90%.
The 187,000 net new payroll jobs created in July and 185,000 in June are the slowest two months of job additions since the start of the COVID lockdown over three years ago.
As was predicted by the U.S. government rating downgrade from AAA to AA+, the mortgage interest rate for the 30-year fixed increased from 6.81% to 6.9%.
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