American household incomes failed to keep pace with high mortgage and home price effects

Posted on June 13, 2022   |  

• The total market of households with the means to buy a new home dropped by 58% to 16 million from 48 million due to an $80,000 price increase on an average new home from 2019 to 2022.
• There are only 20 million households that can afford to buy homes at such high rates and increasing home prices and interest rates are worsening the housing demand.