The unaffordable housing market: Housing affordability drops to 8-year lows while mortgage rates surge. El Segundo housing euphoria.
ByThe last year homes were this unaffordable to American families was back in 2008. If you remember in 2008 the market was in full on implosion mode. Of course that is now a distant memory and those 7,000,000+ foreclosures are simply a distant nightmare. The nightmare now turned dream of purchasing a $750,000 or $1 million crap shack is the ultimate goal in this manic market. While this is a dream for most the housing market is incredibly unaffordable. Housing affordability has dropped to an 8-year low because first, home prices are surging without wages keeping up and mortgage rates recently surged. Many families had been leveraging up in this low inventory market and locking into mega mortgages for a piece of the crap shack pie. With rates going up getting a piece of that action is now more expensive…
