With the melt down of the economy and the stock market crashing, buyers are sitting on the fence waiting to see what will happen next before they pull the trigger and buy a house. This is causing problems for anyone who needs to sell and it is creating huge potential for buyers. We are in one of the greatest buyers markets on the last 30 years and maybe even since the Great Depression.
According to the National Association of Realtors ® , housing sales have dropped 8.6% in November nationally, -12.0% in the Northeast, -7.4% in the Midwest, -10.9% in the South and -4.3%in the West. The national median home sales price for November was $181,300. That’s a decline of 13.2% from the previous year.
Actions by the government to stimulate the economy will be a big factor in stabilizing housing prices. Mortgage Interest rates are still very low and credit is starting to free up again. Yes there has been a large scale price adjustment across the country and that is reflected in the housing prices. With these low prices and low interest rates, investors will be able to start buying again and once investors start buying, the general home buyers will follow. That is the way it has always worked in a recession, even during the great depression. The great depression created some of the wealthiest people in America today and most of them came from real estate. While our current financial crisis is no were near the level of the great depression, there will be millionaires made through real estate over the next decade.