Are you thinking about selling your home? Now may be the time to move-up or down-size depending on your real estate goals. Either way, if you’re thinking about selling your home… you need to know about the “Rate Lockout Effect.”
Leading real estate economists are predicting that homeowners who bought homes, or refinanced their mortgages, in recent years with rates of 3.5% to 4% may not be willing to sell their homes in the coming years. Rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, currently at 4.2%, are expected to rise to the 5% mark by next year.
When the mortgage rates increase to 5%, Stan Humphries – Chief Economist for Zillow predicts a 5% decrease in existing home sales from the current levels. If the rates rise to 6% he predicts a 15% decrease in home sales.
Mark Fleming, Chief Economist for CoreLogic said, “We’ve locked all of these people into these low rates, mostly in 30-year fixed mortgages.” “There’s a huge disincentive… to sell at any point in the future. My expectation is that housing turnover rates will be down significantly in the future due to this rate lockout effect.” If you like to know all of the numbers the economists use to make these predictions here is what Mark Fleming had to say on June 12, 2014.
For more information about how low interest rates act as a barrier to household mobility in an environment of rising interest rates check out The Impact of Lock-in Effects on Housing Turnover by the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University.
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