For the 88 - million - strong millennial generation, the oldest of which is 34 years old, the combination of high appreciation, low inventories, and
continuing tight credit conditions is making home ownership a stretch few can afford.
NAR warns that
continued tight credit conditions threaten to widen the wealth gap between owners and renters.
Not exact matches
Annual
credit growth
continues its downward trend, with
tighter credit conditions weighing on investor housing
credit, while business
credit picked up, supporting the rise in March.
Despite a large pent - up demand from years of below - normal home sales, inventory constraints and
tight credit conditions continue to impede the market, in combination with strongly rising home prices and higher mortgage interest rates.
Pending home sales slowed in August, with
tight inventory
conditions, higher interest rates, rising home prices and
continuing restrictive mortgage
credit impacting the market.
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Credit profiles that fail to meet
tighter underwriting standards are
conditions that
continue to work against first - time home buyers,» according to the report.