Sentences with phrase «rising house prices keep»

They have been trying to save a 10 % home deposit for several years, but rising house prices keep pushing this goal beyond their reach.

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It also kept house prices rising.

Rising house prices and the accompanying wealth effect, courtesy of ballooning equity lines of credit, have kept the economy from faltering as business spending retrenches and exports disappoint — last year real estate was by far the largest contributor to GDP in seven of 10 provinces, including B.C. and Ontario.

The cheaper end of the New Zealand housing market is struggling, while high - priced property sales keep rising.

The housing prices may keep rising because the Austin's population is growing faster than its housing supply by 5.19 %.

So when home prices rise significantly from one year to the next, federal housing officials may increase loan limits to keep pace.

It prevents bubbles, and it prevents investors buying housing and keeping it empty of tenants while waiting to flip it... because prices aren't rising, so there will be no flip.

Salaries have not kept up with housing prices and long commutes combine with rising rents to create economic anxiety that affects teachers and may also affect their students.

This means as the interest rates rise, sellers will be forced to keep house prices low to attract reluctant buyers.

If rates are really low, asset prices keep rising, so it's short - run logical to borrow against your house and either double down on the stock market or buy an Escalade.

So I am looking for a simple, convincing argument for why house prices just can't keep rising indefinitely out of tune with peoples real income.

Even so, Kvick believes the couple would do fine financially if they bought a house — provided house prices keep rising at an annual rate of 4 % and mortgage rates stay under 6 %.

But the population has surged 3.54 % over the last four years, and as it keeps going up, house prices are likely to rise too.

They're meant to help homeowners keep up with rising housing prices and to avoid real estate bubbles.

While housing prices kept rising, aided by increasing buying power facilitated by poorly underwritten loans, the mortgage insurers happily clipped profits; their greatest worry was the banks eating their business through second lien loans.

So long as housing prices kept rising, speculators (and people who did not know that they were speculators) showed up to buy homes.

there is a glut of housing (many empty) because of overbuilding... because everyone saw the «rapidly rising prices» of residential or rental real estate and wanted a piece of this HIGH RETURN, LOW RISK investment... add to this the banks relaxing credit standards and issuing mortgages... because, hey, real estate just keeps going up, up, up... and with that leverage, etc..

It made sense that policyholders would want to keep term insurance instead of expensive whole life insurance, especially here in Palo Alto or the Bay Area, where housing prices and incomes were rising very quickly and folks realized that they needed larger and larger amounts of term insurance to replace the income of the main breadwinner or to pay off a large mortgage at death.

«Ongoing job growth continues to fuel demand for housing, while wage growth is helping to offset the effects of rising mortgage rates and keep home prices affordable,» said Robert Dietz, chief economist at the NAHB, in a statement on the Index.

«However, builders need to continue to monitor rising construction costs to keep houses affordably priced.»

«This measure shows that low mortgage rates are keeping housing very affordable despite housing prices rising faster than income.»

One of the 2018 housing market trends to keep track of is the rising prices.

Personal incomes aren't growing quick enough nationally to keep up with rising home prices, but Atlanta is the nation's most affordable housing market, a new report

«Tight inventories and a forecast of rising mortgage interest rates through 2018 will keep home prices on a gradual upward path and slowly lessen housing affordability in the quarters ahead.»

Personal incomes aren't growing quick enough nationally to keep up with rising home prices, but Atlanta is the nation's most affordable housing market, a new report from Interest.com says.

Ryan discusses the death of Osama Bin Laden; Ryan reviews the economic news of the week; Ryan notices the correlation between increased home sales and interest rate drops; Louis notes we can't expect the housing market to be supported by further decreases in rates as they are already near historic lows; Ryan explains that interest rates change once every four hours; Ryan notes the difference between getting a quote and being locked in to an interest rate; Ryan advises the importance of keeping in touch with your mortgage lender; Louis notes that interest rates change a lot faster than home prices; Ryan notes that the consumer confidence was up, Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's decision to keep interest rates where they are and to continue the $ 600 billion QE2 program; Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's view that inflation is nascent; Louis notes that not only does the Fed not see inflation that exists but disclaims any responsibility for it; Louis asserts that there is a correlation between oil prices and Fed policy; Louis discusses Ben Bernanke's assertion that the Fed can't control oil prices but that they somehow can control the impact of higher oil prices on the rest of the economy; Louis also remarks on Bernanke's view of the dollar - the claim that a strong dollar can be achieved through the Fed's current policy as it is their belief that they are creating a sound economy and therefore a sound dollar; Louis notes the irony of the Fed chastising Congress» spendthrift ways — if the Fed did not monetize the debt, Congress could» nt spend; Louis noted that as Bernanke spoke the prices of gold and silver rose as it seemed that the Fed has no interest in cutting off the easy money; the current Fed policy will keep interest rates low; Ryan notes that the Fed knows that they can't let interest rates rise because of the housing mess; Louis notes that the Fed has a Hobson's Choice - either keep rates low or let interest rates rise and cut off the recovery.