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Charleston SC Homes For Sale : March 2013 National Housing Trends
Improving Housing Market Likely to Continue into 2013
First-time homebuyers, worried about rising mortgage interest rates and climbing home prices, are returning to the housing market in early 2013. According to the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey results, first-time homebuyers accounted for 34.5% of home purchase transactions in February based on a three-month moving average. That was the second monthly increase for first-time homebuyers, whose share of the housing market hit a four-year survey low of 32.9% in December.
Even more encouraging was a surge in first-time homebuyer traffic in February. The HousingPulse Homebuyer Traffic Diffusion Index for first-time homebuyers, an indicator of future home purchases, hit a four-year survey high of 66.4% in February. Any score above 50% with the index reflects an increase in home shopping traffic. “First-time homebuyers are the wildcard in the upcoming spring-summer homebuying season,” said Thomas Popik, research director for Campbell Surveys.
“We see strong first-time homebuyer traffic, but it’s still not clear that the traffic will translate into increased purchases, because first-time homebuyers are dependent on low-downpayment financing, such as FHA mortgages, and announced FHA program changes will take effect this spring,” he added. Learn more about the December 2012 National Housing Trends here.
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