In spite of wage growth and a decline in mortgage rates, other market factors are placing home ownership out-of-reach for more Americans than ever before.
Sharp increases in single-family home prices are moving faster than increasing wages and historic dips in mortgage rates, according to ATTOM Data Solutions. As a result, a greater percentage of wages is needed to buy a home, and affordability has decreased in a large swath of the nation.
"In a year when nothing is normal, owning a single-family home has become less affordable to average wage earners across the US, despite conditions that would seem to point the opposite way," said Todd Teta, ATTOM's chief product officer, in prepared remarks.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
