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U.S. Real Estate Market Conditions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Mid-Year Meetings The Counselors of Real Estate Seattle May 2010 Stan Humphries, PhD Chief Economist [email protected] 206.470.7127 Current Market Performance 2 The Zillow Home Value Index: Comparison with Case-Shiller • Case-Shiller only includes homes that have sold at least twice (and excludes all new construction) • Case-Shiller includes foreclosure re-sales even though these are substantially different than non-distressed sales. • ZHVI looks at all home values, regardless of what has sold or not. • ZHVI does not include foreclosure re-sales. Peak-to-Current Change ZHVI: -23% Case-Shiller: -28% 3 Home values in the United States Source: Zillow.com 4 Foreclosures in the United States Source: Zillow.com 5 Comparing the top metros Zillow Home Value Index Annual Appreciation Region March 2010 Sparkline is prior one year trend; red bar is minimum Tentative bottom? Moment in the sun Better, then flat Better, then worse United States Denver Metro Los Angeles Metro Philadelphia Metro San Diego Metro San Francisco Metro Atlanta Metro Baltimore Metro Boston Metro New York Metro Pittsburgh Metro San Jose Metro Washington Metro Las Vegas Metro Miami-Fort Lauderdale Metro Phoenix Metro Riverside Metro Charlotte Metro Chicago Metro Detroit Metro Minneapolis-St Paul Metro Portland Metro Seattle Metro Tampa Metro $183,700 $212,900 $415,300 $209,000 $364,800 $515,300 $142,600 $240,100 $315,100 $366,300 $105,400 $561,700 $322,500 $131,300 $160,700 $141,100 $188,900 $147,500 $191,100 $87,300 $184,500 $231,200 $291,900 $118,000 -3.8% 2.3% 3.3% -0.3% 3.7% 3.4% -6.4% -5.0% 0.7% -2.3% -4.2% -0.2% -0.4% -18.2% -9.8% -13.9% -8.3% -5.3% -9.1% -18.8% -4.5% -6.9% -5.9% -12.1% 6 Change from February 2010 Change from Peak -0.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.3% -1.5% -0.9% -0.4% -0.3% -0.6% -0.1% -0.1% -0.5% -0.8% -1.2% -0.1% -0.7% -1.0% -2.4% -0.6% -1.1% -0.8% -1.3% -23% -9% -31% -11% -32% -27% -22% -19% -21% -20% -6% -24% -26% -57% -48% -50% -53% -11% -29% -46% -25% -22% -23% -45% Percent of All Homes Foreclosed In March Sparkline is prior one year trend; red bar is maximum 0.11% 0.17% 0.13% 0.02% 0.15% 0.14% 0.08% 0.01% 0.05% 0.11% 0.12% 0.33% 0.44% 0.31% 0.12% 0.12% 0.10% 0.08% Source: Zillow.com Markets which have stopped falling – will it last? Source: Zillow.com 7 Markets which touched a bottom and then weakened Source: Zillow.com 8 Hard-hit markets where improvement has stalled Source: Zillow.com 9 Markets which were improving (or getting less bad) but have weakened Source: Zillow.com 10 A look at the magnitude of the housing recession The magnitude and breadth of current housing recession is unprecedented in the post-Depression era Metro Peak-to-Current Fall in Home Values Last Time Home Values Were At Current Level Merced, CA Stockton, CA Modesto, CA Madera, CA Vallejo, CA Las Vegas, NV El Centro, CA Salinas, CA Port St. Lucie, FL Riverside, CA Bakersfield, CA Orlando, FL Sarasota, FL Naples, FL Bend, OR Phoenix, AZ Reno, NV Melbourne, FL Vero Beach, FL Fresno, CA Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL Detroit, MI -69.5% -61.8% -61.4% -59.4% -57.2% -57.0% -54.5% -54.5% -53.7% -53.2% -52.7% -51.9% -51.1% -51.1% -51.0% -50.4% -49.9% -49.6% -49.4% -48.4% -48.0% -47.1% 2000-04 2000-10 2001-01 2002-02 2000-10 2000-10 2001-12 2000-09 2002-07 2002-12 2003-09 2002-04 2002-07 2003-02 2002-06 2002-05 2002-10 2003-04 2002-10 2003-05 2003-04 1996-02 11 Source: Zillow.com Phoenix foreclosures Source: Zillow.com 12 Las Vegas foreclosures Source: Zillow.com 13 Stockton foreclosures Source: Zillow.com 14 Continuing Challenges for Housing Market 15 America is flush with empty homes 16 Current inventory level of for-sale homes is very high • We made some good progress reducing inventory levels last fall with tax credits • Did not work as well this year • April: Nearly twice as many homes added to market as were sold in month • Inventory levels back to July 2009 levels 17 Pent-up supply? 7% of homeowners (5.3 million) want to sell if they see signs of improvement Lots of “shadow inventory” in the wings • 7.3 million mortgages either in foreclosure or delinquent as of March 2010. • Accounting for shadow inventory, there was 45% more supply than indicated in official NAR inventory numbers as of Sept 2009. • This discrepancy is growing over time meaning that, while official inventory has been falling, real inventory is essentially unchanged. 18 In Foreclosure 30-90 Days Delinquent > 90 Days Delinquent Pct Mortgages 4.63% 2,407,600.00 4.47% 2,324,400.00 4.91% 2,553,200.00 Source: Mortgage Bankers Association; First American/Corelogic Negative equity among the largest metro markets Source: Zillow.com 19 Negative equity + unemployment = more foreclosures • • • • Negative equity can only be worked down by sales/foreclosures, price appreciation or paying down mortgage balances We don’t expect much price appreciation nearterm Unemployment forecasted to remain above 8% through end of 2012 Result: 3+ years of high unemployment visited on homeowners who can’t easily sell or refinance their mortgages Metro Percent Single-Family Unemployment Homes With Mortgages in Rate Negative Equity (March 2010) (March 2010) USA 23.3% Las Vegas Metro, NV 80.6% Orlando Metro, FL 74.8% Phoenix Metro, AZ 64.6% Reno Metro, NV 64.4% Modesto Metro, CA 60.7% Merced Metro, CA 58.8% Lakeland Metro, FL 58.5% Fort Meyers Metro, FL 58.2% Stockton Metro, CA 57.7% Port St. Lucie Metro, FL 56.2% El Centro Metro, CA 54.9% Vallejo Metro, CA 54.7% Tampa Metro, FL 53.1% Riverside Metro, CA 51.2% Jacksonville Metro, FL 49.1% Sarasota Metro, FL 47.8% Madera Metro, CA 46.4% Melbourne Metro, FL 45.6% Bakersfield Metro, CA 45.6% Vero Beach Metro, FL 45.2% Miami-Fort Lauderdale Metro, FL 44.3% 10.2% 13.8% 12.1% 8.9% 13.2% 19.2% 22.1% 13.0% 13.5% 18.4% 14.0% 27.0% 13.0% 12.7% 15.0% 11.9% 12.7% 17.5% 12.2% 18.3% 13.9% 11.5% 20 When will mortgage rates rise? • Mortgage rates are currently helping the market • We’d been expecting mortgage rates to be in the upper 5% range by end of year. • Greece, Portugal, North Korea and complete lack of inflation pressure have helped keep interest rates low. Source: Zillow.com; see real-time rates and historical charts at http://www.zillow.com/Mortgage_Rates/ 21 Mortgages continue to reset and recast • Alt-A resets and Option ARM recasts have been a concern • Alt-A: Less worrisome now with low mortgage rate environment • Option ARM: Default rates have already been high in this product so fewer that will have to recast Source: Deutsche Bank Global Markets Research 22 Conclusions • Home values will continue to fall until Q3 2010. • A likely total peak-to-trough decline of 26-28%. • Further declines driven by foreclosures (themselves driven by negative equity and unemployment), an already high supply of for-sale homes, high overall vacancy rates, pentup supply, and weaker demand after the homebuyer tax credits lapse due to demand-shifting. • Very anemic appreciation after bottom is reached; may not appreciate at all in real terms for next 3-5 years. 23