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Show Entire ArticleHome Buyer Tax Credit Takes its Tollcnbc.com | May 12, 2010 | 11:11 AM EDT
As the end of the home buyer tax credit neared last month, we all argued whether or not the increase in sales and the relative price stabilization could survive on their own.
The first clues indicate the answer is: No.
One full week after the tax credit's expiration, mortgage applications fell 9.5 percent; this as mortgage interest rates dropped below 5 percent.
Sure, refis jumped, but that doesn't help us much with the currently bloated inventory of homes on the market.
Another report today from Trulia.com showed home sellers losing that little bit of ground they had recently gained in pricing. The number of properties on the market as of May 1st that saw at least one price cut rose 10 percent. (See Trulia's chart below.)
“With more than a year of the federal government’s involvement, we are now re-entering the free market system.
As we read just to the free market, we expect to hit turbulence in some markets,” says Pete Flint, Trulia co-founder and CEO. “We won’t know the true severity of the tax credit expiration until the conclusion of the peak home buying season in the summer months. Only then will we have a better sense if the U.S. housing market can stand on its own two feet.”
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Sellers take note...the raging buyer's market continues.
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