Black Knight: Persistent Constraints in For-Sale Inventory Drive Home Prices Up a Record-Breaking 14.8% Annually in April, Making Housing Least Affordable Since Late 2018
Black Knight's latest Mortgage Monitor Report reveals that home prices increased by 14.8% year-over-year in April, marking the steepest growth since tracking began nearly 30 years ago. Single-family homes led the increase at 15.6%, while condos rose by 10%. This surge is attributed to historically low interest rates and severe inventory shortages, with active listings down 60% from 2017-2019 averages. As a result, the share of median income required for monthly payments on a median-priced home has reached 20.5%, warning of potential affordability challenges ahead.
- Annual home price growth reached a record-breaking 14.8% in April.
- Single-family home prices rose 15.6%, the highest on record.
- Interest rates remain historically low, benefiting mortgage access.
- Inventory of homes for sale down 60% from pre-pandemic levels.
- Median income share for housing payments increased to 20.5%, nearing affordability tipping point.
- If prices and rates continue to rise, significant affordability issues are projected.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Data & Analytics division of Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) released its latest Mortgage Monitor Report, based upon the company's industry-leading mortgage, real estate and public records datasets. As constraints in residential for-sale inventory persist, this month's report looks at how recent and aggressive home price gains are impacting housing affordability. According to Black Knight Data & Analytics President Ben Graboske, a dwindling inventory of homes for sale is pushing home price growth rates to previously unseen levels.
"Home prices grew at
"Of course, such aggressive home price growth has had an impact on affordability levels, even with interest rates back under
The report also looks at example scenarios of how affordability would be affected if home prices continue to rise at their current rate in different mortgage rate environments. Should home price appreciation continue at its current rate and 30-year rates slowly rise to
About the Mortgage Monitor
The Data & Analytics division of Black Knight manages the nation's leading repository of loan-level residential mortgage data and performance information covering the majority of the overall market, including tens of millions of loans across the spectrum of credit products and more than 160 million historical records. The combined insight of the Black Knight HPI and Collateral Analytics' home price and real estate data provides one of the most complete, accurate and timely measures of home prices available, covering
Black Knight's research experts carefully analyze this data to produce a summary supplemented by dozens of charts and graphs that reflect trend and point-in-time observations for the monthly Mortgage Monitor Report. To review the full report, visit: https://www.blackknightinc.com/data-reports/
About Black Knight
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.
Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serving their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com/.
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