多年來,千禧一代始終抗拒購房,有五分之一千禧一代計劃一直租房,這一比例遠高于其他年齡段。但如果說推遲購房以前是一種生活方式選擇,2022年緊張的房地產市場讓它變成了一個殘酷的現實。
房地產經紀公司Redfin的最新調查顯示,房價暴漲和日益沉重的債務負擔,意味著每三名租房者中有一人被擠出了購房市場。
經濟困難使近90%租房人的購房夢變得更加遙遠。對于計劃購房的租房人來說,現在可能是最糟糕的購房時機。
Redfin首席經濟學家達里爾·費爾韋瑟在調查中表示:“許多美國租房者希望買一套自己的房子,但房價過高導致他們沒有能力進入房地產市場,因此只能繼續租房。”
有哪些人會選擇一直租房?
人們在購房之前租房的時間延長了數年,其中千禧一代選擇一直租房的比例最高,而且目前的房地產市場對于潛在購房人并沒有太大吸引力。
過去兩年,美國高房價成了常態,房價比疫情之前上漲了34%,僅過去12個月就上漲了18.8%。租房人可能希望以優惠的價格買到房子,但他們卻趕上了無情的賣方市場,就連以賣房人開出的價格或者更低價格買到房子幾乎都是不可能的。
Redfin調查發現,美國租房人放棄買房最普遍的原因是,他們的預算根本無法在一個合乎心意的社區買到房子。第二個常見原因是租房人沒有足夠的儲蓄支付首付。
如何攢足夠的錢交高額首付或者支付月供,是讓每個潛在購房人都頭痛的問題,但對于更年輕的千禧一代而言尤其嚴重,因為這一代人正面臨著在所有代人中最糟糕的債務危機。
債務問題
Redfin調查發現,負債依舊是租房人購房路上最大的障礙之一。
接近一半租房人提到信用卡、學生債務或者醫療負債等,是他們無法攢夠購房首付款的最大原因。千禧一代背負的助學貸款債務一項就超過1.5萬億美元,這成為他們購房的巨大障礙,盡管千禧一代是目前的購房主力。
債務負擔導致許多年輕的潛在購房人推遲購房,放棄了購房這種經過實踐檢驗在美國最有效的財富積累方法之一。
費爾韋瑟表示:“許多人無力購房是加劇收入不平等的因素之一。沒有自己的房子意味著無法從房價上漲中獲利,而在美國這是創造和傳承財富的主要方式之一。”
上漲的抵押貸款利率已經開始給火爆的房地產市場降溫,可能導致今年年末到2023年房價下跌。但按照當前的抵押貸款利率,計劃購房的年輕人很難存夠首付,因此他們不太可能在短期內結束租房生活。(財富中文網)
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
多年來,千禧一代始終抗拒購房,有五分之一千禧一代計劃一直租房,這一比例遠高于其他年齡段。但如果說推遲購房以前是一種生活方式選擇,2022年緊張的房地產市場讓它變成了一個殘酷的現實。
房地產經紀公司Redfin的最新調查顯示,房價暴漲和日益沉重的債務負擔,意味著每三名租房者中有一人被擠出了購房市場。
經濟困難使近90%租房人的購房夢變得更加遙遠。對于計劃購房的租房人來說,現在可能是最糟糕的購房時機。
Redfin首席經濟學家達里爾·費爾韋瑟在調查中表示:“許多美國租房者希望買一套自己的房子,但房價過高導致他們沒有能力進入房地產市場,因此只能繼續租房。”
有哪些人會選擇一直租房?
人們在購房之前租房的時間延長了數年,其中千禧一代選擇一直租房的比例最高,而且目前的房地產市場對于潛在購房人并沒有太大吸引力。
過去兩年,美國高房價成了常態,房價比疫情之前上漲了34%,僅過去12個月就上漲了18.8%。租房人可能希望以優惠的價格買到房子,但他們卻趕上了無情的賣方市場,就連以賣房人開出的價格或者更低價格買到房子幾乎都是不可能的。
Redfin調查發現,美國租房人放棄買房最普遍的原因是,他們的預算根本無法在一個合乎心意的社區買到房子。第二個常見原因是租房人沒有足夠的儲蓄支付首付。
如何攢足夠的錢交高額首付或者支付月供,是讓每個潛在購房人都頭痛的問題,但對于更年輕的千禧一代而言尤其嚴重,因為這一代人正面臨著在所有代人中最糟糕的債務危機。
債務問題
Redfin調查發現,負債依舊是租房人購房路上最大的障礙之一。
接近一半租房人提到信用卡、學生債務或者醫療負債等,是他們無法攢夠購房首付款的最大原因。千禧一代背負的助學貸款債務一項就超過1.5萬億美元,這成為他們購房的巨大障礙,盡管千禧一代是目前的購房主力。
債務負擔導致許多年輕的潛在購房人推遲購房,放棄了購房這種經過實踐檢驗在美國最有效的財富積累方法之一。
費爾韋瑟表示:“許多人無力購房是加劇收入不平等的因素之一。沒有自己的房子意味著無法從房價上漲中獲利,而在美國這是創造和傳承財富的主要方式之一。”
上漲的抵押貸款利率已經開始給火爆的房地產市場降溫,可能導致今年年末到2023年房價下跌。但按照當前的抵押貸款利率,計劃購房的年輕人很難存夠首付,因此他們不太可能在短期內結束租房生活。(財富中文網)
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
More than any other demographic, millennials have been eschewing homeownership for years, with one in five members of the generation planning to rent forever. But if delaying buying a home was once a lifestyle choice, 2022’s strained housing market has turned it into a brutal reality.
Soaring costs for homes and increasingly severe debt burdens mean that one out of every three renters is getting completely priced out of the homebuying market, according to a new survey by Redfin, a real estate brokerage firm.
Financial obstacles are complicating the homeownership dream for nearly 90% of all renters. For the renters looking to buy, now may well be the worst time to do so.
“A lot of American renters want to buy a home, but they’re stuck renting because it’s simply too expensive to break into the housing market,” Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin, said in the survey.
Who are the forever renters?
The average number of years people rent before buying a home has been creeping up for years, led by the millennial forever renters, and the current housing market is doing little to incentivize potential homebuyers.
The past two years have normalized high home prices in the U.S., which have soared 34% higher than before the pandemic, and 18.8% over the past 12 months alone. Renters looking to get a good deal when signing a deed are running headfirst into an unforgiving seller’s market, where getting a home at or below asking price is next to impossible.
The Redfin survey found that the most common reason that U.S. renters have not gone on to buy a home is that doing so in a desirable neighborhood is just not even close to what their budget allows. And the second most popular reason was that renters didn’t have enough saved up for a down payment.
Saving enough money for large down payments or monthly mortgage payments is a headache for any prospective homebuyer, but it is especially troubling for younger millennials, who are dealing with one of the worst debt crises of any generation.
The debt problem
The Redfin survey found that debt remains the most prominent factor standing in the way of homeownership for all renters.
Nearly half of all renters cited some kind of debt—credit card, student, or medical—as the biggest reason they couldn’t save up enough for the big payments that buying a home involves. Younger millennials are saddled with over $1.5 trillion in student loan debt alone, a critical impasse to homeownership despite their being the biggest homebuying demographic on the market right now.
The debt burden is delaying many prospective younger buyers from owning a home, cutting a lifeline to one of the most tried-and-tested methods of wealth building in this country.
“The fact that buying a home is out of reach for so many Americans is a driver of inequality," Fairweather said: “Not owning a home means not benefiting from rising home values, one of the main ways to create and pass down generational wealth in this country.”
Rising mortgage rates are already drawing down the fervent competition for homes, which could lead to lower real estate prices later this year going into 2023. But younger home seekers are having trouble saving for today’s mortgage rates, making it unlikely that this demographic will be able to move on from renting anytime soon.