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OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®Home About Us Media Kit Subscribe Site Map Realtor Magazine MONDAY January 4, 2016 NEWS LAW & ETHICS TECHNOLOGY HOME & DESIGN SALES & MARKETING PRODUCT GUIDES FOR BROKERS FOR COMMERCIAL PROS Home > News & Commentary > Daily News | -AA+A 5 Real Estate Trends That Will Dominate 2016 DAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015 This year may have marked the best for housing since 2007, but the market will likely get even rosier in 2016, according to a recent real estate forecast by realtor.com®. One of the main drivers behind the brighter 2016 is the projection that employment will continue to grow, which will add to consumers’ wallets and allow them to purchase their first home or upgrade to a new one. Realtor.com® highlights the following housing predictions for 2016: 1. ‘Normal’ is coming. Expect a healthy growth in home sales and prices – at a slower pace than in 2015. “This slowdown is not an indication of a problem—it’s just a return to normalcy,” writes Jonathan Smoke, realtor.com®’s chief economist. “We’ve lived through 15 years of truly abnormal trends, and after working off the devastating effects of the housing bust, we’re finally seeing signs of more normal conditions.” New construction and distressed sales are expected to return to more historical levels, and home prices are expected to follow at “more normal rates consistent with a more balanced market.” Read more: Alas, Inventory Shortages Likely to Stay in 2016 2. Generational buying trends shape up. Young adults’ presence on the housing market has been largely predicted for years, but 2016 may finally be the year they make a move in a larger way. Millennials represented nearly 2 billion sales in 2015 – one-third of home buyers. They are expected to continue to be a major buying pool in 2016 with the majority of buyers between ages 25 and 34 expected to be first-time home buyers next year. But two other generations will also have a big presence in 2016: financially recovering GenXers and older baby boomers who are entering retirement, realtor.com® notes. “Since most of these people are already homeowners, they’ll play a double role, boosting the market as both sellers and buyers,” Smoke notes. “Gen Xers are in their prime earning years and thus able to relocate to better neighborhoods for their families. Older boomers are approaching (or already in) retirement and seeking to downsize and lock in a lower cost of living.” 3. New-home construction focuses more on affordability. Builders have been faced with higher land costs, limited labor, and concerns about the demand of the entry-level market. As such, they have shifted to constructing more higher-priced homes, which has caused new-home prices to rise significantly faster than existing-home prices. In 2016, they likely will shift to more affordable product to cater to the entry-level buyers. “We are already seeing a decline in new-home prices for new contracts signed this fall,” notes Smoke. “In addition, credit access is improving enough to make the first-time buyer segment more attractive to builders.” 4. Higher mortgage rates. Mortgage rates will likely be volatile in 2016. But the recent move by the Federal Reserve to guide interest rates higher should push mortgage rates higher in the new year than the historical lows they have been at for years. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will likely end 2016 about 60 basis points higher than today’s level. “That level of increase is manageable, as consumers will have multiple tactics to mitigate some of that increase,” Smoke says. “However, higher rates will drive monthly payments higher, and, along with that, debt-to-income ratios will also go higher.” The markets with the highest home prices will see the effects from the higher rates the most. 5. Rents to go up even higher. Rental costs are skyrocketing, and the costs are likely to only go up in the new year. More than 85 percent of the nation’s markets have rents that exceed 30 percent of the income of renting households. “Rents are accelerating at a more rapid pace than home prices, which are moderating,” Smoke says. “Because of this, it is more affordable to buy in more than three-quarters of the U.S. However, for the majority of renting households, buying is not a near-term option due to poor household credit scores, limited savings, and lack of documentable stable income of the kind necessary to qualify for a mortgage today.” Source: “The 5 Real Estate Trends That Will Shape 2016,” realtor.com® (Dec. 16, 2015) The Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Digital Edition Contact Us ADVERTISEMENT Most Recent News & Commentary Airbnb Is Crashing the Neighborhood Being Part of a Firm Foundation A Place Where Terror Won't Win The "Mark" Turns 100: Get Ready to Celebrate Get Smart About Smart Homes Most Recent News Features Being Part of a Firm Foundation A Place Where Terror Won't Win Rechanneling the Data Flow A Dream Too Far Cementing Partnerships in New Construction Speaking of Real Estate When Presidential Candidates Talk Real Estate When Presidential Candidates Talk Real Estate How FHA is Helping Buyers Obtain Condo Financing more Weekly Book Scan What You May Have Missed in 2015 A Real Estate Riff Corporate Anthropology and the Beta Business more Current Issue Find It At RealtorMag SERVICES Reprints Advertise/Media Kit Subscriptions E-newsletters RSS Feeds Contact Us CURRENT ISSUE Archive Digital Edition MOST POPULAR Quizzes Handouts for Customers Buyer's Guides Webinars NEWS Features Daily Headlines BLOGS Speaking of Real Estate YPN Lounge Weekly Book Scan Styled, Staged & Sold Appraisal Insight PROGRAMS Good Neighbor Awards 30 Under 30 Young Professionals Network SALES & MARKETING Features Short Sales Staging How I Sold It Handouts for Customers HOME & DESIGN Features Cost vs. Value Architecture Coach Architecture Guide BROKERAGE MANAGEMENT Features Franchise Report Broker Standouts COMMERCIAL Features Conversations LAW & ETHICS Law Ethics In Court TECHNOLOGY Features Cool Tools HOME ABOUT US CONTACT US EDITORIAL CALENDAR MEDIA KIT / ADVERTISE REALTOR.ORG REALTOR.COM HOUSELOGIC.COM REAL ESTATE TODAY RADIO 1 800 874 6500 © 2014 COPYRIGHT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® NAR TERMS OF USE NAR PRIVACY POLICY realtor_footer_logo 430 NORTH MICHIGAN AVE. 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