"Other buyers are behaving with a deflationary mindset, saying, 'Why would I buy now if there’s a chance home prices go down from here?’” Incentives are intended to sweeten the deal for the consumer, and we are seeing some buyers react accordingly by moving forward with the purchase," Wolf says. Incentives offer some money to consumers whether through closing costs funds, money toward options and upgrades, or to help buy down the mortgage interest rate. "Builders have found that incentives are proving to be effective in many cases. On a year-over-year basis, new house prices are up just 7.4%-compared to 21.3% in April. Between April and June, the median sales price of new houses fell 11.9%. Not every market has seen cuts, but the practice is widespread enough that it's showing up in the national data. The biggest declines are coming in frothy markets like Boise and Phoenix. But as the housing correction heated up this summer, builders turned to actual price cuts. Heading into the summer many builders were already offering buyer incentives. That's why builders are wasting no time in their effort to offload homes. The 2008 housing bust remains seared into the collective memory of homebuilders. Horton, which saw its cancellation rate jump to 24% in its fiscal third quarter ending June 30. Look no further than homebuilding giant D.R. Even sold homes are a liability for builders: Spiking mortgage rates are translating into a spike in buyers pulling out of their contracts. There's not only a record number of unsold homes under construction, there's also a record number of total homes under construction.
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"I think there’s full awareness that in some markets, an increase in inventory may hit at a bad time-a time where demand has notably pulled back." "Housing is believed to be structurally undersupplied, but we run the risk of finding more homes on the market than buyers in the near term due to cyclical factors," Ali Wolf, chief economist at Zonda, tells Fortune. Now homebuilders are fearing what six months ago was unthinkable: oversupply. But the ongoing housing correction has flipped the script. When the housing market was hot, it went as planned.
Their thinking? Builders could easily find buyers before the so-called spec homes-short for speculative houses-are finished. Eager to turn a higher profit, homebuilders ramped up production of unsold homes. The pandemic housing boom saw builders get a little greedy.
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