by Calculated Risk August 8, 2024, 10:53 AM
Today’s Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Atlanta Fed: Home Affordability Monitor
Short excerpt:
Here is another indicator of homebuying ability provided by the Atlanta Fed that readers may find useful: Home Affordability Monitor
Here is a graph of home affordability (higher is more affordable) and the year-over-year change in home affordability through May 2024. By this measure, housing is essentially the least affordable it has been since the Atlanta Fed began tracking home affordability (October 2023 was slightly less affordable than May 2024). Note that the Atlanta Fed is projecting income.
There’s a lot more in the article.