Report: Housing Affordability Takes Downturn in Q2 Due to Market Headwinds
Higher mortgage rates, rising construction costs and economic uncertainty pressured housing affordability to reverse course in Q2, after showing improvement in the prior three quarters, according to the latest data from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The NAHB/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index (CHI) for Q2 found that a family earning the nation’s…
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