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Housing inflation continued to be sticky last month. The shelter component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.4% in November from the previous month, up from October's 0.3% monthly gain.
Omair Sharif, founder of research firm Inflation Insights, called housing costs the "most encouraging aspect of this report" in an email on Wednesday. Sharif called the 0.3% monthly rent increase ...
Here’s a peek into how inflation affects the housing market. The housing market and inflation The shelter category, which includes housing costs, continues to be a major contributor to the CPI ...
The shelter component of the CPI increased 0.5% in December from the previous month, up from November’s 0.4% monthly gain.
Housing costs are still a key driver of inflation, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday, even as the residential market stabilizes.. The shelter ...
If one assumes that the housing market is efficient, the expected change in housing prices (relative to interest rates) can be computed mathematically. The calculation in the sidebox shows that a 1 percentage point change in interest rates would theoretically affect home prices by about 10% (given 2005 rates on fixed-rate mortgages).
Lower-income people spend much of their income on items like food and housing, for which costs have spiked. Moderating rental rates and steady wage growth could help these households feel relief.
The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle [2] was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble , it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis .