Sea changes are in store for residential real estate ten years from now. Millions of new households will lift rental and starter home markets, half of the new families will be minorities and their ability to access mortgage finance will determine whether they own or rent.
Those are some of the headlines from the Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 2014 State of the Nation’s Housing Report. The report paints a bright but challenging future for homeownership.
Simple demographics describe how new household will change. Assuming current headship rates hold, the number of households in their 30s should increase by 2.7 million. Many of tomorrow’s younger households will be minorities. By 2025, minorities will make up 36 percent of all US households and 46 percent of those aged 25–34, thus accounting for nearly half of the typical first-time homebuyer market, the report said.
Meanwhile, the aging of the baby-boom generation over the next decade will lift the number of households aged 65 and over by some 10.7 million. Many of these households will choose to make improvements and modifications to their current homes so that they can age in place, while others will seek out new housing options geared toward seniors.
Since minority households tend to have lower incomes and wealth than white households, their demand for owner-occupied housing will depend in large measure on the availability of mortgage financing that accommodates their limited resources.
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