{"id":1527,"date":"2018-08-30T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/is-it-a-renters-market\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:24:55","slug":"is-it-a-renters-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/is-it-a-renters-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a Renters Market? 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U.S. homeowners have, on average, outperformed renting and reinvesting in terms of wealth creation ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 16 of the 23 cities covered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/business.fau.edu\/departments\/finance\/real-estate-initiative\/bhj-buy-vs-rent-index\/\">Beracha, Hardin &amp; Johnson Buy vs. Rent (BH&amp;J) Index<\/a> are in rent territory. Those cities include Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and St. Louis, all of which will be experiencing downward pressure on the demand for ownership.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean for the future of U.S. housing prices? While residential real estate cycles are a relatively new phenomenon, making predictions difficult, the Index does have more than 36 years of quarterly pricing data, which allows its creators to draw some insight as to what is ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that we are at a point where markets will begin to see downward pricing pressure, implying in some markets annual pricing increases will begin to slow,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/business.fau.edu\/departments\/finance\/real-estate-initiative\/bhj-buy-vs-rent-index\/\">Ken Johnson<\/a>, Ph.D., a real estate economist and one of the index\u2019s creators in <a href=\"https:\/\/business.fau.edu\/\">FAU\u2019s College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best buys in the country right now appear to be in the Midwest and Northeast, with Chicago and Cleveland possessing the lowest\/best ownership scores. Of all the cities in the BH&amp;J Index, Johnson said, Dallas is most alarming with a score of .888.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross all of the data for the Index going back to 1982, only 49 times has a market in any given quarter been at this score or higher,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cAll of these markets experienced significant price declines in their residential housing prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the biggest driver for moving the U.S. into rent territory is the fact that, while both are rising, the cost of ownership is outpacing the cost of renting a like-kind property, said <a href=\"https:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/faculty\/expert-guides.cfm?FlagDirectory=Display&amp;EMP=berachae\">Eli Beracha<\/a>, Ph.D., co-creator of the index and director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/academic-departments\/real-estate\/\">Hollo School of Real Estate at FIU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCycles appear to be with us to stay and that the tradeoff between renting and reinvesting versus owning and building wealth, as well as the cost of ownership relative to the cost of renting like-kind property, will be fundamental drivers of housing prices,\u201d Beracha said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/faculty\/expert-guides.cfm?FlagDirectory=Display&amp;Emp=hardinw\">William G. Hardin<\/a>, Ph.D., director of FIU\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/centers\/jerome-bain\/\">Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute<\/a>&nbsp;and associate dean of the Chapman Graduate School of Business, believes U.S. housing markets are clearly heading toward the peak of the current cycle.&nbsp; However, the perfect storm that was present in 2007-08, which preceded the last crash of the real estate markets, is not around today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterest rates are low and few junk mortgages are out there,\u201d Hardin said.&nbsp; \u201cAdditionally, employment, income, and borrower credit ratings are all up. These are all good signs for a smoother transition this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BH&amp;J Index is publish quarterly and is available online at<a href=\"http:\/\/business.fau.edu\/buyvsrent\">http:\/\/business.fau.edu\/buyvsrent<\/a>. Due to data availability and the time necessary to calculate the most current index values, the index is produced two months after the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Housing Markets Moving into Rent Territory for First Time in Over Eight Years, Latest BH&amp;J Buy vs. Rent Index Shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is it a Renters Market? 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