Are Home Prices set to rise in the Mount Pleasant and Charleston, SC area?

Overall home prices are starting to stabilizing in the most desirable areas in Mount Pleasant and in the Charleston SC area. Most of the stabilization is occurring in the lower price ranges (i.e 150-100k).  The stabilization is occurring due to first time home buyers, second (i.e. vacation)home buyers, and investors recognizing the most desirable homes are at rock bottom prices.  Most of the homes are either bank owned or short sale properties.

Home Prices Gain 0.7% in February From January (Update1)

Kathleen M. Howley, April 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. home prices rose 0.7 percent in February from January, the first consecutive monthly gain in two years, a sign that low interest rates may be moderating declines in real estate values.

Prices fell 6.5 percent in February from a year earlier, the second-smallest drop in six months, led by a 19 percent decrease in the region that includes California, the most populous U.S. state, the Federal Housing Finance Agency in Washington said today. The gain in February from a month earlier beat the average estimate of 10 analysts in a Bloomberg survey for a decline of 0.7 percent.

Mortgage rates have tumbled 1.6 percentage points in six months, making houses and condominiums more affordable. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s index of applications to purchase a home or refinance a loan increased 5.3 percent last week as Americans took advantage of interest rates near record lows. Home sales rose 5.1 percent in February from a month earlier, the National Association of Realtors said March 23.

“As demand firms, and once inventories of houses and a broad range of goods are brought into line with sales, economic activity should begin to stabilize,” Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said in an April 20 speech in Delaware.

The inventory of properties on the market fell to a 9.7 month supply in February at the current sales pace, down from April’s high of 11.3 months, and sales rose 5.1 percent from a month earlier, the Realtors group said.

The number of Americans signing contracts to buy previously owned homes rose 2.1 percent in February, led by a 14.5 percent jump in the Midwest and a 10.6 percent increase in the Northeast, the National Association of Realtors said in an April 1 report.

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