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\n <\/span> in the next year, and inflation at a forty-year high, American homeownership is likely to get harder.<\/p>\nThe National Association of Realtors has said housing affordability tumbled a record 29% over the last year – the steepest annual decline on record – as mortgage rates and housing prices shoot upwards. <\/p>\n
One economist even said US mortgage applications are in “meltdown” as borrowing costs soar. In the week leading up to June, the Mortgage Bankers Association said that applications for new purchases fell at a 52% annualized rate, compared to the previous three months. <\/p>\n
“A meltdown, in other words,” Pantheon Macroeconomics chief economist Ian Shepherdson said. <\/p>\n
A separate survey echoed gloomy buyer sentiment and recorded that about 80% of respondents say it’s never been a worse time to buy a home.<\/p>\n
“Consumers’ expectations that their personal financial situations will worsen over the next year reached an all-time high in the May survey, and they expressed greater concern about job security,” Doug Duncan, senior vice president, and chief economist at Fannie Mae, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n