Home price predictions for the remainer of 2024

Experts generally expect home prices to increase throughout the remaining months of 2024.

  • Fannie Mae currently sees home prices rising 4.8% year over year by the end of 2024
  • The Mortgage Bankers Association believes prices could rise as much as 4.3% this year
  • The National Association of Realtors has more conservative expectations and thinks existing-home prices will inch up just under 2% overall by the end of 2024.

Low home inventory is a chronic problem in the US. This has generally kept home prices up, even as mortgage rates peaked near 7.25% and homebuying demand plummeted last year. Demand may increase if rates go down in the final few months of 2024, so even if home prices were…

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Where does that leave home buyers and sellers looking at the second half of 2024?

The housing market shows few signs of busting out of its three-year funk after a disappointing spring season and amid a gloomy outlook for the summer and fall.

Home shoppers came into 2024 with optimism that mortgage rates would ease further after a decline late last year. But those hopes faded as stronger-than-expected data on inflation and the economy clouded the timing of a possible rate cut by the Federal Reserve.

By April, the average rate on a 30-year home loan moved above 7% for the first time since November. That, plus record-high home prices, forced many would-be homebuyers to put their house hunt on hold -- some indefinitely.

Economists are…

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