The rate of home price growth has started to slow, and the competition for homes may be showing some signs of easing somewhat.
“The market’s topping out,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told realtor.com®. It’s “starting to show cracks. It feels like we’ve hit the apex, and we’re moving to the other side of it.”
But that doesn’t mean the housing market is heading for a bubble that is bound to burst. Mortgage lending has remained tight. Real estate economists have long said the current frenzy in the housing market is no housing bubble that is reminiscent of nearly a decade ago with the run-up in real estate.
Economists are generally predicting an overall slowdown in prices and more moderation rather than any major downfall.
