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Financial Times

Runaway house prices: the ‘winners and losers’ from the pandemic

“Households that weathered the crisis without financial distress are snapping up the limited supply of homes for sale, pushing up prices and further excluding less affluent buyers from home ownership,” a report from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies concluded in June.

Bloomberg

Quicktake: Federal moratorium to end June 30

"In the first quarter of this year, we found that about 7 million renter households were behind on rent, and of those about 17% thought that eviction was very likely in the next two months," says JCHS research analyst Riordan Frost. "If the eviction moratorium does expire, that group could be in a dire situation."

Consumer Affairs

Existing home prices hit record high in May

“These outsized increases have raised concerns that a home price bubble is emerging,” said Daniel McCue, a senior research associate at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. “But conditions today are quite different from the early 2000s, particularly in terms of credit availability. The current climb in prices instead reflects strong demand amid tight supply, aided by record-low interest rates.”