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Why Aren’t More Renters Becoming Homeowners?

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by Andreas Fuster, Basit Zafar, and Matthew Cocci – Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Recent activity in the U.S. housing market has been widely perceived asdisappointing. For instance, sales of both new and existing homes were about 5 percent lower over the first half of 2014 than over the first half of 2013. From a longer-term perspective, a striking statistic is that the homeownership rate in the United States has fallen from 69 percent in 2005 to 65 percent in the first quarter of 2014. This decrease in homeownership is particularly pronounced for younger households, implying that many of them are remaining renters for longer than in the past. In this post, we use survey evidence to shed some light on what is driving this sluggish transition from renting to homeownership.

Understanding the rate at which renters enter homeownership is important for several reasons. One, first-time homebuyers (mostly former renters) generally account for a substantial portion of home sales. (The share going to first-time buyers has historically amounted to30 to 50 percent of all home sales.) Two, in the time series, renter-to-owner transition flows tend to lead the business cycle and house price growth.

What could be inhibiting the flow of renters into homeownership? Is it that renters today simply do not want to own because of changed attitudes toward housing, as sometimes hypothesized in the popular press? Or are they prevented from entering homeownership by fundamental factors, such as low incomes and weak personal finances, coupled with difficult access to mortgage credit? To help answer these questions, we use data from a special module on housing-related issues in the New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations, fielded in February 2014 to 867 homeowners and 344 renters. For more information on the survey, see our earlier post.

To begin, let’s look at how likely our respondents think they are to move over the next year, or the next three years, and, if they were to move over the next three years, how likely they would be to purchase (and not rent) their next home. As we can see from the chart below, the average renter in our sample thinks he or she has a 63 percent chance of moving over the next three years (versus 22 percent for owners), but only a 44 percent chance of buying if moving (versus 75 percent for owners).

Chart 1 shows Respondents’ Average Expected Probability of Moving and Buying

Renters who provided a probability of buying of below 60 percent were asked: “Which of the following are reasons you would rent and not purchase a home if you were to move over the next three years?” They could (and did) pick multiple options from the responses shown in the next chart.

Ch2_Why-renters-would-rent-and-not-purchase-a-home

We see that the main reasons preventing renters from becoming owners are weak balance sheets (low savings or high debt), low income, and lack of access to credit. Some cite inherent advantages of being a renter (such as low upkeep and more flexibility), but notably few say that they do not want to own because they are concerned that house prices might fall.

Digging Deeper: Fundamentals, Perceived Access to Credit, or Feeling Bearish on Housing?

Additional evidence reinforces the view that weak fundamentals and limited access to credit, rather than a lack of desire to own, are preventing renters from buying. The left panel of the chart below relates renters’ expected probability of buying to their income, and shows that the high-income renters in our survey are almost twice as likely to buy as lower-income renters (57 percent versus 31 percent).

The right panel shows renters’ probability of buying for different groups depending on their answer to the question “If you wanted to buy a home today, do you think it would be easy or difficult for you to obtain a mortgage?” As the percentages beneath the bars show, about two-thirds of the renters in our sample think it would be somewhat or very difficult for them to get a mortgage. Only about 5 percent think it would be very easy. In addition, the bars also show that this perceived ease of credit access is positively associated with the probability of buying: the average reported probability of buying for those who think it would be very difficult to get a mortgage is about half that for those who think it would be very easy.

Chart 3 shows Renters Probablity of Buying

Importantly, these associations are not just “picking up the same thing”—in a regression analysis where we can simultaneously control for income and perceived access to credit as well as other factors (for instance, savings, debt, or demographic factors), both of the variables above remain statistically significant correlates of a respondent’s probability of buying.

Last, we examine how our respondents feel about owning a home as a financial investment. Given the depth of the housing bust in many parts of the country, it might not be surprising if many households shied away from owning a home because of the financial risks involved. However, we do not find much evidence supporting this view—as illustrated by the next chart.

Chart 4 is titled Is Housing a Good or Bad Investment

About 60 percent of our respondents think that buying property in their zip code is a good investment, and only 12 percent think it’s a bad investment. Furthermore, current renters are as bullish on housing as current owners, or perhaps even slightly more so. This optimism is also reflected in expectations about future house prices, shown in the table below. We can see that the renters in our sample expect home prices to grow at a slightly faster pace than the owners do, at both the one-year and the five-year horizon. Thus, none of our evidence suggests that renters are reluctant to own for fear of making a bad investment.

Table showing respondents expected price growth

Conclusion

Taken together, these findings suggest that with a stronger economy and eased credit standards, flows into homeownership would pick up. However, one caveat is that many potential buyers with relatively low credit scores (35 percent of renters in our sample think that their credit score is below 680) might now be “discouraged,” meaning that they are convinced that they would not be granted credit and thus may fail to apply for a mortgage even after an easing in standards. Also, relaxing credit standards may, of course, have undesirable consequences down the road, since borrowers with lower credit scores are at higher risk of default.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in this post are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors.

Source: http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/09/why-arent-more-renters-becoming-homeowners.html#.VA7rT_ldUSg


About the Authors

Fuster_andreas Andreas Fuster is a senior economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research and Statistics Group.

Zafar_basit Basit Zafar is a senior economist in the Research and Statistics Group.

Cocci_matthew Matthew Cocci is a senior research analyst in the Research and Statistics Group.

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