Ten charts that illustrate a record year for the U.S. housing market, including the highest home prices and lowest supply of all time.

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As of December 31, 2020, the rate of African-American homeownership is 44.1 percent, whereas the rate of White homeownership is 74.5 percent. At all income ranges, even at incomes above $100,000, homeownership rates are lower for African-American households than for White households.

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At least 40 properties in the United States sold for $50 million or more last year, a 35% increase from 2020, and at least eight sold for at least $100 million, a 300% jump from the prior year.

The share of first-time homebuyers fell to 26% in November 2021, the lowest since January 2014. Around 24% of existing homes were purchased with all cash--only 7% of first-time home buyers could afford this approach compared to 30% of non-first-time buyers.

Mortgage rates rose to their highest level since May 2020 to 3.22% for 30-year-fixed-rate loans, up 3.11% from the week ending December 2021 and 2.65% one year ago which was the lowest on record.

Median sales prices rising for existing single-family homes in all but one of 183 measured markets in the third quarter of 2021. Austin-Round Rock, TX saw the greatest price appreciation (33.5%), followed by Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL (32%), Boise City-Nampa, ID (31.5%), Ocala, FL (29.7%), and Punta Gorda, FL (27.5%).

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Mortgage lenders issued $1.61 trillion in purchase loans in 2021, beating a record set in 2005, as a wave of Americans entered the housing market or sought larger homes.

As of Dec. 24, housing inventory fell from 437,000 during the prior week to 310,000, a decline of 29%. Inventory bottomed out in April 2021.

Rental prices for single-family homes rose 10.9% on average, a three-fold increase over October 2020. Rent increases were highest in Miami (29.7%), followed by Phoenix (19.3%) and Las Vegas (16.5%).

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The national median value of a mobile home in 2019 was $53,000, about $180,000 less than a traditional home. That was a 39% spike over the median value in 2014, while traditional homes rose by 33% over those five years.

Compared with homes in primarily white neighborhoods, homes in primarily Black areas have consistently been undervalued by tens of thousands of dollars over the last decade, after accounting for fundamental factors that contribute to home values SEATTLE , April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ:

Single-family homes represented a record 74% of investor purchases. Low-priced properties made up 36% of purchases, an all-time low.

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Surging rents and low mortgage rates mean that the monthly cost of buying a starter home is more affordable than renting in nearly half of the biggest housing markets across the country.

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MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released an analysis showing that appraisal values are more likely to fall below the contracted sale price of a home in census tracts with a higher share of Black and Latino households, resulting in an appraisal gap.

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac examined 12 million home appraisals between 2015 and 2020 — and found significant racial differences.