Consumers say it’s the worst time to buy a home since the Great Financial Crisis, a new Fannie Mae index finds.
A whopping 86% of prospective buyers last month said it was a bad time to buy, versus 14% who said it was a good time, according to Fannie’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index. The figures released Friday are both record lows for the National Housing Survey since the questionnaire began in 2010.
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