{"id":73051,"date":"2021-08-17T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=73051"},"modified":"2021-08-16T17:11:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T00:11:34","slug":"second-homes-report-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/second-homes-report-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Vacation Homes Fell for Second Consecutive Month in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Primary residence mortgage locks fell for the first time in over two years.<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demand for second homes fell 21% year over year in July, the second consecutive month of annual declines in mortgage-purchase locks. This followed 13 months of surging activity in second-home purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demand for primary home purchases fell by 4% year over year in July. This was the first time the growth rate for second-home demand fell behind that of primary homes since April 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chart-for-karthik-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chart-for-karthik-2.png 1300w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chart-for-karthik-2-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chart-for-karthik-2-1024x708.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chart-for-karthik-2-768x531.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is likely because soaring home prices caused some prospective second-home buyers to reconsider their plans. As of June, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/june-housing-market-home-sales-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">home prices were up 25% to record highs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but have since <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/housing-market-update-buying-conditions-improve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">begun to plateau<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDemand for second homes remains well above pre-pandemic levels, and we can expect the high level of interest in vacation homes to persist in the new era of remote work,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/author\/taylormarr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Marr<\/a>, lead economist at Redfin. \u201cBuilders have responded to this increased interest by putting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/construction\/c30\/c30index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more resources into building homes and less into hotels and lodging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If you build it&#8211;amid a historic housing shortage&#8211;they will come. I expect vacation homes to remain popular as more homes are built.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he data in this report is based on a Redfin analysis of mortgage-rate lock data for home purchases from real estate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analytics<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> firm<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.optimalblue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optimal Blue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A mortgage-rate lock is an agreement between a homebuyer and a lender that allows the homebuyer to lock in an interest rate on a mortgage for a certain period of time, offering protection against future interest-rate hikes. Homebuyers must specify whether they are applying to secure a mortgage rate for a primary home, a second home or an investment property. Roughly<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/f.hubspotusercontent10.net\/hubfs\/4225469\/Daily-Briefing-Files\/111720-Daily-Market-Briefing.pdf?utm_campaign=DAILY%20BRIEFING%3A%20Mortgage%20Market%20Trends%20%26%20Rate%20Activity&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_rJREAU041O7dLTCSSszK8thVgx5ZLbxG5gUSP3Lze1YmGVqPGf8qFS1a_J4OJT6bE92hQ0usjKIeSlZ79_9_KNdN5HA&amp;_hsmi=100118857&amp;utm_content=100118857&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;hsCtaTracking=dd6feab3-8164-4576-9814-7d1dcdea398c%7C32e55f2c-05c3-4f18-acdf-e0fec0b66c48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">80%<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of mortgage-rate locks result in actual home purchases. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary residence mortgage locks fell for the first time in over two years. Demand for second homes fell 21% year over year in July, the second consecutive month of annual declines in mortgage-purchase locks. This followed 13 months of surging activity in second-home purchases. Demand for primary home purchases fell by 4% year over year 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