Collin County Cities among Wealthiest

Friday, February 26, 2010

by Christie Cannon

Collin County cities among wealthiest

By Kim Nguyen, knguyen@acnpapers.com

Published: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:13 PM CST

A new report puts Frisco, Allen, Plano and McKinney among the top 100 wealthiest cities in the country.

Using census data from 2008 Portfolio.com and Bizjournals, compared cities, incorporated towns and unincorporated urban areas with populations of more than 75,000.

A six-part formula was used to determine the relative affluence – or wealth score – of each city. The factors include per-capita income, median household income, percentage of households with annual incomes of $200,000 or more, the upper 20 percent threshold for household income, median home value and the upper-25 percent threshold for home value.

Adjustments were made for the median home value and upper-25 percent threshold for home value to dampen the impact of any housing bubbles that might have overinflated property values in upper-income communities.

Places with high income levels and large inventories of expensive homes, including the four cornerstone cities in Collin County, scored higher.

Frisco scored a wealth score of 17.379 and earned the 27th spot on the list of most affluent American cities. With a median household income of nearly $104,000, Frisco was the first Texas city ranked.

Plano was 42nd overall with a wealth score of 10.492 and a median household income of $85,003. Allen ranked 75th with a wealth score of 5.579 and a median household income of $88,199 and McKinney came in at 85th with a wealth score of 4.796 and a median household income of $82,403.

Richardson and Carrollton were the only other North Texas cities on the list with positive wealth scores at 110th and 134th, respectively.

Plano Mayor Phil Dyer said the survey results not only highlight Plano, but the entire Collin County area as one that attracts well-educated and successful people.

“It’s amazing for one area to have so many cities rank highly on this survey,” he said. “It goes to show that the whole area is committed to providing its residents with the opportunity to live the American Dream.”

Dallas, Irving, Arlington, Lewisville, Fort Worth, Denton, Garland and Grand Prairie were all also ranked, but scored negative wealth scores.

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Dallas-Fort Worth has lowest risk for home-price declines

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

by Christie Cannon

By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

The latest home price risk forecast shows that Dallas-Fort Worth is overall the safest place in the country for stable home values.

The latest report by mortgage insurance company PMI Group ranked the D-FW area dead last among the 50 cities it rates for possible declines in home prices.

That means PMI is betting there is less than a 1 percent chance that average home prices here will be lower two years from now.

PMI's summer 2008 risk ranking for D-FW is similar to the insurance company's previous studies.

As in other PMI reports, the U.S. cities with the biggest run-up in home prices in recent years are at the greatest risk for losses.

During the last year, some markets have seen a significant increase in the number of existing single-family homes for sale, PMI chief economist David Berson said in the report.

"Given the magnitude of the inventory overhang, we expect national home price declines to continue into at least 2009," Mr. Berson said.

In North Texas, however, the number of pre-owned homes listed for sale has declined during the last year.

Although PMI Group's report about D-FW home prices should be encouraging, Mr. Berson said that doesn't mean there won't be short-term declines in values.

"It is also an average for a metropolitan area, so individual neighborhoods and houses could behave differently," he said, perhaps considerably so.

PMI SUMMER 2008 PMI U.S. MARKET RISK INDEX

Likelihood of lower home prices in each market in two years.
GREATEST RISK
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif.	95.5%
Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, Fla.	92.2%
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, Fla.	91.9%
Orlando-Kissimmee, Fla.	91.1%
Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev.	88.1%
LOWEST RISK
Fort Worth	<1%
Dallas	<1%
Pittsburgh	<1%
Houston	<1%
San Antonio	<1%
SOURCE: PMI Group.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

by Christie Cannon

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Report: Dallas-Fort Worth is a good place to build home equity

Friday, May 9, 2008

by Christie Cannon

09:24 AM CDT on Friday, May 9, 2008

By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

Potential Dallas-Fort Worth homebuyers who are nervous about whether it's a good time to purchase a house might find some comfort in a new report.

But analysts caution not to get carried away with the data.

The study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and National Low Income Housing Coalition projects that DFW homebuyers could see one of the best increases in equity in the country during the next few years.

The comprehensive report looked at home ownership and rental costs and the prospects for building home equity in 100 metropolitan areas.

In terms of building equity, the D-FW area is among the top five markets expected to do well between now and 2012. A homeowner who buys a house priced at 75 percent of the median for the area could gain more than $80,000 in equity four years from now, the study finds.

"I wouldn't want people to run out and make investment decisions based on this," Dean Baker, one of the authors of the report, said Thursday.

But he said the Texas market is probably in the best shape in the country.

"The fact that Texas didn't take part in the housing bubble is good news," he said. "You are not going to feel the pain other cities are."

Indeed, while home equity is likely to grow during the next few years in Texas cities, homeowners could lose equity in their houses in about a third of the cities in the report.

The biggest declines are forecast in markets that have seen big price increases in recent years, including many California cities.

"People in Texas have benefited from not having that temporary run-up in prices," Mr. Baker said. "That wasn't healthy, and now people are really getting hurt [there]."

Median home sales prices in North Texas have dropped only slightly during recent months, while residential values in many coastal cities have decreased dramatically and are still falling.

Mark Dotzour, chief economist with Texas A&M University's Real Estate Center, said the study's findings confirm the relative strength of the state's housing market.

"There is a lot less downside risk to buying a home in any of these Texas cities and a lot more upside potential," he said.

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Friday, March 21, 2008

by Christie Cannon

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Friday, March 21, 2008

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Housing: Best Time to Buy in Four Years

Monday, March 10, 2008

by Christie Cannon

Housing: Best Time to Buy in Four Years

by Les Christie

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 provided by CNN-Money

It may be the best time to buy a house in more than four years.

Home prices have dropped so quickly and so far that valuations - the difference between what a home should cost and its actual price - are the lowest they've been since 2004, according to a report.

The Cleveland-based bank National City Corp., together with financial analysis firm Global Insight, revealed Tuesday that more than 88% of the 330 housing markets surveyed showed price declines and improved affordability during the last three months of 2007.

"Housing valuations are almost back to long-term norms," said National City's chief economist, Richard DeKaser. He called current affordability "the best in the past four years."

But DeKaser cautioned that home prices could fall even further.

"This isn't to say home price declines are over," he said. "We could move below historic norms. By the end of 2008, housing markets could be broadly under valued."

Prices still improving

There are still 21 housing markets, or 6% of those surveyed, that are severely over valued, including Atlantic City and Madera, Calif. That's down from 56 overvalued markets at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006.

The report compares actual median home prices with what the authors determine are proper home values based on population density, relative income levels and interest rates, as well as historically observed market premiums or discounts, to determine whether markets are over or under valued.

The report also factors in market intangibles that make some areas more desirable places to live, and more expensive.

"Declines are no longer confined to once-frothy markets," said DeKaser.

The survey covered home valuations during the last three months of 2007, but DeKaser pointed out there's reason to believe that valuations are even more favorable for buyers today.

Price declines have continued into 2008 and interest rates, although they have inched up lately, have been steady or lower compared to late last year. There have even been wage gains; personal income rose 0.5% in December. Soaring foreclosure rates have added inventory to many housing markets, depressing home prices further.

The biggest gains in affordability occurred in California, Michigan and Florida, which are areas that have also been some of the hardest hit by foreclosures. Those states registered 43 of the 50 biggest price declines.

Bend, Ore. currently tops the overvaluation list. Home prices there were judged to be about 59% higher than their fair-market value. Miami, despite a median home price decline of 5.7% last year, is the most overvalued big city, by 44%.

All the best bargains were found in Louisiana and Texas. Houses in Houma, La. were under valued by 31.2%, according to the report. Dallas was the most undervalued big city, by 30%.

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Report: Dallas-Fort Worth home prices least likely to drop

Thursday, January 17, 2008

by Christie Cannon

Report: Dallas-Fort Worth home prices least likely to drop

07:30 AM CST on Wednesday, January 16, 2008

By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

Dallas-Fort Worth's housing market is the least likely of any in the country to see a decrease in home values, a new report confirms.

At the same time, the chances of a house price decline rose in almost four out of five U.S. markets, according to a report released Tuesday by mortgage insurance firm PMI Group.

Dallas and Fort Worth ranked dead last in PMI Group's latest forecast of cities with the biggest chance for a home price shakeout.

Analysts with the California-based company estimate that Dallas-Fort Worth has less than a 1 percent chance of marked home price drops in the next two years.

By comparison, cities in California, Nevada and Arizona have more than an 80 percent likelihood of falling residential values.

"We're seeing an increasingly polarized market," PMI economist David Berson said in a news release.

"The risk that home prices will be lower in two years has increased for many of the largest cities in the nation, although areas that saw only moderate home price gains during the 2002-to-2005 period still generally have low risks of price declines," he said.

That's certainly the case in Dallas-Fort Worth, where home price appreciation during the last five years has been a fraction of the national average.

"Because Texas did not participate in the double-digit home price gains in the first half of the decade, it doesn't have to take the great pain of the areas that are compensating for that now," Mr. Berson said in an interview.

Now that the housing sector is in a slump, home values in North Texas have been relatively flat while they are falling in many other major U.S. cities.

In 2007, the median price of homes sold through the North Texas Realtors' multiple listing service was up 1 percent from 2006.

Texas markets – including the D-FW area – were also less affected by investors who ran up prices in some cities, Mr. Berson said.

And most Texas cities are outpacing the rest of the country in overall economics, he said.

"The state economy is doing pretty well, and job growth is above the national average," Mr. Berson said.

"It's quite likely Texas will be doing better than the national average for the foreseeable future," he said.

The D-FW area has gotten high marks in the PMI risk report before.

And other national surveys show that North Texas' housing market is outperforming those in the rest of the country.

Even so, pre-owned home sales were down about 8 percent last year, and sales of new homes fell about 17 percent in 2007.

Foreclosure rates also continue to rise.

Analysts are therefore keeping a close eye on D-FW home prices for signs of deterioration.

"I can't argue with the PMI risk assessment, but it doesn't mean that it still couldn't happen – just not as likely as elsewhere," said Dr. James Gaines, an economist with Texas A&M University's Real Estate Center. "So far, most Texas markets are doing well.

"The metroplex probably will do well to have positive overall appreciation, but pockets within the metroplex will have a rough time for a while."

Indeed, Mr. Berson said, the Texas housing market isn't bulletproof.

"There are no sure things," he said.

"It's possible that some parts of Texas will see some declines in the near term."

But overall, the outlook for the local housing market is good, he said.

HOW RISKY IS THE HOUSING MARKET?

Markets with the most and least risk of a home price decline, based on price appreciation, economic growth and affordability according to PMI Group, one of the country's largest mortgage insurance firms. An index of 100 means there is a 100 percent chance of home prices falling in the next two years.

MOST RISKY

Riverside, Calif. 94

Las Vegas 89

Phoenix 83

Santa Ana, Calif. 81

Los Angeles 79

LEAST RISKY

Fort Worth Less than 1

Dallas Less than 1

Pittsburgh Less than 1

Houston Less than 1

San Antonio Less than 1

SOURCE: PMI Group

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Dallas home prices rise among few U.S. gains

Thursday, November 1, 2007

by Christie Cannon

Dallas home prices rise among few U.S. gains

Industry experts say foreclosures a concern

11:15 AM CDT on Thursday, August 30, 2007

By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com

Dallas is one of the few cities in the nation where home prices are still rising slightly, according to a national housing survey released Tuesday.

While U.S. home prices fell 3.2 percent in the second quarter, Standard & Poor's quarterly housing index reports that the Dallas metropolitan area was one of only five markets in the country with price gains.

Of the 20 cities it surveys, only Dallas , Seattle , Portland , Ore. , Atlanta and Charlotte , N.C. , had annual gains in home prices in the second quarter.

But it's hard to say whether the 1.6 percent gain in Dallas home prices is sustainable, industry experts say.

Dr. James Gaines of Texas A&M University 's Real Estate Center said "In a lot of places in Dallas , home prices are still going up by double digits.” In other neighborhoods, they are actually falling. But across the board, the gainers outweigh the losers," he said.

As mortgage lenders tighten loan requirements, a significant number of potential homebuyers have been locked out of the market. That could hurt the volume of sales in North Texas in the months ahead.

"It may take awhile to sort out" what's happening in the mortgage market, Dr. William Brueggeman, director of SMU's real estate department said. "There is going to be a little pain and suffering here, but nothing like we are seeing in other markets."

Fewer subprime woes

Dr. Gaines says that even with the soaring foreclosure rates, there have been fewer subprime mortgage problems here.

"The mortgage shakeout is affecting other parts of the country a lot more than it is Texas ," he said. "We didn't have anywhere near the level or magnitude" of subprime loans that other markets did.

But that doesn't mean that Dallas-Fort Worth homeowners aren't going to be hammered with a steady diet of bad news about the U.S. housing market. Those negative reports weigh on consumer psychology.

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