most americans are frustrated by the housing market finding it a terrible time to buy right now according to a poll released tuesday the share of adults in the us who say it’s a good time to buy a home a measure of people’s perception of the housing market separate from their thoughts on the overall us economy has dropped to the lowest share in 45 years according to the research from gallup the drop in sentiment comes as mortgage rates and home prices stay elevated in other words nearly 8 in 10 people say it’s a bad time to buy gallup said the company surveyed 1013 people between april 3 to 25 as part of its annual economy and personal finance poll the last time americans felt so negatively about homebuying was in 2022 jeff jones senior editor at gallup told marketwatch “historically when people answer the question they’re partly responding to the current housing market and home prices and interest rates but also to some degree the long term benefits of owning a home” jones said “but these last two years we’re seeing the opposite people are a lot more negative” slightly more than half of the survey’s respondents said they believe home prices in their area will increase a dip from last year’s 70 the median price for an existing home fell by 09 from last march dropping to 375700 this year the drop is the largest since january 2012 when home prices fell 2 year over year it’s also the second month in a row that home prices fell to be clear this is only one firm’s gauge of consumer sentiment gallup’s read runs counter to what fannie mae fnma said about americans’ attitude towards the housing market this spring namely that consumers are feeling more optimistic about homebuying the government agency’s survey noted that an increasing share of consumers expect mortgage rates to go down over the next year gallup’s methodology differs from fannie mae which could explain the difference in how their respondents viewed the housing market