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Blackstone allegedly loses over $600m on a single housing portfolio Here's one property pic.twitter.com/EaJ7DxjE0u — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 18, 2026 Per Grok: Blackstone bought ~90 senior housing properties (9K units) for $1.8B in 2016-17, planning to upgrade and resell. …
The housing affordability crisis is forcing homebuilders to do something they’ve almost never done: slash prices on new homes more aggressively than homeowners are for their homes on the market. This is a first for the housing market in recent …
by confoundedinterest17 Yikes! The ratio of US Home Prices to US Median Household Income is now higher than the ratio during the catestrophic housing bubble during the latter half of the 2000s. Here is a chart of home prices and …
job loss will crack the housing market. https://t.co/b0OtcMuF5Z — Jon Brooks (@jonbrooks) February 5, 2026 January 2026 home sales collapse -7.2% YoY in early reporting markets pic.twitter.com/iksDQ8LWYs — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 6, 2026
by confoundedinterest17 Home prices exploded under Biden and Covid Federal spending. Making housing unaffordable for millions. Now the turnover rates for homes is at its lowesst rate in decades. Existing homes are now more expensive than new homes. Florida housing …
Affordability is a hoax again? Donald Trump: “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up.” pic.twitter.com/0fvKLzvoQq — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) January 29, 2026 The clip is a snippet from President Trump’s remarks on …
Florida, Texas and California are now firmly at the center of America’s housing crash – accounting for 12 of the 14 major metro areas where home prices are falling. The sharpest drop was recorded in Dallas, TX, where median sale …
"Rent is throwing money away!" Meanwhile she pays $5,155 a month for a mortgage and $3,241 of it VANISHES into interest and taxes.pic.twitter.com/NZq2A4SX1P — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 23, 2026 There is no such thing as home price appreciation outside …
There’s a correlation to the size of the homes. On avg they’re also getting smaller. h/t RobertBartus
Banks seize 367,000 homes as housing pain spreads across US… and it is about to get much worse https://t.co/YWpfrzWOTz — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) January 15, 2026 The past year was difficult for homeowners — but experts warn that 2026 …
via notayesmanseconomics It is time to look East again as there is a lot of economic news from China. We can start with something that has become awfully familiar as we have observed the bursting of the property market bubble. …
It's plausible deniability through pretend stupidity. There's no way someone that smart about money didn't know that the covid bank bailout was going to cause rampant inflation. pic.twitter.com/ObOqknbTns — Ilgephelfis 🐸🤡👽🎻🎶 (@ilgephelfis) January 12, 2026 That Powell is forced to …
The $16 billion company is pushing more into the transaction side of the real estate industry, which Jeremy Wacksman calls ‘a better business to be in.’ On his Zillow account, Jeremy Wacksman has “favorited” every home he’s ever lived in, …
by confoundedinterest17 Politicians love to scream about housing being simply unaffordable. Like mayor-elected Mandami in New York City. But the reality is that housing prices vary by city and there are more affordable cities than New York City to choose from. Federal …
Miami leads the nation in home de-listings, that is number of sellers who realize the housing situation is bad and getting worse, therefore simply pull their property off the market. De-listings nationally have soared this year, led by Miami and …
“They Gave Mortgages to Illegal Immigrants.” – Ed Dowd Most thought the housing bubble was just rent subsidies. Wrong. The FHA was selling homes to illegals, using taxpayer-backed mortgages. “I thought they were just supporting prices via the rental market… …
How much of your income goes to housing right now? by inREBubble “Mine shows 40% and calls it ‘risky’. People always say ‘keep it under 30%’ but I honestly don’t know anyone who does. Curious what real numbers look like” …
Jerome Powell on the housing market: – “The housing market faces some really significant challenges and I don’t know that a 25-basis point decline in the Federal Funds Rate is going to make much of a difference for people.” – …
The housing shortage pic.twitter.com/U00dO89D4p — MegaDitto (@Choosey_Beggar) December 7, 2025
AI Data Centers are becoming the new Subprime Housing market. Banks are packaging up risky loans and selling them off to other investors. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance Data center debt has exploded due to the AI boom, with $25.4 billion in US …
Veronica Martinez woke up early one recent morning to make a fresh batch of cookies. She packed them in a box and headed to a community center in East Oakland, where a nonprofit called Trybe invites families to get the …
Spitznagel told Reuters (1) in an interview that he expects “an 80% crash” but also noted that he believes it will only happen “after a massive, euphoric, historic blow off rally.” While the stock market might be headed for an …
In Houston, Texas, massive office buildings that once buzzed with oil executives, engineers and energy traders now sit empty, with abandoned desks, computer screens and haunting silence. The oil industry runs so deep in the heart of Texas that the …
Americans are worried about their jobs: Consumers aged 18–34 now perceive a ~33% chance of losing their job over the next 5 years, the 2nd-highest on record. The 3-month moving average of this metric has risen ~10 points over the …
by Michael During the days of the Great Recession, rapidly falling home prices caused all sorts of havoc for our major financial institutions. Unfortunately, home prices are starting to plummet once again in many areas of the country. And just …
In the sewer business, they say a good flush beats a full house. This one isn’t a good flush. It’s the other kind that fills your house with a stinking mess you have to live with. by David Haggith Adam …
by confoundedinterest17 Every time the government tries to make housing more affordable, they make the problem worse. Some people should rent and not fall for the government’s latest folly, the 50-year mortgage. True, the 50-year mortgage would lower the monthly …
Trying to figure this out… everyone already knows you should NOT be buying right now, but someone got sold on this property and for them to put up $300k would still leave them with a $1M mortgage so I’m even …
by confoundedinterest17 Housing after Covid. 2020. A year that goes down in infamy. The Covid outbreak and the government’s insane overreaction to it. Masks and massive spending, driving up housing prices. After 2020, mortgage originations plummeted while housing prices soared. …
