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Buyers finally get a breather as the everything bubble in housing starts to leak air. Meanwhile, the home price-to-income ratio is still very, very high. pic.twitter.com/kafzqXrATR — 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙠 (@sortovak) May 6, 2026 The Fed/BLS have a CPI Shelter measurement problem. …
People confuse disposable income with discretionary income. Disposable income is your take-home pay (after taxes). It has nothing to do with cost of living. Money left after paying living costs is called discretionary income. h/t Unusual_Bag3110
Home prices just did it again. For the 33rd consecutive month, the median price of an existing home climbed—this time to $408,800 in March, a record high for the month, according to the National Association of Realtors’ existing home-sales report. …
The average German believes that the government should take as much as possible from him, give some of it back as “free” healthcare, education, daycare spots, etc., and distribute the rest to people who have never contributed anything to society. …
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 …
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 …
The national median rent fell 0.8% in December, and now stands at $1,356. This closes the book on 2025, with five consecutive months of rent declines. Based on recent years, we expect another 1-2 months of rent drops before the …
🚨 BREAKING: The national median monthly rent for apartments fell for the fourth month in a row. Who would have thought that mass deportations would make housing cheaper.pic.twitter.com/19QIe4gx2A — CJ Pearson (@Cjpearson) December 3, 2025 A slew of new supply …
by confoundedinterest17 Roll out the barrel! As in Fed money printing. How can the current housing disaster be fixed? One answer is to build more homes (made difficult by local government zoning and building policies). Another is increase household income. But …
Student loans (yellow) are a problem (getting worthless degrees). But the overwhelming problem is mortgage debt (green) byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts “Now you can't afford a 50-year mortgage so you're taking out a 100-year mortgage to pay $500 less a month but …
The US housing market is frozen: Only 28 out of every 1,000 homes, or 2.8%, changed hands in the first 9 months of 2025, the least in at least 30 years. The turnover rate has declined -38% since the 2021 …
Soon they will start approving 40-50yr mortgages to pretend its affordable because “the monthly payment is only 60% of your income, totally affordable!” I’ve been saying this for years. It’s the high prices not the rate. It’s time for the …
Key Takeaways America’s median home price-to-income ratio has risen from 3.5 in 1985 to 5.0 in 2025. In 2025, the median price for an American home is $416,900, up from $82,800 in 1985. 30-year fixed mortgage rates have reduced from 12.4% …
“A homebuyer must earn $114,627 to afford the median-priced U.S. home, up 15% from a year ago and more than 50% since the start of the pandemic… That’s the highest annual income necessary to afford a home on record” https://investors.redfin.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/987/redfin-reports-that-homebuyers-must-earn-115000-to-afford …
It now takes an income of 124k to buy the median priced home in America. Only 18% of single Americans make 100k. 62% of homebuyers are married. Lower rates won’t fix family formation. See the problem? pic.twitter.com/4DO0rEKUTh — Cherrygarciafan. USD🏴☠️ …
California just redefined “low income” and it no longer means what people think it does. A single person earning $111,700 in Santa Clara County now qualifies. In San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties, the line is set at $109,700. …
The fundamental problem in the housing market today. American households need to earn $112,000 in order to afford a house. However, the Median Household income is only $84,000. Meaning that a huge portion of the U.S. population is unable to …
Median annual salary for elementary teachers byu/BadElegant5539 inInfographics Washington had the highest median salary for elementary teachers ($99,000), while Oklahoma had the lowest ($47,470). After adjusting for cost of living, Washington still topped the list with an adjusted median salary …
by confoundedinterest17 I am glad all over … because the AI boom is delivering a record contribtion to US GDP. And US home prices are contracting making housing more affordable. I don’t care what you did when you lived in Fort Worth, …
The math on home prices always ends up at the same place. A median home price around $280,000 This would mean home prices nationally fall $130,000 pic.twitter.com/QoGqNVIz8L — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 23, 2025 US housing crisis worsens Case Shiller …
The median age of homebuyers has climbed to 56, marking a dramatic shift in the housing market. This is the highest recorded age for buyers, reflecting the impact of soaring home prices, high mortgage rates, and tightening inventory. Younger generations …
Housing affordability has rarely been worse: 94 million American households cannot afford a $400,000 home, according to a National Association of Home Builders analysis. By comparison, the estimated median price of a new house is ~$460,000. To put this differently, …
That’s such a huge amount of gold for any normal person. Today, it represents just shy of 10 years’ worth of the median personal income. If housing prices are going to crash, the dollar-to-house ratio will improve right along with …
This chart shows the median U.S. homebuyer housing payment on a median-priced home from January 2020 to April 2025, according to Redfin data. It starts at $1,484 in early 2020. It dips slightly to $1,688 by late 2020. Then it …
You're missing the best part, 80% of the people who can afford ALREADY OWN pic.twitter.com/BeDXsEK7ap — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) March 31, 2025
Skyrocketing rates make homeownership impossible for most Americans, with $124,150 needed to afford the median home—far above the $79,223 median household income. As of January, "qualified income" needed to afford median home in U.S. was $124,150, but U.S. median household …
Existing-home sales rose 2.2% in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.24 million, the strongest pace since February 2024 (4.38 million). Sales grew 9.3% from one year ago, the largest year-over-year gain since June 2021 (+23.0%). The median …
The MEDIAN duration of unemployment is 10.5 weeks. It was Dec 2008 by the time this series hit such lofty levels, 1 full year after the recession had begun, which took @nberpubs a record 366 days to backdate By then, …
https://imgur.com/cost-to-buy-significantly-outpacing-cost-to-rent-now-posted-response-to-rental-price-increases-VMXMPkM Income needed to buy a house vs. median income in the US. Subprime bubble looks almost cute in this chart. Ht @nickgerli1 pic.twitter.com/zPfUf2uaDc — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) December 13, 2024 All one needs to know about successful investing …
New Home Sales Sales of new single-family houses in October 2024 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This …