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US Rents were down 0.9% over the last year, the 29th consecutive month with a YoY decline. Renting a home is cheaper than paying a mortgage in all 50 of the largest metros in the US. byu/Boo_Randy_II inHouseBuyers
Most buyers since COVID couldn’t afford the house just like 2008. Especially with mortgage rates where they are. https://t.co/I9OLqLUANX — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 16, 2025 It would take a heart of stone to read about these F*cked Borrowers who can't sell their overpriced houses, & not laugh byu/Boo_Randy_II inHouseBuyers Markets don't seem to have …
Sellers in some US metros are growing so frustrated with the state of the housing market they are de-listing their homes at an alarming rate. Beyond slowing sales and flat prices, de-listings have become a defining feature of this summer’s housing market. Nationally, de-listings rose 57 percent in July compared to the same time last …
"We see a housing crisis coming next." "Home prices need to come down." pic.twitter.com/zHXHKIF8lm — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 27, 2025 We have the biggest gap ever between Home Prices and Mortgage Rates in 2025. Prices are 90% above the 130-year average. Meanwhile, Mortgage Rates are right around the long-term average (6.7%). The resulting gap …
60 of the nation’s 300 largest metro area housing markets had falling year-over-year home prices between March 2024 to March 2025 Last month, that count was 42 markets Two months ago, that count was 31 markets Analysis via @ResidentialClub pic.twitter.com/vADre6uTh4 — Lance Lambert (@NewsLambert) April 18, 2025
19 are below their 2022 peaks: Austin -20%, San Francisco -10%, Phoenix -8%, San Antonio -7%, Denver -7%, Salt Lake City -6%, Sacramento -6%, Portland -5%, Dallas -5%, Seattle -5%, Honolulu -4%… The mix that drives the housing market now: Lowest demand since 1995 and surging supply of existing homes, as buyers are on strike …
by confoundedinterest17 Fed Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen started the home price fire that Powell is trying to extinguish but can’t. Throw in a 10% burst in illegal immigration and Biden/Mayorkas just added fuel to an already out-of-control fire. Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new …
Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new study by Creditnews Research, in 2024, middle-class households could afford to buy an average home in just 52 of the country’s 100 largest metros. Just five years earlier, they could afford a home in 91 of the top 100 metros. …
The latest revelation about the debt crisis in America is nothing short of alarming. With a staggering 29.6% of residents in the nation’s 100 largest metros falling behind on at least one debt payment during the third quarter of 2023, and 27.3% experiencing serious delinquencies over 90 days past due, the financial health of a …
New ApartmentList data dropped The United States hit the HIGHEST average vacancy rate since they started tracking data in 2017 with the following metros hitting 6+ year highs: pic.twitter.com/8xqVfGyKef — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) August 2, 2023 “Similar to 2007 levels” for real estate sales volume. https://t.co/fk6JHQPSfS — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 2, 2023 The summer …