• ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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      If home prices can stay flat or sideways with the current mortgage interest rates, I can only imagine what will happen when rates are lowered again. Housing prices are gonna go up by 30% (instantly, or as quickly as the fed moves) if the fed decides it’s safe to lower rates to below 4% again. Housing scarcity in desirable locations (places with jobs, airports, music venues, etc. ) is never going away.

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        Housing prices are gonna go up by 30% (instantly, or as quickly as the fed moves) if the fed decides it’s safe to lower rates to below 4% again.

        I suspect they’ll lower them very slowly knowing this.

        A lot of inflation was simply record rises in housing costs.

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        1 year ago

        Housing scarcity in desirable locations (places with jobs, airports, music venues, etc. ) is never going away.

        “Never” is a long time. Demographics drive housing costs more than interest rates. Millennials are having kids right now, so they are going to want to move out of expensive cities to larger acreage soon. Gen Z has even less money than millennials. Plus, boomers are retiring and will soon be selling their places downtown that they bought for a song in 82.

        So we have:

        • Boomers - leaving cities for retirement communities
        • Millennials - leaving cities for smaller towns with more room
        • Gen Z - stuck 10 to a room, unable to purchase anything

        Who’s going to be buying expensive places in cities?