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 median household incone,
The labor market is truly screwed-up. The December jobs report reveals that women account for nearly all labor force losses.
I ain’t drunk! But it would help in this housing market where housing prices and mortgage rates are much higher than when Joe Biden became President in January 2020. In fact, the Case-Shiller national home price index is 55% higher than when Sleepy Joe took the reins of Presidency and the 30-year mortgage rate is 64% higher.
Because of higher housing prices and mortgage rates,
The Case-Shiller national home price index is 55% higher than when Sleepy Joe took the reins of Presidency and the 30-year mortgage rate is 64% higher.
As a result of higher housing prices and mortgage rate (and Gavin Newsom’s ludicrous policies), it will take over 30 years to accumulate enough savings to buy a home in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose and San Francisco.
I ain’t drunk, but first-time homebuyers will need to be drunk in this housing market.
According to Redfin, US pending home sales fell to the lowest since the Covid epidemic of 2020.
With the population change from state to state, like New York, California and Illinous to South Carolina and Idaho (home of Napolean Dynamite), it is no wonder that the housing market is in a state of turmoil.
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 is getting gut-punched from Naples to Punta Gorda.
Yikes! Median age of first time homebuyers is 40.
Fortunately, Joe Biden is out of office. But Chuck Schumer may make a comeback and restart the insane Covid-era spending. Schumer, the penultimate knucklehead in Congress, approved Ketanji Brown Jackson to sit on the Supreme Court of the USA.
Household formation is slowing. Partly due to immigration slowing, partly due to increased cost on living (primarily due to Biden-era Federal spending).
But if Democrats win Congress, they will undoubtedly go for open borders … again.
Home prices are tanking in bubble-ish metro areas like Florida, California and Austin Texas. Oddly, I have lived in Austin, San Francisco and Chico CA. All before that were bubble magnates.
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