Inflation-adjusted home prices in China have fallen below where they started two decades ago, and the fiscal fallout is hitting local governments even harder than developers.
It’s great for people who want to buy a house, great for ultra rich that want to buy out more property, but absolutely fucking people who just bought a house not too long ago.
If you just bought (assuming standard 30 yr mortgage), all you have to do is hold through it. Refinance if that becomes favorable.
The only losers are those who are free and clear or toward the end of their mortgage AND looking to utilize the equity they built up, OR anyone looking to sell. The solution is time, which can kinda suck, but it’s vastly preferable to not having a place to live.
I feel like people forget that a significant portion of America lives in a place where the cost-of-living isn’t ridiculously high. A housing crash might make houses slightly more affordable in San Francisco, but it would be economically devastating to the interior of the country.
Honestly it probably wouldn’t even be that great for people who wanted to buy a house. Banks aren’t likely to start handing out mortgages to people who couldn’t afford the house a couple weeks ago in what is now a volatile market, and you would still be competing with companies who could pay cash.
That is how supply and demand works, though. If the prices drop, and suddenly cash buyers start pouring out of the woodwork, that will drive prices back up.
When you see prices fall, it necessarily means the cash buyers are not just swooping in and grabbing everything.
I promise I understand what you’re saying. I’m saying the fault in your logic is misunderstanding the upward pressure of cash buyers.
When prices fall, it isn’t chum in the water for corporate cash buyers. What it means is that those same buyers were ALWAYS there, and are now leaving. The absence of thier buy pressure is the cause of the prices falling.
The price of anything is the balance of buyers and sellers.
The price TELLS you where the equilibrium is. It is the OUTPUT of the function.
Houses aren’t Hienz Ketchup. Head office doesn’t just decree a house price. You’re imagining the housing market works like Taylor swift tickets from ticket master.
You don’t even have to hypothesize on this because housing markets have been swinging around for decades. People on the sidelines were able to buy houses after 2008 that they’d never have been able to afford otherwise. It worked out GREAT for people who has been sidelined.
I entered the market at the brief but violent housing downturn in late 2019. I never would have been able to otherwise.
They suck for people who own a home and are depending on thier equity. It sucks for people who own a home and the banks get nervous.
Whenever I hear people saying to people without homes “be careful what you wish for” when they are wishing houses were cheaper… I just hear my old boss telling me how I shouldn’t want a raise because it’ll “bump me into a higher tax bracket”.
It’s bullshit half-truths which sound just plausible enough to convince you to not act in your own best interests.
If you own a property, its in your own financial best interests to have the value increase. If you do not own property, but want to, you want the price to go down.
I didn’t realize San Francisco is the only city in the US. Rent in every single urban area is out of control. A two bedroom apartment that I rented in Lexington, KY from 1996-2011 for $500 a month is now $1,800.
A studio apartment that I rented in Altoona, PA from 2011- 2013 for $700 a month is now $1200.
I could keep looking, as I have rented places in 38 states.
No where that isn’t rural is cheap in the US anymore. Even the most “affordable” cities are boasting about 1 br apartments that are $1,000+ a month.
I hate to break it to you but those prices are barely more than inflation. $700 in 2011 is $1065 today. And I didn’t say anything about San Francisco being the only city in the US now you’re just reaching.
It’s great for people who want to buy a house, great for ultra rich that want to buy out more property, but absolutely fucking people who just bought a house not too long ago.
If you just bought (assuming standard 30 yr mortgage), all you have to do is hold through it. Refinance if that becomes favorable.
The only losers are those who are free and clear or toward the end of their mortgage AND looking to utilize the equity they built up, OR anyone looking to sell. The solution is time, which can kinda suck, but it’s vastly preferable to not having a place to live.
I feel like people forget that a significant portion of America lives in a place where the cost-of-living isn’t ridiculously high. A housing crash might make houses slightly more affordable in San Francisco, but it would be economically devastating to the interior of the country.
Honestly it probably wouldn’t even be that great for people who wanted to buy a house. Banks aren’t likely to start handing out mortgages to people who couldn’t afford the house a couple weeks ago in what is now a volatile market, and you would still be competing with companies who could pay cash.
Actually when things are less expensive they are easier to buy.
For everyone… not just poor people who need a loan, but people who can pay cash too… which is what I said.
That is how supply and demand works, though. If the prices drop, and suddenly cash buyers start pouring out of the woodwork, that will drive prices back up.
When you see prices fall, it necessarily means the cash buyers are not just swooping in and grabbing everything.
Yes which would mean that the cash buyers would have all the houses and the people who needed loans wouldn’t. Which was my point.
That is not what that means.
I promise I understand what you’re saying. I’m saying the fault in your logic is misunderstanding the upward pressure of cash buyers.
When prices fall, it isn’t chum in the water for corporate cash buyers. What it means is that those same buyers were ALWAYS there, and are now leaving. The absence of thier buy pressure is the cause of the prices falling.
The fault in your logic is thinking there won’t be more cash buyers if prices dropped.
But then the prices go up again.
The price of anything is the balance of buyers and sellers.
The price TELLS you where the equilibrium is. It is the OUTPUT of the function.
Houses aren’t Hienz Ketchup. Head office doesn’t just decree a house price. You’re imagining the housing market works like Taylor swift tickets from ticket master.
You don’t even have to hypothesize on this because housing markets have been swinging around for decades. People on the sidelines were able to buy houses after 2008 that they’d never have been able to afford otherwise. It worked out GREAT for people who has been sidelined.
I entered the market at the brief but violent housing downturn in late 2019. I never would have been able to otherwise.
They suck for people who own a home and are depending on thier equity. It sucks for people who own a home and the banks get nervous.
Whenever I hear people saying to people without homes “be careful what you wish for” when they are wishing houses were cheaper… I just hear my old boss telling me how I shouldn’t want a raise because it’ll “bump me into a higher tax bracket”.
It’s bullshit half-truths which sound just plausible enough to convince you to not act in your own best interests.
If you own a property, its in your own financial best interests to have the value increase. If you do not own property, but want to, you want the price to go down.
Less than 20% is significant?
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-rural-populations.html
I didn’t realize only rural areas had a lower cost of living than San Francisco…
I didn’t realize San Francisco is the only city in the US. Rent in every single urban area is out of control. A two bedroom apartment that I rented in Lexington, KY from 1996-2011 for $500 a month is now $1,800.
A studio apartment that I rented in Altoona, PA from 2011- 2013 for $700 a month is now $1200.
I could keep looking, as I have rented places in 38 states.
No where that isn’t rural is cheap in the US anymore. Even the most “affordable” cities are boasting about 1 br apartments that are $1,000+ a month.
I hate to break it to you but those prices are barely more than inflation. $700 in 2011 is $1065 today. And I didn’t say anything about San Francisco being the only city in the US now you’re just reaching.
Not reaching, just using your own hyperbole in reverse.
I hate to break it to you, but inflation hasn’t done a thing to minimum wage, or wages in general.
In what way was pointing out that there are places in America with a lower cost of living than San Francisco that aren’t rural hyperbole?
I never said it did, in fact that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m talking about.
San Francisco isn’t the only place where housing is unaffordable. That’s how it’s hyperbole.
Ahh, so you’re fine with price gouging in the name of inflation, but fuck the workers that have to pay those prices. Got it.