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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Real Estate Strategies podcast. |
0:02.8 | Let's get right into this episode. |
0:05.0 | Home prices hit a record high this past month and Jerome Powell is losing his mind. |
0:11.4 | Yeah, can you believe this? |
0:12.6 | I'll tell you what, hiking interest rates are not working. |
0:17.5 | Well, that's exactly, you know, it, right? |
0:19.6 | Like hiking the interest rates was supposed to bring down inflation, and it is in a lot of areas, but it's not in housing. |
0:27.5 | There's one huge flaw that is there's only one thing that's going to bring prices down, and that's increased supply. |
0:35.2 | Yeah. |
0:35.8 | And the problem is that you're going to talk about later, is that |
0:40.6 | hiking the rates also makes people stop building. Yep. Yeah. So hiking rates, you know, |
0:46.8 | restricts supply. Right, right. Well, I think it's important to note. So the cost of homes in the |
0:51.6 | U.S. climbed for the 11th consecutive month in May, |
0:55.0 | up 5.8% from a year ago. And now your average home is $419,300. Can you guys believe that? |
1:05.0 | So about $2,800 per month with current interest rates before taxes, insurance, and HOA. |
1:09.6 | I know. And I was looking at the affordability insurance, and HOA. I know. |
1:14.8 | And I was looking at the affordability factor, right? |
1:17.8 | Then we're at, obviously, you guys must know this. |
1:21.5 | Housing affordability is at an all-time low. |
1:22.1 | Yep. Like people obviously cannot afford to, I think you, we were were talking before you said they need like was |
1:29.9 | 130 140 grand so this is an interesting statistic so for the because you remember this is not |
1:35.6 | just about buying the home you have to qualify for the mortgage right so in order for the |
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