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A Slow, Expensive Housing Market

Motley Fool Money

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Business, Investing

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Housing supply is slowly rising. So are prices. (00:21) David Meier and Ricky Mulvey discuss the state of home sales and earnings from UPS and Spotify. Then, (14:52) Alison Southwick and Brian Feroldi continue their summer school series with a language arts class for investors. Learn more about the Range Rover Sport at www.landroverusa.com Companies discussed: UPS, SPOT Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: David Meier, Alison Southwick, Brian Feroldi Producer: Mary Long Engineers: Dan Boyd, Desiree Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've got two views on the macro and a look inside your ears. You're listening to

0:10.0

Motley Full Money. I'm Ricky. I'm Ricky Mulvey. I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by David Meyer.

0:20.0

David, thanks for being here. Oh. I'm Ricky Mulvey. Joined today by David Meyer.

0:23.2

David, thanks for being here.

0:24.8

Oh, it's awesome.

0:25.6

Can't wait to, uh, can't wait to do this.

0:27.6

Let's talk, uh, let's talk some big macro.

0:29.9

We got some fresh existing home sales data this morning. This is an interesting

0:34.4

market because no one really wants to sell their home right now. The market is

0:38.2

both slow and expensive. So less than 4 million homes sold annualized from the month. That's down 5% from

0:47.0

last month and down for more than 6 million annualized back in 2021. This is a weird economic situation where get out your graph but the

0:56.8

supply is rising and so are home prices.

1:00.1

Yeah, what the heck's up with that? What is? You're the analysts. Yeah, break it down. What's going on?

1:06.0

So here's here's what's going on and I think the NAR chief economist Lawrence Young made some interesting commentary that we can use to explain.

1:16.9

Basically he said it shifts, the market is starting to shift from a seller's market to a buyer's

1:21.7

market.

1:22.9

And the other thing along what he said

1:26.2

is the supply demand curve is actually coming

1:29.5

more into balance, right?

1:31.0

So yes, supply rising, home price rising doesn't necessarily, right,

1:36.4

makes sense, but it can, you know, in the short term you can get strange things like that.

1:41.0

But, so what's happening now is there are a few more homes

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