At the Money: The Best Way to Buy a House Right Now

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Buying a house in today's climate can be challenging. Interest rates are near the highest level in 20 years. Housing inventory is near record lows. So what's a potential home buyer to do? Jonathan Miller, President of Miller Samuel, joins Barry Ritholtz to discuss the best approach for purchasing a home today.

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0:28.0	Has there ever been a worst time to buy a house in America?
0:35.0	Rates are at their highest levels in more than 20 years.
0:38.5	Inventory is at record lows.
0:40.5	Competition has been intense. Home purchases are the most expensive they've been relative
0:46.8	to renting in a couple of generations.
0:50.4	In the face of this mess, what's a potential homebuyer to do?
0:55.0	A house is a very, very, very fine house.
1:01.0	As it turns out, there are some ways you can make the process of buying a home better or at least less bad.
1:08.0	I'm Barry Ritholtz and on today's edition of At The Money, we're going to discuss how to buy a home in today's
1:17.1	market.
1:18.8	To help us unpack all of this, let's bring in Jonathan Miller of real estate appraisal and data firm Miller
1:25.0	Samuel for the past 37 years Jonathan Miller's monthly and quarterly housing
1:31.0	sales data and rental reports are must read in the industry and have
1:36.4	made him the most quoted man in real estate.
1:39.8	Jonathan Miller, welcome to at the money.
1:42.4	Let's just jump in to the first question,
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