Everyone Predicted a Housing Crash, Here’s Why It Didn’t Happen
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.7 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Ken and Danille McElroy break down why housing prices didn’t collapse, what actually absorbed the pain, and how buyers, sellers, and investors should think differently moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of people are waiting for a housing crash that didn't happen. |
| 0:06.7 | And what they don't understand is that was part of the plan. |
| 0:10.0 | The issue is in 2026, people are also going to expect a crash and that's going to affect their buying decisions. |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, I don't know if you guys watch, sometimes we watch that CBS, but Brian Moynihan, |
| 0:21.8 | the CEO of Bank of America, was on this week. |
| 0:25.6 | On Sunday morning. |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah, and it basically supported a lot of what we were talking about. |
| 0:29.7 | Now, you know, obviously he's the president of a bank, so give me a break. |
| 0:33.8 | But the reality is, they are the largest lender in the country. And so, you know, |
| 0:40.2 | he had some really, really, really good facts. But the one thing that he said that we completely |
| 0:45.8 | looked at each other, nodded our head was that housing is structurally broken right now because |
| 0:50.7 | of the supply problem. He kept going back to that and going back to that and going back to that because it started |
| 0:56.6 | in 2008. |
| 0:58.3 | And I think that I was like, yes, finally somebody, you know, obviously it's not a, it's just easy |
| 1:04.4 | math. |
| 1:05.3 | When 2008 hit, obviously everybody pulled back, bank pulled back, you know, they were getting a lot of real estate |
| 1:12.4 | back. There was a lot of real estate owned. And there was not a lot of building and not a lot of |
| 1:18.1 | lending. However, people continued to get born and people started to age out and all that stuff |
| 1:25.0 | happened. And so here we are sitting with a shortage that actually started, gosh, about 16, 17 years ago. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.3 | And let's lay out what everyone thought was going to happen in 2025. |
| 1:37.3 | And a lot of people still think is going to happen in 2026. |
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