Home Deals Are Collapsing at Alarming Rates
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:31.1 | show. Today we're going to be discussing why more home buying deals are falling apart. In December, |
| 0:36.4 | 16% of deals went under contract and fell |
| 0:39.5 | apart. That is over two times the normal amount. So the question is, why are homebuyers |
| 0:45.2 | pooling back? Number one is that appraisals aren't keeping up with asking prices. |
| 0:50.2 | And this is the main reason right now that we're seeing buyers backing out. There's a few issues here. |
| 0:54.7 | One is the appraisers are completely subjective third parties. |
| 0:58.6 | So they're just tracking sales. |
| 1:01.1 | And then they do their adjustments based on those locations or maybe got a pool. |
| 1:07.6 | Maybe it's got a big lot or whatever it is. |
| 1:10.3 | But the reality is what this really could mean is this could mean that prices are trending down. |
| 1:17.2 | And they're being listed high or either by the seller or the realtors actually told the seller that their house is worth more to get the listing. So, you know, and so what's |
| 1:29.7 | happening is the buyer sitting there with a higher priced home and the appraiser said it's not |
| 1:36.4 | worth that. That's essentially what's happening. This, this is a reality of what could happen and |
| 1:41.1 | did happen in 2008, where prices were starting to go down. |
| 1:46.3 | And the only thing that appraisers have to look at are sales comps. |
| 1:51.7 | Sales comps are real prices, adjusted, of course. |
| 1:56.6 | And so if the appraisals are coming in less, then the sellers need a reality check or the realtors need a reality check, one or the other. |
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