How will a Global Economic Crash Affect U.S. Real Estate?
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Ken and Danille McElroy discuss the biggest factors that could impact the housing market in 2025, from worldwide economic uncertainty to high financing costs and rising insurance expenses. With loan maturities looming and affordability concerns still in play, experts predict continued pressure on homebuyers and investors—so what does this mean for real estate in the year ahead? Watch to find out how these trends could shape the market and what you need to know to stay ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | How will a global economic crash affect U.S. real estate is what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:08.4 | And it might not be what you think. There's a lot happening. Yeah, there's a lot happening all over the world right now. |
| 0:14.4 | And it's really impacting different economies. Right now, the U.S. economy is doing fairly well. I mean, there's talks where there's a slowdown. We have seen more layoffs. But overall, our economy is doing much better than the rest of the world's economies. |
| 0:28.6 | We're doing well. But it's interesting because, you know, they say when the U.S. sneezes, the world gets a cold. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah. I mean, it is true. I mean, and that's kind of what, you know, |
| 0:41.2 | everyone thinks whenever anybody's looking at the housing market or, you know, the recession and everything |
| 0:47.6 | else, everyone looks locally or nationally. And that is important to do because real estate markets are |
| 0:53.1 | local. However, you also have to remember that the U.S that is important to do because real estate markets are local. However, |
| 0:55.5 | you also have to remember that the U.S. is a place where people park their money. And if their |
| 1:01.4 | currencies aren't doing well, that's going to bring more investment into the U.S. And a lot of that |
| 1:06.9 | investment is going to be into the stock market and into the real estate market. And if you're middle class, like I have been almost my entire life, like you don't even think |
| 1:16.5 | this way. I just want to, you know, you're kind of like surviving and you're putting your money |
| 1:20.9 | into the bank and, you know, maybe you're listening to your financial advisor ever once in a while. |
| 1:26.0 | But once you start to dig in, |
| 1:27.8 | and certainly when you start to make money, what you start to see is big business, big private |
| 1:34.9 | equity, family office, high net worth, they think very differently. They think worldly. They |
| 1:41.7 | put money in different economies and different countries and they do it specifically |
| 1:47.2 | based on inflation, unemployment, the strength of the dollar, the instability of their own currency, |
| 1:54.6 | the instability of their economy. And so, you know, so it's just really, really important to understand the flows of |
| 2:03.7 | cash, big cash. Essentially, you know, foreign investments in the U.S. commercial real estate is |
| 2:10.0 | expected to rise in 2025. The U.S. is a safe haven currency. And I think that's really important |
| 2:15.7 | for those that don't understand that. |
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