Is the Dollar Crashing Your Home Value? The Truth About Real Estate in 2025
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ken and Danille McElroy break down how a weakening U.S. dollar is reshaping the real estate landscape. They explore how confusion in the markets—driven by Trump’s tariff policy shifts and mixed messaging—is fueling inflation, pushing up mortgage rates, and impacting everything from construction costs to buyer behavior. With foreign investors eyeing discounted U.S. assets and domestic buyers sitting on the sidelines, this episode unpacks what’s coming next and what it means for your real estate strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | Trump's policies have created confusion in the economy, which has weakened the dollar to levels we have not seen since the pandemic. |
| 0:11.5 | How is that going to affect the real estate market? |
| 0:14.4 | Well, it depends on how much confidence there is in the U.S. brand as a whole. |
| 0:19.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.5 | And right now, it's weakening. I know the flip-flop on tariffs. And, of course, the U.S. brand as a whole. Yeah. And right now it's weakening. |
| 0:21.1 | I know the flip-flop on tariffs. |
| 0:23.4 | And, of course, the real question that everybody, the immediate is, is a lot of people |
| 0:27.3 | are talking about a recession or talking about inflation. |
| 0:30.6 | Don't forget, the Fed is got a hand in this as well. |
| 0:35.6 | They do. |
| 0:36.5 | And, you know, Trump, he likes to just say one thing and do another and say one thing and do |
| 0:41.4 | another. |
| 0:41.8 | And that's creating confusion in the markets. |
| 0:44.2 | And confusion is never a good thing in the markets. |
| 0:46.8 | People like to know what they're investing in. |
| 0:49.6 | They like to know that it's... |
| 0:51.0 | Although I did love what he said, hey, everybody, invest in the stock market. |
| 0:55.2 | We've got some news coming. |
| 0:57.1 | And that was nuts. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah, he said something like that. |
| 1:01.2 | It wasn't quite that. |
| 1:02.1 | Well, it was... |
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