Something Strange is Happening in the Housing Market
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The housing market has fundamentally shifted—older Americans are cashing out while younger generations are priced out. This video breaks down surprising generational data that explains who’s still buying, who’s forced to wait, and what has to change before the market moves again.
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| 0:00.0 | The housing market has flipped. |
| 0:03.9 | Sellers are up and buyers are down, but the question really is why. |
| 0:08.7 | Yeah, well, we all knew this was coming, right? |
| 0:12.1 | Like, you know, rates are at 7%, right? |
| 0:16.5 | Affordability, people are being forced into rentals. |
| 0:19.5 | I've been talking about this renter nation forever. |
| 0:22.7 | And so now it's starting to show up. And what's really interesting, there was a great article in |
| 0:27.6 | the New York Times this week that basically said at all. There's a couple out of Austin that paid like |
| 0:34.2 | $600 grand for a home. And they moved and uh they listed the home for 950 |
| 0:40.1 | and now it's at 9 and a quarter they got like 300 grand equity in it and um the rates below 4 |
| 0:46.6 | percent so they're like i'm just going to wait i think what's important though is not just the buyers right |
| 0:52.0 | everyone's focusing on the buyers why aren't the buyers buying houses? Everyone's focusing on the buyers. Why aren't the buyers buying houses? |
| 0:56.1 | But nobody's focusing on who's selling the actual houses because I think that that's a really |
| 1:00.7 | important metric. |
| 1:02.4 | So. Yeah, that's why I mentioned that. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.9 | Because those are sellers that are like, you know, we're okay with, you know, we have so much |
| 1:09.4 | room. |
| 1:10.5 | And I think that's the, you know, |
| 1:12.6 | depending on when you bought it, right? But you have to also look at the age of the sellers. |
| 1:17.3 | Because that has changed dramatically. This couple was in their 60s. Right. That's a big deal. |
| 1:22.2 | Yeah, Jerry, can you put up chart one, please? So if you look, you know, we like to compare 2019 because 2019 2020 is hard to |
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