The Housing Market Is NOT Crashing—Here’s the Real Story
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Looking into the past is how you understand the present. That's why today we're going to go and look at |
| 0:08.8 | housing market trends from the 50s until now. And then we're also going to look at when the market |
| 0:14.6 | has corrected and when it has crashed in the past and why. So I think it's important to go back |
| 0:20.7 | and take a look at a couple things. |
| 0:23.0 | One, first of all, how interest rates are affecting home prices. |
| 0:26.7 | So that's number one. |
| 0:27.8 | That's really, really, really important. |
| 0:29.8 | Two, we need to look at days on market. |
| 0:33.4 | I think a lot of people are out there saying that we're in this crash when days on market went from like the 20s to, you know, basically doubled. |
| 0:41.8 | It's still significantly under the market averages. |
| 0:44.6 | So we're going to deep dive on that today. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:48.2 | So first, let's just pull up the median home values. |
| 0:52.4 | In the 1950s, you know, the median home value was $7,000. |
| 0:58.3 | That was what? Seventy five years ago. So it's crazy, right? For those of you who don't |
| 1:05.2 | think we have inflation, like that should pretty much spell it out. The house I grew I grew up in, my mom and dad paid 10 grand. |
| 1:13.2 | Right. |
| 1:13.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:14.2 | Well, and that's what, so let's get, we want to go by decade here. |
| 1:16.7 | And I want to show you the increases each decade. |
| 1:19.4 | And so in the 60s, the average home was 12% or 12,000, which was a 71% increase. The 70s, it was 17,000, which was a 42% increase. |
| 1:35.1 | The 80s jumped to 47,000, which is 176% increase. And you have to remember that the 70s was a time of |
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