The U.S. Housing Market Is NOT Like The Rest of the World (Here’s Why)
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.7 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The global real estate market is crashing, but the U.S. is protected by something no other country on Earth has, and most investors don't even know it exists. In this video, we break down exactly why America's housing market is structurally different from Canada, New Zealand, China, and the UK, and where the real money-making opportunity is hiding inside the chaos.
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at real estate all over the world right now, prices are in decline and there is |
| 0:08.1 | an oversupply in a lot of markets. |
| 0:10.2 | However, when you look at the U.S. market, we have to ask ourselves, are we really in the same |
| 0:14.7 | state as other countries? |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.8 | And this is an interesting topic we were talking about this because I don't know if people realize how connected we are globally. |
| 0:24.8 | And I get it. |
| 0:26.4 | I mean, I totally remember as an early investor not even thinking about these kinds of things. |
| 0:31.9 | But I do specifically remember certain countries pouring their funds into the US. |
| 0:38.3 | Like, you know, I definitely remember Japan, you know, back in the day, buying all kinds of real estate. |
| 0:44.3 | I definitely remember them getting into the car manufacturing and, you know, all the stuff was I was a kid. |
| 0:50.3 | So, so global does matter. |
| 0:53.3 | And so let's, I just wanted before we jump into why we're talking about |
| 0:57.1 | this today, I wanted to talk about what the central banks are. Everybody probably knows of the |
| 1:02.6 | Fed, right? But most countries have big central banks, European Central Bank, the Bank of England, |
| 1:10.3 | the Bank of Japan, you know, and the Swiss |
| 1:13.8 | National. So there's all these kind of big banks. And the way to look at it is the Fed kind of is |
| 1:19.2 | in the middle and there's a complex web underneath them or around them, I should say. And so what |
| 1:25.8 | happens when the U.S. Fed lowers rates? |
| 1:30.0 | And all you got to do is look at COVID. |
| 1:32.4 | And so this is kind of a rebound from COVID, which is, let's call it COVID of 2020. |
| 1:38.1 | You guys probably know the Fed lowered the rates to zero during that period of time. |
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