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On The Market

VP Harris Wants to Stop Wall Street Homebuying, But Will It Help Regular Buyers?

On The Market

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4.8 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris has a plan to make it easier for first-time homebuyers to buy a house, but it comes at the expense of institutional investors. Eviction filings surge throughout the Sunbelt states, EVEN as apartment rent prices fall across all bedroom counts. And could commercial real estate’s struggles lead to you paying even higher property taxes? We’re getting into it all in today’s headlines show! First, we’re talking about Kamala Harris’ new proposal to kick Wall Street out of the single-family homebuying arena, potentially opening up space for first-time homebuyers to finally break out of renting. The proposal sounds promising, but is it too late to actually impact today’s housing market when institutional investors take up such a small amount of the single-family supply? We’re giving our takes on the new proposal. Apartment rent prices fall across all bedroom counts for the first time in years. But, even with seemingly improving rent affordability, eviction filings have surged across the South. Even with the rent drops, are tenants simply unable to pay such high prices for everything, rent included, in 2024? Lastly, we’re talking about how the decline in commercial real estate and office space has led to cities increasing property taxes, and by no small amount. In This Episode We Cover Whether Kamala Harris’ anti-Wall Street ownership proposal could work for homebuyers Why apartment rent prices are falling, and whether or not this will continue Single-family rents and why we AREN’T noticing them fall too The real reason evictions have seen such a spike across the Sunbelt states Commercial real estate-caused property tax hikes happening in THESE cities And So Much More! Links from the Show Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise Join BiggerPockets for FREE  Property Manager Finder See Dave at BPCON2024 in Cancun! Dave's BiggerPockets Profile James' BiggerPockets Profile Kathy's BiggerPockets Profile How the Financial Policies of Trump and Harris Could Impact Real Estate Investors Kamala Harris wants to stop Wall Street's homebuying spree  Asking Rents Fall Across All Bedroom Counts for First Time in 4 Years  Evictions Surge in Major Cities in the American Sunbelt How much do downtown real estate losses lead to property tax hikes? Grab Dave’s Newest Book, “Start with Strategy” Jump to topic: (00:00) Intro (01:45) Harris’ New Homebuying Proposal  (16:41) Rent Prices Fall  (25:40) Evictions Surge in Sunbelt States (36:13) CRE-Caused Property Tax Hikes Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and   https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/on-the-market-245 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Evictions are up. Rents start to fall and Vice President Harris takes aim at Wall Street's role in the housing market.

0:07.5

Today, we're viewing the top headlines.

0:14.9

What's up, everyone? It's Dave. Welcome to On the Market. With me today is Kathy Fecky. Kathy, how are you?

0:20.7

Wonderful. Happy to be here. Henry, today is Kathy Fecky. Kathy, how are you? Wonderful.

0:21.4

Happy to be here.

0:22.4

Henry, Washington is also with us.

0:25.3

He's always so eager to talk about political debates publicly.

0:29.6

Yeah, I love politics and macroeconomics.

0:32.7

Yes, so glad to have you here.

0:36.7

And James Dainard. Welcome back. James. Good to see you.

0:39.9

Good to see you guys. I'm excited to hang out my friends this morning.

0:42.8

Yeah. This is a great way to start a Monday morning. Hopefully it's a great way for all of you to start your day as well.

0:49.7

If you knew the On the Market podcast, just so you know what we're doing today is what we call a headline show.

0:54.8

It's basically where we take four topics that we feel are the biggest headlines impacting

1:00.0

investor decision making and operations today.

1:03.6

And we talk about it.

1:05.7

Today we're going to be talking about four stories.

1:08.1

The first story is presidential campaign, specifically vice president

1:11.3

Kamala Harris, has come out with some policies around the housing market. Next, we'll talk about

1:17.3

falling rent prices. Third, we'll talk about surging evictions, specifically in the sunbelt,

1:23.0

which is kind of surprising. And last, we'll talk about how downcount commercial real estate losses

1:28.0

aren't just impacting investors on those properties, but are also impacting normal investors

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