What's REALLY Happening to Home Buyers in 2025
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ken McElroy Show. |
| 0:03.5 | Today we're going to be discussing why 15% of home sellers are being ghosted by buyers |
| 0:09.8 | and also why the U.S. is becoming a renter nation. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.6 | So this is, you know, we're heading into the fourth quarter. |
| 0:17.4 | This is actually going to get worse. |
| 0:19.5 | You know. |
| 0:20.6 | The ghosting, you mean? |
| 0:21.3 | Yeah, I do believe that. |
| 0:23.3 | 15% of the sellers are being ghosted right now. |
| 0:26.5 | Like this is kind of your game though, right? |
| 0:28.9 | Like you've been, I mean, this is your space. |
| 0:31.5 | You're in the single family market. |
| 0:32.9 | You're watching all this happen real time. |
| 0:34.5 | Seeing it happen real time. |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.9 | So let's walk through it because it's really interesting to me. Obviously, you know, I have a very different scenario going on in the |
| 0:43.2 | commercial side, right? But on a single family, they're being ghosted. Yeah, absolutely. And what we're |
| 0:48.7 | saying too, I mean, you know, 15 to 20% is kind of what we've been seeing in the Phoenix area. And truthfully, you know, |
| 0:54.9 | when you get something under contract, normally it stays under contract unless the sellers |
| 1:00.3 | or something crazy with the inspection, right, that, you know, they find. But now it has very little |
| 1:06.6 | to do with the inspection and it has much more to do with the psychology of the buyers right now. |
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