Who’s Buying Homes in 2025? The Surprising Cash‑Rich Buyers Revealed
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today in our show, we're going to be discussing who is buying homes right now, and it may surprise you. |
| 0:08.2 | We're also going to talk about how Powell has discussed stopping quantitative tightening. |
| 0:13.3 | And lastly, we're going to get into how do you compete with all cash buyers. |
| 0:17.9 | Yeah, it's funny. The headlines are all like BlackRock and, you know, all these |
| 0:22.5 | big, big companies are buying up the single family. But what we have here is kind of surprising, |
| 0:27.8 | right? Yeah. So basically, if we break down, you know, who's actually buying homes right now, |
| 0:32.4 | who can afford to buy homes right now, you're looking at baby boomers buying 42% of the homes, which I don't think is |
| 0:39.2 | really surprising anybody. You have Gen X at 24% of the homes, millennials at 29% of the homes, |
| 0:48.6 | and 5% and under of the homes are bought with people that are younger than 34 or older than 78. |
| 0:56.3 | That's a big difference. |
| 0:57.6 | It's a big job. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah, but less than 5% are institutions, right? |
| 1:02.3 | So that's really interesting. |
| 1:04.3 | We haven't got to that yet. |
| 1:05.4 | Oh, we're getting there soon. |
| 1:06.3 | So first, let's discuss just the ages in general. |
| 1:09.6 | So I think it's very interesting that up until 34 years old, it's only 5% of people that are... |
| 1:15.4 | That's not good, by the way. |
| 1:16.4 | Right. |
| 1:16.8 | That are buying houses. |
| 1:18.2 | The age of the first time homebuyers moved dramatically because of affordability. |
| 1:23.8 | We have to fix that somehow. |
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