Tag Archive for: housing bubble

#1 Reason Buyers Should Not Wait To Buy; #1 Reason There Will Be No Crash; Perspective On Housing

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If rates drop to 5.5%, 7.7 million more buyers will qualify for a mortgage. And that is about where Fannie Mae predicts rates will be late this year or next year. And many other analysts think they will be even lower.Read More

If High Rates Bring Down Housing Prices, Will Low Rates Push Prices Through the Roof Again? Inflation Too!

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If higher rates are the sole reason the housing market is softer, will the soon-to-be-here lower rates push prices through the roof again? If that is the case, it is one more reason to buy now to take advantage of today’s slower market, knowing that a refi into a much lower rate is very likely.Read More

Why Housing Prices Will Double In 6 Years; No Bubble Here…Part 37

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Interestingly, Barry Habib (MBS Highway Founder), Ken McElroy (famous real estate investor), and some dude on Reddit all recently made the case for much higher housing prices – DESPITE HIGHER […]Read More

Why There Is Still No Housing Bubble

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Everyone Thinks Higher Rates Will Kill The Housing Market We shared this blog, Higher Interest Rates Did Not Slow Housing Appreciation; Why?, with our database in our monthly newsletter a […]Read More

When Will Rates Fall?

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I had an acquaintance who was a very successful regional homebuilder in the 1990s and early 2000s. By early 2005, he was so certain we were in a housing bubble that he started to short the major homebuilders (Lennar, Toll Brothers, Pulte, etc.). By “shorting,” he was betting that stocks would fall.Read More

How Will The Stock Market Crash Impact Real Estate?

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I ❤ Real Estate I frequently tout real estate as an excellent investment for the following reasons: (1) it is a great inflation hedge; (2) there is an inventory shortage […]Read More

China’s Massive Housing Bubble? Will It Affect Us?

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China has somewhere between 55 to 65 million unoccupied properties, depending on the source, and an additional 93 million units under construction. Famous financier, Hugh Hendry, was on this Rebel Capitalist Podcast in December discussing China’s extremely precarious property market – and tossing out these numbers.Read More

Still No Housing Bubble – Because Rates Are 3% Lower Than In 2006!

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MBS HIGHWAY HITS HOUSING BUBBLE AGAIN Barry Habib, Founder of the MBS Highway, hates it when the media spreads irrational fear about a housing bubble. He also shares marketing materials […]Read More

No Housing Bubble Here Part XXII; 12 Million More Households Than In 2007!

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17% ANNUAL APPRECIATION SCARES PUNDITS Housing appreciated 16.6% from May of 2020 to May of 2021. This is a record and it is again sparking media concerns that we are […]Read More

The One Thing That Can CRASH The Housing Market!

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I have repeatedly blogged about reasons why we are not in a housing bubble: Demographics & Demand: Homebuying demographics are peaking, as a surge of millennials is just now hitting […]Read More

#1 Reason We’re NOT In A Housing Bubble – And It Is NOT What You Think

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The “Denominator” refers to the total size of the U.S. Money Supply. And – when the total supply of money increases in our economy like it did last year at an all-time record rate, the value of housing expressed in terms of those monetary units (dollars) must increase too. This is because the value of the housing market overall remains approximately the same relative to the total size of the money supply.Read More

“Nuclear Winter” For Housing Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon

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As recently as 2000, 15% of the population moved every year, but that number had dropped by 1/3 to only 9.8% - and that was BEFORE COVID. COVID caused even more sellers to stay put, and, as everyone knows, moving creates listings. So, when more and more people decide to stay put, we will face shortages.Read More

#1 Reason We’re Not In A Housing Bubble; Life Events & Housing

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I am asked every week by friends, family, team members and clients if I think “now is still a good time to buy” and “do I think we are in a housing bubble.” Even though I blog about this often, everyone still wants reassurance.Read More

3 Stock Market Indices Hit Records; 1999 Again? 3x More Competitive

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3 Stock Market Indices Hit Records All three major stock indices (the S&P 500, the NASDAQ, and The Dow Jones) hit record highs on the same day twice in the […]Read More