Is the problem actually lack of homes, or is it just astronomical prices blocking people out? So hard to buy a house when you need to pay at least 25k over asking and some rental company is also bidding on the house, paying full cash, and waiving inspections and appraisals.
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The problem is actually institutional landlords buying every home they could get. That drove up prices to the highest points their algorithms determined each market could handle. They're the ones outbidding everyone paying in cash. They're sitting on the sidelines now securing deals with Wallstreet for hundreds of billions of dollars to get back in the action as soon as they think prices are at a good price again, just to drive all the prices right back up.
The derivatives market is larger by multiple orders of magnitude than the actual world economy. Wall Street can print itself as much money as it wants. They can totally buy as many homes as they want to, leveraging their current assets to infinity.
It is absolutely the second one.
Hopefully they're built in places that actually need them, and not out in the middle of nowhere.
I'm more worried about them focusing on high-end homes
Fr you never see ranch houses being built anymore, they're all luxury townhouses or multi story mcmansions or generic suburb homes that trade good design for maximum sq ft.
I just want a small house with a decent yard... $500k easy around where I live. The affordable ones are bought above asking price and demolished to build two-flats or luxury homes.
Man I'm in the same boat. I bought a short sale condo during the housing collapse and I'm selling it now to buy a house....150k for a down payment and I can't find SHIT I can afford.
I want a 2-3 bedroom house with enough room for a workshop (meaning a basement or 2-car garage) and ANY sized yard. The only ones I can find within an hour radius are 100k too expensive or need 100k in work.
The worst part where I live(Ontario, Canada), they aren't even high end, they are just insanely expensive. An absolute pile of shit mass-built subdivision home where I live starts at about $500k. Houses where they cut every single corner possible and only hire trade workers under the table or minimum wage. Houses where they pay off inspectors to be able to build without following codes. Houses where they rush every single worker because they are building them as fast as possible. It's a fucking joke.
At a cost that only companies can pay thereby making the problem worse.