Mortgage interest rates have nearly tripled in the span of just a couple of years amid inflation fears and strong economic growth.
Mortgage interest rates have nearly tripled in the span of just a couple of years amid inflation fears and strong economic growth.
Real Estate Corporations goals include blocking home ownership and forcing Americans into a rental only market, similar to Germany.
Germany is a terrible comparison here. Home ownership in Germany is about 50%, true, much lower than the US’ 65%. However, the majority of those rentals are apartments rather than houses, since even small towns are highly densified, very unlike the USA. There are many state landlords which provide rentals at a very attractive price; it’s rare for people to spend more than 30% of their post-tax income on rent. Furthermore, there are extremely strong protections for renters, restrictions on rent increases, and they can renovate their apartments as they please. That’s very different from what American real estate corporations want.
The United States isn’t building houses; it is building apartments.
Yeah, this was the outcome that was predicted when they allowed real estate brokers to also be property managers.
People wonder why starter homes havent existed on the market for 25 years and the answer is because nobody builds them, and when they do go up for sale, real estate agents are sending them the way of clients they already represent as property managers.
Why sell a house for 3% commission just once when you can sell it to somebody you are already partnered with and then make a 5% comission every month for the rest of your professional career while maybe only putting 15 hours per year worth of work into the unit?
Pretty much every issue in America comes down to the partnership of banks, real estate agents and landlords.
Interesting, I didn’t know that about Germany. I’ll have to look into how that is working out for them, seeing as probably quite a lot of people my age and younger won’t be able to afford to buy.