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The Housing Market Isn’t Returning to Normal Anytime Soon: What the Math Reveals About Affordability
The U.S. housing market is trapped in a prolonged period of sluggishness, and according to new economic analyses, a return to "normal" conditions is much further away than many buyers, sellers, and industry professionals would like to believe. With mortgage rates hovering around 7.5% and median home prices sitting near $400,000 while employee compensation fails…
The Housing Market Isn’t Going Back to "Normal" Anytime Soon—Here’s What the Math Actually Says
The American housing market is caught in a prolonged period of sluggishness, and according to new market analysis, a return to historical normalcy is not on the horizon anytime soon. With mortgage rates hovering around 7.5%, median home prices anchored near $446,000, and wage growth failing to keep pace, prospective buyers and real estate professionals…
New Housing Market Study Challenges Pervasive Shortage Narrative and Points to Affordability Crisis Rooted in Income Disparity
For years, the prevailing wisdom across the United States real estate sector has been direct and seemingly straightforward: the country is millions of homes short, and the only viable solution to skyrocketing housing costs is to build more units. Investors, developers, and industry analysts have leaned heavily on this foundational assumption to underwrite deals, shape…
How Federal Tax Policy Penalizes New Rental Housing—And How a New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Fix It
America’s ongoing housing affordability crisis is fundamentally a crisis of insufficient supply. Across the political spectrum, housing analysts, policy researchers, and economists—including experts from the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for American Progress—agree that the United States needs millions of new housing units. Building this new inventory is essential to achieving critical national housing…
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