That's just stupid and should be heavily penalized. I hate how landlords and real estate agencies are just swooping in and pushing prices to untenable levels. Even in Texas, house prices are surging because of this practice. A business should not be able to own residential SFHs.
I don’t buy it either that it’s only because housing is scarce. Couple of years back it wouldn’t be sold within couple of days. Suddenly everyone wants to buy a house because it’ll go up, and no one wants to sell because it’ll go up, which actually causes it to go up.
There are gov-made agencies that buy mortgages no matter what. It's guaranteed as long as the loan is a conventional conforming loan. The credit requirement for these loans isn't very high (in the 600s or high 500s if I remember correctly).
Generally it goes in a cycle. Things are expensive, everyone asks for raise, everyone has money, things get more expensive. Not saying that you can’t get out of inflation, but by just going back to how it was, I doubt you can come out of it.
Fed is in tough spot. If they do not raise rates then inflation will continue to go up and Dems loose election. If Fed raise rates, inflation starts to subside down but it leads to recession, and dems loose the election. Overall dems are at tough spot.
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First thing person thinks after they will have money is to buy house not stocks.
People buy stocks in the expectation that it will give them good returns so that they can buy -> house
There are three main things which a man wants:
A big house, awesome car and good sex life.
Jumbo loans are the ones that'll be affected.