U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand

Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by bluGill on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:00PM (#26837149)

Only true if the house was over valued. Otherwise the house should more or less pace inflation, but you get to live there.

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Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by vkou on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:02PM (#26838463)

The house is obviously overvalued in dollars, compared to that same house to a world where construction was happening.

Unless you mean to tell me that the cost of housing is the same regardless of whether or not construction is happening... (Which would be a truly odd claim.)

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Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by bluGill on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:09PM (#26839110)

Err, yes, compared to a world where construction was happening.

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Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by vkou on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:21PM (#26840824)

So what you're saying is that housing can only be one of 'available to people', or 'a good investment'.

The thing with good investments in that in a world of low interest rates, prices for them get inflated, as mountains of cash are trying to find some place to go.

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Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by bluGill on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:13AM (#26843691)

No, because a house as an investment is a hedge on inflation and a place to live rent free once it is paid for. As such the return on investment calculation is different than other investments.

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