Good to see a bit of a downturn in house prices predicted (before shooting back up) ... But to match your grandparents' home-buying power, prices would need to fall by around 73%.
On a $75k wage houses should cost around $255k. Instead they're pushing $940k nationally, and over a million in many areas.
So yeah, a downturn is a start, but we'd need prices to fall by almost three quarters to get back even a semblance of intergenerational equality.
Joshua Byrd
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2026-05-20 22:51:37 UTC
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