Dr. Housing Bubble 07/30/14

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Renter nation: The 2000s are highlighting a big shift from homeownership to renting. The number of single family homes now used as rentals is at a record high.

There has been a very strong trend of shifting from homeownership to renting over the last decade. This is a dramatic reversal from the peak reached in the 2000s where homeownership reached a historical apex. Sure, this was brought on by making up income, taking on massive leverage for the biggest purchase of your life, and pretending the middle class was not shrinking but it was fun to act as if everyone was rich right? Clearly that is not the case and we now find the homeownership rate of today is now back to where it was 20 years ago. Baby boomers overall are not pleased that their kids are now part of a hyper competitive market and many of their offspring are now back living at home rocking out in their rooms with Nirvana and Pearl Jam posters. They’ll need to make some room for the younger kids as well since many of these are coming back home to their Britney Spears inspired rooms. People are still itching to buy but their incomes simply cannot support those $700,000 crap shacks. This is the large reason for why sales are down and inventory is up. The assumption is that many of these younger households are slowly going to pop out of their parent’s home and makeup a new part of the buying pool. So far the data does not show that to be the case and you would expect that to be happening right now since technically, we’ve been out of recession since the summer of 2009. The US is in a massive renter nation trend.

Renter nation galore

http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/renter-nation-number-of-american-household-renting-record-single-family-home-rentals/