• SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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        5 days ago

        Am I dumb or is that not supposed to be normal? With inflation you don’t expect it to go down, you expect it to go up a little bit every day.

        “The housing market is doing better” doesn’t mean prices are going down, but rather that it isn’t going up as fast as it used to.

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          5 days ago

          I think the point is that the pricing is much higher than it ought to be, so to get genuinely better the prices either have to go down or you have to have a very long period of them not going up as much as inflation.

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            5 days ago

            This. It’s not just inflation in isolation, but the fact that wages are rising slower than inflation, while cost of housing is rising faster.

            Adjust for inflation and you’d see wages dropping, while housing continues to go up. This creates a growing and unsustainable affordability gap.

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      6 days ago

      Obviously this is regionally dependent, but housing supply is set to overtake the growing demand in the next few years.

      Heres a random source I googled which cites Mortgage Banker’s Association crying over loss of potential future profits if they accidentally build enough units for housing to become cheap again: SOURCE