• New home buyers face a Hobson's Choice

    From Tommy@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 30 19:32:38 2023
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sat Sep 30 19:36:53 2023
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10

    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Oct 6 08:33:56 2023
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10
    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 6 09:10:01 2023
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10
    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?

    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Oct 6 10:55:33 2023
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10
    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 6 11:30:26 2023
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!


    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

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  • From Bigbird@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 6 22:30:39 2023
    Tommy wrote:

    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket: >>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-hou sing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10 >> How is
    this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!

    So it's all come about in the last 3 years?

    Just how stupid to you want to look today, Betty?

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Oct 6 19:53:38 2023
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 6 19:58:33 2023
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 7:53:40 PM UTC-7, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>> On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?
    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    I will have to add this one to your LONG LIST of LIES!!!

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 6 20:14:44 2023
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline or at
    least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 6 20:16:34 2023
    On 2023-10-06 19:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 7:53:40 PM UTC-7, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>> On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?
    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    I will have to add this one to your LONG LIST of LIES!!!

    Except I didn't say interest rates had dropped, Sunshine.

    I stated a relationship.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sat Oct 7 00:32:40 2023
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>> On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>

    -hh

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Sat Oct 7 09:22:05 2023
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:32:42 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>> On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home >>>>> prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>

    -hh

    And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too. The total cost of home ownership, which includes the price and total interest paid, has now pushed the average home cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS!

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Sat Oct 7 09:19:54 2023
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home >>>>>>> prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT >>> in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the construction of
    large single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market. This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sat Oct 7 10:09:36 2023
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:22:07 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:32:42 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>> On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home >>>>> prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>


    And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too.

    So was income too: in 1984, the US median household income was $26,430/yr. That’s roughly 1/3rd of today’s $74,580/yr today…

    The total cost of home ownership, which includes the price and total interest paid, has now pushed the average home cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS!

    And per BLS, $1M in 2023 is equivalent to $342,000 from forty years ago. Which scales out to be roughly the same 1/3rd of today again:

    $1M/$74,580 = 13.4
    $342K/$26,430 = 12.9
    Less than a 5% difference.

    -hh

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sat Oct 7 13:19:48 2023
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they
    do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level
    in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing
    inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.



    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Mon Oct 9 17:23:54 2023
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:09:38 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:22:07 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:32:42 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home >>>>> prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>


    And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too.
    So was income too: in 1984, the US median household income was $26,430/yr. That’s roughly 1/3rd of today’s $74,580/yr today…
    The total cost of home ownership, which includes the price and total interest
    paid, has now pushed the average home cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS!
    And per BLS, $1M in 2023 is equivalent to $342,000 from forty years ago. Which scales out to be roughly the same 1/3rd of today again:

    $1M/$74,580 = 13.4
    $342K/$26,430 = 12.9
    Less than a 5% difference.

    -hh

    Nobody cares what homes cost 40 years ago (after all, first time home buyers weren't even born yet!), Lyin' Asshole: what they care about is how much they have RISEN under the senile pervert.

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Mon Oct 9 17:18:31 2023
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they
    do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level
    in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing
    inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Again, under the senile pervert the total cost of the average home including interest has MORE THAN DOUBLED.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Mon Oct 9 18:27:39 2023
    On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 8:23:56 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:09:38 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:22:07 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:32:42 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>


    And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too.

    So was income too: in 1984, the US median household income was $26,430/yr. That’s roughly 1/3rd of today’s $74,580/yr today…

    The total cost of home ownership, which includes the price and total interest
    paid, has now pushed the average home cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS!
    And per BLS, $1M in 2023 is equivalent to $342,000 from forty years ago. Which scales out to be roughly the same 1/3rd of today again:

    $1M/$74,580 = 13.4
    $342K/$26,430 = 12.9
    Less than a 5% difference.


    Nobody cares what homes cost 40 years ago (after all, first time home buyers weren't even born yet!),

    "mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!" - Tommy "And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too." - Tommy

    You were saying?

    Lyin' Asshole: what they care about is how much they have RISEN under the senile pervert.

    Nope, because what you're trying to avoid is that even as home prices have increased over the
    past 23 years, so too have wages. As such, your "it's horrible!" rant lacks the perspective of the
    time-value of money factor of "then vs now". That's why I took a simple (costs/income) ratio to
    illustrate that the affordability needle hasn't really moved much.

    Of course, a _real_ multimillionaire is financially savvy enough to know this truth ahead of time,
    so as to not embarrass themselves by saying stupid stuff, because as noted above, the recent
    history is simply one of a period of phenomenally low interest rates. Seems that you were under
    the incorrect belief that things like "Reversion to the Mean" don't apply anymore: Oopsie!

    -hh

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Mon Oct 9 19:37:55 2023
    On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 6:27:41 PM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 8:23:56 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:09:38 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:22:07 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:32:42 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>


    And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too.

    So was income too: in 1984, the US median household income was $26,430/yr.
    That’s roughly 1/3rd of today’s $74,580/yr today…

    The total cost of home ownership, which includes the price and total interest
    paid, has now pushed the average home cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS!
    And per BLS, $1M in 2023 is equivalent to $342,000 from forty years ago. Which scales out to be roughly the same 1/3rd of today again:

    $1M/$74,580 = 13.4
    $342K/$26,430 = 12.9
    Less than a 5% difference.


    Nobody cares what homes cost 40 years ago (after all, first time home buyers weren't even born yet!),
    "mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!" - Tommy "And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too." - Tommy

    You were saying?
    Lyin' Asshole: what they care about is how much they have RISEN under the senile pervert.
    Nope, because what you're trying to avoid is that even as home prices have increased over the
    past 23 years, so too have wages. As such, your "it's horrible!" rant lacks the perspective of the
    time-value of money factor of "then vs now". That's why I took a simple (costs/income) ratio to
    illustrate that the affordability needle hasn't really moved much.

    Of course, a _real_ multimillionaire is financially savvy enough to know this truth ahead of time,
    so as to not embarrass themselves by saying stupid stuff, because as noted above, the recent
    history is simply one of a period of phenomenally low interest rates. Seems that you were under
    the incorrect belief that things like "Reversion to the Mean" don't apply anymore: Oopsie!

    -hh

    You have the mental capacity of a ROCK! You are the one that has a monopoly on STUPID, you idiot! WTF do you think that SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of the people give that senile pervert an F on the economy? It is because they are getting FUCKING SCREWED BY THE
    ASSHOLE, asshole!!!

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Tue Oct 10 06:42:08 2023
    On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 10:37:58 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 6:27:41 PM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 8:23:56 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:09:38 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:22:07 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 12:32:42 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 10:53:40 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10


    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level in
    TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT
    in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is at
    a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.

    Really depends on one’s time horizon perspective: despite their recent increase off
    of 5,000 year lows (as per BoA), current rates are still lower (eg, “had dropped”) than
    in the past …

    “Think interest rates are high now? The Romans had it worse, a Bank of America chart shows.”

    < https://www.businessinsider.com/roman-empire-bank-of-america-federal-reserve-interest-rates-2023-10>


    And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too.

    So was income too: in 1984, the US median household income was $26,430/yr.
    That’s roughly 1/3rd of today’s $74,580/yr today…

    The total cost of home ownership, which includes the price and total interest
    paid, has now pushed the average home cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS!
    And per BLS, $1M in 2023 is equivalent to $342,000 from forty years ago.
    Which scales out to be roughly the same 1/3rd of today again:

    $1M/$74,580 = 13.4
    $342K/$26,430 = 12.9
    Less than a 5% difference.


    Nobody cares what homes cost 40 years ago (after all, first time home buyers weren't even born yet!),
    "mortgage rates are at their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!" - Tommy "And home prices were MUCH lower back then, too." - Tommy

    You were saying?
    Lyin' Asshole: what they care about is how much they have RISEN under the senile pervert.
    Nope, because what you're trying to avoid is that even as home prices have increased over the
    past 23 years, so too have wages. As such, your "it's horrible!" rant lacks the perspective of the
    time-value of money factor of "then vs now". That's why I took a simple (costs/income) ratio to
    illustrate that the affordability needle hasn't really moved much.

    Of course, a _real_ multimillionaire is financially savvy enough to know this truth ahead of time,
    so as to not embarrass themselves by saying stupid stuff, because as noted above, the recent
    history is simply one of a period of phenomenally low interest rates. Seems that you were under
    the incorrect belief that things like "Reversion to the Mean" don't apply anymore: Oopsie!

    You have the mental capacity of a ROCK! You are the one that has a monopoly on STUPID, you idiot!

    Golly, that side comment on what a _real_ wealthy person would know (& not do) has
    made Twitchy Tommy Too Touchy! The facts are that we had a decade+ of record level
    profoundly low Fed interest rates, for which Tommy had a short term memory of what
    constitutes normal.

    WTF do you think that SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of the people give that senile pervert an F on the economy?

    From a biased “survey”… /s

    It is because they are getting FUCKING SCREWED BY THE ASSHOLE, asshole!!!

    Impossible, because 75% of the US don’t hold mortgages, let alone new ones
    at higher rates issued over the past year. It’s more like 75% are *unaffected*
    by this past year’s increase in mortgage rates.

    Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad at even _basic_ financial principles!

    TL;DR: “cry harder”applies.

    -hh

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Alan on Tue Oct 10 09:08:16 2023
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level >>>>>>> in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing >>>>>>> inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go >>>> up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates >> drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts
    before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free, which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Tue Oct 10 09:02:21 2023
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they
    do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level
    in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing
    inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts
    before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Sun Oct 22 10:03:17 2023
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level >>>>>>> in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing >>>>>>> inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go >>>> up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates >> drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts
    before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation has driven up the
    costs of EVERYTHING going into building a home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the idiot FUCKS UP!).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sun Oct 22 11:14:53 2023
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:21:32 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level >>>>>>> in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up >>>>>>> FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing >>>>>>> inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline >>>> or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go >>>> up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and >>> the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing >>> units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market. >>> This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in >>> increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can >> wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%
    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free,
    which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh
    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden an F on the ECONOMY,
    you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you said.

    First, your " SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT" that you've claimed is utterly unsubstantiated.

    Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are FED UP with the senile pervert:
    https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/

    Which states that "... homeownership...peaked in 2005 when well over two-thirds of
    American housing units were “owner-occupied”....This homeownership rate then began
    to sink, down to 63.1 percent in 2020 — its lowest level in five decades."

    The start of the decline from the 2005 peak happened under Bush (Republican). And the
    bottom in 2020 was Trump (Republican, again), despite his claims of a 'roaring' economy.

    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions, age, race and income
    aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey.
    Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes housing costs,
    consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price Index’s monthly all-items
    increase for the past several months."

    Except if if one actually goes to that cited survey, one finds that it says:

    "About 2 in 5 each blamed insufficient retirement funds (41 percent) and emergency funds
    (42 percent) as factors keeping them from feeling financially secure. More than 1 in 4 blamed
    high or revolving debt (26 percent) and renting instead of owning or housing affordability (25 percent)."

    In other words, that survey's respondents put housing costs down at 4th place.

    Just because housing may have _traditionally_ been a major contributor in the past does not
    constitute proof that it currently was this time too. Case in point, continuing on that referenced cite:

    "Items among those with the most rapid price growth in 2022 included food at elementary
    and secondary schools (prices jumped 305%), eggs (59.9%), margarine (43.8%), fuel oil (41.5%)
    and airline fares (28.5%). Some of these prices ballooned for reasons beyond broad pandemic-era
    inflationary factors such as snarled supply chains, pent-up consumer demand, household cash
    infusions, labor shortages and war in Ukraine."

    <https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-december-2022-in-one-chart.html#>

    TL;DR: housing costs aren't even mentioned in the source's "highlights reel."

    -hh

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Sun Oct 22 10:21:30 2023
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level >>>>>>> in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing >>>>>>> inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline >>>> or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go >>>> up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and >>> the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing >>> units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market. >>> This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in >>> increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts
    before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%
    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free,
    which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh

    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden an F on the ECONOMY, you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you said. Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are FED UP with the senile pervert:
    https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/

    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions, age, race and income aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey. Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes
    housing costs, consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price Index’s monthly all-items increase for the past several months."

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sun Oct 22 19:10:58 2023
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 10:00:37 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 11:14:55 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:21:32 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>> On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level
    in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up >>>>>>> FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing
    inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' >>>>>>> Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT >>>>> dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts >>> (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a >>> trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will >> skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%
    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free,
    which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh
    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden an F on the ECONOMY,
    you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you said.

    First, your " SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT" that you've claimed is utterly unsubstantiated.

    LOL! This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE, Lyin' Asshole - the senile pervert has his WORST NUMBERS for handling of the economy, and YOU KNOW IT!!!!

    Still unsubstantiated… cry harder!

    Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are FED UP with the senile pervert:
    https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/

    Which states that "... homeownership...peaked in 2005 when well over two-thirds of
    American housing units were “owner-occupied”....This homeownership rate then began
    to sink, down to 63.1 percent in 2020 — its lowest level in five decades."

    The start of the decline from the 2005 peak happened under Bush (Republican). And the
    bottom in 2020 was Trump (Republican, again), despite his claims of a 'roaring' economy.

    Again, you IDIOT, the situation is now UNBEARABLE for most prospective new home buyers
    they simply CAN'T AFFORD they 20% down payment PLUS the EIGHT PERCENT mortgage payment.

    As has been already noted, average new home buyer only puts down 7%.
    And repeat buyers aren’t at 20% either: their average is just 17% down.

    As such, you’re protesting an objectively non-majority hypothetical scenario.

    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions, age, race and income
    aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey.
    Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes housing costs,
    consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price Index’s monthly all-items
    increase for the past several months."

    Except if if one actually goes to that cited survey, one finds that it says:

    "About 2 in 5 each blamed insufficient retirement funds (41 percent) and emergency funds
    (42 percent) as factors keeping them from feeling financially secure. More than 1 in 4 blamed
    high or revolving debt (26 percent) and renting instead of owning or housing affordability (25 percent)."

    In other words, that survey's respondents put housing costs down at 4th place.

    In your WET DREAMS, idiot. Housing is something you need NOW, not in 40 years.

    Sorry, but it’s derived from *your own choice of citation* that is disagreeing with you.

    Just because housing may have _traditionally_ been a major contributor in the past does not
    constitute proof that it currently was this time too. Case in point, continuing on that referenced cite:

    "Items among those with the most rapid price growth in 2022 included food at elementary
    and secondary schools (prices jumped 305%), eggs (59.9%), margarine (43.8%), fuel oil (41.5%)
    and airline fares (28.5%). Some of these prices ballooned for reasons beyond broad pandemic-era
    inflationary factors such as snarled supply chains, pent-up consumer demand, household cash
    infusions, labor shortages and war in Ukraine."

    <https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-december-2022-in-one-chart.html#>

    Are you REALLY this STUPID, you IDIOT? Lyin' Biden gets BLAMED for EVERYTHING in your list, as he SHOULD!!!!!

    Despite the fact that the majority of the stimulus money which caused the post-pandemic
    inflation was signed off by none other than your bully boy, Trump.

    BTW, I don't think that the average consumer puts the price of EGGS or MARGARINE above the cost of housing.

    Doesn’t matter, because that’s what your own choice of citation says.
    Maybe you should learn more about a topic before flapping your lips.

    -hh

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Sun Oct 22 19:00:35 2023
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 11:14:55 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:21:32 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level >>>>>>> in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up >>>>>>> FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing >>>>>>> inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' >>>>>>> Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT >>>>> dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline >>>> or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a >>> trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%
    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free,
    which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh
    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden an F on the ECONOMY,
    you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you said.
    First, your " SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT" that you've claimed is utterly unsubstantiated.

    LOL! This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE, Lyin' Asshole - the senile pervert has his WORST NUMBERS for handling of the economy, and YOU KNOW IT!!!!

    Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are FED UP with the senile pervert:
    https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/
    Which states that "... homeownership...peaked in 2005 when well over two-thirds of
    American housing units were “owner-occupied”....This homeownership rate then began
    to sink, down to 63.1 percent in 2020 — its lowest level in five decades."

    The start of the decline from the 2005 peak happened under Bush (Republican). And the
    bottom in 2020 was Trump (Republican, again), despite his claims of a 'roaring' economy.

    Again, you IDIOT, the situation is now UNBEARABLE for most prospective new home buyers - they simply CAN'T AFFORD they 20% down payment PLUS the EIGHT PERCENT mortgage payment.

    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions, age, race and income
    aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey.
    Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes housing costs,
    consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price Index’s monthly all-items
    increase for the past several months."
    Except if if one actually goes to that cited survey, one finds that it says:

    "About 2 in 5 each blamed insufficient retirement funds (41 percent) and emergency funds
    (42 percent) as factors keeping them from feeling financially secure. More than 1 in 4 blamed
    high or revolving debt (26 percent) and renting instead of owning or housing affordability (25 percent)."

    In other words, that survey's respondents put housing costs down at 4th place.

    In your WET DREAMS, idiot. Housing is something you need NOW, not in 40 years.


    Just because housing may have _traditionally_ been a major contributor in the past does not
    constitute proof that it currently was this time too. Case in point, continuing on that referenced cite:

    "Items among those with the most rapid price growth in 2022 included food at elementary
    and secondary schools (prices jumped 305%), eggs (59.9%), margarine (43.8%), fuel oil (41.5%)
    and airline fares (28.5%). Some of these prices ballooned for reasons beyond broad pandemic-era
    inflationary factors such as snarled supply chains, pent-up consumer demand, household cash
    infusions, labor shortages and war in Ukraine."

    <https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-december-2022-in-one-chart.html#>

    Are you REALLY this STUPID, you IDIOT? Lyin' Biden gets BLAMED for EVERYTHING in your list, as he SHOULD!!!!!

    BTW, I don't think that the average consumer puts the price of EGGS or MARGARINE above the cost of housing.


    TL;DR: housing costs aren't even mentioned in the source's "highlights reel."

    -hh

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Sun Oct 22 20:46:06 2023
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:11:01 PM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 10:00:37 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 11:14:55 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:21:32 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>> On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they >>>>>>>>>>> do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level
    in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up >>>>>>> FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing
    inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' >>>>>>> Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT >>>>> dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed. >>>>
    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts >>> (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts
    before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%
    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free,
    which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh
    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden an F on the ECONOMY,
    you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you said.

    First, your " SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT" that you've claimed is utterly unsubstantiated.

    LOL! This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE, Lyin' Asshole - the senile pervert has his WORST NUMBERS for handling of the economy, and YOU KNOW IT!!!!
    Still unsubstantiated… cry harder!
    Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are FED UP with the senile pervert:
    https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/

    Which states that "... homeownership...peaked in 2005 when well over two-thirds of
    American housing units were “owner-occupied”....This homeownership rate then began
    to sink, down to 63.1 percent in 2020 — its lowest level in five decades."

    The start of the decline from the 2005 peak happened under Bush (Republican). And the
    bottom in 2020 was Trump (Republican, again), despite his claims of a 'roaring' economy.

    Again, you IDIOT, the situation is now UNBEARABLE for most prospective new home buyers
    they simply CAN'T AFFORD they 20% down payment PLUS the EIGHT PERCENT mortgage payment.
    As has been already noted, average new home buyer only puts down 7%.
    And repeat buyers aren’t at 20% either: their average is just 17% down.

    As such, you’re protesting an objectively non-majority hypothetical scenario.
    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions, age, race and income
    aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey.
    Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes housing costs,
    consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price Index’s monthly all-items
    increase for the past several months."

    Except if if one actually goes to that cited survey, one finds that it says:

    "About 2 in 5 each blamed insufficient retirement funds (41 percent) and emergency funds
    (42 percent) as factors keeping them from feeling financially secure. More than 1 in 4 blamed
    high or revolving debt (26 percent) and renting instead of owning or housing affordability (25 percent)."

    In other words, that survey's respondents put housing costs down at 4th place.

    In your WET DREAMS, idiot. Housing is something you need NOW, not in 40 years.
    Sorry, but it’s derived from *your own choice of citation* that is disagreeing with you.
    Just because housing may have _traditionally_ been a major contributor in the past does not
    constitute proof that it currently was this time too. Case in point, continuing on that referenced cite:

    "Items among those with the most rapid price growth in 2022 included food at elementary
    and secondary schools (prices jumped 305%), eggs (59.9%), margarine (43.8%), fuel oil (41.5%)
    and airline fares (28.5%). Some of these prices ballooned for reasons beyond broad pandemic-era
    inflationary factors such as snarled supply chains, pent-up consumer demand, household cash
    infusions, labor shortages and war in Ukraine."

    <https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-december-2022-in-one-chart.html#>

    Are you REALLY this STUPID, you IDIOT? Lyin' Biden gets BLAMED for EVERYTHING in your list, as he SHOULD!!!!!
    Despite the fact that the majority of the stimulus money which caused the post-pandemic
    inflation was signed off by none other than your bully boy, Trump.
    BTW, I don't think that the average consumer puts the price of EGGS or MARGARINE above the cost of housing.
    Doesn’t matter, because that’s what your own choice of citation says. Maybe you should learn more about a topic before flapping your lips.

    -hh

    No, it is YOU that needs to learn the basic economic facts, Lyin' Asshole: https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/theres-never-been-a-worse-time-to-buy-instead-of-rent-bd3e80d9?mod=hp_lead_pos7

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Sun Oct 22 23:15:17 2023
    On 2023-10-22 10:21, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7,
    Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop,
    but if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10






    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their
    highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that
    that home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE
    YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is
    at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates
    HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to
    TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always
    existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices
    decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and
    prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the
    facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):



    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there
    is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and
    mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the
    construction of large single-family homes at the expense of
    other segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in increased
    prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up:
    "They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do
    home prices will skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when
    interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep
    rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the
    facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at
    $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to
    $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%
    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being
    mortgage-free, which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households
    have a home mortgage, not 75%.


    -hh

    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden
    an F on the ECONOMY, you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you
    said. Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are
    FED UP with the senile pervert: https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/

    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions,
    age, race and income aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey. Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes housing costs,
    consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price
    Index’s monthly all-items increase for the past several months."

    Strange there's no link to this "poll" (or whatever) where people are
    giving Biden "an F"...

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Mon Oct 23 05:25:25 2023
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 11:46:08 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:11:01 PM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 10:00:37 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 11:14:55 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:21:32 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:02:28 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they
    do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10




    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine? >>>>>>>>>
    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their highest level
    in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that home prices are up
    FORTY PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a rate of housing
    inflation that is at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' >>>>>>> Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE NOT
    dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed. >>>>
    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices decline
    or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and prices go
    up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):

    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there is a
    trend toward decreased construction of starter and mid-size housing
    units. Developers have increased the construction of large >>> single-family homes at the expense of other segments in the market.
    This limited supply, particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners. >>>
    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up: "They can
    wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home prices will
    skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when interest rates
    drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep rising.

    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the facts
    before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...
    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to $416,100...
    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    Tommy’s just not good with financial information.

    Case in point, US homeownership is 66%, with 38% of these being mortgage-free,
    which means just (.66*(1-.38)) = 41% of households have a home mortgage, not 75%.

    LOL! That 75% is the percentage of the public that give Lyin' Biden an F on the ECONOMY,
    you idiot, NOT those with a home mortgage as you said.

    First, your " SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT" that you've claimed is utterly unsubstantiated.

    LOL! This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE, Lyin' Asshole - the senile pervert has his
    WORST NUMBERS for handling of the economy, and YOU KNOW IT!!!!

    Still unsubstantiated… cry harder!

    Unaffordability of housing is a MAJOR reason why Americans are FED UP with the senile pervert:
    https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/

    Which states that "... homeownership...peaked in 2005 when well over two-thirds of
    American housing units were “owner-occupied”....This homeownership rate then began
    to sink, down to 63.1 percent in 2020 — its lowest level in five decades."

    The start of the decline from the 2005 peak happened under Bush (Republican). And the
    bottom in 2020 was Trump (Republican, again), despite his claims of a 'roaring' economy.

    Again, you IDIOT, the situation is now UNBEARABLE for most prospective new home buyers
    they simply CAN'T AFFORD they 20% down payment PLUS the EIGHT PERCENT mortgage payment.

    As has been already noted, average new home buyer only puts down 7%.

    And repeat buyers aren’t at 20% either: their average is just 17% down.

    As such, you’re protesting an objectively non-majority hypothetical scenario.

    "High inflation is the No. 1 reason that Americans across regions, age, race and income
    aren’t feeling financially secure, according to Bankrate’s Financial Freedom Survey.
    Housing is a key component in inflation. The shelter category, which includes housing costs,
    consistently has been the largest contributor to the Consumer Price Index’s monthly all-items
    increase for the past several months."

    Except if if one actually goes to that cited survey, one finds that it says:

    "About 2 in 5 each blamed insufficient retirement funds (41 percent) and emergency funds
    (42 percent) as factors keeping them from feeling financially secure. More than 1 in 4 blamed
    high or revolving debt (26 percent) and renting instead of owning or housing affordability (25 percent)."

    In other words, that survey's respondents put housing costs down at 4th place.

    In your WET DREAMS, idiot. Housing is something you need NOW, not in 40 years.

    Sorry, but it’s derived from *your own choice of citation* that is disagreeing with you.

    Just because housing may have _traditionally_ been a major contributor in the past does not
    constitute proof that it currently was this time too. Case in point, continuing on that referenced cite:

    "Items among those with the most rapid price growth in 2022 included food at elementary
    and secondary schools (prices jumped 305%), eggs (59.9%), margarine (43.8%), fuel oil (41.5%)
    and airline fares (28.5%). Some of these prices ballooned for reasons beyond broad pandemic-era
    inflationary factors such as snarled supply chains, pent-up consumer demand, household cash
    infusions, labor shortages and war in Ukraine."

    <https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-december-2022-in-one-chart.html#>

    Are you REALLY this STUPID, you IDIOT? Lyin' Biden gets BLAMED for EVERYTHING in your list, as he SHOULD!!!!!

    Despite the fact that the majority of the stimulus money which caused the post-pandemic
    inflation was signed off by none other than your bully boy, Trump.

    BTW, I don't think that the average consumer puts the price of EGGS or MARGARINE above the cost of housing.

    Doesn’t matter, because that’s what your own choice of citation says. Maybe you should learn more about a topic before flapping your lips.

    No, it is YOU that needs to learn the basic economic facts, Lyin' Asshole: https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/theres-never-been-a-worse-time-to-buy-instead-of-rent-bd3e80d9?mod=hp_lead_pos7

    Unfortunately for you, your new cite doesn’t compare housing costs to other living expenses to
    show it’s the most significant factor in today’s inflation. That’s a goalpost move by you Tommy.

    Plus the WSJ claims “all time high” but avoids showing any data on its chart before 1996. Why?
    After all, we know that the mortgage interest rates a decade earlier were 50% higher than today’s.

    Plus if we go way back in the discussion, it’s know that increased mortgage interest rates
    will put pressure on prices, which means that after a rapid increase in rates, there’s invariably
    a lag before prices stop rising and/or decline (which will affect comparative metrics attempts
    during the transient period when there’s differing amounts of system response lag): that’s the
    same observation that your choice of citation’s author has made ~2 weeks earlier on your
    same choice of citation website, namely that the Market sees US homes as being overpriced:

    “The pandemic-era flood of Wall Street cash into family houses is drying up. Regular home
    buyers might welcome a bit less competition, but not the signs that they are overpaying.
    US single-family homes are the only type of real estate that has increased in value since
    interest rates began to rise in March 2022…”

    < https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/wall-street-thinks-americas-homes-are-overvalued-435e9c42>
    By Carol Ryan, Oct. 3, 2023 at 8:00 am ET


    -hh

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Mon Oct 23 09:43:03 2023
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but
    if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10






    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their
    highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that
    home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE
    YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is
    at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE
    NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices
    decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and
    prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the
    facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):



    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices
    and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there
    is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and
    mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the
    construction of large single-family homes at the expense of
    other segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in increased
    prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up:
    "They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when
    interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep
    rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the
    facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to
    $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have RISEN under
    Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average price data is also
    subject to the mix of sales of high end homes vs starter homes. The
    bottom line is that inflation has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING
    going into building a home, which translates into higher prices. And
    the senile pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the idiot FUCKS
    UP!).

    Sunshine....

    You said:

    "home prices AREN'T dropping"

    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they peaked in
    Q4 2022.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Tue Oct 24 22:03:45 2023
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but
    if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10






    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their
    highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that
    home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE
    YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is
    at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE
    NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices
    decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and
    prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the
    facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):



    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices
    and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there
    is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and
    mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the
    construction of large single-family homes at the expense of
    other segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in increased
    prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up:
    "They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when
    interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep
    rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the
    facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to
    $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have RISEN under
    Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average price data is also
    subject to the mix of sales of high end homes vs starter homes. The
    bottom line is that inflation has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING
    going into building a home, which translates into higher prices. And
    the senile pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the idiot FUCKS
    UP!).
    Sunshine....

    You said:

    "home prices AREN'T dropping"

    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they peaked in
    Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP: https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.

    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Tue Oct 24 21:58:51 2023
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but
    if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10






    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their
    highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that
    home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE
    YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is
    at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE
    NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices
    decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and
    prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the
    facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):



    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices
    and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there
    is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and
    mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the
    construction of large single-family homes at the expense of
    other segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in increased
    prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up:
    "They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when
    interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep
    rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the
    facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to
    $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average price data is also
    subject to the mix of sales of high end homes vs starter homes. The
    bottom line is that inflation has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING
    going into building a home, which translates into higher prices. And
    the senile pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the idiot FUCKS
    UP!).
    Sunshine....

    You said:

    "home prices AREN'T dropping"

    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they peaked in
    Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP: https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Alan on Wed Oct 25 03:39:51 2023
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10

    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their
    highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that >>>>>>>>>>> home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE
    YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is
    at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE
    NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices
    decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and
    prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the
    facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):



    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices >>>>>>> and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there
    is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and
    mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the
    construction of large single-family homes at the expense of
    other segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in increased
    prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up:
    "They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home
    prices will skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when
    interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep
    rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the
    facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to
    $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have RISEN under >>> Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average price data is also
    subject to the mix of sales of high end homes vs starter homes. The
    bottom line is that inflation has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING
    going into building a home, which translates into higher prices. And
    the senile pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the idiot FUCKS
    UP!).

    Sunshine....
    You said:
    "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they peaked in >> Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP: https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.

    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?

    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    -hh

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Tommy on Wed Oct 25 14:47:59 2023
    On 2023-10-25 14:42, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7,
    Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at
    7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices
    will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10



    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at
    their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!
    Add to that that home prices are up FORTY
    PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a
    rate of housing inflation that is at a
    historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices
    rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest
    rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their
    way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always
    existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline
    and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales
    increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out
    by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):





    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices
    and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply
    side, there is a trend toward decreased
    construction of starter and mid-size housing units.
    Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other
    segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new
    homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU
    brought up: "They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket") was
    the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising
    when interest rates drop was something special to
    this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest
    rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check
    the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at
    $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped
    to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have
    RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average
    price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end
    homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation
    has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING going into building a
    home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile
    pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the
    idiot FUCKS UP!).

    Sunshine.... You said: "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they
    peaked in Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP:
    https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.



    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW
    home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad
    at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    -hh

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost,
    including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3%
    30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).


    Before anyone does that, please show us you understand why the median is
    a better yardstick when the discussion (as chosen by you) is "new home
    buyers".

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Wed Oct 25 14:42:51 2023
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:36:56 PM >>>>>>>>>>>>> UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to drop, but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if they do home prices will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10

    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at their
    highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! Add to that that >>>>>>>>>>> home prices are up FORTY PERCENT in just THREE
    YEARS!! This is a rate of housing inflation that is >>>>>>>>>>> at a historical high. Thank you, Lyin' Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest rates HAVE >>>>>>>>> NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always existed. >>>>>>>>
    When interest rates go up, house sales decline and prices >>>>>>>> decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales increase and >>>>>>>> prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out by the
    facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):



    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices >>>>>>> and
    the homeownership rate. From the housing supply side, there >>>>>>> is a trend toward decreased construction of starter and
    mid-size housing units. Developers have increased the
    construction of large single-family homes at the expense of >>>>>>> other segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in increased
    prices for those homes and fewer new homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU brought up:
    "They can wait for interest rates to drop, but if they do home >>>>>> prices will skyrocket") was the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising when
    interest rates drop was something special to this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest rates keep
    rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check the
    facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at $479,500... >>>>
    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped to
    $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have RISEN under >>> Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average price data is also
    subject to the mix of sales of high end homes vs starter homes. The >>> bottom line is that inflation has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING >>> going into building a home, which translates into higher prices. And >>> the senile pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in >>> your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the idiot FUCKS >>> UP!).

    Sunshine....
    You said:
    "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they peaked in >> Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP: https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.

    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    -hh

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost, including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3% 30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Oct 27 08:32:29 2023
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-25 14:42, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7,
    Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at
    7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices
    will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10



    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at
    their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!
    Add to that that home prices are up FORTY
    PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a
    rate of housing inflation that is at a
    historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices
    rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest
    rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their
    way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always
    existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline
    and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales
    increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out
    by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):





    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices
    and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply
    side, there is a trend toward decreased
    construction of starter and mid-size housing units.
    Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other
    segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new
    homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU
    brought up: "They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket") was
    the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising
    when interest rates drop was something special to
    this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest
    rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check
    the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at
    $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped
    to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have
    RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average
    price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end
    homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation
    has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING going into building a
    home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile
    pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the
    idiot FUCKS UP!).

    Sunshine.... You said: "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they
    peaked in Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP:
    https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.



    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW
    home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad
    at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    -hh

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost,
    including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3%
    30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).
    Before anyone does that, please show us you understand why the median is
    a better yardstick when the discussion (as chosen by you) is "new home buyers".

    Median is not affected by high-priced homes as much as the average - now it's your turn, Fool.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 27 10:32:02 2023
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:32:31 AM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-25 14:42, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7,
    Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at
    7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices
    will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10



    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at
    their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!
    Add to that that home prices are up FORTY
    PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a
    rate of housing inflation that is at a
    historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices
    rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest
    rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their
    way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always
    existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline
    and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales
    increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out
    by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):





    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices
    and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply
    side, there is a trend toward decreased
    construction of starter and mid-size housing units.
    Developers have increased the construction of large
    single-family homes at the expense of other
    segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new
    homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU
    brought up: "They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket") was
    the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising
    when interest rates drop was something special to
    this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest
    rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check
    the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at
    $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped
    to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have
    RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average
    price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end
    homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation
    has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING going into building a
    home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile
    pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the
    idiot FUCKS UP!).

    Sunshine.... You said: "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they
    peaked in Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP:
    https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.



    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW
    home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad
    at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost, including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3%
    30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).

    Before anyone does that, please show us you understand why the median is
    a better yardstick when the discussion (as chosen by you) is "new home buyers".

    Median is not affected by high-priced homes as much as the average - now it's your turn, Fool.

    For just what, precisely? Because Tommy just made Alan’s point for him.

    So would it be for debunking Tommy’s “20% down” claim for first time homebuyers?

    Because the average there is just 6%, as per:

    < https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/down-payment-for-first-time-homebuyers/>

    Similarly, are the prices of the homes being purchased by first time homebuyers
    closer to the Median or Average? Here’s the relevant data there:

    “ The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that the median price of
    homes purchased by first-time homebuyers was $215,000 in 2019.”

    < https://www.thebalancemoney.com/average-price-of-starter-home-4172916>

    And this is before noting that the reason why mortgage rates under Trump dropped
    down to 3% was because of CoVid, as illustrated by that market bottom occurring in
    late 2020/Jan 2021: if one goes back to earlier in Trump’s administration to 2018
    (Since the economy was already slowing prior to CoVid with the manufacturing segment
    slipped into a technical recession in 2019), his 30yr mortgage rate was at 4.54%.

    Thus, it’s not hard at all to see that the raw 3% vs 4.54% mortgage rate cost difference
    per $200K on a 30yr is $843 vs $1018 = +$175/month (+21%): just this one accounting
    slight-of-hand cherry-picking attempt by Tommy is most of his claimed increase in costs.

    -hh

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Fri Oct 27 15:59:23 2023
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 10:32:04 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:32:31 AM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-25 14:42, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>> On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7,
    Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at
    7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> drop, but if they do home prices
    will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10



    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at
    their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS!
    Add to that that home prices are up FORTY
    PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a
    rate of housing inflation that is at a
    historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices
    rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest
    rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their >>>>>>>>>>>> way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always >>>>>>>>>>> existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline
    and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales
    increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out
    by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):





    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices >>>>>>>>>> and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply >>>>>>>>>> side, there is a trend toward decreased
    construction of starter and mid-size housing units. >>>>>>>>>> Developers have increased the construction of large >>>>>>>>>> single-family homes at the expense of other
    segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new
    homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU
    brought up: "They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket") was >>>>>>>>> the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising
    when interest rates drop was something special to
    this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest
    rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check >>>>>>> the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at
    $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped >>>>>>> to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have
    RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average
    price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end
    homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation
    has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING going into building a >>>>>> home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile
    pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the
    idiot FUCKS UP!).

    Sunshine.... You said: "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they >>>>> peaked in Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP:
    https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.



    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW >> home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad >> at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost, including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3% 30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).

    Before anyone does that, please show us you understand why the median is a better yardstick when the discussion (as chosen by you) is "new home buyers".

    Median is not affected by high-priced homes as much as the average - now it's your turn, Fool.
    For just what, precisely? Because Tommy just made Alan’s point for him.

    So would it be for debunking Tommy’s “20% down” claim for first time homebuyers?

    Because the average there is just 6%, as per:

    < https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/down-payment-for-first-time-homebuyers/>

    Similarly, are the prices of the homes being purchased by first time homebuyers
    closer to the Median or Average? Here’s the relevant data there:

    “ The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that the median price of
    homes purchased by first-time homebuyers was $215,000 in 2019.”

    < https://www.thebalancemoney.com/average-price-of-starter-home-4172916>

    And this is before noting that the reason why mortgage rates under Trump dropped
    down to 3% was because of CoVid, as illustrated by that market bottom occurring in
    late 2020/Jan 2021: if one goes back to earlier in Trump’s administration to 2018
    (Since the economy was already slowing prior to CoVid with the manufacturing segment
    slipped into a technical recession in 2019), his 30yr mortgage rate was at 4.54%.

    Thus, it’s not hard at all to see that the raw 3% vs 4.54% mortgage rate cost difference
    per $200K on a 30yr is $843 vs $1018 = +$175/month (+21%): just this one accounting
    slight-of-hand cherry-picking attempt by Tommy is most of his claimed increase in costs.

    -hh

    Not sure exactly what point the Fool was trying to make, but if he wants to use median instead of average home prices that is fine by me. In fact, in my previous calculations I WAS using the median price:
    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
    At the end of Trump's term is was $359k vs $431k in the latest quarter (after peaking at $480k), an increase of 21%.

    Another factor is the volume, which in the latest NAR report it was at its lowest level in 13 years. This, by itself, can distort the median sales price. It sure does mean that there are far fewer buyers that qualify for loans.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Tommy on Fri Oct 27 19:57:19 2023
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 6:59:25 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 10:32:04 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:32:31 AM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-25 14:42, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote: >>> On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>> On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan
    wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, >>>>>>>>>> Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM
    UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM >>>>>>>>>>>>>> UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at
    7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote:
    They can wait for interest rates to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> drop, but if they do home prices
    will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10



    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine?

    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one.

    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at >>>>>>>>>>>>>> their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Add to that that home prices are up FORTY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a
    rate of housing inflation that is at a
    historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices
    rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest >>>>>>>>>>>> rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their >>>>>>>>>>>> way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always >>>>>>>>>>> existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline
    and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales
    increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out >>>>>>>>>> by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):





    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices >>>>>>>>>> and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply >>>>>>>>>> side, there is a trend toward decreased
    construction of starter and mid-size housing units. >>>>>>>>>> Developers have increased the construction of large >>>>>>>>>> single-family homes at the expense of other
    segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in
    increased prices for those homes and fewer new
    homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU
    brought up: "They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket") was >>>>>>>>> the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising >>>>>>>>> when interest rates drop was something special to
    this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest
    rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check >>>>>>> the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at
    $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped >>>>>>> to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have >>>>>> RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average >>>>>> price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end >>>>>> homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation >>>>>> has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING going into building a >>>>>> home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile >>>>>> pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in
    your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the
    idiot FUCKS UP!).

    Sunshine.... You said: "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they >>>>> peaked in Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP:
    https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.



    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW
    home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad >> at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost, including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3%
    30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).

    Before anyone does that, please show us you understand why the median is
    a better yardstick when the discussion (as chosen by you) is "new home buyers".

    Median is not affected by high-priced homes as much as the average - now it's your turn, Fool.
    For just what, precisely? Because Tommy just made Alan’s point for him.

    So would it be for debunking Tommy’s “20% down” claim for first time homebuyers?

    Because the average there is just 6%, as per:

    < https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/down-payment-for-first-time-homebuyers/>

    Similarly, are the prices of the homes being purchased by first time homebuyers
    closer to the Median or Average? Here’s the relevant data there:

    “ The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that the median price of
    homes purchased by first-time homebuyers was $215,000 in 2019.”

    < https://www.thebalancemoney.com/average-price-of-starter-home-4172916>

    And this is before noting that the reason why mortgage rates under Trump dropped
    down to 3% was because of CoVid, as illustrated by that market bottom occurring in
    late 2020/Jan 2021: if one goes back to earlier in Trump’s administration to 2018
    (Since the economy was already slowing prior to CoVid with the manufacturing segment
    slipped into a technical recession in 2019), his 30yr mortgage rate was at 4.54%.

    Thus, it’s not hard at all to see that the raw 3% vs 4.54% mortgage rate cost difference
    per $200K on a 30yr is $843 vs $1018 = +$175/month (+21%): just this one accounting
    slight-of-hand cherry-picking attempt by Tommy is most of his claimed increase in costs.


    Not sure exactly what point the Fool was trying to make, ..

    Merely how you were exaggerating in your partisan “doom!” scheme.

    At the end of Trump's term …

    Was during CoVid, where there were extraordinary measures being taken to stimulate
    the economy, and thus low interest rates .. heck, in the EU, some countries rates
    literally went negative.

    …which is also why median prices are essentially the same as they were in May 2022:

    < https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/>

    -hh

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  • From Tommy@21:1/5 to -hh on Sat Oct 28 10:04:31 2023
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:57:22 PM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 6:59:25 PM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 10:32:04 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:32:31 AM UTC-4, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-25 14:42, Tommy wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 3:39:53 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 1:03:58 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote: >>> On 2023-10-24 21:58, Tommy wrote:
    On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 9:43:07 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote: >>>>> On 2023-10-22 10:03, Tommy wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-09 17:18, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 1:19:52 PM UTC-7, Alan >>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 2023-10-07 09:19, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:14:49 PM UTC-7, >>>>>>>>>> Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 19:53, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:30:30 AM >>>>>>>>>>>> UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 10:55, Tommy wrote:
    On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:10:04 AM >>>>>>>>>>>>>> UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-10-06 08:33, Tommy wrote:
    On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at
    7:36:56 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:
    On 2023-09-30 19:32, Tommy wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> They can wait for interest rates to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> drop, but if they do home prices >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> will skyrocket:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/barbara-corcoran-says-housing-prices-are-going-to-go-through-the-roof-here-s-when/ar-AA1cbCcI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60b4b9d1efe04a1dac1081dcc65bb378&ei=10



    How is this different than any other time, Sunshine? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    What do you think?
    Sorry.

    Answer my question before you ask one. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Well, that is EASY: mortgage rates are at >>>>>>>>>>>>>> their highest level in TWENTY-THREE YEARS! >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Add to that that home prices are up FORTY >>>>>>>>>>>>>> PERCENT in just THREE YEARS!! This is a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> rate of housing inflation that is at a
    historical high. Thank you, Lyin'
    Biden!!!!
    You've failed to answer the question.

    When interest rates drop, housing prices
    rise.

    That's always been the case.

    So how is this time DIFFERENT?

    Are you REALLY this stupid? REALLY?? Interest >>>>>>>>>>>> rates HAVE NOT dropped, Fool, they are on their >>>>>>>>>>>> way to TRIPLING.
    I was pointing out a relationship that has always >>>>>>>>>>> existed.

    When interest rates go up, house sales decline >>>>>>>>>>> and prices decline or at least flatten out.

    When interest rates come down, housing sales
    increase and prices go up.

    This is not new.

    Your overly simplistic reasoning is not borne out >>>>>>>>>> by the facts
    (https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/03/a-housing-recovery-without-homeowners/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog):





    Several factors could be driving the decoupling of house prices >>>>>>>>>> and the homeownership rate. From the housing supply >>>>>>>>>> side, there is a trend toward decreased
    construction of starter and mid-size housing units. >>>>>>>>>> Developers have increased the construction of large >>>>>>>>>> single-family homes at the expense of other
    segments in the market. This limited supply,
    particularly for starter homes, could result in >>>>>>>>>> increased prices for those homes and fewer new
    homeowners.

    Except I never said that this (the subject YOU
    brought up: "They can wait for interest rates to
    drop, but if they do home prices will skyrocket") was >>>>>>>>> the only factor.

    You tried to make it seem like housing prices rising >>>>>>>>> when interest rates drop was something special to >>>>>>>>> this era.

    It's not, Sunshine.

    Sorry.

    Hey Fool, home prices AREN'T dropping, but interest >>>>>>>> rates keep rising.
    Oh, look: wrong again, because you didn't bother to check >>>>>>> the facts before posting!

    <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS>

    The median price for houses sold peaked in Q4 2022 at >>>>>>> $479,500...

    ...and since then (Q2 2023), the median price has dropped >>>>>>> to $416,100...

    ...a decline of a little more than 13%

    What is relevant, of course, is HOW MUCH home prices have >>>>>> RISEN under Lyin' Biden, which is UNDENIABLE. The average >>>>>> price data is also subject to the mix of sales of high end >>>>>> homes vs starter homes. The bottom line is that inflation >>>>>> has driven up the costs of EVERYTHING going into building a >>>>>> home, which translates into higher prices. And the senile >>>>>> pervert is DIRECTLY responsible for inflation (except in >>>>>> your warped minds, who must apologize for everything the >>>>>> idiot FUCKS UP!).

    Sunshine.... You said: "home prices AREN'T dropping"
    ...agreed?

    Well it turns out they ARE dropping, and have been since they >>>>> peaked in Q4 2022.

    Right: year-over-year existing home prices are UP:
    https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/ehs-09-2023-average-price-2023-10-19.pdf?_gl=1*j2l892*_gcl_au*NzUzMDc2OTEwLjE2OTc5OTM3ODM.



    That's MEAN, not median.

    Do you even understand the difference, Sunshine?
    Particularly since his OP a subject line is (emphasis added): “NEW
    home buyers…”

    “Tommy keeps on showing everyone that he really is profoundly bad
    at even _basic_ financial principles!”

    LOL! Here is a challenge to you libtards: figure the TOTAL cost, including ALL interest, of buying the average US home under Trump (3%
    30 year fixed) vs Biden (8%).

    Before anyone does that, please show us you understand why the median is
    a better yardstick when the discussion (as chosen by you) is "new home
    buyers".

    Median is not affected by high-priced homes as much as the average - now it's your turn, Fool.
    For just what, precisely? Because Tommy just made Alan’s point for him.

    So would it be for debunking Tommy’s “20% down” claim for first time homebuyers?

    Because the average there is just 6%, as per:

    < https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/down-payment-for-first-time-homebuyers/>

    Similarly, are the prices of the homes being purchased by first time homebuyers
    closer to the Median or Average? Here’s the relevant data there:

    “ The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that the median price of
    homes purchased by first-time homebuyers was $215,000 in 2019.”

    < https://www.thebalancemoney.com/average-price-of-starter-home-4172916>

    And this is before noting that the reason why mortgage rates under Trump dropped
    down to 3% was because of CoVid, as illustrated by that market bottom occurring in
    late 2020/Jan 2021: if one goes back to earlier in Trump’s administration to 2018
    (Since the economy was already slowing prior to CoVid with the manufacturing segment
    slipped into a technical recession in 2019), his 30yr mortgage rate was at 4.54%.

    Thus, it’s not hard at all to see that the raw 3% vs 4.54% mortgage rate cost difference
    per $200K on a 30yr is $843 vs $1018 = +$175/month (+21%): just this one accounting
    slight-of-hand cherry-picking attempt by Tommy is most of his claimed increase in costs.


    Not sure exactly what point the Fool was trying to make, ..

    Merely how you were exaggerating in your partisan “doom!” scheme.

    At the end of Trump's term …

    Was during CoVid, where there were extraordinary measures being taken to stimulate
    the economy, and thus low interest rates .. heck, in the EU, some countries rates
    literally went negative.

    …which is also why median prices are essentially the same as they were in May 2022:

    < https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/>

    -hh

    The facts speak for themselves - you libtards apologizing for Lyin' Biden's horrendous performance won't change them.

    The Fool is strangely quite here. Very unlike his FIVE MINUTE past response times.

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