[HN Gopher] Homes Are Taking Longer to Sell
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       Homes Are Taking Longer to Sell
        
       Author : latchkey
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-07-24 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.redfin.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.redfin.com)
        
       | theplumber wrote:
       | The rents are not getting cheaper so I believe the sale prices
       | won't go down either.
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | Yeah, no kidding. There is universal agreement among potential
       | buyers that prices are too high and this is the worst moment in
       | recorded American history to buy a home.
       | 
       | https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/get-chart.php?y=2022&m=6&n=42...
        
         | rightbyte wrote:
         | What is the context of the graph? I don't get it from the
         | labels.
        
           | jeffbee wrote:
           | It's the fraction of survey respondents saying home prices
           | are low, less the fraction saying prices are high. So 0 is a
           | neutral market and it ranges over [-100,100].
           | 
           | The whole survey is highly informative.
           | https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/
        
         | dadoge wrote:
         | Interest rates are the real cause IMO. Sadly, there are still a
         | lot of rich people with money to burn on real estate, but the
         | rates are now what is stopping them.
         | 
         | Prices would still be going up and up if The Fed didn't jump in
         | to hike rates.
        
           | konschubert wrote:
           | That's the point. Home prices are too high due to raised
           | interest rates. They will come down to match the interest
           | rates.
        
       | ngetchell wrote:
       | I have a coworker that decided to make an offer on a house but
       | not make it contingent on selling their existing house. They are
       | currently paying two mortgages and it seems like they'll sell
       | their previous house for quite a bit less than what they
       | expected.
        
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