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Why Real Estate Prices might go up even higher!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Home Point Real Estate DRE # 01492725

Why Real Estate Prices might go up even higher!

I caught the National Real Estate Post (NREP) this morning. There are indications that higher housing prices are on the way. I feel higher prices are on the way due to coming inflation, but they had another reason.

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Per NREP the National Association of Realtors (NAR) says New Housing Starts are only at about 60% of what they need to be. This means there will be even more demand on the resale market come spring.

So why are new Housing Starts not where they should be? I am going to throw out several reasons I caught on their post and elsewhere:

  1. Financing for new housing construction is hard to get.

  2. Financing is hard to get due to financial reforms designed to help the consumers. (Yes our government is filled with idiots and the more they do to help the more it seems to cost everyone.)

  3. A shortage of workers in the home construction fields.

  4. There is a shortage of workers because the skilled blue collar works are being drawn to even higher paying jobs in the oil/gas/energy industry. (What can we learn from this? Skip college and buy a Skill Saw!)

 

What is the upside of all this? Buy a house now!

Mark Don McInnes, Sandpoint-Idaho
Sandpoint Realty LLC - Sandpoint, ID
North Idaho Real Estate - 208-255.6227

Gene. Thanks for the chuckle here.  How you really feeling about the fix it men?  We have had many of our young to middle age move to Dakota for the "big" dollars only to find unless you are living there permanently those big dollars find their way out of their pocket long before they get back home.  Ahhh...gots to love the lure of money.

Make it a great day.  Mark

Sep 30, 2014 01:57 PM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Gene, sounds like a great time for buyers to make a decision NOW before prices increase!   

Oct 02, 2014 10:46 PM
Gene Riemenschneider
Home Point Real Estate - Brentwood, CA
Turning Houses into Homes

Mark - Glad I could give you a laugh.

Joan - Now is a great time to buy.

Oct 03, 2014 01:56 AM