In a past post, I made a statement that when looking at household formations and the rate of new households being built it seemed that supply was outpacing demand, thus we should expect to see falling prices. Clearly, we are seeing the opposite with home prices.
I speculated that this may be due to investors purchasing houses for speculative capital gains, leaving them vacant. At the time this was pure speculation - then today I began noticing a number of news articles on the subject pulling data from the latest census.
it appears my speculations was not entirely wrong!
You can read my previous post here. Or view some of the related news articles here and here.
Keep in mind -- real-estate investing is not a bad thing. If those investments are being rented out to provide shelter, then shelter is still being provided. It is only when the price is being pushed up and shelter is being denied when we potentially have negative consequences and overall falling affordability for both owners and renters.
Keith
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