530RL
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Some keep talking about "Paid X (Low) and could have sold for Y (At the Highs) but now it is Z (Lower than Y but higher than X) but what about the hundreds of thousands that paid at the (Y Highs) and now are stuck with homes that were over paid for by tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands of dollars...prices going back down to Supposed pre covid or Supposed normal levels cause Every single person that Paid Y to have lost money on their investment IF they sold today and even more down the road. True if they want the house, keeping the house, living in the house and have no intention of selling then all is fine but that is not the case all around. As of Friday 63% of all earning Americans are living paycheck to paycheck...so once job loss increases we are going to see a larger drop in both home value and sales I am guessing within my original time frame.
Standard costs of a transaction for a median house is 6% commissions and 1% closing costs. That ignores any origination or rate buy-down points in the financing.
If the median price in California is 750,000, isn’t everyone down 52,500 bucks on day one? (7% times median price)
Assuming the purchase was a market purchase, Isn’t everyone who buys a house now underwater by tens of thousands the day they close?