• US home prices have soared 47% so far this decade.
  • The price surge has outpaced the gains seen in the 1990s and 2010s, and is nearly ahead of the 2000s.
  • The rising value of homes has coincided with a millennial-fueled demand surge and years of low mortgage rates.

US home prices have soared 47.1% so far this decade, according to a ResiClub analysis of the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index.

The massive price gains seen in the first four years of the 2020s have eclipsed all of the growth seen in the 1990s and 2010s, according to the analysis. Housing prices in those two decades grew 30.1% and 44.7%, respectively.

On top of that, housing price growth in the 2020s is on the verge of eclipsing all of the growth seen in the 2000s, which was 47.3% after peaking at just over 80% before the 2007 housing market crash.

  • Kyrrrr@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 months ago

    Can we just band together as like 30 individuals and do the development ourselves? Like I want to find enough people that together we can afford to construct a set of condos without relying on some giant fucking company to do it.

    I’m not kidding, I want to own a home someday

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      8 months ago

      Yes you can. Banks do loans for this kind of thing all the time. They prefer experience though, and so if you don’t have that you will need to prove you have enough on the line that you will lose if you don’t complete the deal.

      Many condos are built by small companies. They build a few every month and it is enough to pay their employees and make a nice living. It is hard to break into this as the banks want to see experience, but it can be done.

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      8 months ago

      I wish it was possible, a citizen’s co-op sounds amazing.

      I will say I’ve seen it tried with varying degrees of success so It’d have to done carefully.