Why the Housing Bubble Is Popping, In 50 Words Or Less
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: real estate
This Fortune article found via the Housing Bubble Blog will tell you in a few hundred words why housing prices are going to drop (if they’re not already). Allow me to tell you why housing prices are going to drop in fifty words or less.
Housing prices skyrocket. Property taxes skyrocket. Interest rates skyrocket. Your pay doesn’t skyrocket. You need a house. That guy selling a house can’t control taxes or interest rates. You can’t afford that house. To sell you the house, that guy must drop the price. Now you can afford the house.
Ooh, fifty words exactly. How grand!
And sure, it’s a little more complicated than that, but the reason for the bursting housing bubble is not some complicated economic formula that depends on per capita gross domestic gobbledygook. It depends on you, and you’re the one with the money to buy a house. And when you and everyone around you stops being able to afford a house, that house ain’t gettin’ lived in unless it costs less.
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May 26th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Great point that pretty much sums it up. Which I love it when it works out like that. Its what keeps prices from going to insane heights.
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lilu
August 24th, 2010 at 5:00 am
useful and very good!:)
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December 3rd, 2010 at 6:12 am
I liked this article because of the range of useful information
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December 3rd, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I have read a couple of these. You could start a website just on those, you are pretty good at it.
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privateserver
March 18th, 2011 at 10:24 am
You predicted it in 2006, even people won’t rent the house, then you can’t pay that big mortgage. Now that it’s 2011, the industry did bubble and completely popped in a big way. It’s going to be a long way back to recovery.
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Amanda Hocking
March 25th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Good article, great info
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March 25th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Nice article, enjoyed it.
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Jeremy
August 2nd, 2011 at 6:22 am
How about 3 words: “supply and demand”
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August 4th, 2011 at 2:24 am
Now that it’s 2011, the industry did bubble and completely popped in a big way. It’s going to be a long way back to recovery.
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September 3rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm
You are the funniest man alive dude, I realy like you
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September 14th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
great, thats very good for us
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jocu-RI cu Masini
November 1st, 2011 at 10:46 am
Amazing man, how do you come up with this stories
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jocu-RI cu Masini
December 1st, 2011 at 5:32 am
It’s sad and funny how you can present real problems with such easy and in such a funny way
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January 3rd, 2012 at 9:30 am
I want more drawings from your and also more articles, everything is very funny
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