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by frongpik 1891 days ago
It's not conspiracy, but an observation that hamburgers, cars, houses and yachts inflate at different rates. The gov inflation concerns hamburgers, but someone's making 200k really needs housing and that inflates much faster.
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medvezhenok 1891 days ago
Here is housing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIHOSNS

House prices are simply bonds tied to rent value and interest rate and affected by certain demographic trends. The all-told carrying costs of a mortgage right now are actually lower than they were 30 years ago, considering inflation (the principal might be higher and you don't get the tailwind of dropping rates to rebalance and whatnot, but it doesn't change the fact that houses are technically more affordable, not less).

Edit: Here's a graph of housing prices when adjusted for inflation & mortgage rates: https://realestatedecoded.com/the-shocking-truth-about-house... (although the down-payment is more unaffordable, yes, but you can generally buy things with as low as 3.5% down)

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dominotw 1891 days ago
> but you can generally buy things with as low as 3.5% down

no way. It is so competitive here that buyers are inundated with all cash offers.

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medvezhenok 1891 days ago
https://accept.inc/ converts your mortgage approval into an all-cash offer. (Edit: looks like that's only for Colorado)

The craziness going on right now is due to several factors: (1) all time low supply due to pandemic restrictions/fears; (2) Work from home transforming housing values (single family homes a lot more appealing if you only work from the office occasionally); (3) Millennials aging into the housing market and boomers holding on to their properties (see 1) - also a lot of stock is now owned by investment companies / pension funds past 2008; (4) Housing is the safest way to take a leveraged short on the US dollar (which a lot of people fearing inflation want to do); (5) Capital flight from other countries like China (though that was more of a factor pre-pandemic) - real-estate is the only industry where anti money laundering provisions are severely watered down / non-existent.

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dominotw 1891 days ago
uh ok. I guess i'll be renting forever :D. But hey govt says inflation is low, so all good.
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TheTrotters 1891 days ago
1. Rents are included in the CPI. 2. This confuses relative price changes with inflation.
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dominotw 1891 days ago
> 1. Rents are included in the CPI.

Rents have remained low in my city but housing prices( which GP is talking about) have gone up over 30% last 2 years.

Its pretty easy to find a rental but almost impossible to buy a house here.

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