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Used car prices have plummeted in the past year, reaching their lowest point since 2021.

The price declines come after a prolonged supply crunch in the new vehicle market caused used values to skyrocket.

Not long ago, the rise in used car prices was one of the key reasons the overall inflation rate was so high. Now, used vehicles are now the No. 1 category driving down inflation in the economy, according to an analysis of consumer price index (CPI) data by car shopping app CoPilot.

The June CPI report showed used vehicle prices are down 10.1% in the past year, after falling 1.5% in the last month.

Why are used car prices falling? CoPilot CEO Pat Ryan explains that the supply of new vehicles is up about 50% since July 2023, which has had a spillover effect on the used market.

https://money.com/used-car-prices-driving-down-inflation/?xid=applenews

Dealers are fucked because they have to fill in their plans with new vehicles, but can't moved the used cars because of the high interest rates, and the newer cars are often priced very competitively to the used/trade-ins and come with teaser rates the used cars don't.

It's different this time

AmericanKulak says

It's different this time

Everytime I'm on a roller coaster at that particular point, my balls scrunch up as much as they can.

....but the Experts on PatNet said....

zzyzzx says

AD says

AmericanKulak says

American Kulak, figure 100 was the index value in 2000. Conservatively apply a 4% appreciation since its Florida (and Professor Shiller said the national historic annual appreciation rate is 4%),

1.04^24 x 100 = 256

How does this compare to local wages over the same time period?

Tampa / St Petersburg metro area per capita income

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TAMP312PCPI

year 2000: $29,223
year 2022: $60,091
year 2024: $64,000 (estimate)

****** per capita (or per person) income in Tampa metro area increased about 3 times or 400% from 2000 to 2024 *******

compared to Case - Shiller housing index for Tampa:

2000: 100
2024: 350

***** housing for Tampa metro area increased about 3.5 times or 450% from 2000 to 2024 **********

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zzyzzx says

How does this compare to local wages over the same time period?

Can't sustain this if 30 Year mortgage rate is above 5% AND housing prices continue to increase again.

Need lower mortgage payments due to interest rate decrease and housing income increases (greater than housing price increases).

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AD says

Can't sustain this if 30 Year mortgage rate is above 5% AND housing prices continue to increase again.

Except in patently fucked up circumstances (California and allowing foreigners to buy houses), those days are over for a while.

Cheap mortgage rates are toast until the Millennials start saving en masse during their pre-retirement years, like Boomers did for the last 15 years until recently.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

California and allowing foreigners to buy houses

Need then foreigners with deep pockets from India, China, Malaysia, etc to buy +$1.5 million bungalows in California, then in turn the California home seller moves to a state with less expensive housing like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, etc.

I guess that gravy train of foreigners is no longer running for now to at least the start of the next bubble cycle

Look at how prices are dropping in states where Californians were buying like Colorado (such as Colorado Springs, Vail, Breckinridge, etc) as well as Idaho, or prices have went down a little while sales volume is virtually zero
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AD says

I guess that gravy train of foreigners is no longer running for now to at least the start of the next bubble cycle

The absentee ones only want the R/E to park their money outside of home. Even if they lose 30% or so in value, that is 70% that they 'saved'. This mostly pertains to Chinese. Indians tend buy to live here.

Corporate owned housing tend to sell when shit goes south w/o batting an eye. So if you bought a house in a new subdivision of 80 homes built and a REIT bought 35 of them at a discount by that subdivision's home builder, then decides to sell, you may be fucked because they are going to sell those 35 all at once. Esp if they are distressed and can't sell them in an LLC package which won't nornally effect CMAs generated.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Cheap mortgage rates are toast until the Millennials start saving en masse during their pre-retirement years, like Boomers did for the last 15 years until recently.

I look at if the 30 year mortgage rate steadies to 6% , then I will buy 4 discount points to get it to 5%. Compare that to the 3% rate when housing prices peaked (in early 2022).

5% is a "cheap enough mortgage rate" if housing prices remain at the peak price levels, as our household income went up about 20% since 2022.

I am hoping this is the case as household income catches up with housing prices and the 30 Year mortgage rate drops to 6%.

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DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Corporate owned housing tend to sell when shit goes south w/o batting an eye.

I read there are about 16.2 million single family homes that are for rent, and Invitation Homes is the largest single owner of single-family rental homes in the United States, managing more than 80,000 homes as of 2021.

I agree as if you buy, then you plan on owning the home for at least 8 years to help you recover if you bought near the peak.

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AD says

****** per capita (or per person) income in Tampa metro area increased about 3 times or 400% from 2000 to 2024 *******

Per Capita

2000 - $40k/year (likely skewed upwards from all the MN retired teachers and IL gov employees on 2/3 last salary, esp back then)
2024 - Definitely not $120k/year and really half that (again, skewed by retirees from MUCH higher wage northern states).
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MHIFL12057A052NCEN

2000- Typical Florida home was $106k. Let's be generous and say Hillborough was $125k
2024- Typical Hillsborough Home goes for $410k, a nearly 4x increase in price

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2009/09/11/prices-history-don-t-mesh/#:~:text=But%20in%202000%2C%20Florida%20homes,40%20percent%2C%20to%20about%20%24144%2C000.
https://www.redfin.com/county/464/FL/Hillsborough-County/housing-market

The two choices are: Double the incomes, or pound the outrageous inflated house values down 50%.

Let's pound the asset prices down, since doubling incomes is going to create massive inflation for everybody on everything from groceries to electric.

Doubling incomes while lowering rates will only exacerbate the affordability problem in the long term.

Keeping rates high or better yet VOLKER SOLUTION will provide retired boomers with nice CD returns, keep speculators out of SFH and much of the housing market, etc.

Low interest/Cheap money is just more of the same crack that got us here.

AmericanKulak says

The two choices are: Double the incomes, or pound the outrageous inflated house values down 50%.

Prices in Panama City Beach especially east end are about 15% below early 2022 peak levels. And 3 bedroom, 1 car garage townhomes rent for ~$2000, same price in 2022 and compared to $1500 in 2016.

So townhome rent has only increased about 3.5% since 2016 in east Panama City Beach.

I would hope that prices remain where they are now for next 3 to 4 years while income slowly catches up with prices.

That is why you don't need a 50% asset crash with housing like we did with stocks (i.e. a lot more liquidity) in October 2022 (~20% crash), April 2020 (~34% crash), 2008 (~58% crash) and 2002 (~50% crash).

Just let the air out slowly of the housing asset bubble over the next 4 years.

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Blackstone liquidating homes in Florida:

https://youtu.be/Wa5r73qp%20-U?si=Y9COD3K_JLjk6koN

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Blackstone liquidating homes in Florida:

https://youtu.be/Wa5r73qp%20-U?si=Y9COD3K_JLjk6koN

Noooooooooo!

Redfin
@Redfin
About 56,000 home purchases were canceled last month, equal to 15% of homes that went under contract 👉 http://bit.ly/4clZNzz #realestate

Metros with the highest share of home-purchase cancellations were:
1. Orlando, 20.8%
2. Jacksonville, 20.5%
3. Tampa, 20.5%

https://x.com/Redfin/status/1818686844214612008

About 56,000 home purchases were canceled, equal to 15% of homes that went under contract—the highest percentage of any June on record. Buyers are skittish due to elevated mortgage rates and record-high home prices.
20% of homes for sale last month had a price cut—the highest June share on record. Many sellers are dropping prices because their homes are sitting on the market, causing listings to pile up; active listings posted the biggest annual gain on record.
Home sales fell roughly 1% from a month earlier in June—the biggest drop since October.
https://www.redfin.com/news/home-purchase-cancellations-june-2024/

The best thing about the price collapse is watching Real Estate Agents having to go back to their Fitness Instructor and Applebee waitress jobs.

Gym owner: "I know if the real estate market is hot or not by how many instructors return to bring clients to the gym"

My standard meme response to 'housing experts' who try to lecture me on X:

Blackstone (though their subsidiary Home Partners of America) is selling off some of its portfolio in Florida. Home Partners of America had a rent to own model that is evidently not working out. Will be interesting to see if this moves the market...
Blackstone is liquidating properties in Florida

EBGuy says

Blackstone (though their subsidiary Home Partners of America) is selling off some of its portfolio in Florida. Home Partners of America had a rent to own model that is evidently not working out. Will be interesting to see if this moves the market...
Blackstone is liquidating properties in Florida

Tricon (owned by Blackstone since January 2024) has some decent priced rentals in Las Vegas: https://triconresidential.com/find/vegas/

The California rentals such as in Sacramento and Inland Empire are outrageous at ~$3100 a month for 1500 square foot homes (3 bedroom/2.5 bath with garage).

It all comes down to housing not being more than 35% of household income, and living conditions (i.e.,quality of home and neighborhood, not putting 2 families under the roof of a 1 family home, etc).

Maybe Powell and Federal Reserve keeping rates still high will help with making housing prices and rents more affordable.

Notice how 10 Year Treasury has dropped from recent high of 5% (set in Oct 2023) to now around 4%. 1 Year Treasury has called some, though the yield curve is still inverted.
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The house of cards is beginning to shake. But it is not so simple as a market correction to “solve the problem.” There is a housing shortage in many areas due to lack of building to meet demand, rich people holding vacation and/or investment properties, and unrestrained illegal immigration.

In general for prices to correct we need more supply and/or less demand. More supply is not coming very quickly (unless you want to count the apartment housing that continues to sprout up like weeds), and aside from mass death or mass deportations or massive job losses we are not seeing a decrease in demand for housing.

Lower interest rates could cause prices to correct a bit, but lower prices increase demand so any price decreases are likely to be marginal except in coastal areas where prices are out of line with incomes.

A major housing correction is something that central banks will work to avoid like the plague because it could cause bank collapses and even a full financial system meltdown as the derivatives market built on selling mortgage backed investment trading is still largely lurking underneath the surface like an iceberg. People see the iceberg of high housing prices and think that is the problem, but what lies below the surface is the real problem. The financial system is a house of cards.

PeopleUnited says

In general for prices to correct we need more supply and/or less demand. More supply is not coming very quickly (unless you want to count the apartment housing that continues to sprout up like weeds), and aside from mass death or mass deportations or massive job losses we are not seeing a decrease in demand for housing.

Need LESS financialization aa well.

PeopleUnited says

In general for prices to correct we need more supply and/or less demand. More supply is not coming very quickly (unless you want to count the apartment housing that continues to sprout up like weeds), and aside from mass death or mass deportations or massive job losses we are not seeing a decrease in demand for housing.

That is the ruling class and establishment solution, put everyone in apartments like they are living in New York City. Similar to living in a "15 minute city".

Only the rich get the "brownstone townhomes". I see a lot of apartments going up in Florida panhandle, which seems to be the service worker (waiters, cooks, hotel room cleaners, etc) housing.

Townhomes are the next step up for "middle class", but its no different then living in the Washington DC metro area.

That's because all the factors where the "starter homes" or "lowest price homes" start at $450,000 versus household income of $75,000 with a 30 yr mortgage rate well north of 6%.

A GS-13 (step 1 to step 5) at least going back to early 2000's could only afford a townhome in DC metro area. A colonel or captain (O-6) or a GS-15 had enough to buy a nice home in the DC area.

Housing has been treated like stocks since at least 2002, as a post alluded to the financializing of housing "assets".

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PeopleUnited says

More supply is not coming very quickly (unless you want to count the apartment housing that continues to sprout up like weeds)

Eh? I'm watching a whole fucking side of a pretty big hill being rapidly covered with new SFHs right from my office window. Looks exactly like weeds sprouting up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSACSR

PeopleUnited says

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSACSR

They were not only building like mad in 2008, but had above trendline building until 2010.

And since then, many counties and cities have imposed much more requirements for contractors to finish what they started.

Eric Holder says

Eh? I'm watching a whole fucking side of a pretty big hill being rapidly covered with new SFHs right from my office window. Looks exactly like weeds sprouting up.

Just wait until you see how many multifamily housing units are underway. And the plethora of post-GFC laws to force builders of them to complete the work.

The trend was a friend, but now it ends.

Apartments Could Be the Next Real Estate Business to Struggle
Owners of some rental buildings are starting to struggle because of rising interest rates and waning demand in some once booming Sun Belt cities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/business/apartment-multifamily-loans-trouble.html

"They delved too greedily and too deeply, to the foundation of the demographic shift, and woke the Overexpansion Balrog"

According to the latest forecast from RealPage, a property management software company in the multifamily sector, 671,953 U.S. apartment units are projected to be completed in 2024. This would represent the highest level since 1974, the year of then-President Richard Nixon’s resignation.

Sunbelt boom markets, like Austin, where the most supply is coming online, are also the very places where multifamily rents are falling.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91124238/housing-market-fed-dilemma-inflation-rent-chart-zillow

AmericanKulak says

Apartments Could Be the Next Real Estate Business to Struggle

Yeah, Urban Blu in Panama City Beach is advertising on the top of its main page that it has new low rates. I never seen a leasing website in the Florida panhandle post info like this.

The 1 bedroom is renting for around $1400, and likely that may come with more deals like 1 month rent free for a 13 month lease, or free cable and internet, etc. The same type of place rented for $1000 back in 2015.

So that's only about a 4% annual increase in rent from $1000 to $1400.

Going back to 1993, I recall that the historic average for the area was 4% annual increase in rent.

https://www.urbanbluliving.com/floorplans

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AmericanKulak says

Sunbelt boom markets, like Austin, where the most supply is coming online, are also the very places where multifamily rents are falling.

Lower housing costs will attract people to move there like retirees and service workers.

Read this 2022 article that was reporting about Florida apartments and rentals.

https://www.realpage.com/analytics/florida-markets-revenue-loss/

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Condo sales plummet despite falling prices and rapidly growing inventory.
https://www.floridatrend.com/article/39413/florida-condo-sales-plummet-despite-falling-prices-and-rise-in-motivated-sellers

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unsold-new-homes-just-hit-an-all-time-high-in-the-us-south-heres-why-080014698.html

In just half a decade, the median price of a single-family house in Florida rose $150,000, or 60%. According to Redfin, the average cost of a home in March 2018 was approximately $250,000. In March 2023, it was roughly $400,000.

But expensive housing isn’t the only thing repelling retirees from the state. Inflation and stock market dips have also negatively impacted their financial situation.

In response, seniors are seeking more affordable places to call home. For example, many are moving to Limestone County, Alabama, the fastest-growing county in the state. The area boasts lakefront property, warm weather and low property taxes, so it only makes sense that it’s considered a substitute for The Sunshine State.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/florida-retirees-fleeing-where-going-113047260.html

I'm so excited. I was happy to make $600 after fees on this place, and thought it was insane when I got $1200/month, also super excited about the housing collapse. BLOOD ON THE STREETS!!!! All Hail the Buyer's market. I want a garden and a walk-in closet to hold my lawyers, guns, and money. (Remember, Florida has no basement, so you really want that two-car garage and walk-in closet)

And this time, there is recent memory of the last "It's a permanent plateau and nothing can happen" which will make sellers properly panic like they should.

Where is Logan? hahaha

AirBNB Hosts and 2018-2022 buyers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES0H4r2i_9I

AmericanKulak says

In just half a decade, the median price of a single-family house in Florida rose $150,000, or 60%. According to Redfin, the average cost of a home in March 2018 was approximately $250,000. In March 2023, it was roughly $400,000.

Everything "returns to the mean" as I noticed Urban Blu in Panama City Beach is listing apartment rents which return to the mean as far as 4% annual increase in rent since 2015.

Check this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath with 1 car garage townhome out:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1603-Annabellas-Way-Panama-City-Beach-FL-32407/70734247_zpid/

It rented for $1500 in 2018, and now is going for $1900; only gone up 4% a year in rent.

At $1900 a month, this 3 bedroom townhome is a lot better deal than a $1700 a month 2 bedroom apartment at the new hipster apartment complex next door ( https://www.urbanbluliving.com/floorplans ).

The bottomfeeder landlord bought this townhome near bottom in 2009 at ~ $139,000 for this townhome, as the same townhome was selling +$240,000 in 2006.

These higher interest rates are keeping the speculators away from buying homes and trying to flip them.

Now the landlord / investor bottomfeeders are coming out soon to try to get a great deal, and then turn around and rent them.

Logan Mohtashami seems to have a new anonymous account on Patnet. That account seemed to be pumping real estate recently. That anonymous poster got called out as Logan by a few of the seasoned Patnet members.

And I don't see Logan posting at MishTalk. Seems like a tougher crowd at MishTalk.

As far as that townhome rental listing I mentioned above, its not hard for 3 service workers in restaurant, hotel, tourist related industry making $16 an hour for 32 hours a week to share that townhome.

But that is what the default living conditions are as these townhomes become shared homes, almost like boarding houses and/or community houses.

One piece of good news, the FL State Republicans just slapped the shit out of HOAs by preventing them by law from banning work vehicles, pickup trucks, etc. parked in driveways.

Watch the Male Karen (Ken?) moan and groan that regular people in his modest neighborhood can park their trucks on their own property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoPjsUhT0Q

Sorry Karen Snoberina, Pedro the Plumber can park his big fat pickup truck with "Toilet Stuck? Call Pedro 1-800-LES-CACA" in his own driveway. He makes twice as much as your ass, anyway.

Oh wow, more HOA smackdowns:

* Pickup Trucks and Van freedom
* 24 hours before AND after trash collection to take the trash in before they can fine you, must document with timestamp and photo
* Exception for employer provided vehicles, including branded ones (again the trades and police/fire/ranger/etc.) from all HOA Karen rules
* Tighter restrictions on HOA rules for Garage Use
* Requiring generous advance notice before fines can be applied by the HOA Gestapo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QmTf2LR33k

A gathering of crows is called a murder. A gathering of lions is called a pride. A gathering of Karens is called an HOA!

Charleston, W. Virginia

State Capital, metro pop 250,000

You can.work at Dollar Store and still afford a 2 - 3 bedroom house.

Typical mortgage payment is less than $1k/month.

Typical annual property taxes: $1k

One of the cheapest places in America to rent. Rent on a two bedroom is ~$10k/yr. That's less than 20% of median income.

6,700 sq ft 6 bed mansion for $650k. Last sold in late 1990 for $500k. So, not much appreciation. O.8% per year. Inflation adjusted value, it's actually 90% cheaper now than in 1990.

It's poor. Lot of homeless despite cheap cost of living. But lean streets and no tent cities.

Dead mall. But everyone has those.

Lot of closed stores.

WV is the number one state in drug ODs pet capita. 1 in a 1,000 West Virginians die per year via OD.

What's the upside? Good opportunities for remote workers and retirees. But then again, so is Panama, Costa Rica and Belize south of the border.

https://youtu.be/VLlXwDQpW1U?si=L4QuneWBw5LuhX5n

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

You can.work at Dollar Store and still afford a 2 - 3 bedroom house.

Same in the Pittsburg, PA suburbs like Tarentum. Here is a rather upscale home for about $200k. 3 car garage and 2 full kitchens.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/116-118-W-9th-Ave-Tarentum-PA-15084/11279733_zpid/

National House Prices decline in July for the first time in History

Home Prices Fell in July for the First Time—This Is Good News for Buyers as the ‘Market Is Healing’ By Julie Taylor
Aug 1, 2024
Median home prices fell in July, marking the first-ever seasonal decline in a month that’s typically a peak time for home sales.

The national median list price dipped from $445,000 in June to $439,950 in July, according to a new monthly housing report by Realtor.com®.

This downturn can be attributed to a sluggish summer housing market, with buyers and sellers looking for more economic breaks before making a move.

https://www.realtor.com/news/real-estate-news/inventory-report-monthly-housing-market-trends-july-2024-home-prices-fall/

3.5% rate used house costs will mostly stay high even with 8% mortgages, keep hope alive!