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EBGuy says

I'm sure the Fortress will fall, but we've still had some listings going for over $1,400 /sq.ft. Crazy times. I guess that Albany fixer posted by eman is a sign of things to come (investors exit, stage right...)

@EBGuy,

You won’t believe what the seller has in mind. Offer $650k cash and he “might” accept it. Otherwise, he’ll tear it down. Who’s the shark here?

Folks love to blame things on “the flippers/investors” while being clueless about what’s happening behind the scene.

This one has great potential, but I decided to take a break.

https://redf.in/WoIKl9

EBGuy says

I'm sure the Fortress will fall, but we've still had some listings going for over $1,400 /sq.ft. Crazy times. I guess that Albany fixer posted by eman is a sign of things to come (investors exit, stage right...)

I’m surprised the market has held up so well. We had lunch with our lender last week. Apparently, banks are going through their borrowers’ portfolios and stress test them. He told us our portfolio is fine. We should be able to handle to shock of higher interest rates when it’s time to refinance aka the loans balloon.

If the portfolio is weak, they would prepare the borrowers to either “prepare for cash-in, or consider dispose/sell the asset before the loan comes due.”

This 12-unit building (two 6-unit buildings side by side) recently got taken back by the lender. It’s a syndication deal. All investors get wiped out. No idea what this syndicator was smoking paying $3M for it. https://redf.in/tvJEgy

There are a couple more buildings by the same syndicator, where the lender is forcing the sale. They’re on the market. Can’t disclose them.

PumpingRedheads says

WookieMan says

no point have I ever read here that interest rates wouldn't rise by a single user. You're flat out lying man.

That's funny.

You were one of them.

At no point did I say interest rates won't rise ever. That's fact. What I've always said is a rise won't matter if there's still no inventory. I'm not wrong. You're conflating the two ideas. Interest rates rose and it didn't matter. Cherry pick San Francisco, fine. I said cities would eat shit, I was 100% right. I don't and haven't deleted comments, prove me wrong...

Anyone with a working brain would never say interest rates wouldn't rise. I still think there's room on the top end to go up higher. If they do they do, if they don't they don't. Fact is I haven't been wrong. I've predicted for years that cities will eat shit for some time. I could see it being a decade. There is a massive demographic shift. Between crime and leftist policies, cities are going to lose value and lower cost locations (rural) are going to boom. On paper it will look like shit, but it's not because the lower priced areas will increase and high end properties in shit hole urban areas will drop. Take the time like I have, and posted here, to do a basic Uhaul search for pricing and the answer is staring you in the face with me being right. You don't even need to look at housing.

Again, you cherry pick data to prove what you think is a point. Housing is just fine currently. We've doubled the cost of borrowing from historic lows and prices in most places are level or continuing to increase. Cities will decrease. One area of housing doing poorly does not make a bust dude. The national median will go down and the media will goad you into fear mode which it seems you've taken hook, line and sinker style. Look outside CA and do serious research before spouting off. This isn't 2006.

I agree this is not 2006. The dynamic is different. With the exception of home buyers from summer 2022 to now, most people have locked in low fixed mortgage rates at 3.5% or lower.

For each seller who wants to sell and trade up or down, he’s also a buyer. People don’t want to give up their current 3% mortgage and pay 7-8% on the new house. Thus, the market is kind at an impasse. That’s why inventory remains low. Houses in desirable neighborhoods are still fetching for top dollars. It’s madness. Houses in meh neighborhoods are not selling very well; thus, lower prices.

WookieMan says

At no point did I say interest rates won't rise ever. That's fact. What I've always said is a rise won't matter if there's still no inventory. I'm not wrong. You're conflating the two ideas. Interest rates rose and it didn't matter. Cherry pick San Francisco, fine. I said cities would eat shit, I was 100% right. I don't and haven't deleted comments, prove me wrong...

We had a big fight over it. You kept insisting just that and that I didn't know shit because you arrogantly thought of yourself as some sort of Lord of Real Estate Experience. You were probably more nuanced vs the yahoos that just said it couldn't happen. But you came to their defense.

WookieMan says

Again, you cherry pick data to prove what you think is a point...pick San Francisco, fine.

God fucking damnit. I am not cherry picking shit. Patrick did in clipping and pasting that part about San Fran from that article. And so my comments was IN FUCKING CINTEXT with that....as logic ditctates.

You're the one that doesn't have fucking shit for reading comprehension skills that causes you to shit all over yourself and then having a hissy shit when someone points that out. Not for the first time, too.

I am going back through posts to find the smoking gun on the 'Housing Experts' bullshit. But w/o search working well here it is a slog.

2024 will be interesting with WallStreet expects the Fed to cut rates at least a couple times. It can be the year of housing stabilization if the Fed can achieve “the soft landing” while the employment market remains strong.

From a number’s perspective for the Bay Area housing market, the gap between buy/rent ratio is still too big IMO.

PumpingRedheads says

We had a big fight over it. You kept insisting just that and that I didn't know shit because you arrogantly thought of yourself as some sort of Lord of Real Estate Experience. You were probably more nuanced vs the yahoos that just said it couldn't happen. But you came to their defense.

First off, you got one thing right for once, I am the lord of real estate experience. NAR gave me that title in 2015.

I didn't come to anyone's defense. Other people's opinions are theirs. I may agree, but I'm not defending anyone here. You're right that San Fransisco is eating shit literally and figuratively. That's one overpriced market that will make the overall market look bad when $2M properties go for $1.2M. It doesn't mean it's bad elsewhere. It doesn't mean it was because of rising interest rates either.

Cities are shit holes and are going to take a beating over the next decade. This has been my statement. I'm not overly concerned with interest rates in the overall market. There's 2 houses for sale in my town and in a balanced market it would be 15-20. A friend of my kid has been looking for over a year to find a place.... there's nothing. People know we bought lots and randoms come up to me asking to buy my current house. This is how it is in most of America not called CA or NY.

Fact is there are real estate experts here on Patnet. It might behoove you to listen to some of them. Maybe not be a perpetual bear. 2006 was a once in a life time thing. You've missed out and just ragged on people that did well with RE. Jealousy is not a good look dude. If you're in CA, maybe move and join in on the gains like everyone from that state is doing and destroying other states in the process....

Eman says

2024 will be interesting with WallStreet expects the Fed to cut rates at least a couple times. It can be the year of housing stabilization if the Fed can achieve “the soft landing” while the employment market remains strong.

The 30 yr rate is at 7%. I see it at between 5.5% and 6% by next summer.

https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms

If you are looking to sell, one option is to offer to buy up to 4 discount points so that the buyer's rate can be reduced from 6% to 5%. It will cost you 4% of the buyer's mortgage but it will increase the marketability of your home.

A mortgage rate of 5% is a lot closer to the rate when housing prices peaked, which was around 3.75%.

Another option is to allow them to assume your mortgage if it is FHA or VA.

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Right now the 10 yr treasury is at about 4.25%. Prior to Biden taking office investors were willing to purchase them at a negative return, after inflation of about a negative .5%. Now under Biden investors are looking at getting 2% above the rate of inflation.

Historically the 30 yr fixed rate mortgage was about 1.5% over the rate of the 10 yr treasury. Now it is 2.75% above the rate of the 10 yr treasury.

That is a crap load of extra yield investors are getting under Biden. If spreads simply reverted to where they were under Trump the 30 yr fixed rate mortgage would be at 3.75% TODAY.

Misc says

Right now the 10 yr treasury is at about 4.25%.

This is a good post on the 30 year mortgage rate's historic correlation with the 10 Year Treasury.

I hope the spread between 30 year mortgage rate and 10 Year Treasury returns to between 1.5% and 2%.

I read that economists desire the 10 Year Treasury rate to be about 1.5% above annual inflation.

So achieving a 2.5% annual inflation may result in a 4% rate for the 10 Year Treasury rate and a 5.5% rate for the 30 year mortgage.
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PumpingRedheads says

Mr. I've Been On PatNet Since '06 during all this?

Ah... the Snark. Sounds like you're an SF Bay Arean, ground zero for Snarkiness.

PumpingRedheads says

God fucking damnit. I am not cherry picking shit. Patrick did in clipping and pasting that part about San Fran from that article. And so my comments was IN FUCKING CINTEXT with that....as logic ditctates.

Chill out, bro. A blog is for entertainment and fun. Maybe you should take your anger elsewhere.

Patrick began his blog a long time ago in skepticism about SF Bay Area ®eal Estate Hokum. That's been the major theme on threads about house prices in the Bay Area.

I was reading back on your remarks about "housing experts" pooh-poohing the skepticism. I didn't see any quotes of those posts you mentioned nor any blog-handles of the posters or anything like that. Is it a hallucination?

Chill out, bro.

Eman says

You won’t believe what the seller has in mind. Offer $650k cash and he “might” accept it. Otherwise, he’ll tear it down. Who’s the shark here?

This is the derangement of Prop 13. The guy pays less than $300 a month in taxes on a property valued at $38k. He can probably hold out forever; meanwhile, the city is deprived of much needed housing...

EBGuy says

Eman says

You won’t believe what the seller has in mind. Offer $650k cash and he “might” accept it. Otherwise, he’ll tear it down. Who’s the shark here?

This is the derangement of Prop 13. The guy pays less than $300 a month in taxes on a property valued at $38k. He can probably hold out forever; meanwhile, the city is deprived of much needed housing...

Real estate investment and flipping is very competitive. It’s not easy to “win” a deal, and it’s not easy to make money after we get the deal. It’s just the reality of Bay Area real estate.

We offered $620k for it 5 months ago. The listing agent told us we had to come in the high $600’s to get a chance. We said no thank you.

For people who think flippers are stealing other people’s housing, feel free to buy this house and fix it up to their taste. They get to keep the lower $650k property tax basis too rather than $1.1-$1.2M valuation.

What happens to the property tax in CA if the structure is torn down and the land sits vacant? Does the tax go down because there is no improvements anymore or does it go up because the demolition would trigger a reassesment and the land alone is way more than what it was 40-50 years ago?

WookieMan says

2006 was a once in a life time thing.

2nd in a lifetime.

The Venture Capital/REIT SFH ownership is grossly exaggerated, single digit % and that concentrated in and around the most desireable metropolitan areas, mostly new developments, and if they took variable loans to get the "Cash" they paid in, as most of them did, boy are they gonna unload. All the "Cash buyers" borrowed that cash when the interest rates are low. Hope the rate they borrowed was fixed and not a variable loan against a money market account.

Like amateur Mutual Fund pickers, they all selected based on previous run-ups, thinking the price/rent appreciation was only going north.

Foreigners are not buying SFHs in suburbs of Sandusky, OH or Cairo, IL. They are buying in Hoboken and San Jose, outer city but no further.

Builders are dumping for a reason, with teaser rates and cutting way back on builds, trying to only finish what must be finished. The last few houses in a development to close it all up.

Unlike Realtors and Flippers, Developers have no reason to lie about the next few years. Realtors and Flippers have an interest in permanent plateau propaganda.

The Boomers aging OUT of SFH in the midst of interest rates not seen in decades is going to be the shock of a century. There is no demographic large enough to fully replace them, it is demographic fact. Nothing about it is arguable.

70 year olds get sick or infirm and can't keep up the 1800 sq ft, esp. multilevel. It will happen, the only question is when the drop down is next year or a few years from now. Demographic, inescapable fact.

"But their kids will inherit". You mean the kids that live 3 states away? And looking at the demos, all those heirs will be selling or trying to rent at about the same time. Hey, hey momma, rents & values goin' down, they're going down.

Divorced single moms with one kid, or single men, don't need 4 or 5 bed, 1800 sq ft, 2 car garage multilevels at mortgages exceeding $2500k/month or more before insurance and tax. Amber doesn't mow lawns or clean gutters. Dylan can barely open a pickle jar or change a tire.

Even if Trump is elected and the economy starts booming and industry comes back to the point where Zoomer HS grads can get a $25/hr job with benefits manufacturing chotskies here in the USA, it's coming.

It doesn't matter in Hispanic and Indian immigrants living 7 to a 4 or 5 bed, 2.5 McMansion start Americanizing and pairing off into SFHs of their own. Not enough of them to fully replace the boomers. Successive generations have almost one child less and far less likely to be married. They are far less affulent. They have far more debt since jobs like Loan Officer boomers could get without degrees, have required degrees for 3 decades now. Fewer, smaller households, less affulence. There is nobody coming to keep pumping the prices or so much as maintain them.

No matter how much Mr. Boomer likes to play air guitar to Santana while putzing around his Harley in the garage, his joints are hurting more, his bones are getting weaker, and the arteries they are a cloggin'

We actually have a SFH glut, it's just not apparent.... yet.

We're going to go from begging empty nest boomers to sell, to begging them to stay put and out of Long Term care and Assisted Living, another thing we're utterly unprepared for.

If you are long SFH or are considering downsizing, do it right now before it's too late.

RWSGFY says

What happens to the property tax in CA if the structure is torn down and the land sits vacant? Does the tax go down because there is no improvements anymore or does it go up because the demolition would trigger a reassesment and the land alone is way more than what it was 40-50 years ago?

i believe improvement part just drops off on taxes. my tax bill listed land value and improvements on it when i had property there.

but if you build new, new improvements are assessed at market rates.

AmericanKulak says

You mean the kids that live 3 states away?

Good point, but those kids three states away will buy homes in that area, plus other kids in your area who have parents 3 states away will buy in your area. Also consider printing press inflation that may leave housing as one of the few hedges left.

https://www.newsweek.com/housing-market-drop-new-homeowners-loss-equity-freefall-1850573

New Homeowners Lose $122,000 as Housing Prices Drop

New homeowners across the U.S. are confronting a rapid depreciation in their home values.

zzyzzx says

https://www.newsweek.com/housing-market-drop-new-homeowners-loss-equity-freefall-1850573

New Homeowners Lose $122,000 as Housing Prices Drop

New homeowners across the U.S. are confronting a rapid depreciation in their home values.

Ha! I'm not even a new homeowner and I've "lost" almost $600K! 🤡

AmericanKulak says

If you are long SFH or are considering downsizing, do it right now before it's too late.

They're not building them, so not sure what they'd downsize to. The values can't go down in most locations. You have a bigger generation with buying power regardless of interest rates and an aging demo that doesn't want to move OR still has the kids living with them.

I'm a geezer millennial. All my closest friends own their homes. 90%. Most of their parents, Boomers have already downsized. Many in my circle are wealthy and their parents just keep their family home. No one is selling. With low interest rates locked in, it's cheaper to keep the house and get hired help for the Boomers.

If you have a daughter that's lost with no career ambition, have them get in the home healthcare business. Boomers aren't moving. They'll stay home. They're stubborn as fuck. That's something people overlook. Between commissions, cost of moving, hassle Boomers simply aren't moving into assisted living and probably won't. Maybe in 10-15 years once they approach 80-90, but it's not happening any time soon. Just wait for the reverse mortgage wave. That's coming in a big way.

My 78 year old mother in law is selling and purchasing another SFH. We're trying to convince her to purchase a condo but, nope.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/rent-or-buy-home-mortgage/

EBGuy says

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/rent-or-buy-home-mortgage/

Noooooooo!

EBGuy says

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/rent-or-buy-home-mortgage/

That's mainly because the 30 yr mortgage rate is at least 7.25%.

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GNL says

My 78 year old mother in law is selling and purchasing another SFH. We're trying to convince her to purchase a condo but, nope.

Why? If you are worried about upkeep, lawn service is cheap.

HeadSet says

GNL says

My 78 year old mother in law is selling and purchasing another SFH. We're trying to convince her to purchase a condo but, nope.

Why? If you are worried about upkeep, lawn service is cheap.

The problem is that the HOA fees may be very expensive making it not economically better to live in a condo or townhome.

Even if the HOA board and the management company are not corrupt, it may not be competent as far as gaining the best value for the community.

I rather live in a gated community with very little HOA fees. I would rather have a single detached home that I would maintain in a gated community and HOA.

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HeadSet says

GNL says

My 78 year old mother in law is selling and purchasing another SFH. We're trying to convince her to purchase a condo but, nope.

Why? If you are worried about upkeep, lawn service is cheap.

Snow. She's moving to PA. Most of her family is in NY. Condo seems safer?

GNL says

HeadSet says

GNL says

My 78 year old mother in law is selling and purchasing another SFH. We're trying to convince her to purchase a condo but, nope.

Why? If you are worried about upkeep, lawn service is cheap.

Snow. She's moving to PA. Most of her family is in NY. Condo seems safer?

I'll be blunt. Does it matter? Older people are stubborn. You and I will be stubborn when we get old. Once you hit 60 you know your time is limited and you say fuck it. You don't care what other people think. You don't want to have a adult sitter for yourself. You think you can still do it and just don't care anymore.

I wouldn't fight the battle. Unless worried about having to manage the home yourself and they don't have the money. Otherwise it's not difficult to make phone calls and have people manage the snow and lawn and other issues that come up. The alternative of pushing someone to live in a place they don't want to is likely worse. My 2¢.

I'm not putting up a fight at all. It's her decision for sure.

Best to live together in a multi generational house. Save money and be able to look out for each other.

The Asians are very adept at this.

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ad says

Best to live together in a multi generational house. Save money and be able to look out for each other.

The Asians are very adept at this.

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I suggested she do that with her oldest son. Nope. And she keeps talking about how she's going to leave a bunch of $$ to her kids. Nope, it will all be eaten up for medical expenses. Not complaining, just making observations.

ad says

Best to live together in a multi generational house. Save money and be able to look out for each other.

The Asians are very adept at this.

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Couldn't do it. Have done it. I can't live with other people that aren't my kids or wife. Stupid shit is picked up on. I've done it with my parents and my wife's parents for literally 3 months a piece and couldn't stand it during the housing crash. Everything is hyper analyzed about your lifestyle. How you raise kids. The food you make. How you treat your spouse. You have roomates that are more judgmental than a college roomate. The list goes on.

I get the idea, but it doesn't work if you want to be happy. Asians can do it all they want, but realistically, if they're being honest, they're not happy. You need your own home. I'll even go further and say it has to be a detached home that you don't share walls with anyone, HOA and all the bull shit that comes with that if you go the condo route. Maybe a family compound with separate structures on acreage, but you cannot and should not live within the same walls as family 100%. It's toxic. Anyone that says it isn't is lying and someone you shouldn't trust moving forward.

WookieMan says

Asians can do it all they want, but realistically, if they're being honest, they're not happy.

In old times, yes with compromises. But not now in most of the case.

Blue says

WookieMan says

Asians can do it all they want, but realistically, if they're being honest, they're not happy.

In old times, yes with compromises. But not now in most of the case.

There's certain things you cannot compromise is the problem. We aren't loud, but I'm going to have sex with my wife and not worry about it. I'm going to watch a movie with the sound cranked. My kid acts up I'm going to chew his ass out without Grandma trying to intervene. Don't do this anymore, but have 6 beers and yell at the TV during a sports event, get over it. Then you have to deal with their shit. It's 100% toxic.

You lose all freedom when you live with other people regardless of it being parents or siblings. It's tough enough with a spouse and kids. I ain't adding my parents or anyone else into the mix. People need freedom. That's also why cities suck ass. You're surrounded by fucking morons.

The_Deplorable says

90%? I guess so. I compared 7.77% 30 year fixed to 3.5% 30 year fixed and, yeah, almost double. Damn.

https://www.businessinsider.com/housing-market-home-prices-outlook-2024-mortgage-rates-inventory-zillow-2023-12

Home prices are getting slashed as inventory climbs and high mortgage rates push sellers to compete for buyers, Zillow says

Home prices are getting slashed at an unusual pace, thanks to a recent surge in inventory and still-high mortgage rates pushing sellers to compete for buyers, according to Zillow economists.

The share of listings on the market that saw a price cut in November was 22.6%, down slightly from October's 25% rate but still abnormally high for this time of year, the real estate listings site said in its monthly housing market update on Monday.

"Price cuts are more common than normal – chances are good that prices are negotiable," Zillow said.

The trend likely reflects sellers trying to attract buyers, who had largely been shut out of the housing market as mortgage rates soared.

ad says

The trend likely reflects sellers trying to attract buyers, who had largely been shut out of the housing market as mortgage rates soared.

The price cuts are on shit houses likely owned by losers that didn't maintain them. The housing inventory is shit. It's no surprise people are cutting prices. Anyone that bought in the past 15 years at this point is locked into a low interest rate. McMansions are no longer a trend and they aren't building new houses anyway. The stuff for sale is shit where I've looked and that's multiple states and territories.

Zillow is in the business of getting listing leads for people to sell houses. And also buy houses based on their leads. I can't think of a more biased, bull shit source. Anecdotal data matters. The housing bust hype won't materialize. It's click bait. Rates will drop and prices will go sideways in almost all markets. We're not in a boom or bust cycle. I think it will be 5 years before it moves one way or another substantially in the macro. Micro like SF, LA, NYC maybe ATL I could see losses.

i’m looking for another rental or investment opportunity if anyone here is looking for partnership. $500k to invest here.