What Trump JUST SAID About US Housing Market
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YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION:
Last week was MASSIVE for real estate agents. Trump said he wants home prices to keep rising, nominated Kevin Warsh as the new Fed Chair (rate cuts incoming), mortgage applications surged 18% despite terrible weather, and inventory keeps falling. Here's what it all means for your business and what to watch this week.
📊 KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Trump wants home prices to keep going UP (not stabilize)
Kevin Warsh nominated as Fed Chair – takes over in May if confirmed
Warsh = rate cuts (Trump wouldn't nominate him otherwise)
Mortgage applications up 18% in one week despite freeze across the country
Inventory still falling – only 48,000 new listings vs 80,000-100,000 normal
This week: JOBS WEEK – watch jobless claims and bond market reaction
First rush happened in January, second rush coming in spring
What this means: The agents stacking listings NOW will dominate when the spring rush hits. Low inventory + surging applications = seller's market incoming.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – What a Week!
0:30 – Trump Wants Home Prices UP
1:15 – Kevin Warsh Nominated as Fed Chair
2:00 – Mortgage Apps Surge 18%
2:45 – Inventory Still Falling (48K vs 80K Normal)
3:30 – What This All Means
4:30 – What to Watch This Week (Jobs Data)
6:00 – My Prediction
6:30 – Join the Listing Blitz
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The only way to fix the affordability issue without hurting anyone is to fix wages. And not wages directly. We need to tie CEO compensation to their employee wages, and employee wages need to be tied to company performance. This incentivizes everyone to do their best.
I like that plan
If rates go down inflation will go up. We need to stop spending, keep rates high, lower manufacturing regulations, start producing again to absorb our debt, build more houses, THEN we can lower rates. But, lowering rates is just putting a band aid on a leaking ship full of thousands of other little holes. When the ship sinks it’s going to be worse the more band aids we try to use to stop it from sinking.
hell yeah. home prices to SOARRRRRRRR.
You know what that means? Gen Z gonna keep renting. LOL
I love this page because it allows me to see both sides of the housing market and economy – ricky does not care about the poor – why should he? hes a salesman
Forclosures will reign in 2026.
But if the government intervenes, the wealthy will get richer – might as well try to join the winning side…. money
hes going to create a bigger mess than we have on our hands already. By making prices go up, yall will pay more in taxes and insurance, thats all!
You’re assuming that what this guy is saying is true. It’s not. Supplying demand is what sets the price and right now there’s no buyers. Loan applications can be up, but it’s not a picture of a bigger story that’s gonna affect the overall housing market and have prices remaining stagnant. There won’t be a crash, but there’s certainly not gonna be asset appreciation to the levels that this guy saying. The last thing you do is FOMO into a bad decision because someone wants you to buy a house from them.
Nobody’s buying your $450,000 dump in a crap neighborhood no matter what their rates are. We have an affordability problem, not an interest rate problem.
12 our country mainly the youth has allowed 30 to 35 million illegal immigrants come into the country which means the houses are so short right now because of that that they just screwed themselves over because immigrants are taking housing apartments hospitals many benefits.
It’s not about people who have not worked harder being able to afford buying homes cheaper!!! This market is pricing out middle income families! Very hard working successful people losing their homes to property tax n insurance in FL. Let’s get real here; it’s an affordability issue. Not rate. Sellers need to get real on pricing. After 2019 Covid jacked prices up down here 20-40%.
Unfortunately, homeowners aren’t in trouble overall. The price is the price. Its not coming down…the good news is that it’s not going up too much anymore either. Affordability was worse in the late 70’s…we recovered then, we will recover now. Stay tuned.
@RickyCarruth They are though, and prices will continue to go at an unhealthy clip, that loose imbicle is going to keep trashing the dollar and everyone serious knows he’s doing to manage debt. His “manufacturing” and “export” story is complete bullshit, nobody actually believes it. The late 70’s was not worse, financing was harder, but affordability was better. How did Boomers do compared to us? Did you really think we’d just accept that bullshit line uncritically?
​@cyberpunkspikelook up real data on the balance sheets of homeowners…currently the best in history
What the hell is this??? What about cancelation soaring, what about people who took their homes down listing them again??
This guys full of it. Every listing has major price cuts. Houses are sitting on market and not selling. Buyers simply can’t afford it and this guy is utterly full of it
Trump thinks his followers are so stupid!!!
Good! I want prices up so I can finally sell mine that I’ve owned since ’98.