*TRAILER* Black Ant Strategy: Homebuyers vs. Rising Rates

Episode 2 • December 02, 2024 • 00:00:53

Hosted By

Michael Hatfield

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*TRAILER* for full show entitled "Housing Insights: Red Ants Black Ants Housing Report"

Home Builders are optimistic, inflation is expected to ease, the economy is expected to improve, Michael believes mortgage rates will relax into the low 5 percentage points in 2025. So what will the Red Ant Sellers do in 2025 and what about the Black Ant Buyers? 

In this episode, let’s discover differences between what the “party line” projections are and what Michael believes will happen in the New Year 2025.  And why.

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Show 69, Segment Two, originally airing December 7, 2024.

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[00:00:02] The buyers we'll call the black ants. They're the primary home buyer dynamic in their age, between 27 and 42 years of age, and they face significant headwinds as the Federal Reserve kept raising the interest rates. Since 2022, it's just been hiking, hiking, hiking going up. And most of the buyers that are in the position to buy say, I don't want to pay that much money for going ahead and buying a home and having to pay more in my mortgage. So despite their frustrations, these buyers were still navigating a market where property property values remain relatively steady, making it clear that waiting could lead to higher costs in the long run for a home due to continued appreciation.
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