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average age of a home buyer today is 56
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:08 PM Author: black frum theatre yarmulke https://x.com/BoringBiz_/status/1924139461119541408
this is fucking insane. boomers really are sociopaths--still striving and buying bigger and bigger houses as the entire world collapses around them and no one younger than 45 can afford to buy anything. obviously totally unsustainable and late-empire shit |
Date: July 19th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: slate jap shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115214) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: Motley preventive strike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115216) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: Maize bawdyhouse 56 years of age would mean you were born in 1978 or 1979, which is getting toward the end of Generation X. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115217) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Contagious bistre rehab So in 1981, the median homebuyer was born in 1950. 44 years later, in 2025, the median homebuyer was born in 1978. The median birth year only advanced 17 years over a 44 year period. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115257) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Concupiscible fuchsia locale see? it’s not so bad if you look at it like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115264) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:02 PM Author: Aggressive son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115445) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:45 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor Why are some of you so bad at math…. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115261) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:48 PM Author: mentally impaired lodge messiness I took this as a joke but there are real stupid people here these days so who knows (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115267) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Confused School Cafeteria xo2025 ladies and gentlemen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115263) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:15 PM Author: Swashbuckling Nursing Home This reports that 56 is the median, not the average. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115218) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:26 PM Author: Coral federal stage roast beef actual average would move up 10+ years, higher if you adjust for NGO minority mortgages and heter iskas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115238) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:53 PM Author: Aggressive son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115418) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor OYT why would it even matter for something like this? It’s she not income. It’s not like there s 120 year olds pushing up the average. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115265) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:48 PM Author: black frum theatre yarmulke regardless, what are you doing buying a new house at age 56 or older? you likely have no kids left in your house and are basically just buying a show-off house that you can fill with paintings of kids getting killed and molested like Tony Podesta's house. boomers should be gassed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115268) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:51 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor It’s Gen Xers buying their first home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115275) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:52 PM Author: black frum theatre yarmulke LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115276) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:58 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115292) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:01 PM Author: Concupiscible fuchsia locale i’m sure that’s part of it, but there are also a lot of 55+mos downsizing these days, which wasn’t a thing in 1981 for lots of reasons. also, you have to assume most of these oldmos are simultaneously vacating a residence, thus leaving the supply in the same position. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115297) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:06 PM Author: Swashbuckling Nursing Home first-time homebuyer median is around 38 years old iirc. of course olds are buying more homes, they are the only ones with Equity. I would never defend boomers for any reason, but this is to be expected afaik. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115314) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:54 PM Author: Aggressive son of senegal I would never defend boomers for any reason tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115419) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:55 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor That 38 is up from early 20s back in the day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115420) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:56 PM Author: Aggressive son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115424) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 11:21 AM Author: Curious Translucent Regret Median seems like a much more interesting data point no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116263) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:05 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor This housing market/country is evil. It’s not that there’s a problem it’s that everyone just shrugs. Like there’s other ways to look at things other than the laissez faire capitalism / lib government REGULATION dichotomy. Like don’t respond to problems with your gay “solutions.” Just make the stupid country suck less and things like this will sort themselves out imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115309) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:08 PM Author: Swashbuckling Nursing Home only way the country can "suck less" is if the people don't suck, and that is not happening in the US. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115324) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:12 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor Cons just want immigration to pause so we can work on the phenotypes. People get lost in the weeds arguing about things that are aside from this salient point imo. Also we just need to get rid of our fake democracy but keep the second amendment and let Scumbags remove POTUS if need be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115336) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: Swashbuckling Nursing Home it's too late. it was too late like 15 years ago afaik. the phenotypes are encoded and clique/class stratification is calcified. American women are run amok, and Losers are being blamed for it. we're done here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115349) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:28 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor It’s Ruined but the point is to just not roll over because all that will do is make it worse. People like you who hate life should just look for a cause to die for so that people with Hair can live better lives in the future imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115365) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:31 PM Author: Swashbuckling Nursing Home Watch it, champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115375) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:53 PM Author: Adventurous Parlor That’s your destiny imho. We only have weekends because Scumbag laborers stood up to Pinkertons and shit for decades. Nothing in this world is given freely imho (except to URMs etc in order to annoy and demoralize us) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115416) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:56 PM Author: Aggressive son of senegal I thoroughly enjoyed this subthread, tyvmft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115422) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 4:20 AM Author: Racy bearded telephone water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115803) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: flickering olive azn what does is say about all cash Chinese buyers? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115503) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:47 PM Author: Trip Indigo Really Tough Guy rofl
12/ Median age of first time home buyers now sit at 38 years old vs 30 years old in 2008 |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:55 PM Author: territorial godawful forum dog poop It's crazy that in my town it costs literally TRIPLE to buy a house compared to 5 years ago when you factor in interest rates.
So basically it went from like a police officer married to a teacher could probably buy a house if they were smart with money, to now you would probably struggle to buy on a big law associate salary. |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 4:31 AM Author: Red Church Building in normal towns all over america people are paying in rent an amount that should be sufficient for a 300k mortgage, the system is fucked beyond repair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115808) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 8:15 AM Author: Adventurous Parlor Are you Liberal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49115903) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 8:24 AM Author: Crusty Mother Hissy Fit Most people these days are single and shut-ins; they shouldn’t be buying SFHs to live in. Houses are ridiculous wastes of money. Not buying one unless you have kids/family is smart. |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 10:07 AM Author: Swashbuckling Nursing Home you majored in Liberal Arts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116118) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 11:00 AM Author: Adventurous Parlor I fail to see how that’s relevant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116231) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 11:23 AM Author: Curious Translucent Regret (Liberal Artist) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116265) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: low-t puppy international law enforcement agency Olds used to stay in their (modest) homes until it was time for assisted living but now they downsize from their McMansions once the youngest kid goes to college. Or they relocate to where their grandkids are because no one stays in the city they grew up in anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116114) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 10:34 AM Author: Trip Indigo Really Tough Guy or they buy multiple houses where each of their grandkids are. #booming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116176) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 1:49 PM Author: filthy skinny woman brunch *won’t come off a penny from asking price of ugly outdated McMansion* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2)#49116537) |