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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: crusty fortuitous meteor 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: Smoky odious hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115214) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: Lemon station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115216) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: vigorous associate 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...id.#49115217) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Self-centered diverse native 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...id.#49115257) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: peach hyperactive half-breed 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...id.#49115264) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:02 PM Author: irradiated marketing idea business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115445) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:45 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary Why are some of you so bad at math…. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115261) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:48 PM Author: Fluffy messiness sound barrier 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...id.#49115267) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: buff razzmatazz prole xo2025 ladies and gentlemen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115263) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:15 PM Author: claret bat-shit-crazy theatre voyeur This reports that 56 is the median, not the average. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115218) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:26 PM Author: hateful location 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...id.#49115238) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:53 PM Author: irradiated marketing idea business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115418) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary 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...id.#49115265) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:48 PM Author: crusty fortuitous meteor 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...id.#49115268) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:51 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary It’s Gen Xers buying their first home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115275) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:52 PM Author: crusty fortuitous meteor LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115276) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 8:58 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115292) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:01 PM Author: peach hyperactive half-breed 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...id.#49115297) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:06 PM Author: claret bat-shit-crazy theatre voyeur 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...id.#49115314) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:54 PM Author: irradiated marketing idea business firm I would never defend boomers for any reason tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115419) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:55 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary That 38 is up from early 20s back in the day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115420) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:56 PM Author: irradiated marketing idea business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115424) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 11:21 AM Author: fuck computer Median seems like a much more interesting data point no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49116263) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:05 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary 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...id.#49115309) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:08 PM Author: claret bat-shit-crazy theatre voyeur 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...id.#49115324) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:12 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary 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...id.#49115336) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: claret bat-shit-crazy theatre voyeur 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...id.#49115349) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:28 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary 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...id.#49115365) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:31 PM Author: claret bat-shit-crazy theatre voyeur Watch it, champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115375) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:53 PM Author: Mauve Newt Sanctuary 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...id.#49115416) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 9:56 PM Author: irradiated marketing idea business firm I thoroughly enjoyed this subthread, tyvmft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115422) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 4:20 AM Author: bat shit crazy flirting meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115803) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: Judgmental yarmulke what does is say about all cash Chinese buyers? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115503) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:47 PM Author: nofapping curious house boistinker 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: azure site corn cake 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: Salmon university 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...id.#49115808) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 8:15 AM Author: Paralegal Muhammad Are you Liberal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49115903) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 8:24 AM Author: disco fries (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage) 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: Oh, you travel? ( ) you majored in Liberal Arts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49116118) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 11:00 AM Author: Paralegal Muhammad I fail to see how that’s relevant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49116231) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 11:23 AM Author: fuck computer (Liberal Artist) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49116265) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: ....,,....,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.......,.,.,.,.,..,. 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...id.#49116114) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 10:34 AM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., or they buy multiple houses where each of their grandkids are. #booming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5752447&forum_id=2...id.#49116176) |
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Date: July 20th, 2025 1:49 PM Author: cannon *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...id.#49116537) |