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Yeah it all comes down to a shortage of homes. The bubble popped around 2008 and construction of new homes stopped. Ever since then we haven't been building enough homes, so there is a shortage driving up prices. Until we make more places to live, home prices will be outrageous.
Many of the builders went under. The ones that survived were typically building more expensive (ergo higher margin) housing. Which is why they've continued doing so up to today.
I don't recall exactly now but read a while back around half the home building companies in the US were defunct by 2012.
Or, ya know, regulate rampant price fixing.
Who is fixing the prices of homes? I would expect it to basically be a bunch of individual sellers setting it at what the market would allow.
Yeah, no it’s an entire industry.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yardi-rent-setting-software-illegally-223000337.html
That's about someone alleging collusion among some massive rental owners in Seattle. . .and it's being offered up as proof that there is some collusion among individual home owners in selling homes across the country.
Well okay then.
I am always baffled by "the shortage of home". Population growth is pretty slow. And the news claims more young adults are living with thier parents. So where are all the homes going?
The homes didn't go anywhere. They don't exist. Developers basically stopped building enough homes in 2008. Since then the population growth has vastly outpaced the number of homes being built. Now we're years away from having enough housing because it takes time to catch up building them. Unfortunately prices are not going to significantly drop any time soon.