Over 40 Percent of Americans Expect Housing Market to Crash Next Year, Survey Shows

Over 40 percent of Americans say they believe the U.S. housing market will crash next year, a new real estate industry survey has revealed.

According to the survey, conducted by LendingTree on more than 2,000 Americans, a lot of consumers have a very gloomy outlook about the market.

Fears of a market crash have been brought on by news of mass layoffs, high inflation, and rising credit card debt, the survey shows.

The survey found that 41 percent of Americans believe the housing market will crash in 2023.

Other discoveries by the online loan marketplace were that millennials are the most likely generation to agree a housing market crash is coming (44 percent), while baby boomers (35 percent) are the least likely.

The majority of Americans (74 percent) who believe the housing market will crash in the next year think it will be as bad or even worse than the 2008 collapse.

Those who believe a crash is coming believe inflation will be the biggest driver (33 percent).

High-interest rates (24 percent) came in second.

“It just depends on the part of the country that we’re talking about, so I don’t think you can brush a wide swath of the nation with the same data,” said Andre Burris, a realtor in Denver, Colorado.

“For example, in Denver and other similar markets, there is still a desire to buy homes.”

Among other worries for consumers are rising mortgage rates, which concerned 58 percent of Americans, the survey says.

Those the most concerned about rising mortgage rates were looking to buy a home (83 percent) and individuals from Generation Z (68 percent).

“The rate you get on your loan is one of the biggest determining factors for how expensive your mortgage payments will be,” says LendingTree senior economist Jacob Channel.

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“The higher your rate, the more you’ll end up spending.

“Rates have risen so dramatically this year that many new would-be buyers are finding themselves priced out of the market.”

As dismal of a picture consumers may paint next year to be, Channel argues even during a recession he doubts we will see a “crash.”

“While I do think the housing market will continue to slow over the next 12 months and some people may end up underwater on their mortgages as a result, a major crash doesn’t appear likely—at least not at the moment,” he says.

“With that said, I do think that home prices will probably come down next year.

“As of now, 5 percent to 10 percent declines in many markets seem reasonable to me.”

Though the survey revealed a lot of fearful consumers, there were some optimists.

A quarter (25 percent) of Americans don’t think the housing market will crash next year.

Instead, the majority believe it will happen in the next two or three years.

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By Nick R. Hamilton

Nick has a broad background in journalism, business, and technology. He covers news on cryptocurrency, traditional assets, and economic markets.

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