Barron’s (November 8)
2026/ 11/ 09 by jd in Global News
“Buying a home just doesn’t carry the same investment appeal it used to” in the U.S. “Fewer recent buyers—than any time since 2006—told the National Association of Realtors that buying a home beats stocks as an investment.” There is a “slow-burning shift in the perception of housing as the home price surges that defined the pandemic era move further into the past. Today’s housing market drudgery, it seems, may have finally rid buyers of the expectation that a return to low mortgage rates and booming prices are right around the corner.”Tags: 2006, Home, Housing market, Investment, Investment appeal, Low mortgage rates, Pandemic era, Perception, Price surges, Realtors, Shift, Stocks, U.S.
