Clearly consumer sentiment has improved. Though if a year ago someone had told me there could be excitement at seeing rates creep just below 5%, I would have told them to give their head a shake.Assisted by the fact that markets are evidently now considering the banking meltdown south of the border may serve to bring about the great pivot sooner than late-2024 as consensus had previously thought.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
It seems the takeaway from that should-be sobering reality has done less to inspire people to reconsider their comfort levels with debt and more to reaffirm their entrenched belief that it’s probably safe to keep going as we are too big to fail.Article content Here we have spent the last year weathering the storm of a real estate bubble bursting and while it has certainly been unpleasant, even painful, most people seem to be okay.
For many, the fact they are in the market at all feels like a penultimate win given the number of surveys that show the extent to which more recent generations feel shut out of the market entirely. Being mortgage free must seem like pure Boomer fantasy; we should just be happy not to have to live as renters at the mercy of financialized real estate.
Supply and demand. Just wait in 3-5 years when economy picks up. First time buyers are gonna be priced out forever.
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Why not?