Whether you’re a homeowner, renter, or living with family, the health of the real estate market will impact you. It’s important to know what happens to homeowners if the housing market crashes so that you can hedge your finances. A housing market crash doesn’t happen suddenly. It’s the culmination of several economic variables that result in a housing bubble followed by a sudden and sharp decline in property values, potentially leading to significant losses for homeowners and investors. For a major crash to happen to the US housing market, we usually expect to see amplifying factors, such as an economic recession, a sudden increase in interest rates, or an oversupply of homes on the market. However, what directly creates the crash is an imbalance in the supply and demand cycle. That means that there are more homes for sale than buyers. As a result, home prices drop, and homeowners can … Continued

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