- The eternal Fed cycle: artificially pump up the markets and then crash them allowing the Elites to buy at pennies on the dollar.
(Zerohedge) We recently pointed out the "housing market peaked and home prices finally drop from record highs," and home price growth just suffered one of the most significant monthly declines since the 1970s."
Evidence is mounting pandemic boomtown markets are rapidly cooling as a tsunami of price cuts has only just begun.
The wealthy enclave on Long Island, known as the Hamptons, is entering a new market phase as sellers are forced to lower their asking price by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bloomberg spoke with seller George Giacoia who listed his home for $1.695 million in May. He consulted with three real estate agents about the asking price and quickly found there was no demand:
"I had no response at all," Giacoia said. "There was not a phone call, nor was there a person that came to any of the open houses."
Desperate, the 70-year-old retiree was forced to lower the asking price by a whopping $400,000.
"Am I going to be lowering my price any more? No," he said, who plans to move to Italy in October. He finally received an offer two weeks ago and, after some negotiation, the buyers agreed on the new asking price of $1.299 million. They're currently finalizing the details of the offer. - Bloomberg
Price cuts in the Hamptons have become a new phenomenon after the pandemic boom: People who could suddenly work remotely flooded the luxury resort town on the southeastern end of New York's Long Island two years ago. The influx of demand resulted in median home prices surging 88% between the second quarter of 2019 and the same quarter this year.
"Buyers have more negotiating power now than they did six months ago. The fervor that we were experiencing has subsided. The competitiveness for buying homes has waned," said Drew Green, a broker in the Hamptons for Saunders & Associates.
Housing data from Out East, an online marketplace for Hamptons real estate, shows that the number of listings with reduced asking prices has doubled between April and July, and inventory has increased.
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