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Which Housing Domino Will Fall First?

Boomers, Airbnb, or private equity...or all three?

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John Rubino
Sep 04, 2025
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At least three big groups of homeowners have the potential to crash the US housing market. And with home prices at unaffordable levels and mortgage rates above 6%, it’s now a question of when, not if, this market tanks. But it’s still fun to speculate about which domino will be first to fall?

Here are three likely suspects:

Aging Boomers

I live in a nei…

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