What Do U.S. Housing Price Predictions for 2023–2024 Look Like and Why?

Jeffrey Goodman
10 min readOct 15, 2022

The average U.S. family can no longer afford to buy the average house. That already happened in 2022 — done deal. But wait…it gets much worse.

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Three important things happened in U.S. housing over the past 2.5 years since March 2020:

  1. Housing prices rocketed upward.
    • 30% increase in the 21 months from April 2020 through the end of December 2021.
    • 37% increase in average prices from Q2 2020 to Q2 2022.
    • Such a…

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Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.