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Old 02-01-2009, 04:22 AM
 
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one thing i see no statistics on is whether the fact that the baby boomer generation's children are noW becoming of age to want a home...

from what i see very few baby boomers only had 1 child so it seems to me the next generation should be even bigger then the baby boomers in
population ...
parents sell a home and 2 children buy 2 homes .


i dont see anything though showing this as a factor to put extra demand on home prices in the near future.

WHY?
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Old 02-01-2009, 04:47 AM
 
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only thing i can think of is our generation tended to not have as many kids as i know alot of married couples our age who had no children..

are there lots of our generation who stayed single?

beats me ,im not sure of the answer
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Old 02-01-2009, 04:55 AM
 
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The number of births is over 4 million annually. The rate of births is 2.1 which is high enough for the US to have it's population grow organically. Then add to that immigration of about 1 million annually, with illegal immigration estimated at about 1/2 of that number annually.
When you factor in the deaths annually, the estimate for family formation is well over 1 million annually. The current new housing unit build rate is less than half that number. The over build in housing was something like 6-7 million units, so it will be several years of status quo before supply is normalized.

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Old 02-01-2009, 05:58 AM
 
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one thing i see no statistics on is whether the fact that the baby boomer generation's children are noW becoming of age to want a home...

from what i see very few baby boomers only had 1 child so it seems to me the next generation should be even bigger then the baby boomers in
population ...
parents sell a home and 2 children buy 2 homes .


i dont see anything though showing this as a factor to put extra demand on home prices in the near future.

WHY?
The babyboomer generation kids kids are the ones responsible for this mess. They already have the homes they can't afford or refuse to pay for.
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Old 02-01-2009, 06:07 AM
 
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im not really sure what age group shows the most defaults but if its true they are the largest group then it may be possible many already have entered the market...i know my kids are just starting now
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Old 02-01-2009, 06:13 AM
 
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just googled it.. 1/3 of foreclosures are 50 and over... the next group is 35-44..... not quite sure what that means in terms of who caused it but we have tons of baby boomer kids just entering their mid and early 20's just starting out.....

also saw this but not sure what it means in the long run
- 23.3 of Americans under the age of 25 own a home; 40.2 percent of people aged 25 to 29 are homeowners; and 56.6 percent of people aged 35 to 39 own a home. — U.S. Census Bureau, Q3 2003

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Old 02-01-2009, 07:12 AM
 
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The babyboomer generation kids kids are the ones responsible for this mess. They already have the homes they can't afford or refuse to pay for.
The oldest of us would have been born in the early 1980's, when our country began to get leveraged up, and would have been high school or college age at the time of the housing peak.

here's an article from 2005, while the housing bubble was inflating, about the children of the baby boomers. in regards to their spending:

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The oldest are barely out of college, and the youngest are still in grade school.

And whether you call them "echo boomers," "Generation Y" or "millennials," they already make up nearly a third of the U.S. population, and already spend $170 billion a year of their own and their parents' money.

Almost none of it is spent on boring things like mortgages and medication, and the world is falling all over itself trying to sell them things.

The Echo Boomers , Steve Kroft Reports On The Children Of The Baby Boomers - CBS News
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Old 02-01-2009, 07:14 AM
 
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The vast majority of echo boomers would have been high school or college age at the time.

here's an article from 2005, while the housing bubble was inflating, about the children of the baby boomers. in regards to their spending:
I'm a child of a baby boomer and I'm 37 years old.
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Old 02-01-2009, 07:39 AM
 
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one thing i see no statistics on is whether the fact that the baby boomer generation's children are noW becoming of age to want a home...
As others have pointed out, there's a pretty big variation in age. My parents are baby boomers and I'm in my 30's.

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from what i see very few baby boomers only had 1 child so it seems to me the next generation should be even bigger then the baby boomers in
population ...
parents sell a home and 2 children buy 2 homes .
Not necessarily. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm guessing that most single family homes are bought by couples. It doesn't work out to one home per person, rather one home per couple (on average).

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i dont see anything though showing this as a factor to put extra demand on home prices in the near future.

WHY?
Affordability is probably a key factor. And now with the crisis, lets hope those that can't afford to buy, don't.
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Old 02-01-2009, 09:11 AM
 
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good point, 2 children become 2couples when they shack up but the baby boomer parents were 1 couple,,and the kids grew into 2 couples as it looks like 2.3 kids is the norm... wonder who has .3 of a kid. but it seems if there are more kids there would be more couples...(we would hope)
as well as now you got the 2 sets of parents living in a home as well as 2 sets of kids living in their homes.....
this is making my hair hurt

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