Work From Home Inflationary House Prices BOOM!

Housing-Market / US Housing Feb 18, 2021 - 04:46 PM GMT

The pandemic has resulted in many tens of millions more americans working from home. As someone who has been working form home for a good 15 years I can well understand why house prices have rocketed higher as prospective home buyers both seek out properties that are better suited to working from home, more suburban, quiet office spaces, plenty of storage, or view properties with scope to being upgraded into work from home environments.

And then we have the demand for home working tech where demand has soared through the roof during 2020 and looks set to continue into the END OF 2021. Which is why I went on a personal spending spree upgrading virtually whole of my home tech whenever the opportunity presented itself i.e. Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday of which Black Friday turned out to present the best value for money discounts.

Where upgrading your homes and tech for home working is concerned then the key thing is to act sooner rather than later as there is a GREAT DEAL OF inflation in the pipeline for home working technology i.e. computers, DELAYING purchases in the hopes of price drops IS NOT GOING TO WORK. If you need a new computer then bite the bullet and buy it now because prices look set to increase during 2021! Which is something that the tech reporters don't realise as they scratch their heads and keep suggesting that stock and prices will soon start to normalise which is usually what one expects tech to do i.e. get cheaper over time. Instead the likes of the Ryzen 5000 processors and and RTX 3000 series GPU's rather than falling in price will INCREASE in price because we are in an inflationary working from home BOOM!

So make lists of what you need to efficiently work from home and then go and buy it ASAP because prices are going to go much higher during 2021!

Where the housing markets are concerned then it should not be so surprising that house prices have gone up when the consensus expectations were that they would fall, and will go up further for many homes are now also part commercial office space and thus price rises are reflecting that added value, and at some point we will probably see governments attempt to levy extra taxes onto home workers, perhaps during 2022. Conversely commercial real estate especially office space is going to experience more pain during 2021 which perhaps could present opportunities to pick up some cheap commercial office space for those seeking to expand out of their home offices.

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Did the perma bears finally get their US house prices crash that they have been crowing so loudly for a decade now?

Firstly a recap of my existing US house prices trend forecast.

30th April 2019 - US House Prices Trend Forecast 2019 to 2021

Therefore my forecast conclusion is for a relatively weak continuation of the US housing bull market into late 2020 at a much shallower pace than experienced in recent years for a likely gain of just 3% over the next 2 years (Jan 2019 to Jan 2021) before entering into a downtrend going into 2021 i.e. Case Shiller 10 city Index (SPCS10RNSA ) rising from 225.9 (Jan 2019 data) to just 232.4 (Jan 2021 data) as illustrated by my trend forecast graph.

Here is the updated chart for what has transpired since my forecast of April 2019.

Whilst the US stock market had a panic attack crash into Mid March. The crash where US house prices are concerned was UPWARDS! Which should not come as much of a surprise to those who have been following my analysis for the past 10 years! Money printing, MONEY PRINTING! When you know the Fed is about to print a shit load of money whatever they call it, will mean that assets that cannot be easily printed will surge higher, this IS the INFLATION MEGA-TREND IN ACTION!

The primary mega-trend IS THE INFLATION MEGA-TREND! Those who bet against it on hopes of a repeat of the 1930's depression will keep going BROKE!

This article is an excerpt form my recent extensive in-depth analysis that concludes in a detailed trend forecast for US house prices into 2021.

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Therefore my forecast conclusion is for the Bitcoin price to hold support at $9,400 in preparations for an assault on $12k, a break of which would target a break of $14k. However if support at $9.4k fails than Bitcoin could trade down as low as $6k BEFORE heading higher.

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My forecast conclusion is for the Bitcoin price to mark time by trading down to as low as $7,500 before basing for a run higher to resistance of $10,500 that 'should' break to propel the Bitcoin price towards the next resistance level of $12,000. Thus the bitcoin price could drift lower for the next couple of months or so before resuming a bullish trend as illustrated by this chart.

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Nadeem Walayat has over 30 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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