Housing prices will always fluctuate.

No one truly knows when a home has hit its highest point or when it will drop.
Until it actually happens there is no a true explanation for the cause anything prior are just assumptions.
If you are not a speculator and are looking for a home to live in pay whatever you thing is appropriate.

Sad , I could go around sad all my life if I worried about who had less or more then
 

me. There are lots of wonderful places all around the villages to live ,I love the villager but for many who can’t afford to live here it’s not sad , it’s just life

Renting?

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remember 2008. 35%loss on housing, inflation, oil prices.. 2021 will make that look like a cake walk..6$a gallon gas, housing WILL tank loosing around 38% of it's current value, 7.50 for a gallon of milk.. Look around it's already started. look at you grocery bill, cable bill, water bill, electricity bill.. we better wake up and do it soon. this will be a depression for the ages!!!!!

The sky is falling , the sky is falling , oh my

There would be no shortage if those "deciders" did NOT want it that way. Extreme Zoning (that are for other than safety) keeps up the shortage. Innovative ideas like micro and mini homes and dome homes are rejected "out of hand". European homes are built, NOT on-site, but rather on factory assembly lines to have greater quality, safety, and LOWER cost.
Notice that in the early years of automobiles, each car was made "on-site" by hand. Then Henry Ford started the factory assembly line and cars became available to the general public. The same thing could be done for houses, but tradition and vested interests get in the way of progress.
And a roof over one's head is a better way out of poverty and health problems than driving a car!

One could move to a small town in Alaska, Maine, or any state having ongoing migration and have lots of spending money left over. I remember one smart man at my swimming pool who a couple of years ago sold his house here in TV Land and move to some inexpensive resort in some Central American beach area. ( sorry I don't remember the exact country because I was NOT, personally interested)

With Global Warming, South Carolina probably has about the climate and temperature that Florida had in the 1950s - that is to say that the summers are probably inhabitable in S. Carolina. Go Gamecocks!

Immigration keeps population from staying constant and it always grows creating upward GNP and questionable "Quality of Life". Cycles of housing market rises and drops catch some that bought "too much house" living homeless in their cars and on the sidewalks and under bridges. That can be devastating to people trying to create wealth by owning a home and starting a family. And these recurring cycles harm the overall wealth and prosperity of US society - while having greater adverse effects on the many economic and ethnic factions making up the nation. And different states have different degrees of empathy toward the unlucky, unsuccessful lower end of the social spectrum - for example, varying amounts and time periods for unemployment benefits. The housing cycle is very difficult to predict and its effects are felt throughout society.

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Not all trends move S-L-O-W-L-Y. I read the book, "the Black Swan", about the SUDDEN subprime crash. Also, the CV Pandemic CRASHED pretty rapidly on our shores. And we may or may NOT recover depending on a small portion of America that seems intent at driving America into the ditch of human History.

10,000 boomers retire every day. Meanwhile, 20,000 foreign invaders cross the border every day into the welcoming arms of the folks who were hired to keep them out.

There's some math in there that says boomers are going to continue to get good price for their old house, and Florida is going to have a hard time building new houses fast enough to give them some place to retire to.

And on top of all that, we have a FED pumping 5 trillion bucks a year into an already inflated economy.

Yes, this bubble will burst someday. But until it does, I don't know a better place to put my retirement savings than Florida real estate. I don't think you can stack enough gold in your closet safe to do you much good when inflation hits Carter levels.

What did your first paragraph add to your post ?

Math. Look it up. It's a thing.