All cash buyers dominate Florida and Midwest: The significant number of all cash buyers continues to add strain to families looking to buy.
ByThere has been little discussion in 2016 regarding the volume of all cash buyers. We have grown accustomed to anomalies in the housing market. Rapid dips and jumps in prices are now assumed to be a part of the system. Massive numbers of investors buying single family homes are now assumed to be status quo. And the number of all cash transactions is seen as normal when in fact, all cash buyers were usually a small part of the market. All of this is abnormal in the housing market pre-2000s but we are now living in a very different world. Yet people still have a hard time understanding the volume of all cash buyers in certain markets. Clearly most of these buyers are investors. Even a home costing $200,000 is out of reach for the regular family living paycheck to paycheck without a mortgage. And mortgage rates just increased at their fasted clip in many years thus making it more expensive to buy a home. In some markets, cash buyers dominate sales volume…
