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How to Survive a Recession 📉

May 20, 2022 By Chuncey Foreman

The One Thing Every Homeowner Needs To Know About a Recession | Simplifying The Market

A recession does not equal a housing crisis. That’s the one thing that every homeowner today needs to know. Everywhere you look, experts are warning we could be heading toward a recession, and if valid, an economic slowdown doesn’t mean homes will lose value.

 

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) defines a recession this way:

“A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, normally visible in production, employment, and other indicators. A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of economic activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion.”

To help show that home prices don’t fall every time there’s a recession, look at the historical data. There have been six recessions in this country over the past four decades. But, as the graph below shows, looking at the recessions from the 1980s, home prices appreciated four times and depreciated only two times. So, historically, there’s proof that when the economy slows down, it doesn’t mean home values will fall or decline.

The One Thing Every Homeowner Needs To Know About a Recession | Simplifying The Market

The first occasion on the graph when home values depreciated was in the early 1990s, when home prices dropped by less than 2%. During the housing crisis in 2008 when home values declined by almost 20%. Most people vividly remember the housing crisis in 2008 and think if we were to fall into a recession, we’d repeat what happened then. But this housing market isn’t a bubble that’s about to burst. The fundamentals are very different today than they were in 2008. So, we shouldn’t assume we’re heading down the same path.

Bottom Line

We’re not in a recession in this country, but it doesn’t mean homes will lose value if one is coming. History proves a recession doesn’t equal a housing crisis.

Filed Under: Buyers, homeownership, Housing Market Updates, Sellers

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