5 Reasons Housing is Expensive | ZFS 39
5 Reasons Housing is Expensive | ZFS 39  
Podcast: The Zach Foust Show
Published On: Mon Nov 10 2025
Description: Send us a textTitle: 5 Reasons Housing is Expensive | ZFS 39In this episode Zach walks through the five real reasons housing is so expensive right now and why the usual headlines miss the point. He talks about Jerome Powell and rates, BlackRock and private equity, builders and profit, boomers holding assets, and the split between people who have assets and people who do not. If you are trying to understand why buying a home feels impossible and what is actually broken in the system, this episode gives you a clear, honest breakdown in plain language.Talking points Zach covers:Why blaming only rates is lazy and incompleteWhat Jerome Powell and the Fed can and cannot actually fixHow low rates in 2020 and 2021 pushed prices up fastWhy lower rates again would mostly push prices even higherThe truth about BlackRock vs Blackstone and other big investorsHow mom and pop investors and small landlords play a huge roleWhy investor purchases now take about one in three single family homesHow builders shifted to big expensive homes and chased record profitThe cost of regulations and land before a single shovel hits dirtHow zoning rules make it hard to build small and affordable homesWhy boomers are not selling and what really happens when they die with propertyThe massive wealth gap between owners and rentersHow the average home buyer age has climbed into the mid fiftiesWhat a bifurcated or K shaped economy is and why it matters for housingHow the top earners keep spending while the bottom struggles with debt and basicsWhy policy and legislation are needed because the market will not fix itselfWhy waiting for a crash or the silver tsunami is not a real planHow all five reasons layer together and squeeze first time buyersAll Source Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/17d0RiOR1s7ktwQpzqKVamktepmuc5aeB4zj70QUEcNE/edit?usp=sharingViewable Canva - https://www.canva.com/design/DAG4BRa1OLA/GPLbCVOZmRM8Qh0GU3uGOw/view?utm_content=DAG4BRa1OLA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=hbc90e020c1