ES! better start bouncing otherwise it's a long way down to 4060.
The housing market is particularly insane. Two people I know recently put their houses up for sale, one of which originally bought for 300,000 and sold for 500,000 and is moving to Hawaii. Both people sold their houses within hours of them being on the market. There's literally shacks in the area that have like 2 bedrooms and 1 bath and probably haven't been updated at all going for 200k. This is seemingly the same for anywhere in VA, MD, WV, or DE.
I just don't see how this is sustainable. There's no way in hell an average person can afford to buy 500k homes unless everyone has massive inheritances from family members dying from Covid.
You could be right. Just look at lumber futures. They basically went parabolic and are finally selling off now. It's ridiculously expensive to build new houses and has been that way for a while, so I wonder if that's part of the reason for the existing real estate sales being so crazy.