{"id":3860,"date":"2024-04-01T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T03:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2024-06-16T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T02:53:21","slug":"a-silver-tide-of-boomers-will-pass-their-deeds-along-and-its-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/a-silver-tide-of-boomers-will-pass-their-deeds-along-and-its-rolling\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cSilver Tide\u201d of Boomers Will Pass Their Deeds Along \u2014 And It\u2019s Rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Freddie Mac is planning for nine million baby boomers to let their homes go \u2014 gradually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freddie Mac\u2019s recent analysis predicts just 300,000 boomer-owned homes will be released to the market this year. Larger numbers will follow, though, increasing year by year. Freddie Mac\u2019s report shows the silver tide<\/a> has begun to roll. Expect the baby boomers to convey deeds to more than 9 million homes between now and 2035, says Freddie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Generations, on a Timeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over the year 2027, Freddie Mac expects 600,000 home deeds to be conveyed by boomers. See the slope? The number of deed conveyances will keep rising, on that upward slope, by a few hundred thousand more each year. Once the bulk of boomers are in their late 70s, they will hold far fewer deeds, Freddie Mac projects. Based on past patterns, we know that as young adults get older, more become deed holders. At age 75, this starts to reverse, with fewer and fewer holding deeds every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there will be a total of 1.2 million deeds transferred by the baby boomer generation during the year 2035, when the older boomers approach their 90th<\/sup> birthdays. Between now and then, through the next full decade, Freddie Mac sees new generations picking up deeds as fast as boomers put them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once into the 2030s, the market will be over its demand crunch. Supply will have increased. And as Freddie also points out, younger generations are getting smaller in numbers, so the housing shortage seems bound to taper off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers might rightly point out that not all boomers will sell their homes into the real estate market. And in fact, 62% of the older adults told Freddie Mac\u2019s survey that they\u2019ll bequeath their homes, rather than put them on the market. Of course, quite a few such homes will return to the housing market \u2014 sold by the heirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsunami of Deed Transfers? Not Exactly, Says Freddie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Some time ago, Meredith Whitney, a Wall Street analyst who accurately predicted the 2008 housing market crash, used the phrase \u201csilver tsunami<\/a>.\u201d The concept goes like this. Beginning in 2024, tens of millions of homes would start to return to the market, transferred by boomers to younger generations. The \u201ctsunami\u201d would be a storm of 69 million baby boomer deeds. That\u2019s huge \u2014 it means about four out of every ten deeds are held by baby boomers. As NeighborWorks America president Marietta Rodriguez has asked, “How can this generational shift not have drastic implications for housing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for those who are anxious to get on the ladder now, the supply crunch is still an obstacle. A few key factors hold boomers in a resilient position among the ranks of homeowners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n