Oct 20, 2026 · 43 min · 19 segments
Commercial real estate **prices have fallen 20%-50%…
Dave MeyerHostYeah, I mean, I can describe this best the same way I described it on this show probably a year ago, which is that this is a traffic collision in a four-way intersection.
And then all of a sudden, everything collided in the middle of the intersection.
They were irrationally exuberant and just were buying real estate at any price without paying attention to the fundamentals.
Who is your primary renter on apartments? It's the 18 to 30 demographic, right? Well, birth rates have been falling for 18 years.
That means there are more 18-year-olds today than there will be at any point in the future for at least the next 18 years.
Yeah, I mean, I can describe this best the same way I described it on this show probably a year ago, which is that this is a traffic collision in a four-way intersection.
And then all of a sudden, everything collided in the middle of the intersection.
They were irrationally exuberant and just were buying real estate at any price without paying attention to the fundamentals.
Who is your primary renter on apartments? It's the 18 to 30 demographic, right? Well, birth rates have been falling for 18 years.
That means there are more 18-year-olds today than there will be at any point in the future for at least the next 18 years.
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