Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Why Homebuyers Care More About Rates Than Prices #InterestRates

Name: Why Homebuyers Care More About Rates Than Prices #InterestRates
Uploaded: 2025-05-27T16:41:09+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Tom Burton discussing how interest rates influence homebuying more than retail prices. The…

27 May 2025 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Tom Burton discussing how interest rates influence homebuying more than retail prices. The speakers note that Kodiak, a private equity group owning building material distributors nationwide, provided a learning moment: tariffs and price components affect different markets unevenly, but lower interest rates enable more buyers to afford homes even if retail prices are higher.

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He said, now you want to talk about what impacts us, because let's get these interest rates down. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, and then Kodiak is a private equity group that owns building material distributors across the country. And so I thought that was, that was a good learning moment for me. Right. Just this is, it's not impacting the tariffs component of it is not impacting some markets in the same place. But I would suggest if you've got, even though if retail prices are up and you're wanting to buy a home, if interest rates are down, more people are going to be able to get into a home. Yep. Right. So it was good. That was kind of a good learning out of that.