How will this affect the real estate market and when will we see the effects? What year?
The US demographic situation is getting worse:
The total fertility rate fell to 1.57 births per woman in 2025, the lowest since the data began in the 1930s.
A rate below 2.1 births per woman means a population is no longer replacing itself and is shrinking when excluding immigration.
The fertility rate has been effectively below 2.1 births per woman since the 1970s.
Furthermore, the general fertility rate, measured as births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, fell to 53.1 in 2025, an all-time low, continuing a decline that began in 2007.
Additionally, birthrates for women in their late 30s exceeded those for women in their early 20s for the first time on record in 2025.
America is heading into a demographic crisis.