Housing Demographics with John Burns’ Eric Finnigan

In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Eric Finnigan, Vice President of Demographics Research at John Burns, to talk about the biggest themes and trends in American housing demographics today.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

• The biggest themes in American demographics right now
• What the demographic trends tell us about the next 20 years of housing demand
• The most important demographic data to track, and what’s happening with it now
• What’s going to happen with all the new apartment construction
• The net impact of immigration on housing costs
• Why dramatically limited immigration or mass deportation would be catastrophic to housing market and cause greater unaffordability
• Some shocking new trends in intra-country migration
• How many homes we really need to build over the next 10 years
• The #1 thing that we can do to improve housing construction and alleviate our shortage
• What the US will look like in 2033 and why that matters

Related to this episode:

• Eric Finnigan | JBREC
• Eric Finnigan | LinkedIn
• Eric Finnigan | Twitter
• John Burns Research and Consulting
• Mike Simonsen on LinkedIn
• Altos Research

The Top of Mind Podcast is produced by Altos Research. Each week, Altos tracks every home for sale in the country – all the pricing, and all the changes in pricing – and synthesizes those analytics to make them available before becoming visible through traditional channels.