{"id":2356,"date":"2019-07-11T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwiloanguy.com\/blog\/americans-powerful-belief-in-homeownership-as-an-investment\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:00:33","slug":"americans-powerful-belief-in-homeownership-as-an-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwiloanguy.com\/blog\/americans-powerful-belief-in-homeownership-as-an-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans\u2019 Powerful Belief in Homeownership as an Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/04141846\/20190711-Share-KCM-549x300.jpg?w=358&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"American\u2019s Powerful Belief in Homeownership as an Investment | Simplifying The Market\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Federal Reserve Bank<\/em> (The Fed) recently released their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/microeconomics\/sce\/housing#main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">2019\u00a0 Survey of Consumer Expectations Housing Survey<\/a>. The survey reported that 65% of Americans believe homeownership is a good financial investment. Since 2014, the percentage has increased by over nine percent.<span id=\"more-40057\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/04141757\/20190711-MEM.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40060\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/04141757\/20190711-MEM.jpg?resize=650%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Americans' Powerful Belief in Homeownership as an Investment | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a>The Fed\u2019s survey also showed that when the results are broken down by age, education, income, or region of the country, more than 55% of Americans in each category see homeownership as a good investment.<\/p>\n<p>This coincides with a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2019\/05\/23\/4-most-popular-bottom-line-investments-in-america\/?a=375140-ca8522ad04357da9549c08492a932f70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Gallup<\/em> survey<\/a> of Americans which revealed that real estate was their number one choice for the best long-term investment when compared to stocks, savings accounts or gold.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Americans&#8217; belief in residential real estate as a good financial investment continues to grow as the housing market returns to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: New feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) recently released their 2019\u00a0 Survey of Consumer Expectations Housing Survey. The survey reported that 65% of Americans believe homeownership is a good financial investment. Since 2014, the percentage has increased by over nine percent.The Fed\u2019s survey also showed that when the results are broken down by age, education, income, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10157519356927224_105287467588662":"","twitter_15771620_15771620":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":{"0":"post-2356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-info","8":"tag-100-financing","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Americans\u2019 Powerful Belief in Homeownership as an Investment&#8212;NWI Loan Guy Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nwiloanguy.com\/blog\/americans-powerful-belief-in-homeownership-as-an-investment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Americans\u2019 Powerful Belief in Homeownership as an Investment&#8212;NWI Loan Guy Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) recently released their 2019\u00a0 Survey of Consumer Expectations Housing Survey. 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