The 広大な／多数の／重要な 賃貸しの 革命: More than THREE MILLION Americans making over $150,000 are still renting rather than buying a home 予定 to 急に上がるing prices, インフレーション and mortgage 率s

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Rich Americans are choosing to rent instead of buy homes 予定 to 急に上がるing house prices, インフレーション?and 記録，記録的な／記録する-high mortgage 率s.

The number of 世帯s rented by people making more than $150,000 in the US spiked to more than three million between 2016 and 2021, a staggering 87 パーセント 増加する, numbers from the US 国勢（人口）調査 Bureau showed.

In total there were about 44 million rented 世帯s by the end of 2021, the 国勢（人口）調査 設立する, with the median income sitting at $71,000.

Rising costs of home-buying have left many?such as 物陰／風下 コマドリs, a 36-year-old accountant making six-人物／姿／数字s in Sanford, Florida?- where median house prices are over $100,000 - needing more time to save to buy.

He told the?塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 he'll likely need to keep renting a two-bedroom apartment with his family for a few more years.

Even renters who can afford to buy, like 30-year-old Richmond 商売／仕事 owner Jessica Bronner, have decided against making 購入（する）s. She told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物, 'the market's still very inflated and it doesn't make sense to buy.'

Jessica Bronner said she could afford to buy a home but that it made no sense to 権利 now

The largest 増加する in 豊富な renters was seen in Austin, Texas.

There 世帯s rented by people making more than $150,000 増加するd by 154 パーセント between 2016 and 2021, によれば date from?RentCaf?.

Austin's 増加する was part of a 傾向 seen across the 南西, which saw 集まりs of people relocate during the COVID-19 pandemic, 増加するing rents and transforming the market.

And even though the numbers of Americans making six-人物／姿／数字s has 増加するd too, rising prices associated with home buying and 所有権 have left those high-earners deciding that home 所有権 is not 価値（がある） the money and that renting and putting money into the 株式市場 is a better 選択 to grow wealth.

High-earners also tend to be pickier about what they buy, によれば the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物, 主要な them to pass on 購入（する）s until something that fits 正確に／まさに what they want becomes 利用できる at a price they can afford.

The market has been 答える／応じるing in turn, with developers buying up 選び出す／独身-family homes and turning them into 賃貸しのs, or apartment コンビナート／複合体s chock-十分な of amenities 存在 churned out for 井戸／弁護士席-heeled clientele.

'They really 需要・要求する what they want, because they're able to 支払う／賃金 for it,' said an (n)役員／(a)執行力のある at the real-広い地所 投資 company 資本／首都 Square,?Whitson Huffman.

専門家s 警告するd that the 賃貸しの market's turnover and 供給（する） leads to a much more 競争の激しい 環境, meaning 現在の 傾向s に向かって 供給（する）ing the 豊富な with apartments is 運動ing up 賃貸しの costs.

'There are markets that are already 堅い on lower- and middle-income renters, and it's just becoming more difficult with this influx of higher-in come earners,' Harvard University 住宅 研究員?Whitney Airgood-Obrycki told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物.

Though rents have abated わずかに from the 地位，任命する-pandemic にわか景気, numbers from Realtor.com 解放（する）d in 2022 設立する rents had nonetheless remained かなり higher than they were before the pandemic in major cities.

Chicago rents rose 23.9 パーセント by last September,?in Miami they were up 51.8 パーセント, Tampa saw a 40.9 パーセント 増加する, and Memphis 地位，任命するd a 37.5 パーセント 増加する.

The 報告（する）／憶測 showed?that median rent across the country as a whole rose 7.8 パーセント last month, and remai ned a whopping 25 パーセント higher than pre-pandemic rents.

Numbers from the US 国勢（人口）調査 Bureau 設立する the median 世帯 income for renters was $41,000, and the median for homeowners was $78,000.

The median 月毎の 住宅 cost for homeowners and renters was 類似の coming in at $1,200 and $1,184 それぞれ.

Homeowners paid more for 月毎の 公共事業（料金）／有用性s at $249, while renters paid $128.

Thirty-five-year-old tech entrepreneur Al Hughes told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 he and his wife moved from the east coast last year and moved to California.

He said they didn't find anything to buy there that was a better value than renting, so they 選ぶd up a 賃貸し（する） on a 1,400-square foot house with a garage and backyard for $2,400 per month.

'We want a backyard, but we don't want to やむを得ず have to take care of it all the time,' Hughes told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物. 'We don't really have an 利益／興味 in buying anymore.'

Robbins said his student 貸付金s were still making it difficult for him to get a mortgage.