‘We all have economic jitters’: After the Fed cut rates, should my son buy a $600K house?
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‘We all have economic jitters’: After the Fed cut rates, should my son buy a $600K house?Listen(9 min)Listen(9 min)Your Moneyist column has been so helpful in the past. I now have a question: My son and daughter-in-law want to purchase their first home in the Mid-Atlantic region. They plan to spend $600,000. But we all have economic jitters.They are tuned in to friends and colleagues, who are losing jobs, cognizant of shifts in company agendas and financial worries. They are thinking that there may be more inventory available by summer 2026, when home prices may come down.About the AuthorQuentin Fottrell is MarketWatch's Managing Editor-Advice Columns and The Moneyist columnist. You can follow him on Twitter @quantanamo.Copyright © 2025 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved.