The "housing market winter" is unbelievably cold!
Can you believe it?
According to the latest data from the national authoritative department, the price of new houses in 70 cities across the country rose in only 2 cities in May, and the price of second-hand houses was "wiped out".
What does this mean?
For example, if the property market is compared to a high-speed train, it used to be a wild ride, but now it seems to have run out of fuel and its speed has plummeted. In Beijing, for example, housing prices have been soaring, but now prices in some areas have fallen by more than 20%, and many buyers have watched their assets shrink sharply. For example, in a popular community in Chaoyang District, the average price per square meter was 60,000 yuan in 2018, but now it has fallen to more than 30,000 yuan. This fully shows that the golden age of the property market has gradually faded away.
But you know what?
3 things that are more terrible than falling house prices have quietly happened.
What are the three things?
In the first five months of the first half of the year, a total of 324,000 foreclosure listings of all kinds were held!
For example, Mr. Li in Hangzhou, a house originally worth 4 million yuan, the starting price was only 2.8 million, and after many unsuccessful auctions, it was finally sold for 2.9 million, which is really embarrassing.
In the stock market, middle-aged and elderly investors over the age of 40 account for more than 80%, while young investors under the age of 30 account for only 3%. It's like a race, the young people don't seem to have started yet, and the middle-aged and elderly people are already out of breath for most of the race.
If you don't have any idea, look at the morning rush hour on the subway and bus, is it true that the elderly are more energetic than office workers?
In addition, the layoffs of the once popular industry game have reached nearly 11,000 in the first half of this year, which has exceeded the total number of layoffs in the entire game industry in 2023 (about 10,500).
What does this series of phenomena really mean?
This means that the economic environment is becoming more complex and uncertain, and traditional channels for investment and employment are no longer as stable and reliable as they once were.
So where should ordinary people go?
Here, it is recommended that you make 5 preparations:
First, improve your professional skills and learn new knowledge to adapt to the rapidly changing job market.
For example, learning popular skills such as AI and data analytics can greatly improve employment competitiveness.
Second, focus on emerging industries and entrepreneurial opportunities, and be brave enough to try new areas.
Emerging industries such as new energy and biomedicine have developed rapidly in recent years.
Third, focus on new careers.
With the development of technology, new professions such as artificial intelligence trainers and data annotators are constantly emerging.
It is predicted that the demand for talent in these new occupations will increase by more than 30% in the next five years.
In short, we need to actively understand and learn about it to open up new paths for our future.