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The senior housing bottleneck is a mortgage market issue hiding in plain sight

For years, the housing industry anticipated that the aging demographic would steadily release inventory into the resale market. Instead, many older homeowners are remaining in place longer than expected — and the reasons go far beyond sentiment.

As someone who began my career building a mortgage lending company — followed by real estate, escrow and transaction coordination firms operating within a coordinated ecosystem — I have seen firsthand how liquidity moves through the housing system. Today, I see a structural slowdown in one of the largest equity-holding segments of the market: older homeowners navigating complex life transitions.

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