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筹到钱了,这位35岁的企业家却仍然处境艰难

筹到钱了,这位35岁的企业家却仍然处境艰难

ALENA BOTROS 2023-08-01
由于没有银行愿意为他办理抵押贷款,他仍住在父母的地下室里。

蔡斯·巴伯(Chace Barber)。图片来源:COURTESY OF CHACE BARBER

蔡斯·巴伯今年35岁,你可以称他为就业机会创造者。根据CB Insights的数据,这位连续创业家拥有两家小企业,其中一家拥有11名全职员工,迄今为止已从私募股权公司筹集了超过150万美元资金。然而,银行却不愿意为他办理抵押贷款。这就是为什么他住在父母位于加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省梅里特市的地下室里。巴伯在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示;:“他们看着我和我的商业伙伴(他们也买不起房子)说,‘哦,对不起,你们有点太冒险了。’”

巴伯说,每当他与贷款机构交谈时,他们都告诉他,他们需要查看企业三年的经营状况和同时段内取得的稳定收入,但他无法做到这一点,因为他把自己的收入投入到公司中,只付给自己维持生计所需的钱。无论如何,他被告知作为企业主需要存够20%的首付款。

对他来说,有意思的是,他的一些全职员工现在已经通过了抵押贷款审批。与此同时,巴伯和他的商业伙伴则运气不佳,尽管他们的一家企业收入稳定,另一家企业也在起步阶段。他确实存了一些钱来支付首付款,但当他进入房市时,疫情点燃房地产热潮,使得房价和抵押贷款利率超出了他的承受范围。

巴伯说:“房价上涨了,所以从前的20%首付款不足以满足现今的需求……房价上涨到了我存的钱已经无法买房的地步。”

加拿大皇家银行(RBC)表示,尽管加拿大央行(Bank of Canada)提高了利率,导致房价(短暂地)从峰值回落,全国各地的房屋销售也有所减少,但对一些买家来说,加拿大的房地产市场仍然让人望尘莫及,这“几乎无助于扭转自2020年年中以来负担能力方面的巨大落差”。

加拿大房地产协会(Canadian Real Estate Association)的数据显示,去年不列颠哥伦比亚省的房价上涨了2.9%,平均达到1,017,979加元。与美国情况一致的是,加拿大房地产市场的供应量严重不足,截至5月份,库存量仅够约3个月的销售。今年2月,西安大略大学(Western University)房地产金融与经济学教授戴安娜·莫克接受了《财富》杂志采访,在讨论加拿大出台的一项禁止外国买家购房的政策(此举似乎是为了提高住房负担能力,但专家们很快就取消了这一政策)时表示,加拿大人的平均收入大约是平均房价的十分之一。

当巴伯试图攒钱买房时,他的个人收入增加到了6万加元。他因此攒下了大约4万加元——但对他来说,这已经不重要了。

巴伯说:“在过去两年的疫情之后,我基本上放弃了买房。”

他考虑过购买父母的房子(他现在住在那里,经营着生意),但这已经不可行了,至少目前是这样。2019年,他父母的房子价值63.8万加元。大约四年后,根据巴伯向《财富》杂志提供的一份房产评估报告,这栋房子现在的估值为126.2万加元,几乎翻了一番。

巴伯说,当他两年多前搬到父母的地下室时,他已经厌倦了那种每个月要支付3000多加元房租,就像在偿还别人的房贷一样的感觉。当时他还是单身,所以他想搬到父母的地下室去住,然后存钱(虽然他也付了一些房租)。但正如我们所知,房价对他来说实在是太高了。

巴伯说:“我选择了备选计划。我要在这处房产的后面建造自己的房子……这就是我最终不得不做的事情。”

按照规定,他计划把房子控制在800平方英尺(约为74平方米)以内,并希望在他和未婚妻结婚前完工。巴伯还和他的父母达成了一项协议,一旦他们老了,他们就会交换住处。幸运的是,巴伯的父亲曾经建造过房屋,所以一直在帮助他完成施工——他们估计总成本将在5万加元左右。巴伯的曾祖父实际上建造了他祖父现在居住的房子,他说自己如今就是在重复曾祖父曾经做过的事。

他说:“对我来说,这太疯狂了,在这个时代我们还在这样做。这让我为那些家里没有地皮,没有房产,不能这样做的人感到难过。”

巴伯说,他的父母大约在30年前以4万加元的价格买下了这片40英亩(161874平方米)的地皮。现在情况变了,他几乎所有的高中和大学同学都觉得买房对他们来说遥不可及。去年第四季度,尽管房地产价格普遍下跌,但加拿大皇家银行的总体负担能力指标连续第九个季度上升至62.8%。该银行表示,这是有史以来最糟糕的情况,并补充说,不列颠哥伦比亚省和安大略省的买家“尤其面临挑战”。

巴伯说:“除非有什么改变,否则我们不可能买得起房子。他指的是自己和他认识的其他年轻人,他们似乎刚刚接受了这一现实。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

蔡斯·巴伯今年35岁,你可以称他为就业机会创造者。根据CB Insights的数据,这位连续创业家拥有两家小企业,其中一家拥有11名全职员工,迄今为止已从私募股权公司筹集了超过150万美元资金。然而,银行却不愿意为他办理抵押贷款。这就是为什么他住在父母位于加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省梅里特市的地下室里。巴伯在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示;:“他们看着我和我的商业伙伴(他们也买不起房子)说,‘哦,对不起,你们有点太冒险了。’”

巴伯说,每当他与贷款机构交谈时,他们都告诉他,他们需要查看企业三年的经营状况和同时段内取得的稳定收入,但他无法做到这一点,因为他把自己的收入投入到公司中,只付给自己维持生计所需的钱。无论如何,他被告知作为企业主需要存够20%的首付款。

对他来说,有意思的是,他的一些全职员工现在已经通过了抵押贷款审批。与此同时,巴伯和他的商业伙伴则运气不佳,尽管他们的一家企业收入稳定,另一家企业也在起步阶段。他确实存了一些钱来支付首付款,但当他进入房市时,疫情点燃房地产热潮,使得房价和抵押贷款利率超出了他的承受范围。

巴伯说:“房价上涨了,所以从前的20%首付款不足以满足现今的需求……房价上涨到了我存的钱已经无法买房的地步。”

加拿大皇家银行(RBC)表示,尽管加拿大央行(Bank of Canada)提高了利率,导致房价(短暂地)从峰值回落,全国各地的房屋销售也有所减少,但对一些买家来说,加拿大的房地产市场仍然让人望尘莫及,这“几乎无助于扭转自2020年年中以来负担能力方面的巨大落差”。

加拿大房地产协会(Canadian Real Estate Association)的数据显示,去年不列颠哥伦比亚省的房价上涨了2.9%,平均达到1,017,979加元。与美国情况一致的是,加拿大房地产市场的供应量严重不足,截至5月份,库存量仅够约3个月的销售。今年2月,西安大略大学(Western University)房地产金融与经济学教授戴安娜·莫克接受了《财富》杂志采访,在讨论加拿大出台的一项禁止外国买家购房的政策(此举似乎是为了提高住房负担能力,但专家们很快就取消了这一政策)时表示,加拿大人的平均收入大约是平均房价的十分之一。

当巴伯试图攒钱买房时,他的个人收入增加到了6万加元。他因此攒下了大约4万加元——但对他来说,这已经不重要了。

巴伯说:“在过去两年的疫情之后,我基本上放弃了买房。”

他考虑过购买父母的房子(他现在住在那里,经营着生意),但这已经不可行了,至少目前是这样。2019年,他父母的房子价值63.8万加元。大约四年后,根据巴伯向《财富》杂志提供的一份房产评估报告,这栋房子现在的估值为126.2万加元,几乎翻了一番。

巴伯说,当他两年多前搬到父母的地下室时,他已经厌倦了那种每个月要支付3000多加元房租,就像在偿还别人的房贷一样的感觉。当时他还是单身,所以他想搬到父母的地下室去住,然后存钱(虽然他也付了一些房租)。但正如我们所知,房价对他来说实在是太高了。

巴伯说:“我选择了备选计划。我要在这处房产的后面建造自己的房子……这就是我最终不得不做的事情。”

按照规定,他计划把房子控制在800平方英尺(约为74平方米)以内,并希望在他和未婚妻结婚前完工。巴伯还和他的父母达成了一项协议,一旦他们老了,他们就会交换住处。幸运的是,巴伯的父亲曾经建造过房屋,所以一直在帮助他完成施工——他们估计总成本将在5万加元左右。巴伯的曾祖父实际上建造了他祖父现在居住的房子,他说自己如今就是在重复曾祖父曾经做过的事。

他说:“对我来说,这太疯狂了,在这个时代我们还在这样做。这让我为那些家里没有地皮,没有房产,不能这样做的人感到难过。”

巴伯说,他的父母大约在30年前以4万加元的价格买下了这片40英亩(161874平方米)的地皮。现在情况变了,他几乎所有的高中和大学同学都觉得买房对他们来说遥不可及。去年第四季度,尽管房地产价格普遍下跌,但加拿大皇家银行的总体负担能力指标连续第九个季度上升至62.8%。该银行表示,这是有史以来最糟糕的情况,并补充说,不列颠哥伦比亚省和安大略省的买家“尤其面临挑战”。

巴伯说:“除非有什么改变,否则我们不可能买得起房子。他指的是自己和他认识的其他年轻人,他们似乎刚刚接受了这一现实。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

Chace Barber is 35 years old and you could call him a job creator. The serial entrepreneur owns two small businesses, one of which has 11 full-time employees and has raised upward of $1.5 million from private equity to date, per CB Insights. And yet, the bank won’t give him a mortgage. It’s why he lives in his parents’ basement in Merritt, a city in British Columbia, Canada. “They look at me and my business partner, who also still can’t buy a house, and say, ‘oh, sorry, ‘you’re a little bit too risky,’” Barber told Fortune.

Whenever Barber has spoken with a lender, he says they’ve told him that they need to see a three-year business history and a stable income for the same amount of time, but he can’t do that because he was putting his earnings back into his companies and only paying himself what he needed to get by. Either way, he was told he needed to save enough money to put 20% down as a business owner.

To him, the funny thing is, some of his full-time employees have been approved for mortgages by now. Meanwhile, Barber and his business partner have had no luck, despite bringing in steady revenue on one business and getting another off the ground. He does have some money saved for a down payment, but by the time he hit the market, the Pandemic Housing Boom had put prices—and mortgage rates—out of his wheelhouse.

“Housing prices increased, so that 20% down doesn’t cover what I need…the prices went up to the point where that money I saved was no longer enough to buy a house,” Barber said.

Canada’s housing market is still severely unaffordable for some buyers, despite a recent (and somewhat short-lived) decline in home prices from the peak and fewer home sales across the country as the Bank of Canada raised interest rates—which “barely makes a dent in reversing the enormous loss of affordability since mid-2020,” according to the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

Home prices across British Columbia, specifically, have gone up 2.9% in the last year to an average of C$1,017,979, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association. And not unlike the U.S., Canada’s housing market is suffering from severely low supply, with roughly three months of inventory as of May. Back in February of this year, Diana Mok, a professor of real estate finance and economics at Western University, told Fortune that the average Canadian’s income is around ten times less than the average home price, when discussing the country’s ban on foreign residential buyers—a move that looked like an attempt to improve housing affordability that experts quickly dispelled.

When Barber was trying to save up to buy a house, he’d increased his personal income to C$60,000. With that, he saved up about C$40,000—but to him, that doesn’t really matter anymore.

“I basically gave up on buying a house after COVID, after the last two years,” Barber said.

He looked into buying his parents’ home, where he’s currently living and running his business out of, but that’s no longer feasible, at least for the time being. In 2019, his parents’ house was valued at C$638,000. Roughly four years later, and it’s now valued at C$1,262,000, according to a property assessment Barber shared with Fortune—that’s almost double.

When he moved into his parents’ basement more than two years ago, Barber said he was tired of feeling like he was paying off someone else’s mortgage, given he was paying more than C$3,000 a month for rent. He was single at the time, so he figured he’d move into his parents’ basement and save up (although he does pay some rent). But as we know, the house just became too unaffordable for him.

“I went with plan B,” Barber said. “I’m building my own house on the back end of the property…that’s what I ended up having to do.”

He’s planning on keeping it under 800 square feet, following regulations, and hopes to have it done by the time he and his fiance are married. Barber also made a deal with his parents that they’ll essentially switch places once they get older. Luckily, Barber’s dad used to build homes, so he’s been helping him out with the construction process—they suspect the total cost will be around C$50,000. Barber’s great grandfather actually built the house his grandfather is living in now, and he says they basically did the same thing he’s doing now.

“To me, that’s just insane, that we’re still doing that in this day and age,” he said. “It makes me feel bad for the people [whose] families don’t own acreage, don’t own property, and can’t do this.”

Barber’s parents bought their 40 acres of land around 30 years ago for around C$40,000, he said. Things have changed, and nearly all of his friends from high school and college are feeling like home ownership is out of reach for them. In the fourth quarter of last year, despite there being a generalized dip in property values, RBC’s aggregate affordability measure for Canada rose for a ninth-straight quarter to 62.8%. That’s its worst-ever level, the bank said, adding that buyers in British Columbia and Ontario are “especially challenged.”

“We’re probably not going to be able to buy a house unless something changes,” Barber said, referring to himself and other younger people he knows that seem to have just accepted this reality.

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