Real Estate Refresh

This was a week that required me to physically put my phone down twice. Once on Wednesday when I read that Congress had just passed the largest housing affordability bill in a generation - the kind of legislation that takes thirty years to get through - and Trump cancelled the signing ceremony to use it as leverage for a voter ID bill. And then yesterday when PCE data crossed my screen showing inflation at 4.1% annually - the highest reading since April 2023 - right alongsi

I'm sending this a day early because tomorrow is Juneteenth and you deserve to go into the holiday weekend with a clear head about what just happened. And because a lot happened, and probably something else is going to happen tonight and this blog is too long as is. A peace deal. A Fed meeting. A new Fed Chair's first press conference. A dot plot that nobody saw (or I should probably say, nobody wanted to see) coming. And two quotes from industry leaders this week that I th

I want to start somewhere different today. Not with rates. Not with the jobs report that dropped this morning at 8:30am. Not even with the housing data that came out this week showing home prices are up 0.4% nationally - a number so flaccid it barely registers until you understand what it's hiding. I want to start with your brain. Thirteen years in this industry and a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy have taught me something special. People make the most expen