Real Estate Refresh

Dear First-Time Buyer Who Did Everything Right, If I had to name the most frustrated person in America right now (not frustrated with life, frustrated with real estate specifically) it's you. You didn't panic-buy in 2021. You saved the down payment. You watched rates. You got pre-approved. You waited. And now you're sitting here in May 2026 hanging on to a job you have mid-feelings about, rates right where economists said they'd be, checking Zillow three times a day and someh

Jerome Powell held his final press conference as Fed Chair on Wednesday. They held rates steady. Again. For the third consecutive meeting. I guess that was expected but what nobody really anticipated was what happened around that decision: a 4-person dissent, the first split of that magnitude since October 1992. Oh and, Powell announcing he is staying on the Board of Governors indefinitely, and the incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh quietly signaling that he intends to rewrite th

Zillow went into 2026 on the record so confident, even optimistic. Their official forecast called for home values to grow 3.4% this year with more sales and improving affordability. The housing market was finally supposed to catch its breath after two years of buyers sitting on the sidelines waiting for something. Maybe it was rates, prices, inventory…maybe it was certainty but 2026 was supposed to be the year they got it. Then February 28th happened. Fast forward to today. Z