It’s time to take a look at my 2022 housing market and economic predictions and see how I did… I’ll let you be the judge. Prediction: Affordability: The perfect storm, and not the fun kind. For this, I have three predictions in mind. Inventory will remain tight. Yes, there will be more than last year, …
This time of year is a whirlwind. Between preparing for the holidays, traveling, spending time with family, and hopefully squeezing in some time to relax, there’s a lot going on at the end of the year. This makes it easy to overlook some less fun, but equally important tasks like checking in on your finances. …
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The Producer Price Index (PPI), which is a measure of inflation, had a good showing this month. It was up only 0.2% from the prior month and 8% off year over year. This is one of those “bad news is good news” scenarios that we see in today’s bizzaro economic world. The PPI trails the …
Here is our market snapshot for the nation for October 2022. I am going to highlight Months Supply (up 4.7% compared to September 2022) and Median Days On Market (up 8.2% compared to the previous month). Here is why these two umbers are important. We normally see real estate starting to enter its seasonality phase …
Here is our September housing snapshot, I wanted to unpack a few numbers. Total listings are down by 30.6% and new listings are only down by 25.1%, how are those two numbers different? We see this play out when there are properties sitting on the market for longer periods of time. During the last few years …
Here are just a few headlines after a quick Google search for “real estate market.” “Feds damage to the housing market may last years” “U.S. facing a ‘perfect storm” for 2008-like housing crisis” Let’s get this out of the way first: the real estate market is slowing. The volume of sales (number of homes) has …
This month, let’s take a moment to review two important graphs and unpack the meaning behind the data. We’ve been hearing a lot about an increase in available inventory, which is true across the board. It’s important to pay attention to the number of new listings. This number has been gently trending up. There are …
Looking at the graphs below, you can see the housing market snapshot for the nation based on May 2022 data. I want to call out two specific charts that tell the “slowing market” story. First, I want you to look closely at the Months Supply chart – it is up, up and away. From a …
I’ve been traveling all over the country to real estate conferences during the past few weeks, some of them exclusive to C-level executives, and wanted to share a few of my takeaways from these timely industry events. Gathering this knowledge helps us move forward with strength, having developed a deep understanding of both long and …
Here is a buzzword we haven’t heard in a while: stagflation. Since the term seems to be making its way into recent headlines, I thought I would unpack what it means. Stagflation is a period when prices are rising while the economy is slowing. Normally, you don’t see those two things at the same time. …