After The Submarine Dive, Still Not Thinking About The U.S. Housing Market Yesterday, we went submarining in Antarctica, and today, we are cruising offshore on a Special Operations Boat. [source: Unsplash] One Fun Thing While you're warm and cozy today, rest assured my wife & I are walking among penguins in sub20 (f) below zero weather on the Antarctica continent. I thought it would be a good...

Thinking About Leaving For Antarctica While Sitting On My Couch, Still Thankful. Housing Notes readers get a reprieve today to recover from epic Thanksgiving festivities. I hope all of you are feeling better after your momentarily guiltfree caloric binge while, at the same time, deftly navigating the conversational traps of politics and religion, a staple of large family gatherings. I encourage...

Getting Lifechanging Housing Advice Versus Getting The Cheapest Price BEFORE WE GET STARTED TODAY, Housing Notes has been a constant in a rapidly changing real estate world. I've been publishing it weekly on Fridays since March 2015. Today, we start with a cleaner, easiertoread interface that's mobilefriendly. The behindthescenes interface is quite different, so it will take me a little time to...

Be Curious About Housing, Not Judgmental I have watched this clip a half dozen times, and the Walt Whitman quote it shares, "Be curious, not judgmental," resonated. View this post on Instagram A post shared by J. Paul Nadeau | Keynote Speaker/Author (@jpaulnadeau) It's Veteran's Day, which always meant a lot to my Dad he was an M.P. in the Army...

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Sometimes Housing Feels Like It's Going Off A Cliff If this doesn't talk you into relocating to Alaska, I don't know what will. View this post on Instagram ...

The Proper Way To Go Pick Up A Pizza On A Friday Night In A Tight Housing Market Imagine being Ken Block's drivers ed teacher when he was a teenager? I always cringe when I see him land a jump, wondering what my back would feel like. My lower back is the only reason why I don't launch my daily driver over canals. Post by @samotango View on Threads Did you miss last Friday's Housing Notes? October...

The Housing Market Has Been Something To Cry About Well, it's Friday the 13th. Just dial a number...and cry. View this post on Instagram

– Median sales price slipped annually at a diminishing rate for the fourth consecutive quarter but remained above pre-pandemic levels – Sales declined annually, likely the last quarter of distortion caused by the spike in mortgage rates over the past year – Listing inventory declined annually for the second consecutive quarter as would-be sellers remained wedded to their existing low mortgage...

Newsday asked us to break out the data from our Long Island market reports for Douglas Elliman: Elliman Reports: Q1 & Q2-2023 Long Island Sales:

Newsday: Here's where Long Island home prices rose and fell the most in the first half of 2023

It's a monumentally cool effort by Newsday with great visualizations - the effort compared the first half of sales of 2023 with the first half of 2022.