This has been a tumultuous year for the housing market. Mortgage rates surged, prices held, and listing inventory fell. All the rules of thumb we started the year with ended up broken. And it doesn't help when the Mayor of New York is doing our city's public relations. Oof. This is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center...

This week brought excellent news to the housing economy as the Fed telegraphed that there is a reasonable probability that their next move will be a cut in 2024 in the form of 3 cuts totaling 75 basis points. And seriously…why do refrigerators of the 1950s have more features that I want from current models? Did you miss last Friday's Housing Notes? The previous three weeks' posts have been...

Disembarking In Argentina, Starting to Think About The U.S. Housing Market We just crossed the Drake Passage and passed Cape Horn on our last day of this adventure. Tomorrow is our travel odyssey home, and we look forward to dry land. Housing Notes comes in from the cold next Friday, December 15th, with our normally scheduled programming. Ha. Source: Unsplash Brilliant Idea #1 If you need...

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...

The Housing Market Can't Defeat The Laws Of Physics View this post on Instagram

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...