Real Estate Market Update… Is The Party Over? I think the real estate market is a lot like frat parties in my college days. What do I mean by that? Remember back in your college days, were there frat parties? The Build Up I remember frats would throw these...
To be able to see where you are going you have to give some attention to where you’ve been… but don’t spend too much time looking backward, the future comes pretty fast. With this in mind, I hear a lot of talk about how the real estate market in Florida is going to...
“In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity… I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.’” Mark McCormack I believe that toward the end of the year there is going to be a window of opportunity where...
“The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, ‘I can do whatever I want today.’” Morgan Housel Let me preface this correspondence with this: I own real estate here at the beach, a few condos and a house, all as...
“Sometimes you just have to survive to fight another day” Alexandra Bracken Over the course of my 20-year career, I’ve noticed that in hard or strange times, people tend to retreat to quality. They move to what they know to be true. They look for things...
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain There is so much talk about how supply and demand are the two elephants in the room when it comes to projecting real estate market trends and...
Understanding the Cost of Money and Real Estate Trends on Florida’s Emerald Coast When evaluating the real estate market on Florida’s Emerald Coast, it’s crucial to consider the cost of money, influenced by mortgage rates and Treasury Bills...
We are living in peculiar times. With the ongoing war in Ukraine, the turmoil in the Middle East, and the potential developments in Taiwan with China, there is a lot happening on the global stage. Geopolitics, oil, and political instability all appear to be working...
Scarcity and Urgency are the secret sauce to our real estate market. Remember when buyers would jump on a property as soon as it came on the market? They would even get in line to outbid other buyers for it, getting angry or sad or elated based on the outcome of their...