How’s The Current Real Estate Market? Depends!

How’s The Current Real Estate Market? Depends!

“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...
Will There Be A Retreat To Safety in 2024

Will There Be A Retreat To Safety in 2024

“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...
Watch out for what you can’t see coming.

Watch out for what you can’t see coming.

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...
A Question of Supply and Demand

A Question of Supply and Demand

It’s All About Supply and Demand The story of our real estate market always is about supply and demand. For real estate prices to drop, supply needs to go noticeably increase, and/or demand needs noticeably decrease. Does this make sense?  On the other hand, for...
The real estate market is performing a magic trick.

The real estate market is performing a magic trick.

Let’s not overthink the current real estate market here at the beach. The fact that prices haven’t dropped more and dropped further than they have so far is an absolute magic trick. Why do I say that?  Because almost every metric that matters is screaming for a price...
Timing… It’s a Thing!

Timing… It’s a Thing!

Is timing more important than location when it comes to real estate investing and making money? Everyone talks about location… location… location… when it comes to real estate, and that is true. But I would argue that what is even more important, or...