How to Pick Your Real Estate Market?
Tuesday, March 04
Welcome to my Skeptical Blog right here on BP! A frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.Today?Growth vs Cash Flow. Let's fight it out!Today’s Read Time: 10 minutesThe Weekly 3 in News: - Housing Will ‘Unfreeze’ in Weeks a...
The Market Lives in the Future
Tuesday, February 25
Welcome to my weekly BP Post! The Skeptical Investor, which I hope we all are :)A frank, hopefully insightful, article from one investor to another. Today, we’re talkin’ markets, and where they go from here. Is inflation at risk of reigniting or is the long-term downward trend still intact? Will ...
Fannie and Freddie: Is it time to end Government Control?
Tuesday, February 18
Welcome to my weekly BP Post! Today, we’re talkin’ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants still under government conservatorship 17 years later. In the coming months, they may be released from their government overlords. There are a lot of thorny issues associated with this transition ba...
Inflation is Taxation Without Legislation
Wednesday, February 12
Welcome to my weekly BP Blog. This week...The Administration is moving rapidly to cut spending, but will it matter?The Weekly 3 in News: 1- First-time homebuyers today average 38 years old, which means they are as close to getting their first Social Security check as to when they graduated high ...
DOGE Spending Cuts May Mean 5% Mortgage Rates
Tuesday, February 04
Welcome to the Skeptical Investor blog right here on BP! A frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.Today’s Read Time: 15 minutes (totally worth it!) The Weekly 3 in News: - “We seem to be set up for further progress" on i...
Inflation is a Feature, Not a Bug
Tuesday, January 28
Welcome BP compatriots to my weekly post. Today we’re talkin’ rents, prices, inflation and seismic shift 👇 in housing units in 2025. Housing supply is about to fall off a cliff. Let’s get into it.Today’s Read Time: 15 minutes.Today’s Interest Rate: 7.07% (👇.01%, from this time last week, 30-yr ...