The MLS Isn’t Dead. But It Just Got Punched in the Face. For decades, the MLS has been the undisputed infrastructure of residential real estate. If you wanted a listing to be seen, you put it in the MLS. If you wanted to find listings as a buyer’s agent, you pulled from the MLS. The
The Signal – February 20, 2026 https://youtu.be/DBlNdXFMLJk The Fed’s January meeting minutes revealed something the headline didn’t mention — and it should change how you’re managing your pipeline heading into spring. Some members raised the possibility of rate hikes. Two voting members wanted to cut. The committee called its own forward path “genuinely uncertain.” That’s
Affordability Is at a Four-Year High. Why Aren’t Buyers Acting? The data released this week from NAR contains a number that should be generating a lot more conversation than it is. The Housing Affordability Index hit 116.5 in January — its highest reading since March 2022. For context, that index measures whether the median household
Nothing Broke This Week. The Market Has Been Broken for Three Years. The “new housing crisis” framing that came out of this week’s sales data is wrong. Not because the numbers are good. They’re not. January existing home sales dropped 8.4% to a 3.91M annualized rate, the slowest pace since December 2023. That’s a real
The “New Housing Crisis” Headline Is Real — Just Not For The Reason They’re Saying If you woke up this week and saw Lawrence Yun calling the housing market a “new housing crisis,” you weren’t wrong to pay attention. January existing home sales dropped 8.4% from December — the biggest monthly decline since February 2022,
