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How will you always know that this Commentary is not produced by some AI thingy? Because of mistakes like yesterday, leaving Illinois off the list of top pumpkin growing states as several folks pointed out (thank you). Here are pumpkin stats out the proverbial wazoo. What autumn would be complete without this map of when fall foliage is peaking across the nation? While we’re on maps, the U.S. Census Bureau released an interactive map illustrating 2020 Census data about homeownership by the age, race, and ethnicity of the householder. The map provides data at the national, state and coun...

Seen on someone’s laptop here in Phoenix: “If Pete Davidson can date a Kardashian, you can be a homeowner.” From a business viewpoint, if you think mortgages are bad, try NFTs. I don’t know what I was thinking, sinking my entire 401(k) into that sector a few years ago. My collection of fake, imaginary art is now worthless!? It’s good to keep things in perspective. If you think rates in the U.S. are too high, try being a lender in Pakistan (22 percent) or Turkey (benchmark rate at 25 percent.) Although buyers in the U.S. don’t have to contend with rates...

“I’m not a fan of elevator music. It’s bad on so many levels.” Whether or not you think that the environment and value of owning stock in lenders and vendors has been “bad” over the last year or two, it certainly has been dicey. If you want to “be long” lenders or other mortgage-related companies, you could put some of your hard-earned savings into RKT, ICE, GHLD, UWMC, HMPT, LDI, PMT, FOA, or COOP. Now you’ll have a new vehicle: BETR. Yes, Better.com is going public, in what many would term a “challenging” environmen...

Does your company have a decent product for a borrower who crowd-funded their down payment? How about a house with a granny unit in the back? Trends in lending and real estate, right? How about anyone who is buying a place to live in a converted office building or mall? I hope so, as that is certainly “a thing.” Obviously, it takes a different skill set. Speaking of which, here at the MBA’s conference in Manhattan someone was telling me, “Many companies have momentarily stopped reducing overhead and are prepared for an increase in volume: ‘re-flate.’&#...

Today I’m in Manhattan, having flown in to one of the nicer malls I’ve ever walked through, aka LaGuardia Airport. ($8 billion goes a long way.) No, I am not here to avoid the terrible tornadoes that have hit our nation, and I didn’t use Rocket’s new pro-home buying credit card to book the flight. No, I am not here regarding Donald Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, although he is expected to come to New York today and to be arraigned in criminal court tomorrow. I certainly didn’t come to spend $8 on a pack of Oreo cookies or $30 on pasta wi...