01/27/2026
POV: You’ve been “waiting for the right time” since 2022. Meanwhile, real life kept moving.
These numbers came straight from a 2-day training in Fort Lauderdale last week, sitting with industry experts, swapping notes, and getting the latest market read:
POV: You’ve been “waiting for the right time” since 2022. Meanwhile, real life kept moving.
These numbers came straight from a 2-day training in Fort Lauderdale last week, sitting with industry experts, swapping notes, and getting the latest market read:
Home prices: +1.4% (yep, still climbing) (1)
Your paycheck: +3.8% (surprise, you’re not losing like you think) (2)
Inflation: +2.6% (your grocery bill still has attitude) (3)
Inventory: +16% (look at that, homes exist) (4)
Mortgage rates: still higher than your confidence on a Monday morning (I get it)
And here’s the part nobody wants to admit: You’ve had 30 straight months of home price increases (5).
That’s longer than:
your last situationship
your New Year’s goals
your sourdough era
Your rent just went up again. But yeah, keep waiting on that “crash” while you budget ramen in a studio (6).
Or DM “STRATEGY” and let’s talk about what buyers in 2026 are doing, the ones who stopped waiting and started moving.
Sources Cited: (1) National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) – Year-over-year Existing-Home Sales Price Data (Dec 2025). (2) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – Average Hourly Earnings Report (Dec 2025). (3) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – Core Consumer Price Index (Dec 2025). (4) National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) – National Housing Inventory Analysis (Jan 2026). (5) National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) – Historical Median Sales Price Trends. (6) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – Consumer Price Index, Shelter and Rent of Primary Residence Data (Dec 2025).
