
A ‘Wall of Wind’ Up to 150 mph Puts Manufactured Home Standards to the Test
It was a house like any other. A gray, single-section prefab, secured to single-stack masonry blocks with steel straps and anchor ties. It could have been someone’s starter home, downsized home, or best shot at owning a place of their own. Then, scientists turned their fans up to 150 mph. The test,
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Is a new portal model coming for our listing inventory?
I’d like to share a New York expression because it’s very appropriate for this situation. “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, I should slap myself in the head.” I am watching colleagues I respect, smart people in this industry, telling agents to get on board with the new Google listing pilot.
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New Fed Chair Warsh loses dove as Waller turns hawkish
Today the Fed hawks killed the doves. On the day Kevin Warsh is sworn in as Fed Chairman, he has lost one of the few doves left on the Fed board: Governor Christopher Waller, whom I would have wanted as Fed chairman. Today, Waller gave a speech about how policy risk has changed and to me this seals
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We have met one enemy of housing affordability … it is us
America’s housing affordability debate has become one of those national arguments that sounds complete until you look at the product itself. The prevailing story holds that homes became unaffordable because prices outpaced incomes. That is true, but incomplete. The uncomfortable truth is that Americ
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