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Goldman Sachs Delays Projected Fed Rate Cut to 2027
“Goldman Sachs just pushed its forecast for the next cut all the way out from 2026 to 20 27.”
Morris: Hartford Housing Rose 22% Since 2022 While Austin Fell 28%
“Hartford, Connecticut is up 22% since twenty-twenty-two. You take the exact same time frame, And Austin, Texas is down 28%.”
Morris: OpenAI Hired the Creator of OpenClaw After a Bidding War
“And in fact, it created a bidding war for this particular gentleman who created it, who has now gone to open AI. So the creator, The former employee of Claude that created Claude bought separately has now been hired by OpenAI.”
Morris: $126B in multifamily loans mature in 2026, up 56% year-over-year
“Multi-family loan maturities jumped 56% in twenty-twenty-six versus twenty-twenty-five. A hundred and twenty-six billion in multi-family loans are maturing in twenty-twenty-six.”
Paul Morris Has Not Lost Money on Real Estate in 30 Years
“In 30 years of investing, I have not lost money on a single deal in, in real estate investing.”
Morris: US Struck Over 7,000 Targets in Iran
“The US has struck more than 7000 targets in Iran since it started.”
Morris: Brent crude hit $115 per barrel, highest since 2022
“Brent crude hit a 115 dollars
Per barrel this week.
That is the highest that it's been since 2022.”
Morris: Wall Street abandons 2026 rate cut hopes, starts whispering about hikes
“Before this war, markets were pricing in two rate cuts for 2026, and now Wall Street is pricing in zero cuts this year, and some are starting to whisper about rate hikes.”
Morris: Mortgage rates could hit 6.5% to 6.7% if conflict extends
“In 48 hours, mortgage rates jump back above six percent. They're now a fair amount higher than that and potentially heading as high as six and a half to 6.7% if the conflict extends.”
Morris: $1.5 trillion in commercial loans face mandatory refinancing by 2026
“Close to one trillion dollars in loans taken out at three to four percent interest rates, Are coming due right now. Combined with 2025, we're looking at one and a half trillion that are forced to have a refinancing event.”
Morris: Multifamily construction drought will cause shortage by 2027
“If you're a patient, disciplined buyer, that supply drought translates into a shortage by twenty-twenty-seven and continuing on.”
Morris: Knoxville Has One of the Highest US Inbound Migration Rates
“It is showing one of the largest migration rates in the United States for people coming in versus going out.”
Morris: Knoxville Properties Yield a 6% to 7% Cap Rate
“Somewhere between a six and seven percent cap rate when you do that math. If you do that math in terms of looking at vacancy and also all the other costs associated with owning property. So that's going to give you a six to seven percent cap rate.”
Morris: Tulsa Demand of Seven Renters Per Unit Will Drive Prices Up
“I read some statistics that there are approximately seven people looking for, looking to rent a particular, each particular unit. So seven people per rental unit available. That, that is the sort of demand that is going to push pricing up.”
Morris: Los Angeles Average Real Estate Cap Rate Is About 3%
“And again, when I do the statistical analysis, I'm finding a cap rate of about three percent on average for Los Angeles.”
Morris: $130B to $150B in Maturing 2026 Real Estate Debt Is Underwater
“There is a trillion dollars worth of debt that's going to mature in 2026. That's an average number. That's normal. However, a hundred and thirty billion to a hundred and fifty billion of that debt is totally upside down, and that is not average.”
Morris: Maturing Debt Will Force Commercial Property Owners to Sell in Distress
“Those folks are going to have to sell. They're not able to refinance in a new loan or keep the loan that they have that adjusts from three percent to, say, five and a half or six percent. It will totally wipe out their profits and turn that particular project …”
Morris: Real estate developers reject deals projecting under 50% returns
“Merce's clients would Not take a deal. Absolutely not. Unless they were looking at a projected 50% return. Now, you know, things happen and there's risk involved and that's why they're looking for a 50% return, but they do just as often a 60, 70, 80 as they do…”
Morris: Politicians likely won't get both strong economic growth and rate cuts
“Politicians from both sides of the aisle, they want the economy to do great, and they want rates to come down. They're likely not going to get both.”
Morris: 30-year mortgage rates will not see a major dip
“What this means is you can expect your 30 year mortgages to bounce roughly around where they are now. They may take a small reduction, but they're not going to take a major dip.”
Taylor: Only two manufacturers make every brand of skateboard
“If you look at a actual skateboard, there's only two manufacturers that make every single skateboard, but there's a hundred different brands.”
Taylor: Saint Archer Was California's Fastest-Growing Brewery Before MillerCoors Sale
“We were, I think, the fastest growing brewery in California, and then we ended up selling our business in Miller Coors.”
Taylor: Serving as Mayor of Thousand Oaks While Avoiding City Business
“And then now I don't do business in my city, but I'm the mayor of Thousand Oaks.”
Kuno: Americans Over 70 Take an Average of 20 Medications
“Interestingly in the U S here, when you're over the age of 70, you have about 20 medications.”
Dr. Jonas Kuno: Cryotherapy Effectively Treats Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
“Anti-inflammatory treatments, essentially for not just for athletes, but also for the general population for all sorts of things originally for rheumatoid arthritis. That's what it was developed for. Sports injuries, certainly, and any inflammatory disorder, a…”
Kuno: 95% of human melatonin is produced in mitochondria
“95% of melatonin is made in our mitochondria, and it's an anti-inflammatory.”
Morris: Curing prostate cancer would lower all-cause mortality by 1%
“Curing prostate cancer would lower all cause mortality by one percent.”
Morris: Invitation Homes and American Homes for Rent Own ~145k Homes Combined
“Invitation Homes owns Roughly about 85,000 homes and American homes for rent owns about 60,000, some say 61, 62,000 homes.”
Morris: Investors Owning 100+ Properties Control About 2% of US Housing Stock
“In real numbers, what we're looking at is investors that own a hundred homes or more control about two percent of the total housing stock. And that's according to CNBC that Quoted John Burns research.”
Morris: Institutional Investors Owning 1,000+ Properties Hold Under 0.5% of US Housing
“If you dial it down to a thousand homes, those are more institutional players and those institutional players hold Less than about a half a percent of the total stock of American houses.”
Fifield: Real estate will see more female developers taking loan risk
“In the future, we'll see more. You see Jeanie Gang. You see people, and she's also a really nice person, a very thoughtful person. You will see more women. You know, Jeanie's an architect, right? So she's not really signing the loan. She gets a lot of credit, …”
Kahlo: Experienced developers can borrow 100% of renovation costs with 10% down
“So a good developer, what they would do here, an experienced one, they will put down 10% of the purchase price, maybe 15, but at this, at these prices, they will let you get away with 10% of the purchase price, and you're borrowing a hundred percent of the ren…”
Muller: Amazon and Paramount Cut Hundreds of Marketing Employees Post-Strike
“They fired, Amazon fired 800 people, Paramount fired 700, all the marketing teams.”
Morris: Caruso will reopen Palisades Village in December
“Caruso is going to open the village back up in December.”
Morris: Safferis will get 30% more per square foot for Topanga house
“At the end of the day, you are going to get 30% more per square foot when you sell that house.”
Johnson: AirDNA estimates gross revenue by scraping blocked calendar dates
“What you have to know about how these tools estimate income is they're basically scraping
The prices from existing Airbnbs. And so let's say that you have an Airbnb with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday open, right? At 300 dollars a night. And then the next day the …”
Morris: Three-to-four bedroom Airbnbs are saturated in Joshua Tree
“Three to four bedrooms and Joshua tree are saturated.”
Stepp: Commercial sellers often reject full-price offers based on buyer reputation
“Many times I'll tell the seller this, the backstory of a buyer and sometimes they won't even count or even if it's at full price based on the personality and then the reputation of the person.”
Stepp: Over-Leveraged 2020-2022 Property Acquisitions Are Creating Distressed Deals
“Deals that were bought in 20 to 20, 20, 20, 22, they were over leveraged. Those are the opportunity because people are in distress situations now and that it's kind of like a feeding frenzy.”
Stepp: Active Real Estate Buyers Require Cash-on-Cash Returns in the 7% Range
“Most of the guys that are doing deals, I'm hearing it's the cash on cash return must be in the sevens. You know, to get their attention.”
Stepp: 20x Gross Multiplier Deals Are No Longer Happening
“There's no more 20 times gross deals happening. There's certainly not. I'm shocked. I'm shocked. How low even the most prime locations are going on the gross rent multiplier level, cap rate level.”
Stepp: Rent Growth Has Slowed in Prime Areas but Persists in B Locations
“The demand for affordable units, units in my business also remains very strong and rent growth has slowed very much so in the prime primaries, but not in the B locations.”
Stepp: Out-of-state multifamily costs $50,000 per unit versus $500,000 in coastal markets
“Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Phoenix, some Nevada. It's just opportunities are, you can buy a heck of a lot more for your dollar. You know, the cost per units are like 50,000 a unit versus 500,000 a unit.”
Stepp: Austin multifamily market became oversaturated, causing high vacancy
“Austin's a hip town that everybody was like, oh my god, you have to buy in Austin. And yes, it's cheaper than United, I mean, in Los Angeles, but it's, but it got oversaturated with too much product. And then you can't rent your units, you have high vacancies,…”