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Morris: OpenAI and Anthropic Have Both Filed to Go Public
“OpenAI and Anthropic have both filed to go public next.”
Morris: Seat-based SaaS business model is broken by agentic AI
“This is a business model that's worked for 20 years, and the market is looking at this and saying the business model is broken, and it's broken by Open Claw in combination with AI and what Open Claw can do with AI.”
Morris: Institutional caps will thin competition for small single-family buyers
“With the new housing law pushing the mega funds out of single family buying, the small operators competition is about to thin out.”
Morris: The US Housing Market Will Not Crash in 2026
“Will the housing market crash in 2026? Short answer, no. The data says the opposite, and this week proved it.”
Morris: Fed Minutes Show Majority Open to Raising Rates
“The May meeting minutes revealed that the majority of Fed officials now see the possibility of raising rates if the war continues and if inflation persists as a result of it.”
Morris: SpaceX Lost Over $4B in the Previous Quarter
“SpaceX lost over four billion dollars last quarter.”
Morris: SpaceX Is Raising Capital to Build AI Data Centers
“SpaceX is raising this money partly to build AI data centers and infrastructure.”
Morris: Secondary residential markets will outperform primary markets over 10 years
“So, secondary markets will outperform primary markets in residential real estate over the next 10 years.”
Paul Morris: Real Estate Information Asymmetry Is Legal Insider Trading
“In real estate insider trading is legal. Insider trading, meaning not doing anything to break a fiduciary duty, but insider trading, meaning I can learn more about the property than the market knows about the property. So therefore I have unfair information an…”
Morris: US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran, killing supreme leader
“February 28th, more than three weeks ago, the U.S. And Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. Operation Epic Fury. That's the actual US term for it. And they killed Iran's supreme leader and dozens of their senior military officials.”
Morris: The next 24 months are the decade's best real estate opportunity
“So, to say it plainly, I believe the next 18 to 24 months represent one of the best real estate buying windows we will see in this entire decade.”
Morris: ARM resets will trigger big discounts on distressed real estate
“The distressed assets are distressed because people bought them at a much lower interest rate. When that interest rate adjusts, it's going to become a, it's, when those interest rates adjust, the mortgages are going to go up to a rate that people cannot afford…”
Morris: Institutional Investors Own Over 25% of Atlanta Housing Stock
“All you have to do is look at certain concentrated areas, and you look at a place like Atlanta, where more than 25% of the housing stock is owned by large institutional investors.”
Morris: $1T of Maturing Commercial Debt in 2026 Creates Massive Investment Opportunities
“20, 26, one trillion dollars worth of debt is going to mature. One hundred and twenty billion of that was taking it. Yeah. And then, and that's going to create real problems and it's going to create amazing opportunities.”
Morris: Knowledge Boosts Real Estate Returns to 60-70% But Degrades Stock Returns
“However, a bit of knowledge In, in real estate or just aligning with somebody who has a lot of knowledge in real estate moves you from four and a half percent to conservatively, 60% or 70%. And that even a lot of knowledge moves you essentially from 10% backwa…”
Morris: Buyers who refuse to pay full agent commissions get worse deals
“If I'm not paying full commission, I'm not getting a good deal. Period. Full stop.”
Morris claims no losses across 25 years of real estate investing
“Having invested for more than 25 years and having never lost money in a real estate deal sounds absolutely incredible.”
Morris: Property buyers with resetting adjustable loans will get crushed in 2025
“People are in 20, 25 are going to get crushed. Here's why. They bought retail five years ago. Lots of properties. They may be on a 30 year payment plan, but the interest rate could adjust at five years or seven years. Yeah. As those come up, now interest rates…”
Morris: Buying in already-regulated rental markets offers certainty and supply-cap upside
“I would also argue that, that, that using that rule which is to go where it's all right, already regulated
Gives you more certainty rather than less certainty, and that's important.
And then also in that example, let's just say that they were allowing 10,000 h…”
Morris: The Fed Will Not Cut Interest Rates in Near Future
“The Fed is not going to rescue your deal with a rate cut in the near future”
Morris: Current economic indicators do not point to a market crash
“So these risks are real and they deserve to be taken seriously, but they are not, in my opinion, pointing to a real estate Or total market crash.”
Morris: Fed debate centers on rate hikes rather than cuts
“This week, the Federal Reserve meets, and for the first time in years, the live debate is not whether there's going to be a rate cut, but rather whether there's going to be a rate hike.”
Morris: Homeowner Equity Prevents Foreclosures and Real Estate Crashes
“People with equity don't get foreclosed on. They sell and they cash a check. No forced sellers. No flood of inventory. No crash.”
Morris: US Housing Market Will Not Crash in 2026
“Is
The housing market actually going to crash in 2026, and based off the latest data, the answer is no.”
Morris: High housing prices stem from undersupply, not greed
“Prices aren't high because of greed. They're high because we never built enough houses to accommodate the growth. That's the whole story.”
Morris: Proposed housing bill caps institutional buyers at 350 homes
“The actual truth of it is large institutional investors, the Wall Street players who already own 350 or more single-family homes would be barred from buying more single-family homes. So if they had a thousand Doesn't say you have to sell down to three 50. It j…”
Morris: Institutional homebuyer ban will not crater US housing prices
“So don't expect this law to crater prices. It's not going to.”
Morris: US Lacks Forced Sellers and Excess Supply Needed for Crash
“In order for there to be a crash, you have to have four sellers and a flood of supply. Right now, we have neither.”
Morris: SpaceX IPO Raised $75B at a $2.2 Trillion Valuation
“SpaceX recently went public on the NASDAQ. With the ticker SPCX in the largest IPO in the history of the stock market. It was, the IPO was priced at a dollar 35, but the markets opened at a dollar 50 and closed at just over a dollar 60. That's almost 20% rise …”
Morris: Capital leaving SaaS will rotate into hard assets and real estate
“Huge shift in the way internet and online investing is taking place, and really that shift, a lot of it, I believe, will go to hard assets, and that definitely includes real estate.”
Morris: Salesforce lost $158B in market valuation by March 2026
“Salesforce, which was 16 months ago worth three hundred and thirty seven billion dollars. Today in March 2026 is worth a hundred and seventy nine billion dollars. That's a hundred and fifty eight billion dollars worth of value erased.”
Morris: AI job creation is concentrating in secondary metropolitan markets
“AI related job creation, concentrating in secondary Metros, not just San Francisco, LA, New York City.”
Morris: Real estate opportunity is best since 2011
“The real estate opportunity right now is as good as it's been since 20 11.”
Paul Morris: DeepSeek Replicated OpenAI's AI for Just $26 Million
“Open AI took so many years and billions of dollars to create this and then deep seek, you know, yeah. Oh, we see how you did it, and you know, twenty six million dollars, six months later, you've got something not as good, but, you know, and so on and so on.”
Morris: Persian Gulf oil production is down at least 10M barrels daily
“All combined Gulf oil production is down at least ten million barrels per day as of mid-March.”
Morris: Data center rents are up 50% since 2022
“Data centers, rents are up 50% since 2022. No other real estate sector is anywhere close.”
Morris avoids office real estate, citing 83% delinquency on matured loans
“83% of office loans that matured are showing delinquencies, and I'm not touching office space for that reason.”
Morris: Remote work is permanent and office occupancy will not recover
“The remote work shift is permanent. The occupancy story doesn't recover.”
Morris Names Knoxville, Tulsa, and Savannah as Top 2026 Real Estate Markets
“So it's using all of those factors that I examined very closely in order to come up with three cities. And those three cities are Knoxville, Tennessee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Savannah, Georgia.”
Morris Plans to Invest in Los Angeles in 2026 Despite Low Yields
“When I invest dollars in 2026, I personally will not be investing in the three cities that I mentioned. I will be investing in Los Angeles”
Morris: Long-Distance Absentee Landlording Is a Recipe for Disaster
“Being an absentee landlord, Trying to control a property across the country, pretty much a recipe for disaster. I haven't seen that work out well in the long run for lots of people.”
Morris: 98% of prostate cancer cases are indolent and non-lethal
“98% of prostate cancer is what is referred to as indolent, which means it essentially will not kill you.”
Morris: Corporate ownership above 10% distorts local housing markets
“At what point? I can't tell you exactly what point that's going to flip, but you know, definitely somewhere in the 10% range is already going to have, start to have an impact more than 10%. Ownership by major corporations is going to have, is going to start to…”
Morris: Regulators must cap institutional ownership at 5% locally
“I do think once you're in neighborhoods and areas where you're in excess of five percent of institutional investors coming in, it is time to pump the brakes in those particular areas.”
Morris: US Lacks Broad Guardrails Against Foreign Real Estate Ownership
“The narrow restrictions are only around military bases where, where it could be potentially sensitive for national security, but there is no ban and no regulation in terms of keeping Americans wealth in real estate in America and keeping the ownership of real …”
Morris: Value-add investing is the only way to achieve cash flow today
“The only way in these markets that you can get something to cash flow is you have to buy something that has at least a simple value add.”