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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: 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.”
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: $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.”
David Bailey predicts California's economy will overtake Germany by 2026
“California next year will probably become the third largest economy, overtaking Germany.”
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: 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: 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: Institutional homebuyer ban will not crater US housing prices
“So don't expect this law to crater prices. It's not going to.”
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.”
Mike Lazerow: AI Will Eliminate Work Currently Outsourced Overseas
“So if you're sending work overseas, which you're not doing in real estate, chances are that AI is going to eliminate that.”
Mike Lazerow: Human Real Estate Broker Relationships Will Never Disappear
“The relationship, the trusted relationship between a broker and a buyer in this very emotional and seller, very emotional transaction, I don't think is ever going away.”
Morris: Remote work is permanent and office occupancy will not recover
“The remote work shift is permanent. The occupancy story doesn't recover.”
Morris: Professional developers will rebuild in Pacific Palisades in 18 months
“The pros are going to go in and they're going to build in 18 months easy.”
Sani: Government funding for Section 8 in California won't dry up
“The city, the state is going to continue to receive this funding from the government, if not from the local, but from the federal, they're always going back and forth with it. What are you going to do? So I don't see the money drying up necessarily.”
Go: Active co-development project will exit at $20 million
“The one that I'm actively working right now is going to have an exit of twenty million.”
Morris: Mortgage rates will not drop to 5.75% in the near future
“That's a lot of people betting their plans on a number that nobody controls, and it's one that I don't see coming in the very near future.”
Morris: Mortgage quotes will embed risk premiums until Strait of Hormuz settles
“And the bottom line is until the Strait of Hormuz is genuinely settled, That risk premium, the premium of this uncertainty will live inside every rate you're quoted.”
Morris: Fed Stance on Energy Spikes Will Dictate Near-Term Mortgage Rates
“Did the Fed treat the oil spike and gasoline cost spike as temporary or as a real threat? That answer will set the direction of mortgage rates for the near future.”
Morris: Mortgage rates will stay in the mid-sixes through summer 2026
“Build your numbers assuming rates stay in the mid-sixes
Through the summer.”
Morris: Fed will hold rates steady rather than cut soon
“Less inflation pressure means less reason for the fed to stay aggressive, which over time is friendly to mortgage rates. So It's, what's happening is that the inflationary pressure is not forcing the Fed to increase rates, but we're probably not at a point whe…”
Morris: Mortgage Rates to Stay Above 6.5% if Hormuz Conflict Continues
“If the deal for peace collapses and the Strait of Hormuz stays hot, rates are gonna stay stuck somewhere in the mid sixes or possibly get even higher.”
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: 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: 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: 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: 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.”
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, …”
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.”
Umbanhowar: AI Will Greatly Help Architectural Code Checks and Administration
“I think it'll help the administrative side of things a lot, code things, where we literally can stick a drawing, ask AI to look at it for code.”
Morris expects property in a great area to double over 15 years
“You would hope that in 15 years it would be worth, you know, it could, should be worth double in a great area, you know, 15 years later, I would think, right?”