Something shifted this week. Not dramatically — but meaningfully.

Mortgage rates are holding at 6.00%, near a three-year low. The prediction market resolved: traders had placed a 98.5% probability on U.S. home values landing between $420,000 and $425,000 by March 1. Parcl Labs confirmed $420,940. The market called it again — across six cities.

In this episode:

The rental window is open earlier than most renters realize. National vacancy hit a record high, average lease-up time has doubled, and the data still favors tenants — but not indefinitely.

January's 8.4% sales drop was weather, not trend. February confirmed it: existing-home sales accelerated 4.2%. Five and a half million additional households now qualify at today's rates. Most are still waiting.

The supply contraction institutional investors have been betting on is now showing in the data. The window to get ahead of repricing is narrowing.

And it's Women's History Month. Until 1974, women couldn't get a mortgage without a male co-signer. We've been making our own opportunities ever since.

Remember: Everything in real estate is negotiable.

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