Real Estate Meets Insight: Turning Data Into Decisions – Rob Thompson, Realtor®, Iconic Colorado Properties, LLC
In a word, it’s unaffordable for many people. What you see here is the average monthly payment over the last 3 decades. Note the massive jump in 2020. That was the massive injection of funds into the economy. This is a bipartisan monetary policy. What we see here is the same payment trend mapped alongside […]
Predicting the short term direction of the market.
The real estate market in Colorado Springs has been a subject of interest for both investors and homebuyers. While many factors influence home prices, one less-discussed variable is the M2 money supply. M2 includes a broad spectrum of financial assets, such as cash, checking deposits, and easily convertible near money. Understanding the correlation between M2 […]
The relationships between variables that impact the market is fascinating to me (I am, admittedly, a bit of a data nerd). What you see here is the interplay between the M2 money supply, median pricing and the 30 year mortgage interest rates since 1996. TLDR; if you want to know where home prices are going, […]
What you see here is a scatterplot mapping the average monthly closed price of a home in the Colorado Springs region alongside the M2 money supply. What is the M2? The M2 is a measure of how much money is available for people to spend and invest in an economy. It includes all the physical […]