Texas has no shortage of castles for sale weirdly. Take this one in Southlake, TX Current asking price of $6,895,000 7 beds, 12 baths, 13,922 square feet And then another Texas castle

In this weeks edition of Castles for sale, check out this monster of a property listed at $10m in Red Bank, New Jersey 15,025 square feet with 20 acres. Have a hard time believing this is a 3 bed 4 bath unit. Now for Texas...

If you are a seller in Portland - be smart. You need to price the move in now to clear earlier. Think about it, you can cut down when everyone else does - no alpha. You can make the cut ahead of the next wave, you stand out, you get a window. Buyers - you don't have to pay sticker price. Track Portland realtime:

Supply bumps typically have a finite period of stabilization in price cutting activity - Portland just added 25% additional inventory in a thin buyers market heading into the rainy season. I anticipate a sharp move up on seller cutting - more supply, off season, thin buyers

Portland has added an additional 25% of inventory since August. This is unusual - the housing season typically slows down in the Fall. PNW weather is finicky - it's perfect during the summer and then shifts sharply to rainy and depressing for the remaining 9 months. We are heading into the rainy season.

The peaks of the annual housing cycles have been $320 in 2022, $305 in 2023, $310 in 2024, $310 in 2025, $305 in 2026 However, this year, the seller signals are starting to pop which could precipitate a sharp move down

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