The deals just keep on coming...

Noah Rosenblatt

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Forgetting about Real Estate - as a trader, what does it mean when you see prices receding on a high volume of trades?
Yeah, but this is a bit diff...stocks are liquid and realtime. Real estate sales are a rear view mirror look at what was signed into contract 4-6 months ago, so when the price discovery print arrives, it tells a story about a moment in time that passed. The return of liquidity is a beautiful to thing to see, the market doing what the market wants to do, when it wants to do it. Its normalizing after a year of chaos and buyers are more comfortable placing bids and signing deals. Transparency in the markets I think helped this realtime surge in demand, and I got a podcast out with Fred Peters later today where he identified this surge as "mostly locals" who are familiar with NYC, cycles, and seeing a deal when it presents itself.

Great topic though David
 

David Goldsmith

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Unless you have evidence that prices are rising, the annecdotes I'm hearing are like the accepted offer on an "it" building condo where the previous sale price was $1.65M and the deal done over the weekend was at $1M. That's not old info, that's now.
 

Noah Rosenblatt

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Anectdotal. The fastest info we can get is the report we do on list disc at time of contract signing, to sniff out the trends improving or not. But its a lag too. The evidence will come in, and I think it will be skewed to the downward side, as it represents a market 5-6 months ago and YoY analysis likely will show downward movement..but lets see. I also know that when you see liquidity go from zero to 100 in a 5+ month period, there will not be nearly as much of a dislocation or widening in the bid/ask spread
 

David Goldsmith

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