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For those still yearning to live near me so we can hang out at Philz and share dismay at the state of the world, another home has come on the market a block from my house, and it’ll be an enormous time-saver with respect to household cleaning duties.
Decades ago, houses were much smaller than they are today. Centuries ago, they were smaller still. You can see this relationship between size and age reflected both in the various states (Utah homes are, on average, much newer than those in New York state) and countries (U.S. homes are newer than those in England). Check out the wild spread in average house sizes:
I am always amazed how just plain WRONG the Redin real estate estimates are. It is consistently 50% of the value of my own home, and I was reminded of this when I saw this recent headline.
As I’ve been mentioning, the bond bear market has fully resumed, and TLT has been range-bound. After the big bounce last week, I pointed out the blue trendline as resistance. We have sunk since then, pushing rates higher.
