From HousingWire:
NAR: Home prices are up in 83% of metros
Home prices rose in more than 80% of U.S. metro areas in the first quarter of 2025 — even as affordability remained stretched and fewer markets posted double-digit gains.
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 189 of 228 metro areas (83%) saw year-over-year increases in the median price for existing single-family homes. That’s a slight decline from 89% in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The national median price rose 3.4% from a year earlier to $402,300. In contrast, the previous quarter saw a 4.8% annualized increase.
“Most metro markets continue to set new record highs for home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. “In the first quarter, the Northeast performed best in both sales and price gains by percentage.”
The Northeast saw the strongest yearly price growth among U.S. regions at 10.3%, followed by the Midwest (+5.2%), West (+4.1%) and South (+1.3%).
Despite accounting for nearly 45% of the nation’s existing-home sales, the South lagged in price growth and saw sales decline.
Among all metro areas tracked, 11% recorded double-digit price increases, down from 14% in the previous quarter. And in the largest metro areas, the biggest annualized gains occurred in Syracuse, New York (+17.9%); Montgomery, Alabama (+16.1%); and Youngstown, Ohio (+13.6%).
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Frist
Catskill house p0rn:
https://www.trulia.com/home/137-kennedy-ln-east-durham-ny-12423-66477809
Dark Phoenix beat me by 1.72 seconds.
Not usually a fan of log cabins, but damn that’s a nice place.
“The Northeast saw the strongest yearly price growth among U.S. regions at 10.3%, followed by the Midwest (+5.2%), West (+4.1%) and South (+1.3%).”
Liberal, progressive areas 10.3%
maga, republican areas 1.3%
yep, sounds about right
Eddie, I’m doing the Lord’s work, exposing the Heathens of America one at a time.
Well, TBH sometimes I do it in batches.
As Gomer Pyle would say, ” Surprise, surprise surprise.”
Pope Leo XIV ‘looked the other way’ when confronted with child sex abuse allegations against priest in his Chicago church
The newly-elected Pope Leo XIV is facing accusations of ‘looking the other way’ when confronted with child sex abuse allegations against a priests in his Chicago and South American churches, it has emerged.
Robert Prevost, who became the first North American pontiff on Thursday, was accused by a survivors’ group of failing to act upon allegations of abuse in the U.S. and in Peru – concerns they relayed to the cardinals who selected him.
‘Staying silent is a sin. It’s not what God wants us to do. Jesus wants us to stop these things, not make a heathy garden for sexual abuse to grow,’ Lopez de Casas, a victim of clergy abuse and national vice president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
grim says:
May 9, 2025 at 7:40 am
Not usually a fan of log cabins, but damn that’s a nice place.
It’s two million dollars.
Not built by Davy Crockett
All the vanity. Spends more time doing makeup, and no time eating breakfast or having a sip of water.
Fox host goes into a boot loop, and just like the robot in Lost in Space, locks out and keeps saying does not compute.
Soon they will be calling him a misogynist instead of what he is, a human lacking any sort of common sense, and programmed like a BIOS chip that only knows one function, to be a company man even as this broad is laying on the floor.
Oh, and she is fine. Just fainted like one of those goats. Maybe she is part goat? Perhaps do a DNA test for goat genes?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14694515/Camryn-Kinsey-faints-Fox-News.html
This doesn’t smell right. The rich aren’t going to pay more taxes, unless it is a really minimal amount, like a penny or two.
Do that, and Trump can say, truthfully, that he raised taxes on the rich.
President Donald Trump instructed congressional Republicans this week to raise taxes on the wealthiest earners as part of his “big, beautiful bill,” rattling his party’s brittle consensus on economic issues and muddling the GOP’s path toward enacting his campaign promises.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said he had no problem with raising taxes on the richest taxpayers. But he acknowledged that most Senate Republicans do not feel the same way.
“Zero, probably,” Hawley said when asked how many other GOP senators supported Trump’s proposal. “Maybe one or two.”
Fast Eddie says:
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 am
Dark Phoenix beat me by 1.72 seconds.
Eddie, you are late.
But you know the ol’ saying, better late than pregnant.
Hehe.
Dark 8:18am.
Of course it does not smell right. Article a few weeks ago was mentioning that OrangeTurd business world support was based on tax cuts, writer estimates that if no corporate tax cuts then no support for MAGA agenda.
Differentiate on who gets Tax Cuts. What matter to the 1% and a bit less to the top 10% is having the lowest corporate and capital gains tax rate possible and keeping the Qualified Business Income 20% pass thru deduction with the Wall Street/Private Equity crowd wanting the carried interest credit, where they pay taxes on earning based on capital gains.
What OrangeTurd is proposing is taxing W2 workers over 250k a yr. He’s going for the upper middle class employed professionals to make up the tax revenue to make up the revenue loss from continuing and expanding the 2017 tax cuts that heavily benefited business owners instead of workers.
What you are going see is tax increases in consumption like Tariff which are a sales tax equivalent but you can’t tell percentage the amount in the receipt like you can tell the NJ sales tax. That is why the noise about Amazon putting tariff cost next to products. You also going to see tax on income by W2 employees.
What you are NOT going to see is higher capital gains tax or expansion of Medicare/Social Security tax into capital gains. Higher corporate taxes of any kind. Ending the pass through deduction or carried interest credit.
Wood and stone are p0rn to my eyes. If I had silly money, I’d indulge in a getaway as such.
8:04 – always put fresh batteries before you turn the spin machine on.
Where did this money go?
https://www.faa.gov/iija
That’s gonna be in Anchorman IV
I had steak and pumpkin pie for breakfast.
Baseball is a nationalist project
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/few-black-americans-play-baseball-mlb-doesn-t-seem-to-care?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
This pension fund doesn’t own Tesla stock directly but less than 1% through an index fund and this fi-douche-iary, virtue-signaling muppet believes he’s doing the right thing for pension holders. No, you’re a resentful b1tch that’s throwing a temper tantrum because your side suffered so many losses, they’re now extinct.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-pension-fund-voted-block-090700533.html
re: Log Cabin Kennedy Lane East Durham.
LOL The “Irish Alps”
That was our vacation destination every summer as kids. My parents would load up the car and we would head up from the Bronx for a week of mosquitos and sunburn….Good times!!!
Place has been in a decline for a long time. My elderly aunt still goes for the Irish Music up there on the weekends. Her summer home is nearby.
Big Paddy festival coming up there Memorial Day weekend.
https://mjqirishcentre.com/activities/east-durham-irish-festival/
He is just trolling folks..
“Trump Seeks Tax Hike on Wealthy Earning $2.5 Million or More”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/trump-seeks-tax-hike-on-wealthy-who-earn-2-5-million-or-more
Trump gets another pick.
RIP David Souter
Pick for what? Another AG Box Wine?
Souter retired 15 years ago.
Oops my bad brain fart…..they showed a pic of the court in the news.
Tesla at $306, up $20 per share.
Does Tampon Tim still have his app?
Juice,
The Irish Alps? Lol. Learn sumptin’ new all the time.
I want a mountain retreat. I have friends I grew up with dying every fucking month. I have a hankering to just spend it all.
When Musk says free speech is getting curtailed on X no less, you know it’s an issue! Modi asks X to deactivate 8,000 twitter accounts without any reaon (other than politics).
https://www.businessinsider.com/x-india-block-accounts-censorship-elon-musk-pakistan-narendra-modi-2025-5
at least he retired….
Boomer is expensive to maintain, like a BMW that has high miles and isn’t simple like the BMW of the past.
Even with DOGE cuts, the U.S. has spent $166 billion more than last year
Defense and immigration spending and continued strain on Social Security and Medicare have added $196 billion to the deficit in the fiscal year so far.
Buy stock in caskets, toumbstones, ammunition, and guns.
Smoke, vape, drink, don’t take vaccines. Run like a rat on the Musk treadmill. Go fight in a foregn war, or if not pay for one while running on your money treadmill at home. Oh and support other wealthy countries with your tax dollars instead of your own healthcare or roads. Or education for your kids, Mike Rowe will teach your kids those upcoming factory jobs.
The sooner y’all die, the less stress on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Signed, both Rich Democraps and Rich Repukes. United we stand, divided you fall.
Hehe.
Uproar over surgeon general pick exposes MAHA factions among RFK Jr. allies
Casey Means, a prominent nutrition advocate in the Make America Healthy Again movement, has been described as insufficiently critical of vaccines.
Man had two brains, only enough blood supply for one. One on top probably has dementia from all the years of cholestrol flowing in those vessels now deposited in his crainium.
Full blood supply, no longer needed upstairs, now flows into head #2. That one only thinks one thing, allowing her to lead him around like a puppy on a leash.
It’s cute.
Sears died. Died Hard. Same with BellyChick.
Hehe.
Jordon Hudson has been banned from the football facilities at the University of North Carolina amid her controversial relationship with Bill Belichick, according to reports.
Belichick and Hudson – who is 49-years-younger than the NFL great at 24 – saw their romance ruthlessly propelled back into the spotlight last week when footage emerged of her interrupting his CBS interview when he was asked how they met.
It also emerged on Thursday night that Hudson’s control over her 73-year-old partner could be starting to wane after he appeared without her at a New York book event this week.
Air is thin up there. Not good for fat. Same with climbing.
Mabye dope your blood before doing any high altitude sports.
Do you own an oxygen tank?
Fast Eddie says:
May 9, 2025 at 10:21 am
Juice,
The Irish Alps? Lol. Learn sumptin’ new all the time.
I want a mountain retreat. I have friends I grew up with dying every fucking month. I have a hankering to just spend it all.
Oops sorry.
You are just Fast Eddie now.
Guess the diet worked. Good for you.
Green light proceed forward. Enjoy cabin, bears, skunks and wolves.
Phoenix your diarrhea of the mouth is a treatable condition but I’m afraid your agitated weeping like pie hole will have to be shut permanently. For the greater good.
The objective all along on Liberation Day was to hike tariffs in order to lower tariffs
Another communications and radar outage today at the Philadelphia Airport TRACON that covers Newark.
This is Trump. What is your “definition” of earn?
Juice Box says:
May 9, 2025 at 9:58 am
He is just trolling folks..
“Trump Seeks Tax Hike on Wealthy Earning $2.5 Million or More”
I try to look at the glass half full.
At least we didn’t get orange smoke from the conclave.
Had my WTC annual physical this week. I suspect it’s mostly useless. They take a few chest x-rays (probably the only useful part to check for nodules and tumors) listen to heart and lungs, and do bloodwork. But the bloodwork does no screening for cancers. What’s the point? Other than the chest x ray I can get that at my regular annual physical. They also do a non fasting cholesterol check. I guess I shouldn’t have had a bacon egg and cheese for breakfast that morning.
NorCal:
Check this from my back yard. Phenominal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4sqvXcQu8&pp=ygURYnVyZGVuIGluIG15IGhhbmQ%3D
Oh yeah. Very very nice.
I was in the mud pit in front of the stage at the first Lollapalooza and Cornell came out swept his head of massive curls and picked up the mic from the stage floor. The band hit it hard. Those were some very good days.
he also played temple of the dog’s Wooden Jesus in that set I believe. Amazing song.
Did someone say hair flip?
https://youtube.com/shorts/ojAVLfUxBAw?si=WlbfB8wouPiU9nFX
Pumpkin were you taking about gold again today?
Thanks and keep up the good work!
May 9 (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont, granted bail to Rumeysa Ozturk, who is at the center of one of the highest-profile cases to emerge from Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign to deport pro-Palestinian activists on American campuses.
The judge said Ozturk had raised a substantial claim that the sole reason she was being detained was “simply and purely the expression that she made or shared in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights.”
“Her continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who are not citizens,” Sessions said. “Any one of them may now avoid exercising their First Amendment rights for fear of being whisked away to a detention center.”
Following the hearing, Ozturk, who appeared before the judge virtually from the Louisiana detention facility, could be seen hugging one of her attorneys. Tufts has said it plans to help provide Ozturk housing upon her release.
What a massive bubble they built in gold. God bless anyone holding gold when they need to liquidate. It’s what commies are good at….trying to control a situation, only to have it blow up in their face. I want no part of gold after they have driven it up this high.
“China keeps stocking up on gold:
China’s central bank increased its gold holdings by ~70,000 troy ounces in April, to a record 73.8 million.
This marks China’s 6th consecutive monthly purchase.
During this time, China’s gold holdings have risen by ~1 million ounces, or ~30 tonnes.
Since 2022, total gold reserves held by the People’s Bank of China have surged by ~11 million ounces.
As a result, gold now reflects a record 8% of China’s total currency reserves.
China’s rush for gold continues.”
Juice,
Buy it up, I dare ya! It’s not a safe asset when one country is pretty much responsible for driving it up. Everyone that followed is eventually going to get killed. I don’t make the rules.
re: “when one country is pretty much responsible for driving it up”
I agree….it is one country.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN
Right now, America should be selling their gold reserves. Right now….sell that chit. That’s how you outsmart china right now.
Juice,
I expect better from you. Right now, America should sell gold and buy bitcoin with it. Now that’s how you win this trade war. Get some allies to dump theirs too….and really stick it to china.
They’re likely selling treasuries and can’t convert to yuan without raising their currency’s value, making exports pricier. They’ve opposed bitcoin, so gold is their only option.
Great time for the U.S. to sell gold for BTC.
Pumps – Don’t be the greater fool. There are on the high end about 500,000 unique users worldwide either sending or receiving Bitcoin per day.
That is only 0.0000625% of the worlds population.
Bitcoin is going nowhere. It’s a hobbyists game a collectable like beanie babies or Sports Trading Cards.
It will never be generally accepted as a medium of exchange aka MONEY!!
King Trump wants to suspend habeas corpus…..
I guess if he is going to follow President Abe Lincoln lead they will start military tribunals next.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he was protesting its opening, a federal prosecutor said.
Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka committed trespass and ignored warnings from Homeland Security personnel to leave Delaney Hall, a detention facility run by private prison operator GEO Group.
The mayor has been protesting the opening of the facility throughout this week, saying its operators did not get proper permits.
Widener’s Finest:
https://www.reddit.com/r/womenoftheright/comments/1e9gs80/alina_habba/?rdt=47582
Why would you sell gold and buy Bitcoin? You could print dollars and buy Bitcoin instead. Btw that good in fort Knox was supposed to belong to the people.
Where is the Ras Baraka GoFundMe site?
Let’s get him a decent upgraded crib…….
BRT – All the gold in Fort Knox at todays value will only cover about 70 days worth of our current money printing. What then? What can we sell next? How about sell Hawaii to Japan?
My buddy who I respect a lot is really into bitcoin right now.
He likes this ETF called iBit owned by Blackrock for lower risk and a riskier MSTY that delivers a monthly dividend.
Lorax! says:
May 9, 2025 at 1:43 pm
Oh yeah. Very very nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk
wouldn’t have needed any of that if United States would’ve stopped meddling in the Middle East. Sorry you have to go through this because of your politicians.
Hold my beer says:
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Had my WTC annual physical this week.
Lorax says:
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 pm
My buddy who I respect a lot is really into bitcoin right now.
The question is, does your buddy know that you are into drawing ascii dicks and your fixation with them?
5:48 everything I do I do for the good of a nation.
And now: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJbIgi_OCgi/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Dark – Not just ASCII art he 3D Prints them too for the good of the nation.
For those who observe:
https://youtu.be/i2GEOcEcRtY?si=Y2PEekDh9BaDkmNQ
can you blame them?
Psychology Today
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My brother made the same argument. Are you crazy? Sell gold for digital nonsense.
You guys just don’t understand markets to make a boss move like that. USA would be selling the top…they would be guaranteeing a bubble pop. They could even buy back in lower if they don’t want to buy BTC(which is the smart move). But the real play is sell gold yesterday and buy BTC yesterday….ride the btc wave up…pay off debt and eventually buy back gold position.
They won’t do it…why? No balls. They know this will force china into a physical war. This move will absolutely bury china ….they have been buying gold at a high price…you cause that market to crash, and they are crippled financially on the world market….holding a basket of gold no one wants.
Saylor cornered this market by creating his own market. What he has done with msty is nothing short of genius….yes, borderline insane to the avg individual. He has the biggest investor in the world supporting it…enough said. Go against blackrock at your own peril.
Bottom line; in simple text that a middle schooler could understand: he was first to realize it out of the whales, and took full f’ing advantage. Leveraging anything he could and created his own digital backed securities market outside of any govt control.
Lorax says:
May 9, 2025 at 4:36 pm
He likes this ETF called iBit owned by Blackrock for lower risk and a riskier MSTY that delivers a monthly dividend.
God willing….It’s a really tough game, but I hope I am one of the few that really kill it with crypto. I don’t want to jinx myself, because luck matters in anything. But being humble, i have been trading this crypto cycle hard since 2023z. So far, so good, but i understand this environment can take away as fast as it gives. It goes both ways. Up to you to have the discipline, experience, and emotional control to be the few that win big in this rat race.
Just remember…you are battling all types of crazy chit….from trading bots to algorithmsto cheating market makers (they know your hand) to genius traders to beating yourself….battling so many competitors, which is why few traders win.
My approach to beat these f’ers….patience. You can’t beat them in the extreme short term. You can only beat them on the longer trend lines buying low and selling high on the trend lines. You can’t even use moving avgs because everyone is using that. Have to be different in your approach. Best approach patience…because very few are playing that…hence, lowering your competition, increasing your odds.
Your welcome….do you know how long and how many mistakes it took for me to learn this. Giving it for free. Hopefully, you make money, and karma comes back to me. If not, still did a nice thing and hopefully helped you out.
And a team from Canada is winning it all….first time in a long time. It’s time.