From Redfin:
The U.S. Housing Market Has 37% More Sellers Than Buyers—More Than Double Last Year’s Gap
There were an estimated 37.2% more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market in November (or 529,770 more, in numerical terms)—the largest gap in records dating back to 2013 aside from this summer. That’s up from 35.6% a month earlier and 17% a year earlier. The gap has been hovering above 35% since April.
We define a market where there are over 10% more sellers than buyers as a buyer’s market and a market where there are over 10% fewer sellers than buyers as a seller’s market. A market where the gap is plus or minus 10% is considered a balanced market. By this definition, it has been a buyer’s market since May 2024.
When sellers outnumber buyers, buyers typically hold the negotiating power because they have a lot of options to choose from. That’s why a market with a lot more sellers than buyers is considered a buyer’s market. Of course, it’s only a buyer’s market for those who can afford to buy—many Americans have been priced out of the housing market as affordability has eroded.
“A modest improvement in housing affordability could bring some homebuyers off the sidelines in 2026, which could narrow the gap between homebuyers and sellers,” said Redfin Senior Economist Asad Khan. “But the housing market is likely to remain in buyer’s market territory for the foreseeable future, with sellers cutting prices or offering concessions to lure buyers.”
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The number of homebuyers in the U.S. housing market dropped 2.5% month over month in November to an estimated 1.43 million. That’s the biggest monthly decline since April 2025 and the lowest level on record aside from April 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic brought the housing market to a halt. The number of buyers fell 9.4% year over year.
Sellers have also been retreating, but not as quickly. The number of sellers in the market fell 1.4% month over month to an estimated 1.95 million—the largest decline since June 2023 and the lowest level since February. The number of sellers rose 6.2% year over year.
Buyers are backing off due to high housing costs and economic uncertainty. Sellers, many of whom are buyers themselves, are backing off in response to lackluster demand for their homes. Some sellers are delisting after watching their homes sit on the market for months with zero bites from buyers, while others are choosing not to list at all after seeing their neighbor’s house sell for under the asking price.
Merry Christmas +1
“But the housing market is likely to remain in buyer’s market territory for the foreseeable future, with sellers cutting prices or offering concessions to lure buyers.”
Not in the NJ/NY/CT area. The rules are different here. Unless there’s crime scene tape surrounding the joint, name your price as a seller.
Gas – Currently $2.45 per gallon… $2.25 range in the Spring.
#1 non maga cult post.
Spirit cancelled our trip late yesterday, so rebooked by United. Surprisingly similar priced tickets – which I could not find when making the original booking. Spirit had no explanation whatsoever. Just cancelled. And no other available flights for the rest of the year.
Spirit? They are in Chapter 11 and are cutting routes.
Probably see them merge or go under in the next year or so.
RentLord,
Don’t forget to thank Mamdani economic advisor and anti-business activist Lina Khan for deciding it’s better for Spirit to go bankrupt than to allow them to merge with Frontier or JetBlue. As a true mastermind of economics, she knows what’s best for other people. This is how the left wants businesses to operate – flat on their back, and restrained by government.
By Airport 65 outbound Newark flights cancelled and 90 inbound.
18 for Spirit and 22 for Jet Blue.
https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/ewr
Man takes a woman in and her kids. Not long before she dictates everything.
She tells him he ain’t gonna watch a football game. He will do what she says.
Add some alcohol, and here we are. Work for all of the rest of us.
A Florida family was torn apart after an argument over watching a Monday Night Football game on TV spiraled into a deadly shooting.
A mom-of-three was fatally shot while her teenage daughter was critically wounded, and a 47-year-old man died by suicide in the tragic incident just days before Christmas.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Jason Kenney, 47, killed his wife, Crystal Kenney, and shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter before fleeing the scene, and later turned the gun on himself.
The violence erupted late on Monday night after Crystal objected to Jason continuing to watch an NFL game inside the family’s home.
When Crystal challenged him over control of the television, the argument suddenly escalated.
No One: The radical left has a major chip on their shoulders, and they appeal to people with the same. They spend a lot of time and effort, figuring out to make sure the standard of living will go down for all. They know best after all. Mamdani is moving into Gracie Mansion, because he needs the space and comfort of a mansion to come up with all the wonderful ideas he has to make NYC crap again.
Dark: I guess it does not take much today to cause someone to go over the edge.
Alcohol is great stuff for those who handle it well.
Not so much so for those that don’t.
One thing that gets me is reading about alcohol that gets 200+ per pour.
I’ve never experienced something probably exceeding 0.25c per pour.
Maybe that’s why I don’t enjoy the stuff for the most part. I’m too poor to actually drink something that tastes much better than the stuff I cleaned my front brakes with.
This is how the left wants businesses to operate – flat on their back, and restrained by government.
Judging by the stock market, they are operating like Ex’s drawings.
3b – Mandami and his team are planning on resurrecting some old laws for price gouging, they probably tie up allot of NYC small business first.
3b says:
December 26, 2025 at 11:04 am
Dark: I guess it does not take much today to cause someone to go over the edge.
Nope.
The world is on edge. Will pissy little Estonia be the starting point?
The war is still raging in Ukraine. Another 24 hours goes by.
I’m gonna go make breakfast. Nice to sleep in late for once. Let my crew handle it for today.
United vs Spirit pricing…
For the occasional traveler every airline is Spirit now. Unless you are up front every airline has raced to the bottom of the barrel.
Extras for everything, carry on, boarding early before all of the overhead bins are full, an extra bit of room, snack, WiFi, bags. They all nickel and dime you.
Juice: They know best. Mamadan came up with lots o great plans while living the good life with mommy and daddy and trying too become a rap singer, He know, the struggle is real.
Dark The Russians did a number on the Baltic countries back in the Soviet Union days, especially Estonia. They almost completely wiped them out as a people.
Mamdani will help you all in NJ get richer as those inhabitants flee, come here, and clog your roads.
You should be grateful that your houses are in short supply and their values climb. Unlike Spirit airplanes.
In other news, in the land of Pennsultucky, where you have more freedom than NJ, the snow is right on the border of NJ. Luckily snow doesn’t get taxed, it might not come here any more.
You should be grateful that your houses are in short supply and their values climb.
Best and final by 5:00 PM. If your bid isn’t at least 10% above ask, don’t even bother bidding.
3b
Estonia, a puny place, has a loud mouth right now.
It’s okay, everyone has a right to speak.
But like every other world war, there will be a straw that broke the camel’s back.
Estonia is trying hard. 2026 will be real interesting.
And in the contract, you will feed ‘Mama’ the deer, who had babies in my yard a few years ago; the cardinal couple, Blitz and Ruby; Timmy the squirrel and Chippy the chipmunk who will brazenly walk in my back door and wait for a peanut.
Making America Great Again.
I’m sure Trump had/has a grand vision. His handlers are never, never going to let him accompish it.
The robots are coming for even more jobs next year.
A new survey of America’s top marketing chiefs suggests companies are preparing to cut staff as they lean harder on artificial intelligence — a warning that AI’s biggest impact won’t be chatbots or viral deepfakes, but layoffs.
In November, executive search firm Spencer Stuart asked 90 chief marketing officers how aggressively they plan to use AI to shrink payrolls, the Wall Street Journal reported.
More than one in three executives said that they expect to hand out pink slips in the next 12 to 24 months as they deploy more computer agents.
The trend is even worse among bigger companies.
Nearly half the executives at firms worth more than $20billion said they’re planning significant job cuts.
Fun website for you “techies”
https://www.trueup.io/ai/companies
Nearly half the executives at firms worth more than $20billion said they’re planning significant job cuts.
Do these execs believe they’re exempt and are they dependent on those they lay off for revenue and profits?
Salute your flag people of North Carolina. Your government is here to help. Yeah, help give billions to Ukraine and others, but nothing to you.
Just make sure you pay your taxes, or we will arrest you. America is a lawful country and don’t you forget it.
Don’t worry, private equity will buy it at disaster capitalism rates. Or for the price of one concrete block, whichever is less.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
Some of the homeowners seeking help are still paying mortgages on homes that are no longer livable.
Carey and Steve Hayo, whose home just outside Hendersonville was devoured by a landslide during Helene, are among those struggling to move ahead.
The couple was fortunate to be out of town when a wall of mud and debris came screaming down a mountainside, knocking their home, a guesthouse and a garage clean off their foundations. But the disaster swallowed most of their life’s investment and virtually all their belongings. A pile of rubble is all that remains.
The Hayos no longer had a mortgage, but also have no clear way of recouping their losses, as insurance doesn’t cover landslides. They are living in their third place since Helene. Both in their 70s, they are in counseling for trauma. Many weeks have passed in a blur of phone calls to insurers, bankers and lawyers, local officials and FEMA.
“It’s like a bad nightmare,” Carey Hayo said of the experience. As signs of recovery unfold around them, they feel stuck. “You get hopeful, and then you don’t hear anything … There’s just no information.”
More than a year has passed since the couple applied for a buyout through the federal hazard mitigation program. But as with everyone else who did the same, that prospect remains uncertain. Recently, the couple spoke at a Henderson County commission meeting, pushing local officials to help secure funding — and answers.
“We’re just frustrated,” Steve Hayo told panel. “This doesn’t seem to have an end. And that’s what we are searching for.”
3b – He says he will get the chicken + rice Halal plates below $10.
We shall see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyL4PsmA3u8&t=74s
I am not sure if this is ai pricing, but when I was making the reservations, the cheapest tickets by united for 5 ewr-> sju was about $8500. I purchased the same after the Spirit cancellation for $4200 yesterday.
We hope to take off before the snow starts to accumulate.
Keeping expectations low and ready for disappointments.
I would say the prices are so high in general are because Republicans have removed all accountability of airlines.
Fast: And those layoffs will impact the NYC metro area too of course since so many firms across multiple industries are located here, and that of course will impact real estate prices, It is taking longer here, but nowhere is immune.
Dark: Those NY ers wont be fleeing to NJ, if they cant unload their real estate in NYC, unless they are just dirty renters fight now. They can also go to Westchester/Rockland, or or Long Island, notrth Jersey is not as attractive today vs these other places as it used to be back in the day. Then of course with all of these executives claiming they ar going to lay off multiple people, ain’t nobody gonna be buying houses anywhere. Just saying.
Juice: Glad Mamdani has his priorities straight. I wonder how him and the city council will get the halal plate prices down? Those long hallways in Gracie Mansion will be useful he can pace up and down the hall ways at night coming up with a plan.
If you have a problem with Halal but not with Kosher, you are nothing but a bigot.
For what it’s worth, I don’t care for either.
My point is simply Mandami cannot solve the food price issue in NYC with the vendors even if he gave them free permits for you see there are 15,000 food trucks in NYC with no permits at all. They still charge $10 for the chicken and rice.
Flying to Caribbean islands during peak holiday times is expensive, and only for the privileged few.
The solution is clearly more government involvement in airlines. Maybe a Venezuelan or Cuban style state run airline would be a big hit. If Mandani can run grocery stores cheaper and better than the private sector, he should enjoy similar success in a NYC-run airline. Kind of like their beautiful subway system but 40,000 feet up in the air.
On the other hand, Greta T thinks you shouldn’t fly anyway, to keep your carbon footprint down.
What a quandary.
For the Bimmer lovers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gScfhVXCoLs
Oh zie Germans. Shooing zemseves in zie foot again.
Just buy a BYD.
It spells out in the patent that “the shape of the engagement recesses prevents the screw from being loosened or tightened using common counter-drive structures, e.g. by unauthorized persons.” That’s straight from BMW.
Some comments:
BMW says they won’t be selling the screwdrivers, but you will be able to obtain a set with a monthly subscription.
There’s a reason why BMW stands for “bring my wallet.”
Ah yes, bmw being anti consumer. Shocking from the revolutionary company that brought us subsciption based heated seats
So BMW wants to patent a new screw head that will screw the customer?
I think Greta needs to get a job, a rela job, or finish school or both. She also needs to be less angry, that constant scowl on her face does her no favors. She needs a new hair style too.
No One
Watchya think?? Aren’t these the Ayn Rand dudes? Why do you think they are imploding?
Heritage Foundation Undergoes Mass Staff Exodus as Cracks Open on the New Right
The divisions are no longer just between pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives.
3b,
Greta is a bit full of herself, as are many who are driven the way she is. But there are worse hills to die on. Not sure why you should think she should smile, or why her hair is important to you.
I think she is a bit of a hypocrite at times. But if saving the planet for the future youth is important to her, then hey, she will do her thing anyway.
As for Boomer, this is the way they should be thinking, Greta or not:
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
Dark,
The Heritage was always an outfit created, funded and operated by the likes of Koch brothers. Pseudo libertarian nepo billionaires babies whose goal was always to pay the least taxes and be owners of society’s not participants. In short they want a Corporate State. Worked very well while they distracted and fooled everyone with cultural issues like god, guns and gays and did nothing for the little guy. Orange Pinocchio stole their shtick and beat them at their own game.
What took over using MAGA apparatchik was the real old right wing aka Confederate southern ideologies that are State Corporatism benefiting a small cultist group that has more in common with commies and not sees in how they related to society that the corporatist posing as pseudo libertarians.
The problem is that the real money is with the Corporate State crowd which has one gigantic black hole as center of its galaxy. That black hole is to make money.
The old right wing is full of crackpots and has multiple ideological small black holes that want to turn back time, culture, laws, mores, traditions, all with the purpose of regaining total Plantation owner like power. All those black holes are distracting and destroying each other.
Wanna get some free military training, here you go. People from all over the world, including Columbia and Brazil, are homing their skills in Ukraine.
While the young Ukranian boys run for the border.
This has been going on since 2014, but affirmed in 2022. Hired criminals, wanna be killers, hanging out on the border of Russia for 11 years.
How come America doesn’t have an “International Legion?”
Could you imagine if one started here. Hey, give a passport, sign up, go to Montana, get free military skills. Only have to sign up for six months. Come from anywhere.
Yeah, no. Don’t think it would be allowed here. But it’s encouraged there.
https://www.ildu.com.ua/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Legion_(Ukraine)
Worked very well while they distracted and fooled everyone with cultural issues like god, guns and gays and did nothing for the little guy. Orange Pinocchio stole their shtick and beat them at their own game.
“Good answer, good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.”
haha. anyone know that movie quote?
Outside of a few guys keeping up the Index of Economic Freedom, I haven’t seen Heritage do much useful over the past 25 years.
Ayn Rand fans are probably more split over the the Trump led Republican party than they have ever been. A few libertarian-leaning Republicans will occasionally have tolerable rhetoric. But the party is co-owned by the religious conservatives that Rand was always against.
See this for example going way back to 1960. It was the religious conservatives that feared her novel Atlas Shrugged the most, as a threat to their power.
https://courses.aynrand.org/works/conservatism-an-obituary/
If Republicans are going to improve, they need more internal fights, because what they are now is pretty poor.
I’m tired of religion. All of it.
God willing we will win this battle.
God willing we will kill this leader.
God bless our troops.
God needed another angel.
What does he need another angel for?
God willing Putin will die (z man on Christmas)
Everyone killing everyone over some God or another.
Religion divides more than it brings together. Too much hatred there, too much hiding there pretending to be pious when you are really a f’n snake.
Dark: Just observations on my part. She might appeal to more people if she presented better, and dropped the woe is me persona I am singly trying to save the world. As for Boomer they have done lots of bad, but not always, and look at what we have now. Are you feeling any warmth with the Zuckerberg and the other tech boys, now the AI crowd too. Doesn’t look all that good for the little guts and girls going forward.
Americans will be starting the new yrs with record debt.
3b says:
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 pm
Americans will be starting the new yrs with record debt.
The interest on the debt is at Social Security levels.
Did Gen Z cause that?
Will bombing Venezuela or Nigeria solve our debt crisis?
Wasting billion dollar Tomahawk missiles on mud huts. Sounds smart.
Building new battleships with the Trump name engraved on the side.
America’s lungs are in agonal breathing mode now. It’s truly embarassing.
Jimmy Kimbel delivers a anti-Trump Christmas speech?? What the fuck does that even mean? It’s like comparing an orange to a table saw. What the fuck is wrong with you demented, angry, misfit fucking lefties? Take some mirtazapine and vodka… please! You can’t make a valid point, you don’t make a point, you have no relevancy and are net zero on making a positive influence on anybody. You’re a discomfort, an annoyance and a hindrance to anything beneficial.
I pose a query.
Imagine, on Christmas day, around 11 PM, on a very cold cold night.
Coming down a desolate road, far from home, a new BMW parked on a bridge over a stream blocking the roadway. It’s owner, a woman, dressed well, stopped, car idling, lights on, walking back from the edge of the bridge. You cannot pass. She hurries back into the driver’s seat, speeds away.
You think, what was she doing? Not out for a pee, too cold for a selfie, no light anyway.
Tossing a gun, beer bottle, baby? An ex’s watch perhaps? Dead father’s ashes, a gift from a friend she no longer likes? She had to puke and didn’t want to do it in her new car?
Just unusual I’d say. Cause I can’t think of any rational reason to stop at that place, that time, that day, those weather conditions when you have a brand new beautiful running Bimmer.
Dark: Did not say they did, but I assume Gen Z is not participating in the debt binge too, some may need to because of necessity, just like Gen X or a Boomer too.
As for bombing Venezuela or Nigeria, bombing those countries or any other country has nothing to do with Americans getting into credit card debt or car loan debt.
Dark,
Not enough information.
Checking on a deer she just knocked off the bridge?
Took a selfie?
Changed her mind about jumping off?
Thought she heard a noise, something fell off the car?
Was she walking back from behind where she already drove or in front of where she would be driving?
Single lane country bridge, no sidewalk?
Silver hit $79.
“Good answer, good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.”
haha. anyone know that movie quote?
The late great Sam Kinneson in Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School”.
Do I win anything?
OC1
You are already a winner.
Too low a bridge to die from jumping. Not like the GW.
Just stopped in the middle of the bridge over a small creek/river.
No sidewalk. Stone type bridge. Two lane, but barely.
25 mph speed limit road.
If something fell off the car, how would it make it to the other side of the bridge. She was on the right side, door open, across a lane, looking down.
It’s as if she went to throw something off. On Christmas night.
An unsolved mystery.
As for bombing Venezuela or Nigeria, bombing those countries or any other country has nothing to do with Americans getting into credit card debt or car loan debt.
I was thinking about the national debt.
Just gassed up in Pleasant Prairie WI at Costco for $2.29
MFast Eddie says:
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 am
Gas – Currently $2.45 per gallon… $2.25 range in the Spring.
Crop dust a stranger
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Pour out your half empty eyeliner for Perry Bamonte.
Where’s Joe?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-shares-perplexing-family-christmas-photo-with-himself-hidden-in-back-where-s-joe/ar-AA1T1DLX
Dark: Forget the national debt that will never be paid off.
Dark:Just so you know, Gen Z has come up with a new name for Karen, that they will use to describe women who engage in Karen like behavior for their generation. The new name is Jessica. Ashley was also considered, but ultimately they settled on Jessica.
I wonder if 20 years in prison will cure this one of their racism:
Tashika Trimble, a seasonal Amazon driver using her personal vehicle and accompanied by her 15-year-old son, was directed by GPS to the wrong address while making deliveries, the outlet reported.
Trimble reportedly had a brief conversation with the homeowner, Sidney Pittman, who told her she was at the wrong house. As she was driving away, Pittman allegedly fired a shotgun at her vehicle. The blast struck the car, but neither Trimble nor her son was physically hurt.
Trimble fled the scene and called for help. Deputies with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded, spoke with Pittman, and seized a shotgun believed to have been used in the shooting, WSOC-TV reported.
Pittman, 23, was arrested and charged with discharging a weapon into an occupied property or moving vehicle and injury to personal property. He was later released after posting a $200,000 bond.
Investigators are also reviewing comments Pittman allegedly made on social media following his release, which authorities say may have been racial in nature, according to a report in Law & Crime. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office said additional charges may be filed as the investigation continues.
3b
Jessica won’t stick. It’ just doesn’t have the right kick to it.
Well, maybe in the future, when the last Karen is pushing up daisies.
3b says:
December 27, 2025 at 9:50 am
Dark: Forget the national debt that will never be paid off.
The interest will climb.
It’s all downhill from here.
Thank you China for still making toys and clothing, despite the tariffs, so that the “non nepo” children of America could still enjoy some sort of Christmas this year.
Well, exccpt for the kids whose parents were arrested by an ICE agent dressed up like Santa Claus.
Boy just called from the road. Bucket list is to do Saturday morning long run in Green Bay. He is 11 miles in. Most mileage ever is 17. To finish in front of Lambeau means he has to hit 20. He asked me to pick him up over there in 45 minutes.
Greetings from Killington Mountain. 3 snowboarder grandkids, 2 skier grandkids, ages from 9-2, like herding cats down the mountain.
Umm,
What am I missing. Just quit the team and pay your tuition like everyone else.
Stop crying like a baby. Can’t handle it, then quit. No one forcing you to play.
Cunningham was recruited to Colgate with a large athletic scholarship to play Division I women’s lacrosse, according to the complaint. She played goalie for the Raiders during the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
According to Colgate athletics records, Cunningham is a 6-foot-tall goalkeeper who played high school lacrosse at Rye High School. She was a biology major and competed as a junior during her collegiate career.
The lawsuit alleges that despite complaints from players and parents, as well as a letter from a civil rights law firm, Colgate conducted an inadequate investigation that cleared Taylor and allowed her to remain in her role.
The complaint alleges that Taylor routinely forced Cunningham to exercise excessively, pressured her to play through serious injuries, discouraged her from receiving medical care, and harassed her based on her perceived sexual orientation. According to the lawsuit, Cunningham’s grades and mental health deteriorated, leading to a suicide attempt in the fall of 2022.
The complaint states that Cunningham has since undergone five surgeries for lacrosse-related injuries and now suffers lasting physical damage that may prevent her from becoming a surgeon.
Greetings from Killington Mountain. 3 snowboarder grandkids, 2 skier grandkids, ages from 9-2, like herding cats down the mountain.
Some decades ago I had a share in a ski house off the Killington access road for a few seasons.
We used to talk about doing the “Killington biathalon”- a day of skiing followed by a night in the bars.
Crazy days.
Ski house off the Killington..
Yup The Wobbly Barn…great times.
Hot Box:
https://imgur.com/gallery/stranger-things-fart-segment-nfvHABN
Smell what America is cooking.
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