As the sun set over the city, Elias finally turned off the heat map. He knew the market wasn't broken—it was recalibrating. It was a slow, painful grind toward a new normal where the easy money of the last decade was a fairy tale.
This was the landscape of the Great Stagnation. For years, the mortgage market had been a predictable beast—a cycle of ebbs and flows tied to the Fed’s drumbeat. But now, the drumbeat had turned into a frantic staccato. mortgage market
"Seven and a half percent," Marcus whispered, staring at a spreadsheet. "If we buy that fixer-upper in the suburbs, the interest alone is more than our current rent." As the sun set over the city, Elias