DID YOU KNOW? In celebration of Pride Month, Robert will be chatting with the Executive Director of GLSEN Eliza Byard TODAY at 4pm ET and their conversation will be live-streamed in the Compass Workplace group. GLSEN is an organization recognized worldwide as a pioneering leader in the fight for educational equity and in making sure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying. Thank you to Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan, OUT at Compass and Compass Cares for pulling together this event!
DID YOU KNOW? Russian President Vladimir Putin now has a “disinfection tunnel” installed at one of his official residences to protect him from contracting the coronavirus. Could this become the next X-RAY machine we have become so accustomed to at airports?
DID YOU KNOW? Mortgage applications to purchase a home rose 4% last week from the previous week and were a remarkable 21% higher than a year ago, the 9th consecutive week of gains and the highest volume in more than 11 years! The average interest rate for a 30 year fixed-rate mortgage decreased to 3.30% from 3.38% (CNBC)
DID YOU KNOW? Retail sales, a measure of purchases at stores, at restaurants and online, increased a seasonally adjusted 17.7% in May from a month earlier. Expect more GOOD NEWS headlines like this over the next few weeks and months after weeks/months of bad headlines. While the higher you climb the further you can fall is true.....so too is it true that when you have fallen to a deep low, chances are it's up, up, up from there! (WSJ)
DID YOU KNOW? Builder sentiment jumped a striking 21 points in June to 58, the largest monthly increase ever in the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Any reading above 50 indicates a positive market. In April, it plunged a record 42 points to 30. Of the index’s three components, current sales conditions jumped 21 points to 63. Sales expectations in the next six months rose 22 points to 68. Buyer traffic more than doubled from May to June, from 22 to 43.
“The dollar is going to fall very, very sharply,” - Steven Roach, Yale University, citing growing debt and diminished savings. If this happens, could it spur a new wave of foreign buyers? Again, this is just one of many predictions/opinions.
DID YOU KNOW? The total of new COVID-19 cases from the top 5 states in the USA is 2.5X that of the next 5 states, to put things into perspective. The top 5 states have a total population of around 108 million, while the next five have almost 47 million people. So the top 5 have a ratio of 78.7 new cases per million inhabitants. The next 5 have 71.7 new cases per million inhabitants. A cheap and widely-used steroid called dexamethasone has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients in what scientists said is a “major breakthrough” in the coronavirus pandemic.
DID YOU KNOW? Housing starts that measure how many single-family homes builders break ground on probably will fall to 770,000 this year, the lowest level since 2015, according to the NAR. The 1.47 million properties on the market at the end of April was the lowest ever recorded for the month, according to NAR data. Americans created 11.4 million households in the 10 years through 2019, according to Census data. Builders sold 5.2 million single-family homes in the same period. In the prior decade, they sold 10.4 million new houses. Supply disruptions and the COVID-19 lock downs that ensued have made the situation worse. (Housingwire)
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