Nicole Friedman
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266 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
Nicole Friedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.
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Or people, you know, sometimes can find like real estate adjacent work, maybe doing staging or something like that.
WSJ What’s News · What the U.S. Government Is Doing With Its Stakes in Companies · 7 May 2026
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We had the war in the Middle East, the turmoil with shipping and gas prices and inflation expectations, and rates have climbed again, and that's kind of stalled out that momentum.
This is the spring home buying season, which is typically the busiest time of year for home sales.
And a lot of families, they want to move
over the summer, between school years.
So if they decide not to purchase in the spring, they might just wait a whole year.
And so the expectation now is that this is going to be another slow spring and kind of not a recovery year for the housing market.
Given that the March numbers weren't very good, it's really not a good sign for what we can expect in April and even into May.
So this is a pretty bad sign for the rest of the year because spring is such an important time in the housing market.
It's surprising because the March home sales mostly reflect people who are actually out shopping in January and February.
And so what this shows is that even when rates were falling, that just wasn't enough to actually jumpstart home sales activity.
Buyers are kind of still just freaked out about the economy.
They're nervous about the job market.
Next month, when we see...
the April data, that's going to be a bigger indication of what the effect of the war in Iran has been on the housing market because we really saw rates start to rise in March pretty quickly.
So this is a pretty bad sign for the rest of the year because spring is the busiest time for home purchases, home sales, and the National Association of Realtors had been very bullish coming into 2026 and had forecasted a 14% increase in existing home sales this year.
And now they're calling for just a 4% increase.
They're looking at what we saw in the first quarter of the year and saying this just isn't going to be the rebound year that they had hoped for.
WSJ What’s News · Rising HOA Fees Are Making It Even More Expensive to Own a Home · 9 Apr 2026
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If these monthly fees are in the hundreds of dollars a month or even higher, that can really make the difference between a condo being affordable versus, you know, out of reach.
So, homeowner association fees and condo association fees have both...
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