August 2026 brings a housing market packed with shifting leverage, stubborn affordability, volatile mortgage rates, multifamily stress, builder incentives, and rising inventory, creating fresh opportunities for investors who understand financing, timing, and risk today nationwide.

This Month's News Items:

• Portable Mortgage Bill Targets Mortgage Lock-In
• Typical Home Still Requires Nearly $110K Income
• Mortgage Rates Fall After Weak Jobs Report
• Apartment Cap Rates Hit 11-Year High
• U.S. Housing Inventory Hits Highest Level Since 2019
• 61% of Investors Turn Negative on Multifamily
• Builder Confidence Remains Deeply Weak
• 7% Mortgage Rates Are Back on the Table
• Apartment Vacancy Falls to 4.5%
• Escaped Sheep Takes a Bus Through the Car Wash

Hosted by James A. Brown: https://jamesbrownrealestate.com

Guests:

Melissa Dorman: https://sellerfinanceacademy.com/

Patrick Yepez: https://dreambigmarketingservices.com/

Nathan Turner: https://earnestinvesting.com/

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This special Best Of episode of This Month In Real Estate Investing revisits some of the show’s most revealing conversations about surviving a rapidly changing property market. The panel examines falling home sales, shrinking transaction volume, rising competition among agents, stubborn interest rates, and why many professionals who entered the industry expecting easy money may not last.

The conversation also explores property as an inflation hedge, rental income, seller financing, note investing, and the tradeoffs between appreciation and hands-off cash flow. From there, the panel looks at the future of experiential retail, the realities of working from home, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence on property searches, management systems, and investor decision-making. Zillow, ChatGPT, mobile homes, data accuracy, regulation, and the danger of trusting AI-generated information all enter the discussion.

It’s a wide-ranging collection of honest opinions, market lessons, disagreements, predictions, and practical strategies for agents and investors trying to understand where the industry is going next.

Hosted by James A. Brown: https://jamesbrownrealestate.com

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June 2026 delivers a whirlwind of fraud investigations, AI breakthroughs, listing battles, downtown transformations, and trust issues as This Month In Real Estate Investing explores the forces reshaping investing and why verification may become every investor’s greatest competitive advantage.

- Real Estate Has a Trust Problem- Zillow vs. MRED and Compass- Predatory Contract-for-Deed Sales Trial- $100M Newport Beach Bank Fraud Case- AI Moves From Hype to Implementation- Fake Owners Sell San Diego Properties- Loudoun County Rental Scam Charges- Downtown Denver Recovery Struggles- AI Wealth Drives San Francisco Housing- AI Law Firm Wins Historic Court Case

Hosted by James A. Brown: https://jamesbrownrealestate.com

Guests:Zach Thomas: https://hiraethventures.com/

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