Rise Of The Professional with Matt Hudson

Every week, Matt Hudson analyzes the current Colorado housing market in regards to economic impact and current buyer/seller conditions, and gives perspective on what you can/should expect if you're selling your home, or looking to buy one. This week he also gives a glimpse of what the future will look like per the conditions for 2025, and how you'll be able to capitalize on timing

In this consumer focused conversation, Matt Hudson and Mike Aden (Employing Broker at Colorado Home Realty) discuss the proposed settlement of the 6 year class-action lawsuit which, amongst other things claims that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is complicit in required practices by members that contributed to price fixing. Mike and Matt discuss the terms of the settlem

The January Producer Price Index inflation report released in February effectively eliminated the Federal Reserve from beginning the decline of banking rates this spring, which caused a market reaction that drove mortgage rates higher. This upward movement of mortgage rates has tempered buyer activity year to date, but we still see real estate prices rising on healthy demand. But t

The Colorado Real Estate market seems to be playing out as we predicted. However, the US economy and in particular the jobs market is showing more robust signs than most expected. US GDP growth expectations far outweighs any signs of recession and the byproduct is the Federal Reserve pausing on lowering interest rates due to persistent inflation concerns. Long story short, this is

In this episode Matt Hudson and Adam Hebener share analysis of what occured in the 2023 Colorado real estate market and predictions for 2024. Wanting to know what is happening to the value of your home? Trying to answer the questions should I sell and buy this spring? Gain some practical advice as you think about your personal desires and hopes with respect to 2024 Colorado real es

Too many industry "experts" are saying a real estate crash is on the way. Matt and Adam simply believe these other experts are wrong. Interest rates are likely to be coming down and have markedly since recording this episode, The Federal Reserve appears to be changing direction as a result of economic and labor market reporting, and at home in the Colorado market, we simply have on

This episode was recorded only days before the most recent war in Isreal began. Matt and Adam discuss the necessity of some "black swan" event occuring to shift the US economy, such as a another pandemic, lock downs, or war. We don't know that war in Isreal will lead to a major social or economic event in the United States. But we can see that conditions exist around the world as i

The Colorado economy is strong and the real estate market remains healthy for reasons we've discussed in the past, even though volume of activity is as low as we've ever seen for a population of this size. However, there is a market condition Matt and Adam discuss in this Podcast that cannot be ignored. They make reference to the physics question, "what happens when an unstoppable

In this episode we affirm for the listener that we are right on track with expected 2023 real estate market conditions. Our only miss was anticipating interest rates to hit the mid to high 5% range, as we currently sit closer to 7% on a 30 year fixed. There are two reasons for higher interest rates, which we address in this episode along with current market and economic conditions

Year to date, the Colorado real estate market has done exactly what we expected. Property value appreciation, slight decline of interest rates, strong buyer activity and lower volume in the market overall. The question on every consumers mind is, should I buy and sell real estate right now? Or, is there some future moment I should wait for? In this episode, Matt and Adam discuss cu