Rent Move Buy - Ep. 25: Is DC In A Housing Bubble?

A question on everyone’s mind lately is: is DC in a housing bubble?  With over 20 years’ experience in the mortgage industry, John has been a top 5 mortgage lender in the DC Metro area for the past decade and has been fielding this question from homeowners for years. John has lived through several housing cycles and his perspective on bubbles, greed, booms, bust and how it relates to where are now in 2021 sheds some much needed insight on topic that has been on everyone’s mind. In this episode, we cover what a housing bubble is and discuss if the DMV is truly headed towards one or not.

Rent Move Buy - Ep. 24: DC Housing Inequity and Steps to Correct It

Rent Move Buy - Episode 24: DC Housing Inequity with Lisa Wise of birdSEED and Guest Host Michael Fowler

Does housing inequity in this country exist? Without a doubt. The real estate industry and its generation- to- generation wealth creation has been out of reach for many Black and Brown individuals due to overtly racist practices and policies that prevented the accumulation of wealth through home/property ownership. In this episode, we speak with Lisa Wise, Founder of birdSEED, a down payment grants initiative for first-time home buying residents of color in the Washington, D.C. area. Lisa and birdSEED who aims to shift the conversation and invite those who have squarely benefited from an industry that excluded others to consider their responsibility to help undo the damage.