Mortgage Rates Hit a Three-Week High After One Speech. Here Is What It Means for Homebuyers.

Mortgage rates jumped to a three-week high Friday, August 28, 2026, after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech signaled continued hawkishness on inflation. Whitney Pauley, Senior Mortgage Advisor at CrossCountry Mortgage serving the Snoqualmie Valley and greater Seattle area, breaks down what

4,400 New Millionaires Were Created Yesterday. Here Is What They Are Buying Next.

SpaceX went public, and the wealthiest among them will do exactly what wealthy people have always done: buy real estate. You don't need an IPO to play the same long game, you just need to decide that waiting has its own cost.

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Why "I'll Wait for Rates to Drop" Is the Wrong Conversation

Most of the buyers sitting on the sidelines right now aren't there because the math doesn't work. They're there because no one has actually done the math with them.