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Questions Tester's clients ask most.
What made you choose real estate as a career?
Honestly, it came from a pretty raw place. I lost my home to foreclosure. The person who bought it was a real estate agent, and my first reaction was just - asshole.
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Is right now actually a good time to buy a luxury home in your market?
Mortgage rates ticked down slightly this week, the first meaningful dip in months, and listings in the luxury segment of your market are starting to move faster than they were sitting just 60 days ago. That shift is quiet but it's real. Here's what most people miss about that combination: the buyers who waited for rates to drop are now competing with each other on the same homes.
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Is the luxury housing market actually holding up despite high mortgage rates right now?
Mortgage rates held above 6.8% through most of this week, and yet luxury inventory in their local market is moving faster now than it was 60 days ago. That gap is the whole story. The buyers who sat out waiting for rates to fall are now competing against each other on the same homes.
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What made you choose real estate as a career?
Honestly, it came from a pretty raw place. I lost my home to foreclosure. The person who bought it was a real estate agent, and my first reaction was just - asshole. Then I found out that same agent became my landlord. He bought my house, and now I was renting it from him.
That sat with me. I was frustrated, yeah, but I was also genuinely curious. How did he do that? What did he know that I didn't? I wanted to understand the mechanics of it, the whole thing.
So that's really where it started. Not from some lifelong dream or a family business or anything like that. It started from losing something and wanting to understand how the person on the other side of that transaction operated. I figured if I could learn what he knew, I could stop being the person things happened to and start being the person who understood how it all worked.
I'm not going to pretend it came from a noble place. It came from being angry and curious at the same time, and that combination pushed me to actually figure it out. The more I learned, the more I realized there was a lot most people don't know about how real estate moves, especially when someone is in a distressed situation.
That experience shapes how I think about this work. I know what it feels like to be on the other end of it, and that's not something I forget.
This piece began as Tester’s own written answer, reviewed and approved before publication.
Is right now actually a good time to buy a luxury home in your market?
Mortgage rates ticked down slightly this week, the first meaningful dip in months, and listings in the luxury segment of your market are starting to move faster than they were sitting just 60 days ago. That shift is quiet but it's real. Here's what most people miss about that combination: the buyers who waited for rates to drop are now competing with each other on the same homes. The window that felt wide open a few months ago is already narrowing. The people who win in a luxury market aren't the ones who time it perfectly. They're the ones who understood the asset before everyone else started paying attention. That's not a motivational line, that's just what the data keeps showing. I know what it's like to be on the outside of a real estate transaction watching someone else benefit from what used to be yours. That experience taught me something most agents won't say out loud: the gap between a homeowner and a renter isn't luck or income. It's usually information. If you're in your market right now wondering whether this moment means something, it probably does. The question worth sitting with is whether you're building equity for yourself or building it for someone else.
Is the luxury housing market actually holding up despite high mortgage rates right now?
Mortgage rates held above 6.8% through most of this week, and yet luxury inventory in their local market is moving faster now than it was 60 days ago. That gap is the whole story. The buyers who sat out waiting for rates to fall are now competing against each other on the same homes. The window they thought was wide open has already started closing. The people who win in a luxury market don't time it perfectly. They understand the asset before everyone else starts paying attention.
Tester 15, The HomeBridge Group @ eXp Realty
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