You probably don't know that I have no nuclear family, or that I got by on wits and stubbornness, or that I'm buying in the same state I was homeless in so I can triumph with multiple homes and change my story, day by day.

The caveat is they are having to work harder, be more negotiable, and yes... location is becoming way more important again.Normally, summer is where we see a nice bump in prices, and is a good time for sellers to test the market - but stubborn rates and overall affordability is certainly taking its toll, slowing demand for homes.

They could very well not.If we get a few hot inflation signals and the labor market holds steady… why would a stubborn Fed Chair Powell - who still has a majority of the FOMC board on his side - cut then?

The long end I think will be stubborn, too.

We're selling a few properties and they seem to go under contract rather quickly but the resolutions have been brutal and nitpicky to an extreme degree and the buyers have also been stubborn as can be so I would lean toward buyers market. 

I am a very hesitant person when it comes to doing the unfamiliar but when my mind is made up I am also very stubborn.

But it's strange you have just hyper focused on one element of my post and you are just too stubborn to let it go.

The pressure on Powell to cut rates continues to escalate:-Powell’s stubborn stance on rates is starting to upset other Fed board members, with some now publicly saying they would support a rate cut.

My employer has positions open all throughout the country but I am stubbornly clinging to living in the city where I was born and raised.

Sellers are stubborn, and buyers are being patient.