Ignore the Headlines - These Indicators Will Decide Real Estate in 2026
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.7 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In a year full of headlines, Ken & Danille McElroy break down the economic and real estate indicators that actually drive investing decisions in 2026—from credit spreads and lending standards to multifamily operating metrics. If you want to understand what matters before prices move, this is the framework serious investors are using right now.
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| 0:00.0 | You can get lost in the headlines and really distracted by some of the videos and data going |
| 0:06.5 | around. So today we're going to tell you what we focus on and what we're focused on in |
| 0:10.8 | 26 to develop our plan for investing and what's really going on in the economy. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, there's a few things that we watch internally in our company. And I think it's really important that if you don't know these, then you probably should. |
| 0:24.8 | That could be a 26 goal. |
| 0:26.4 | It's not that sophisticated. |
| 0:28.4 | They're just indicators like anything else. |
| 0:30.7 | But a lot of people focus things like the Fed rate and whether the Fed's going to cut rates by a quarter point or whatever, that's not as meaningful |
| 0:39.5 | of some of the other stuff that we're going to talk about. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | So there's big signals that we look for. |
| 0:44.9 | And like we said, you don't want to get lost in random data points. |
| 0:48.4 | You want to really focus on what matters and what people are actually looking at on a professional level. |
| 0:54.7 | So let's start with macro signals because I think in 2026 this is going to be important. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.5 | So the first one, of course, if you guys don't watch this, you should. |
| 1:05.0 | It's the 10-year treasury. |
| 1:06.9 | And why is the 10-year treasury so important? |
| 1:09.2 | So when people, they throw the word out federal funds rate, I was kind of chuckle, right? |
| 1:15.0 | Because it's like, okay. |
| 1:16.4 | But really, the 10 years is what all the professionals follow. |
| 1:20.0 | And why is that? |
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