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Welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, as well as everybody smart enough to listen.

And today's Susie School.

So simply get out your Susie notebooks.

I know you're going to be sad. KT is not here with me.

Katie's actually out with K.T.'s actually out with K.K.T., believe it or not. You always do it very first thing in the morning. And so anyway, I hear they've already caught three, but that is besides the point.

KT on Thursday said, Suzy, do a Susie school on real estate. And I was like, really? And then I thought,

okay, she's always right. So what could I tell you about real estate that would make sense to you and really help you?

And real estate, obviously, in most cases, also come with a mortgage. And a lot of you are hearing,

all right, interest rates may go down. You have been waiting for interest rates to go down to buy. You've also been waiting for

interest rates to go down to possibly sell what you have because you want to buy another piece

of real estate, but you don't want to go from a two or three percent mortgage rate to a five

or six percent, so you're still waiting. Everybody's

waiting for interest rates to come down. But there's more to buying a home than just the interest

rate on the mortgage. So I'm going to get to that in one second. However, I have to talk about the stock market.

Stock market's doing exactly what we wanted it to do. We didn't know if it was going to go up,

was it going to go down, what was going to do. But we said overall, the market will probably

be good. Next year, it should be even better.

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