Daryl Fairweather 🌥 Profile picture
Econ+Housing+Tech. Chief economist @Redfin 🏡, mom, board game geek, funk enthusiast, climate realist, formerly @Amazon, @UChicago & @MIT alum. Tweets are mine.
Nov 4, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
As promised

First disclaimer: No shade to the employees of Zillow. No one and no company is infallible.

Predicting sale prices is hard. It is especially hard for unique goods like homes. 1/5 It doesn't matter how smart your forecasting algorithm is. Markets can change in unpredictable ways. You need good judgement on top of good forecasting. 2/5
Apr 13, 2021 11 tweets 2 min read
Prediction: Blockchain and NFTs will make title companies obsolete. The market for Title companies right now is over $16 billion. 1/4 The role of a title company is to make sure that the home seller actually owns the home and has the right to sell it (an NFT could take care of that). 2/4
Feb 1, 2021 22 tweets 8 min read
For #BlackHistoryMonth I would like to tell you all about my personal Black history hero, my grandmother, the pioneering architect, Norma Merrick Sklarek.

Thread 1/n:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Mer… ImageImage She was:

💫The 1st Black women to be licensed as an architect in New York State (1954)

💫And then again the 1st BW in California (1962)

💫The 1st BW to establish and manage an architectural firm (1985)

💫The 1st BW fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Jan 21, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
One of the weird perks about being an economist is that acquaintances often want to tell me their investment strategies, and then that conversation weirdly turns into a deep dive into that acquaintance's psyche (thread (1/7)) One acquaintance told me he was putting his money into gold bars because he believed the economy would collapse under a Trump presidency. He didn’t trust the US government to even remain solvent, so he was holding his gold bars in Southeast Asia. (2/7)