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1647 episodes · publishes daily · latest 2026-07-20 · ~21 min/episode
Rank
#657
Substance
75.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
General rank
#39 of 267
Across the index
#657 of 6183
Substance
Top 11%
outscores 89% of the index
HousingWire Daily ranks #657 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 75.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on originality and specificity & evidence. The core contrarian thesis - that building more homes won't happen without demand and that builders already have sub-6% rates yet permits are near cycle lows - is a fresh, first-principles pushback against the consensus 'just build more homes' narrative.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
Contains a few genuinely non-obvious claims (existing-home inventory as the builders' real competition, completed-units data as a ceiling on supply) but they're diluted by rambling metaphors, war headlines, and repetitive Fed talking points.
“The existing home sales market has an unbelievable advantage because it's bigger and geographically it's everywhere”
“typically when it gets above 120,000, the builders go, no, Moss. But even the housing bubble crash, period, it never even got above 200,000”
The core contrarian thesis - that building more homes won't happen without demand and that builders already have sub-6% rates yet permits are near cycle lows - is a fresh, first-principles pushback against the consensus 'just build more homes' narrative.
“I'm not a big housing construction boom person”
“this sector doesn't have sub 6% mortgage rates. They have at sub 6% mortgage rates for years now. Their home sales are at 2019 levels”
Logan is a dedicated housing/lead analyst with a stated 15-year track record of forecasts, relevant and credible, but he's an analyst/commentator rather than an operator who has built at scale.
“This has nothing to do with prices. Housing starts, mortgage demand, housing demand”
“this is me for 15 years. You know, this isn't something new”
Offers concrete numbers - oil at $81-82, the Fed's 33,000-job breakeven, the 82% new-home-sales crash from 1.4M to under 300k, and completed-unit thresholds - though several claims (charts, 'the data line') are referenced rather than shown.
“an 82% crash in new home sales from the peak of 1.4 million down to a little bit under 300,000”
“as long as there's 33,000 jobs created per month and the unemployment rate is low”
The host asks a genuine clarifying follow-up on 'cheaper homes' and frames the multi-year context well, but mostly lets claims stand unchallenged and the episode drifts into off-topic banter about Snickers commercials.
“Wait, what do you mean by they were dealing with cheaper homes? They were not offering the cheaper homes, they were competing against the cheaper homes”
“No Snickers commercial on this.”
First period on the Index - history builds from here.
1 scored on substance · 30 tracked in total.
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