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Want more housing market stories from Lance Lamberts ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Real estate investors no longer think a material drop in mortgage rates is on the near-term horizon. Thats one of the main takeaways from the latest survey conducted by ResiClub and LendingOne, among the fastest-growing private real estate lenders in the country. To participate in the Q2 2025 LendingOne-ResiClub SFR Investor Survey, investors had to own at least one single-family investment property. The survey was fielded between May 29 and June 13. In total, 222 single-family landlords completed the survey. Topline findings: 79% of single-family investors say they are “somewhat likely” or “very likely” to buy at least one property in the next 12 months. Thats up from 76% in Q4 2024 and 61% in Q2 2024. 32% of single-family investors say theyre likely to sell at least one property in the next 12 months. Thats down from 33% in Q4 2024 and 37% in Q2 2024. 57% of single-family investors believe mortgage rates will remain above 6.5% over the next 12 monthsup sharply from 29% in Q4 2024 who expected the average 30-year fixed rate to stay above that level. 59% of landlords say higher insurance premiums have moderately (42%) or significantly (17%) reduced their cash flow over the past year. 30% of investors said property taxes were their largest expense increase last year, followed closely by 29% who cited home insurance. In the West, 19% of landlords report insurance premiums have risen more than 50% over the past five years. 83% of landlords plan to raise rents in the next 12 monthsbut only 10% of landlords expect rent hikes of more than 7%. Below are the full results. [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub] [Chart: ResiClub]
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When I open TikTok as a twentysomething-year-old working a nine-to-five, there’s a good chance I’ll find “5 to 9” videos showing variations of what a young professionals day looks likewhat my day should look like. I both love and hate them. CorporateTok is abound with what some professional Gen Z workers are up to from sunup to sundown. There are 5 a.m.-to-9 a.m. workouts, healthy breakfast smoothies, morning reading sessions, time-stamped work hours, and even full 6 a.m.-to-11 p.m. routines combining it all, from the morning workout to dinner with friends to end-of-night skincare regimens. This trend is seemingly in line with Gen Zs obsession with work-life balance. But in actuality, it could be counteracting the efforts Gen Z has put toward slowing down. They’re logging off of work just to log back on and see how productive everyone else is being. According to a Talker Research poll, burnout is happening earlier than ever, with Gen Z and millennial adults reporting an average high-stress age of 25, compared to the past peak burnout age of 42 for older generations. Gen Zers have become infamous for their insistence on work-life balance, whether through micro-retirements or in-office hookup spaces. The problem is, it may not be just work thats burning them out. A 2022 McKinsey study found that Gen Z is more negatively affected by social media than older generations. Gen Zers also report checking their social media more frequently than their older counterparts. More than a third (35%) say they spend more than two hours per day on social platforms; less than 25% of older generations say they spend more than two hours per day on social media. In particular, videos emulating the perfect corporate routine could be compounding the younger generations unprecedented rates of burnout and negative self-perception. Gen Z is living in a world of constant comparison to impossible standards. For some people . . . social media is showing them all these reminders that you need to be constantly working or grinding, says Angela Yuson Lee, a PhD candidate at Stanford University who studies Gen Z. Youre seeing that it’s not just that you could be this really amazing corporate boss, but you could also be a really beautiful and successful influencer, or you could be a really incredible athlete or bodybuilder, Lee adds. It’s like seeing the best and . . . the most impressive kinds of people in any given line of work being represented more on social media than you would see in the everyday world. The rise of the everyday influencer However, not everyone is buying into the ultra-productive five-to-nine routines that are being hyped up on TikTok. Some influencers are trying to find a middle ground. Chiara Lucia, 23, works a nine-to-five job in New York City. But in her free time, she is a content creator with 77.6K followers on TikTok and 4.27K on YouTube. Glitzy portrayals of PR events, high-end dinners, and endless Equinox classes rarely make an appearance in her videos. Instead, youll find videos like my 5 to 9, after my 9 to 5 and no spend days among her most popular content. She says most of it is inspired by her own desire to take a break from her traditional routine and maintain a creative outlet. My content became more about relatable content like working, being tired after work, and finding things to do, Lucia says. I feel like I have a big focus on once the work day is over, its time to reclaim the rest of my night and show how to make the most of the spare hours you get in the day. But even she isnt immune to the constant pressure of doing it all pressed upon her generation. It is really easy to get trapped into the New York lifestyle, and I’m sure in any big city it feels like I live in this big city, I have to take advantage of it, Lucia says. Like, why would I be sitting inside? But it’s not super attainable when you have a regular-paying or entry-level job and you’re tired. Consuming social media mindfully The constant access to others lives isnt going away anytime soon. Case in point: Lucias reaction to unsustainable five-to-nine videos was to create sustainable five-to-nine videos. Rather, it may just be on the digital natives themselves to understand how to stop the endless comparisons to influencers. Lucia says she manages this as an influencer by staying grounded and having a lot of friends who arent influencers. Lee says she likes to remind people to pay attention to how social media is making them feel. In her research, shes conducted focus groups with Gen Z teens talking about the trends they see. She notes that none of them are actually implementing the perfect skincare and workout routines being fed to them by influencer videos. She believes its important to have more conversations about media literacy to help audiences understand the difference between viral content and sustainable living habits. She compares these trends to Stanford Duck Syndrome. It’s the idea that you go to Stanford, walk around, and see that everyone’s happy because it’s sunny, and it looks like everyones doing all these cool things and they’re so amazing, Lee says. It looks like they’re just a duck gliding easily on the surface of the water, but if you look underneath, everyone’s paddling like crazy just like trying to keep up. Instead of trying to emulate the seemingly perfect, smooth-sailing lifestyles fed to them online, Gen Z might need to start looking below the surface.
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There are lots of reasons why employees end up with too much work. But regardless of the cause, heres how to push back if your workload is too great.
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