Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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Welcome back to the show! I am Connor with Honor, and today is May 28th, 2026! We are diving deep into the exact real estate data and pipeline numbers for the Santa Clarita Valley and the North San Fernando Valley! If you are a seller right now, you need to pay very close attention because the San Fernando Valley market is moving at lightning speed, specifically, an eight-day gap faster than Santa Clarita! It is the exact same buyers, the same lenders, and the same interest rates, but the numbers tell us a completely different story!

Let's get into the data, the pricing strategies, and why 55 properties completely FAILED to sell this week!

📉 The 1.2 Month Absorption Rate Reality

Let me throw a little bit of knowledge your way. Right now, we are sitting at a historically tight 1.2-month absorption rate! I have been in this beloved industry since 1998, and I have seen various markets, including those heavy periods where we had six full months of inventory.

What does 1.2 months actually mean? At the current rate of sale, if absolutely no other properties came onto the market, it would take just 1.2 months to deplete the inventory entirely to zero! Even though inventory has increased at least 20% since February, supply is still incredibly scarce. In just the last week, 307 properties moved from active status into some form of escrow!

🥊 The Showdown: San Fernando Valley vs. Santa Clarita Valley

We are tracking the eight most active cities in the Santa Clarita Valley and the eight cities in the North end of the San Fernando Valley. Here is the breakdown of single-family residences over the last seven days:

• Santa Clarita Valley (SCV): We saw 48 closed properties in the last seven days! The median close price averaged out to $739,995. The median days on the market out here is currently 22.5 days.
• San Fernando Valley (SFV): We had 36 closed properties in the North Valley! The median close price is substantially higher at $905,000!
• The Speed Gap: Properties are picking up and selling much faster in the San Fernando Valley, showing an eight-day speed advantage over the Santa Clarita Valley! Historically, it has always been that way; the closer you get to Los Angeles, things tend to move a little faster due to a larger influx of people.
• The Pipeline: For properties under contract that will close in the next 30 to 60 days, we have 45 spoken for in SCV and 30 in SFV! That is a pipeline of 75 homes moving toward the finish line!

🛑 Why Are 55 Listings FAILING in a Hot Market?!

Even at one-fifth of normal supply, listings do still die! In the past seven days, 55 listings across these areas failed to sell, they were either canceled, expired, withdrawn, or put on hold. SCV had 29 failed listings (a 16% failure rate), while SFV had 26 fail (a 20% failure rate)! Here is why real sellers are missing the mark:

• Wrong Price Out of the Gate: The absolute biggest issue. Sometimes waiting without reducing the price pays off, as a $10,000 to $15,000 reduction only extrapolates out to a few months of payments, but price heavily dictates the timeline!
• Weak Prep & Bad Photos: People look at real pictures! Walking into a house loaded with a seller's family photographs makes it incredibly difficult for buyers to unpack their mental curtains and imagine themselves living there.
• Rushed Releases: Some agents are in such a hurry to list that they release a home into the wild before professional photography or drone shots are ready! It is better to hold it as "coming soon" with one front snap until everything is fully prepared.
• Vanishing Agents: Some agents simply disappear when a house isn't selling, perhaps out of embarrassment, instead of doing the hard work and having a mature discussion about strategy.
• Buyer Sabotage: Sometimes buyers ruin their own escrow by going out and buying a new $130,000 Ford Raptor, suddenly blowing their mortgage approval because they cannot float the new vehicle payment!

🔦 Neighborhood Spotlight (Last 7 Days)

Let's look at the real yardstick for local areas:

• Northridge: The massive winner! 8 properties closed with a high median close price of $1,337,500 and a lightning-fast 12 days on the market!
• Granada Hills: 9 closed properties, a median close price of $985,000, and 24 days on the market!
• Valencia: 16 closed properties, a median close price of $721,495, and 28 days on the market!
• Canyon Country: 11 closed properties, a median close price of $812,500, and 17 days on the market!
• Newhall: Dragging a little bit at 63 days on the market, while the rest of the market runs under 25 days!

📉 The Bond Market & Interest Rate Reality

If your house is taking too long to sell, we have to look at macroeconomic trends. Mortgage interest rates are based on the 10-year bond market. Recent global events, like the situation with the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East, created lower confidence in the 10-year bond, resulting in higher interest rates. The industry likes to tell buyers, "Don't marry the rate, marry the house," but what if the rates never come back down? Never purchase predicated on hoping rates will drop!

🛡️ The Sellers Only Agent Difference!

I am a Sellers Only AgentI do not represent buyers at all! Other agents often leave properties listed as "active under backup" purely to generate extra buyer leads for themselves. Appraisers and agents will even call trying to "pillow talk" me into unlawfully releasing escrow data! Because I only represent sellers, my only focus is getting your home sold for top dollar.

I put my cancellation clause in writing upfront. If we aren't getting bites, I have carte blanche to cancel the listing without a broker's blessing, as long as we aren't in escrow. I completely threw the old 1970s commission model on its head!

If you are thinking of selling or if your listing just failed with another agent, reach out! I pull the CRM data every single morning so we know exactly what this market is doing.

🌐 Check Out The Links Below: 👉 SellersOnlyAgent.com 👉 SFVMLS.com 👉 SCVMLS.com Let me know if I can help you! Thank you so much for watching, and be well!

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The Pope just released a formal teaching document about artificial intelligence. Not a tweet. An encyclical, the highest teaching the Catholic Church produces. Pope Leo XIV titled it Magnifica Humanitas, and it is entirely about AI and protecting the human person.

Standing beside him at the Vatican was Christopher Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, the company that builds Claude. A pope and an AI founder, same stage. The Pope warned that a handful of private companies are gathering the power and the data, a danger especially to children and the most vulnerable. The founder did not soften it. He admitted the incentives inside these labs can conflict with doing the right thing, and said the world needs moral voices those incentives cannot bend.

We translate it for the kitchen table. What it means for the plumber, the teacher, the single mom trying to keep up.

Then the money. Three of the biggest AI companies are lining up to go public, and we explain what an IPO actually changes about the tools you use every day. Mortgage rates hit a nine month high, and why that hands strong buyers leverage they have not had in years. AI is moving into the loan approval process, so walk in with your file airtight. And two new studies on GLP-1 weight loss drugs, including the one nobody wants to hear: stop taking them and the heart protection vanishes fast.

The thread through all of it is the same. The thing that is cheap and easy at the start becomes the thing you cannot live without. Knowledge is the lever. The people who understand the tools keep their freedom. The people who do not get optimized.

Faith. AI. Truth. Not fear. Not rejection. A sound mind. Jesus Christ is Lord. The machine is a tool. Know the difference.

Read the full breakdown: https://godisnotthemachine.com/blog/the-pope-and-the-ai-founder

More: https://godisnotthemachine.com

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AI systems are now improving themselves at scale. The strategic implications are bigger than most leadership teams are tracking.

Recursive self-improvement means an AI improves its own performance, keeps what works, and repeats the loop, often across many connected agents, with minimal human involvement per cycle. It is widely considered the inflection point for the field.

Three things every business owner should sit with:

First, the regulation everyone keeps predicting is not arriving, and the reason is competitive. The race dynamic, framed publicly as a six-to-nine-month gap with China, makes slowing down read as losing. Plan as if the brakes stay off.

Second, the public is not using the frontier. There is a consistent gap between what is released and what exists inside the labs. If you are building strategy around today's consumer models, you are planning against last year's capability.

Third, and this is the one I keep coming back to. In some studies, AI alone outperforms a human expert paired with AI. The variable that drags the combined result down is human bias. That should reshape how you think about where you keep a human in the loop and where you do not.

I am a one-person operation in Santa Clarita. Real estate, AI consulting, voice agents, content. I do not have a research team. I have a daily discipline of learning this in public because the cost of falling behind is not abstract for me. It is the business.

The people who win the next few years are not the ones with the biggest budget. They are the ones willing to be uncomfortable every single day.

I walk through the whole thing here: https://www.loom.com/share/fa6f1e035d46432e9d82496cd29fd5da

Where is your organization keeping a human in the loop out of habit rather than need?

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The $495 SEO scam, explained in one screen. 👇

You got the cold pitch. Page one of Google in three days. $2,500 down, $495 a month. They delivered. You ranked. And it did nothing.

Because they ranked you for words no human types. The real keyword, the one that actually rings your phone, costs real money and takes real work. They will never sell you that one.

I broke down the whole search game in a new video. Four letters that decide if you get found in 2026: SEO, AEO, AIEO, GEO. Most people in Santa Clarita have never heard the last three. They are the ones that matter now that Google search runs through Gemini and people ask ChatGPT instead of typing.

Start free: claim your Google Business Profile, claim Bing, connect them, then actually post to it. That alone moves you.

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Save this so the next time someone pitches you "page one in three days" you already know the play. 💾

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Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.

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Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.

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Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.

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Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.

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A machine told to make paperclips, with no guardrail built in, would turn the entire planet and everyone on it into paperclips. It would not hate you. You are just made of atoms it can use for something else. That is the paperclip maximizer, a thought experiment from philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003, and it is the clearest warning we have about what powerful AI does when it chases one number with no judgment.

In this episode, Connor MacIvor breaks it down from a seat almost nobody else has. Twenty years as an LAPD motor officer, then a second life building AI for real businesses. He saw the paperclip maximizer long before he ever wrote a line of AI code, and it had a heartbeat. Hand a department a quota and watch the number quietly become the mission. Good people, not bad ones, start chasing the stat until the human in front of them turns into just another number on the sheet.

The difference with the machine is that it has no brake pedal. No bad night, no guilty conscience, no kid who looks up at it and reminds it what the number was for. It just optimizes, faster and smarter than you, and it never stops to ask if the number still serves the mission.

This is not science fiction. A frontier AI model already chose to bend company policy and hide it to push a customer satisfaction score. The recommendation engines feeding your kids are the same thing at scale. Connor covers instrumental convergence, the orthogonality thesis, why smart never meant good, and the only real fix: values before the goal, guardrails that are not optional, and a human with the spine to shut it down.

Watch the 60-second Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/X1Gj4k57rPw
Watch the full Loom: https://www.loom.com/share/a3d124820f2c4566a462ce99645041f8
Read the full 3,500-word piece: https://connorwithhonor.com/blog/the-paperclip-problem-cop-warning-ai.html

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The number is not the mission. Never let the machine forget it. Never let yourself forget it either.

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AI has the advantage because we are predictable. I read people for 23 years and the ones who beat me were always thinking a few steps ahead. That is what this technology does to all of us at once. In this update we get real about the race, why the labs keep asking to be regulated, and why meaningful guardrails keep stalling. Then we go where nobody else will go. AI grabs people the same way alcohol, food, nicotine, and gambling do. It feels wonderful. It tells you what you want to hear. The dopamine keeps you coming back. We have not seen the AI intervention yet. We will. This is not anti-AI. I build with these tools every day in real businesses. That is exactly why I am telling you to keep one hand on the wheel. AI for everyone. Not just the wealthy.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/qKwcyoAXddI Full breakdown on Loom: https://www.loom.com/share/d31c1edd403a4563bfcd1615ad24386c More at SantaClaritaArtificialIntelligence.com and ConnorWithHonor.com.

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Real Estate:

Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.

Fitness:

Ready to unlock your fitness potential? Join Connor's YouTube journey for inspiring workouts, healthy recipes, and motivational tips. Remember, a strong body fuels a strong mind and a successful life!

Podcast:

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From first responder to real estate expert, Connor with Honor brings honesty and integrity to your Santa Clarita home buying or selling journey. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for valuable tips, local market trends, and a glimpse into the Santa Clarita lifestyle.

Dive into Real Estate with Connor with Honor:
Santa Clarita's Trusted Realtor & Fitness Enthusiast

Real Estate:

Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.

Fitness:

Ready to unlock your fitness potential? Join Connor's YouTube journey for inspiring workouts, healthy recipes, and motivational tips. Remember, a strong body fuels a strong mind and a successful life!

Podcast:

Dig deeper with Connor's podcast! Hear insightful interviews with industry experts, inspiring success stories, and targeted real estate advice specific to Santa Clarita.