We're going to stand here right at the start of 2026 and look back over the last five years.
Specifically that really chaotic, fascinating window from 2021 to 2025.
It was a wild ride.
It really was because if you've been watching the global economy
or even just browsing real estate listings in your own town,
you might have noticed something weird.
Weird is a very polite way of putting it.
I'd probably go with disjointed or schizophrenic even.
We've been living on two completely different planets
that just happen to be in the same solar system.
That is exactly the feeling I got reading through the source material for this.
It's truly a tale of two worlds.
On one side you have an absolute global party of frenzy.
We're talking about real estate markets from Miami to Tokyo,
Ho Chi Minh City that have just exploded in value.
But then on the other side you have the world's second largest economy, China,
which has gone quiet.
And that silence is incredibly loud if you know what you're listening for.
So that's our mission today.
To unpack this global property divergence.