Willy Walker: Data Shows Economic Resilience, Multifamily Rebound

Barchart·07/27/2026 19:46:12

Feeling barraged by a constant stream of often-confusing economic information? Walker & Dunlop CEO Willy Walker has some simple advice: Ignore the “noise” and focus on the data. “Everyone has a [social media] feed that is filled with noise,” he said on this week’s Walker Webcast, hosted at Walker & Dunlop’s Summer Conference. “It's clickbait. It's designed to tell you something that it actually wants you to think, and it's gotten quite hard to differentiate between what you’re seeing in the data and what you’re hearing in the marketplace.” Heading into 2026, many were concerned about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, his immigration policies, and...