Community May 28, 2026

TREW Launches with Successful Tulsa Market Reality Forum

On May 28, five local professionals gathered at Cityscape Home Mortgage in Tulsa to talk honestly with the community about what is actually happening in the housing market. A strong group of Tulsa buyers, homeowners, and local professionals attended. No one tried to sell them anything.

By BC Flanigan

REALTOR® · Keller Williams Realty Advantage · Founder, TREW

The first TREW community forum was not complicated. A room, five professionals, a few hours, and a shared belief that Tulsa buyers and homeowners deserve better information than they are currently getting.

Forum 1 — Market Reality — covered the structural forces driving housing costs in Tulsa and across Oklahoma. Not national headlines. Not cable news talking points. The actual data behind why buying a home is harder right now than it was five years ago, and what that means for people making real decisions in this market.

Why TREW exists

The idea behind TREW is simple. Most people make the largest financial decision of their life with limited, fragmented, or vendor-filtered information. The professionals who should be educating them often have a product attached to the conversation. TREW was built to separate the education from the transaction.

Forum 1 was the first public test of that model. The room filled with first-time buyers, current homeowners, people considering a move, and a handful of local professionals who came to learn alongside the community rather than pitch at them.

The format

Five local professionals. Five short presentations. One open Q&A panel. Doors opened at 5:30 for networking and food. Speakers began at 6:00. The Q&A ran until the building closed.

Each speaker was asked to present one clear framework — not a sales pitch, not a market forecast, not a company overview. One practical idea the audience could use. That constraint kept the content focused and the room engaged.

What was covered

The Q&A

The panel format opened up quickly once the Q&A started. Attendees asked about rate timing, insurance carriers, HOA reserve funds, the difference between a buyer's market and a seller's market, and what first-time buyers should be doing right now if they are 12 to 18 months out from purchasing.

The questions were good because the room was informed. That is what happens when speakers lead with education instead of sales. The audience arrives curious rather than defensive.

View all Forum 1 photographs →

Sponsors and partners

Forum 1 was hosted at Cityscape Home Mortgage, who provided the venue and food for the evening. Goosehead Insurance and Cornerstone Home Inspections participated as presenting sponsors. Their involvement made a free, no-sales-pitch community event operationally possible, and they showed up in the spirit it was intended — as contributors, not vendors.

What comes next

Forum 1 covered the why. Why housing costs what it costs. Why the market moves the way it moves. Why buyers and sellers are navigating different versions of the same friction.

The series continued on June 23, 2026, with Forum 2: Homeownership Reality — what successful homeowners actually do, the decisions that determine whether a home purchase becomes an asset or a regret, and the three sections that most buyers never hear before they close.

This recap preserves the original Forum 1 program. Explore the events archive for later TREW community conversations.