Real Estate Is Quietly Outperforming Your Stock Portfolio Right Now. Here’s Why

Founder Talk with Alex Sheridan · Sep 12, 2026 · 1h 7m

Partners in Mortgage survived the 2008 housing crash by staying deliberately small, tried paid advertising exactly once, and has grown ever since almost entirely through referrals.

Alex Sheridan sits down with all three partners behind Partners in Mortgage: founder Chris Schejbal, and current partners Joe Spero and Sam Noffs. They talk about why the company has deliberately never grown past a small team, the one paid ad campaign that famously flopped, how referrals have carried the business ever since, and why they believe real estate quietly outperforms the stock market as an investment.

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