Flowers, a ferry and a bridge: a Newport Beach deep dive

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The Daily Mortgage Show for Friday, November 13, 2026, from the Orange County desk of SamBatayneh.tv. The day's mortgage and market news, and a real estate market segment focused on one region, Monday to Friday.

The Daily Mortgage Show is a news and education show from Sam Batayneh, VP of Mortgage Lending at OriginPoint, NMLS 332474.

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What is in this episode

This episode of The Daily Mortgage Show came from the Orange County desk on Friday, November 13, 2026. Sam Batayneh’s AI avatar hosted, with Oliver on the numbers and Claire leading a tour of Newport Beach. Every presenter is AI-generated, Sam’s AI avatar included. The whole show runs under four minutes.

The numbers came first, and the 10-year Treasury led them. Sam’s quote of the day: “The 10-year closed at 5.15 today. It looks like it may want to retest its recent high of 5.36.” (Sam Batayneh). That is Sam’s opinion about a Treasury yield, not a mortgage rate and not a forecast. Oliver gave the sources. The 10-year closed at 5.15% on November 13, up from 4.84% on November 5, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Its recent intraday high was 5.36% on October 7, 2026, per Yahoo Finance and CNBC. Sam’s avatar then asked what you think of the quote, in the comments. Stocks finished mixed: the Dow rose 0.1%, the S&P 500 fell 0.4% and the Nasdaq fell 0.9%, as reported by CNBC.

Claire then took the show home to Orange County. The county’s September median was $1,480,000, up 5.6% from a year earlier, with 30 days on market, according to the California Association of REALTORS®.

The Newport Beach tour made four stops. In Corona del Mar, the older streets are named for flowers in alphabetical order, the Sherman Library & Gardens says. Balboa Island sits inside Newport Harbor, and a small car ferry crosses to the Balboa Peninsula. Lido Isle, at the harbor’s west end, has a single bridge, on Via Lido, per the City of Newport Beach. Newport Coast, southeast of Corona del Mar, joined Newport Beach in 2002, City of Newport Beach records show. In the show’s words: flowers, a ferry and a bridge. The tour gave landmarks, geography and history only, and no home values. The Newport Beach page has more on each of the four.

Three desks finished the show. On the tech desk, Linh explained months of supply: the homes for sale divided by one month of sales. Orange County had 3.0 months of supply in September, per the California Association of REALTORS®. On the athletes desk, Andre noted that the Honda Center in Anaheim, home of the Ducks, opened in 1993, the arena says, and made one general point: when pay comes only in season, keep the records. On the entertainment desk, Nora noted that the Newport Beach Film Festival’s 27th edition ran October 15 to 22, the festival says, and made hers: when pay comes by the project, keep every contract. This is general education, not advice.

Chapters

• 0:03 The open: Sam’s AI avatar, from the Orange County desk
• 0:32 Sam’s quote of the day
• 0:43 The numbers: the 10-year Treasury yield, with Oliver
• 1:18 Stocks at the close
• 1:34 Orange County, with Claire
• 1:56 Corona del Mar
• 2:04 Balboa Island
• 2:11 Lido Isle
• 2:19 Newport Coast
• 2:31 Tech desk: what months of supply means
• 2:46 Athletes desk: the Honda Center
• 2:56 Entertainment desk: the Newport Beach Film Festival
• 3:11 The close

Times are from the start of the video.