Steve Marcinuk

While much of the country is seeing real estate activity cool off, two New Jersey counties are telling a different story. Ocean and Monmouth counties along the Jersey Shore continue to post strong price growth, tight inventory, and sustained buyer demand, trends that stand in sharp contrast to softening markets elsewhere in the nation. New ...

The narrative around South Florida real estate tends to center on Miami’s luxury towers and international buyers chasing oceanfront condos. But roughly an hour north of Biscayne Bay, the market tells a different story, one shaped by insurance costs, association fee pressures, and a growing preference for single-family homes over vertical living. Alan Alcala, broker ...

The narrative that New York City’s luxury residential market is in perpetual decline tends to resurface with each new wave of economic or political uncertainty. For those working directly in the market, the reality is more straightforward: buyers keep coming back, and the fundamentals of the townhouse segment remain intact. Few people are better positioned ...

After years of pandemic-driven price surges and frenzied buyer activity, the Black Hills real estate market in western South Dakota is settling into a more measured rhythm. Inventory has expanded, days on market have lengthened, and sellers are gradually coming to terms with a new pricing reality. For those watching regional markets across the country, ...

The Monmouth County residential real estate market is navigating a stretch of competing pressures — rising mortgage rates, historically low inventory, and buyer hesitation that is reshaping how homes are priced, marketed, and sold. The conditions are not unique to New Jersey, but local factors are creating dynamics specific to this market that go beyond ...

South Florida’s real estate market has long attracted buyers seeking warm weather and a lower tax burden. As of mid-2026, the forces reshaping the region go well beyond lifestyle appeal. Political migration, corporate relocation, and pending tax legislation are creating conditions that reward informed buyers and penalize those who move on assumptions alone. Marina Bartashnik, ...

Private real estate has always demanded a particular kind of patience — the kind that isn’t really a choice. When you invest in a traditional syndication (a private deal where multiple investors pool their capital into a single property or portfolio), your capital is locked until the general partner decides to sell the asset or ...

The Hampton Roads metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia sits at an unusual crossroads. It is home to roughly 17 military installations, one of the East Coast’s busiest ports, miles of Atlantic coastline, and a city, Virginia Beach, that holds the distinction of being the largest municipality in Virginia by both population and land mass. Yet ...

While national headlines focus on affordability challenges and rate-locked sellers, Cincinnati is telling a different story. For agents working the market daily, the city offers a combination of low entry prices, strong rental yields, and a buyer base that is moving up the economic ladder rather than being priced out of it. Flor de Maria ...

As residential markets across the Southeast cool in 2026, one small coastal community in South Carolina is posting sharply different results. Pawleys Island, situated between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, is seeing a year-over-year appreciation of 15.6%, a figure that stands in sharp contrast to broader regional softness. The reasons lie in the area’s physical constraints, ...

After more than a decade of reinvestment in formerly industrial and overlooked neighborhoods, Buffalo’s real estate market is entering a new phase. Infrastructure projects, rising property taxes, and institutional purchasing activity are all converging at once, creating both opportunity and friction for buyers and sellers across Erie County. For agents working on the ground, navigating ...

The New Jersey shore market has long attracted buyers needing more space than Manhattan offers or simply drawn to coastal living. But in Monmouth County today, the gap between perception and reality is wider than many outsiders recognize. Inventory remains low, competition is fierce, and buyers winning deals increasingly share one trait: cash. Kyle Golden, ...

San Diego has a housing problem that no amount of new development can easily fix. Unlike cities where builders can push outward into open land, San Diego is essentially full — nearly 95% developed, with little vacant ground left to build on. Yet the population keeps growing, rents stay high, and the gap between what ...

For most of the past decade, commercial real estate investors operated with a safety net they didn’t always recognize as one. When borrowing costs sit near zero, the math on a marginal deal can still pencil out — weak cash flow gets papered over by cheap debt, and rising property values reward patience even when ...

Along the Jersey Shore, a steady migration is reshaping the residential real estate market. Ocean and Monmouth Counties have become a destination not just for summer visitors, but for a growing wave of buyers from New York, North Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania – many of them cashing out of higher-priced markets and finding that their ...