Steve Marcinuk

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 ...

Santa Fe, New Mexico, is outpacing the national luxury real estate market. The city jumped 18 places to rank first among the country’s 60 most active luxury markets in Q1 2026, according to the Wall Street Journal’s quarterly luxury market index. Luxury prices rose 11.3% year over year during that period, while the national average ...

Central Texas apartment investors are watching a two-year supply overhang begin to ease. Early signs now suggest the correction may be running its course. For investors who stayed active through the slowdown, the timing looks increasingly favorable. Matthew Teifke, Broker of Record and Co-Founder of Teifke Real Estate and TR3 Capital, has been operating in ...

Nashville’s reputation as one of America’s fastest-growing cities has long attracted investors, developers, and transplants drawn by job growth, no state income tax, and a vibrant urban culture. As of mid-2026, the market has entered a more complicated phase that rewards careful analysis over momentum-driven optimism. Tasha DeRegis, founder of Sell My House Fast TN, ...

The self-storage sector rarely makes headlines the way multifamily or office markets do, but for investors paying close attention, it offers dynamics that reward discipline and long-term thinking. As construction costs stabilize, equity remains cautious, and home sales sit near multi-decade lows, the developers best positioned to benefit are those who started planning years ago ...

Hoboken, New Jersey’s residential market offers a clear window into what’s happening across high-demand urban markets in the Northeast. Constrained inventory, rising rents, and a widening gap between the cost of buying and renting are changing how residents and investors approach one of the region’s most sought-after zip codes. For Jeffrey Bonk, Salesperson with The ...

The multifamily financing market has spent two years adjusting to a reality many borrowers resisted: interest rates are not returning to the levels that defined deals in 2020 and 2021. That shift in expectations has reshaped how sponsors approach refinancing, acquisitions, and capital stack restructuring nationwide. Borrowers in these markets are no longer waiting for ...

As major metropolitan markets contend with rising costs, regulatory complexity, and population outflows, a quieter story is unfolding in south-central Pennsylvania. Lancaster County has been steadily absorbing buyers priced out of, or simply tired of, life in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. David Wissler, Team Lead at The Wissler Team under Coldwell Banker Realty, ...

The numbers tell part of the story. Maine led the entire country in home price appreciation from the first quarter of 2020 through the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the National Association of Realtors, outpacing Florida, Wyoming, New Hampshire, and Vermont. For a state with just 1.4 million residents and roughly 4,000 single-family homes ...

Few real estate markets along the Eastern Seaboard operate quite like Long Beach Island. Tucked along the New Jersey Shore, this narrow barrier island has long attracted second-home buyers, retirees, and investors drawn by its beaches, waterfront access, and lifestyle appeal. But the market has been quietly moving in ways that aren’t always visible from ...

Buffalo, New York, has long been one of the more affordable housing markets in the United States. With average home prices hovering around $250,000, well below the national average of roughly $350,000 to $400,000, the city has historically attracted investors looking for accessible entry points into residential real estate. But affordability alone no longer tells ...