Steve Marcinuk

Among California’s major metros, Sacramento stands out as one of the few still drawing residents in rather than watching them leave. While the state has experienced net population outflows for several years, Sacramento remains one of only two major regions posting net in-migration – a distinction rooted in its relative affordability, lifestyle appeal, and proximity ...

The real estate technology industry has spent the last decade chasing scale — private equity acquisitions, AI rollouts, integrated service ecosystems promising to own every transaction from listing to lender. Meanwhile, Brandon Wise has been answering his phone. Wise is the founder and CEO of Wise Agent, a CRM he built in 2002 to solve ...

Rockland County, New York, sits at a distinctive crossroads in the suburban real estate landscape. Small enough to cross end-to-end in 15 minutes, yet complex enough to sustain nearly four decades of consistent market activity, this Hudson Valley community offers a useful lens into what drives durable demand beyond the typical headlines about interest rates ...

After years of rapid price growth and bidding wars, South Florida’s luxury residential market has entered a cooler, more cautious phase. Rising insurance costs, aging housing stock, and lingering economic uncertainty have slowed transaction volume across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. Deals are falling apart more frequently, listings are sitting on the market longer, ...

With national office vacancy rates near historic highs and property values falling sharply, adaptive reuse has moved from a niche strategy into a mainstream development conversation. Across American downtowns, owners of underperforming office buildings face a plain reality. These assets are unlikely to return to their former use, and holding them empty is no longer ...

In rental markets across the country, property managers are rethinking what success actually looks like. Occupancy rates and days on market still matter, but a quieter metric is gaining ground among experienced operators: renewal rate. In Oklahoma City, where rising rental inventory and slower sales activity have reshaped the landscape over the past year, that ...

Chicago’s office market tells a story that headlines rarely capture accurately. On the surface, the numbers look grim. Transaction volume sits at roughly 55% of its 2019 peak, and the city has logged around 15 consecutive quarters of negative net absorption. But for Brett Polich, Managing Principal of EWP Architects, the data obscures a more ...

Atlanta’s development landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years. Rising land costs, tightening financing conditions, and an increasingly complex regulatory environment have forced developers to rethink how they approach projects from the ground up. At the same time, neighborhood opposition to density and post-pandemic disruptions to municipal processes have added new layers of friction that ...

South Jersey’s residential real estate market looks very different in 2026 than it did just a few years ago. The frenzied pace that defined the pandemic years — bidding wars, waived inspections, and offers submitted within hours of a showing — has given way to something more measured and balanced. Buyers are taking their time ...

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to buy or sell in Central New Jersey, that moment is likely arriving right now — and arriving faster than expected. An unusually cold winter delayed the typical spring surge in activity, and April 2026 is shaping up as the release valve. Pent-up demand, tightening inventory, and ...

The self-storage industry is moving away from intuition-based management toward data-driven operations as tighter market conditions and rising competition make old approaches less effective. Operators now recognize that success requires sophisticated analytics and real-time decision making, not just the practices that worked during the sector’s pandemic boom. From Pandemic Boom to Strategy During the pandemic, ...

According to Thomas Nelson, a REALTOR® with Big Block Team at LPT Realty who has been active in the San Diego residential market since 2003 (having first obtained his license in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999), San Diego has long played by its own rules — anchored by nine military bases, three major ...

Hawaii’s commercial real estate market differs sharply from the mainland, shaped by land scarcity, regulatory hurdles, and cultural factors that influence every deal. For investors, these realities create both barriers and opportunities, requiring a distinctly local approach to succeed. Mark D. Bratton, Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and Investment Sales at Colliers International Hawaii, ...

The U.S. RV park and campground investment market has settled into a more stable pattern following the volatility of the pandemic era. After years of rapid growth fueled by travel restrictions and low interest rates, outdoor hospitality is now defined by steadier demand, more realistic pricing, and a renewed focus on operational fundamentals. This normalization ...

Miami’s real estate market has attracted significant international attention over the past several years, but the nature of that interest is changing. Where early post-pandemic investment focused heavily on established neighborhoods like Brickell and Miami Beach, a growing number of cross-border investors are looking further north – toward Wynwood. Among them is ALP.X Group, a ...