KeyCrew's Consumer Real Estate Coverage
Florida’s condo market has spent the past two years generating alarming headlines: soaring insurance premiums, mandatory reserve requirements, special assessments landing in owners’ mailboxes without warning. For buyers eyeing a condo in the Sarasota area, the question is whether those headlines still reflect what is actually happening on the ground, or whether conditions have improved ...
If you are shopping for a condo in Florida right now, the price tag on the listing may be the least of your worries. Real estate professionals working the Gulf Coast market are warning that a wave of structural inspections, unpaid assessments, and tightening lender requirements has made a large share of Florida’s condo inventory ...
For the past three years, buying a home on Florida’s Gulf Coast has come with a hidden cost that shows up long after the purchase contract is signed: insurance. Carriers pulled out of the state in large numbers, leaving many coastal homeowners with limited options and sharply higher premiums. What experts working in these markets ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
For the past several years, the story coming out of Florida’s coastal real estate market has been one of insurance chaos, carriers fleeing the state, premiums doubling or tripling in a single year, and buyers walking away from deals because the numbers no longer made sense. That period is now ending. Legislative reforms passed in ...
Buyers who keep losing out on move-in-ready homes in the DC-Maryland-Virginia market are often fighting the wrong battle. The competition for updated, turnkey properties is intense enough that many buyers are being priced out or repeatedly outbid, and some are passing over a financing option that could change the math entirely. Renovation loans have existed ...
Most people who own a rental property in a market where prices have tripled face the same question: Is it time to sell? In Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where the average sale price has climbed from roughly $140,000 before the pandemic to around $450,000 today, that question is coming up constantly. What experienced local ...
Selling a home in a market flooded with new construction is hard enough. Selling one when the builders down the street are offering sub-5% interest rates and covering closing costs is harder still. That is the situation resale sellers in Clermont, Florida, are facing right now, and agents working the area say the sellers who ...
Investors looking at upstate New York’s Catskill area as an alternative to the expensive downstate market are arriving with one set of assumptions and finding a different set of facts. The pitch makes sense on paper, lower prices, lower taxes, proximity to New York City. But agents working the market say the gap between what ...
State housing laws written to ease California’s homelessness crisis were never designed for a town that lost two-thirds of its buildings in a single fire. But that is exactly where they are being applied now, and the results will reshape what Altadena looks like for decades, in ways most displaced residents never agreed to and ...
Permit dashboards and rebuild tallies have become a way for outside observers to measure how well California’s fire-hit communities are recovering. But the people living within those numbers say the comparisons are being misread, and that the most important story is not in the totals at all. As of early June 2026, Altadena had issued ...
There is a specific kind of buyer that Queens’ new development has not been serving well. They already live in the borough. They have been renting in Long Island City or Astoria for three or four years, they know the neighborhood, and now they want to buy something larger – a three-bedroom, enough space for ...
If you picture a dream Jersey Shore property, you probably imagine a house with ocean views and sand steps away. But buyers who actually know this market are increasingly choosing the bay side over the beach side, and the reasoning is more practical than you might expect. Agents working the barrier islands along the South ...
A 29-acre waterfront development has not yet broken ground in Flushing, Queens. Rezoning is still being sorted out. The timeline between phases has not been finalized. And yet, investors who follow this market closely are already pricing the project into their decisions, which means buyers who have not heard of it may be entering the ...
