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For most of its history as a second-home destination, the Hudson Valley ran on a single engine: New York City money. That engine is still running, but it is no longer the only one, and the change is starting to affect what gets built, what gets bought, and what prices look like at the top ...

Buying a vacation rental property on Marco Island sounds straightforward: a resort island that swells from 17,000 year-round residents to more than 60,000 during peak season, with a steady stream of visitors who need somewhere to stay. The demand case is obvious. What’s less obvious, and what catches investors off guard, is that some of ...

Having the money to buy a multimillion-dollar home in Silicon Valley turns out to be only part of the challenge. The other part, the part that surprises many buyers who arrive in the market for the first time, is learning how to compete in a system that does not reward wealth alone. Agents working at ...

Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet sit just a few miles apart on the South Carolina coast, but buyers and sellers treating them as interchangeable in mid-2026 are working from the wrong map. The inventory picture, the pace of sales, and the type of buyer each community attracts have diverged sharply enough that strategy in one ...

US buyers shopping for a second home or investment property abroad have historically gravitated toward the familiar: a beach condo in Mexico, a pied-à-terre in Europe, a vacation property in the Caribbean. But brokers working in international new development sales are seeing demand land in less expected places, and Costa Rica’s luxury resort corridor is ...

When buyers from high-cost cities start looking for affordable alternatives, they tend to focus on price. What many underweight, and what real estate professionals working in Birmingham say matters more, is the question of what actually drives the local economy and whether that foundation is likely to hold. Gene Darden, a broker and team leader ...

Not long ago, fire insurance was an afterthought in a Los Angeles home sale. Buyers would get to the final days of escrow, the escrow officer would flag that coverage was not yet in place, and everyone would scramble to sort it out before closing. That scramble is over. Insurance has moved to the front ...

Albany, New York does not show up on most national lists of hot real estate markets. It lacks the name recognition of Boston or the scale of New York City. But investors who have been priced out of those larger metros are increasingly looking at the Capital Region, and agents working the market say the ...

The Southwest Florida housing market is cooling. Inventory is up, prices have pulled back in parts of the region, and buyers are harder to qualify than they were two years ago. But the slowdown isn’t hitting every community the same way, and buyers and investors who treat the entire region as one market may be ...

If you have been searching for a vacation home on Long Beach Island, you already know the frustration. There are almost no listings. And experts who work this market say the shortage is not a temporary blip – it is a structural condition driven by fixed land supply, protected wetlands, and buyer demand that has ...

The most affordable land in New Jersey with a workable commute to Philadelphia is not where most buyers are looking, and that mismatch is starting to close. Agents with broad territory across South Jersey are pointing to Cumberland and Salem counties as the part of the market where value still exists, at a moment when ...

The standard advice for first-time rental investors sounds sensible: start small, buy one property, get your footing, then grow. But some experienced investors and the agents who work with them argue that single-property ownership is actually the riskiest way to enter the rental market, not the safest. Shirley Weems, a Realtor with Waterman Real Estate, ...

Something unusual is happening in the Southwest Florida housing market in mid-2026: the more expensive the home, the faster it tends to sell. That pattern runs counter to what most people expect from a market that has been cooling since the pandemic peak, and it has real implications for anyone trying to buy or sell ...

Florida’s insurance costs have become one of the loudest reasons people cite for avoiding the state’s housing market. The concern is real – premiums have climbed sharply, and flood zone designations have made some properties genuinely difficult to insure at any reasonable price. But builders and contractors working in the market point to a distinction ...

Small investors eyeing the northern Indianapolis suburbs in 2026 are often looking for the wrong opportunity. The search for a quick flip, buy distressed, renovate, sell at a profit, runs into a market where prices are already strong and undervalued properties are scarce. What the data and experienced observers on the ground suggest is that ...