KeyCrew's Consumer Real Estate Coverage
When housing inventory is this tight, buying land and building from scratch can look like a logical workaround. In the Hudson Valley, the math on that strategy is harder than most buyers expect, and one factor that rarely shows up in early conversations is the tax treatment of new construction. A Two-Part Cost Problem Brokers ...
The idea that rising home prices benefit everyone in a housing market is getting harder to defend. What real estate professionals are seeing in markets like San Luis Obispo County tells a more complicated story, one where the same price appreciation that rewards longtime owners is systematically locking out everyone else. Hal Sweasey, broker and ...
Pasco County, Florida, has a reputation problem. For years, people who knew the Tampa Bay area thought of it as farmland, aging homes, and not much else. That picture is nearly a decade old, but it persists, and for buyers still acting on it, the gap between perception and reality is closing in ways that ...
A ballot measure arriving in November 2026 could do more to change Central Florida’s housing market than any interest rate move in recent memory. Real estate professionals in the region are watching it closely, and some argue that buyers who understand what is at stake will be better positioned than those who don’t. Lisa Foor, ...
Florida’s new condo inspection and reserve laws were supposed to make buyers more cautious. On the Sarasota barrier islands, they have done something more complicated: they have pushed prices down and flooded the market with inventory, but buyers who know how to navigate the new rules are finding deals that would have been impossible two ...
Landlords across New Jersey who have been collecting steady rent increases for years are about to face a new kind of competition, and it is not coming from other landlords. It is coming from state law. A wave of new apartment construction is hitting markets like Princeton and Mercer County, driven not by developer enthusiasm ...
The conventional explanation for why so few homes are for sale right now is that sellers are trapped by their mortgages. They locked in rates of 2.9 or 3 percent during the pandemic years, the story goes, and they refuse to trade those rates for today’s 6.5 percent. That explanation is not wrong, but real ...
Not every Boston suburb that rezoned for new apartments will actually get them. The towns that treated a recent state mandate as a genuine opportunity are already attracting developers. The ones that found ways to comply while limiting real change technically are likely to stay largely the same, and that distinction matters if you are ...
Finding a rental in South Florida has always been competitive. But the barrier to getting approved has risen in ways that catch prospective tenants off guard, and the standards being applied in 2026 are stricter than what most people moving to the area are prepared for. Brokers working the South Florida rental market are flagging ...
Buyers priced out of South Florida’s coastal markets are increasingly looking inland, and agents working rural Marion County say the migration is real and still building. The pattern is driven by a widening affordability gap: as South Florida home prices rose steeply during and after the pandemic, ownership moved out of reach for buyers who ...
Most buyers shopping for a condo in South Florida zero in on location first – the zip code, the view, the proximity to the water. But brokers active in the Miami market argue that buyers are focusing on the wrong variable. In a market where conditions vary sharply from one building to the next, the ...
Sarasota looks straightforward from a distance: warm weather, beaches, a real downtown, prices that still undercut Tampa and St. Pete. For buyers relocating from out of state, the value case seems obvious. What agents on the ground keep finding, though, is that the costs most likely to derail those purchases never appear in the listing ...
Most people thinking about Orlando real estate are focused on the suburbs, the master-planned communities, the new construction corridors, the areas that boomed when remote workers flooded in from the Northeast. Downtown Orlando has largely been left out of that conversation. The urban core has struggled, and investors have been reluctant to commit capital to ...
Florida’s insurance market has scared off plenty of would-be buyers in recent years, and Naples is no exception. Stories of skyrocketing premiums and dropped policies have created a widespread belief that insuring a home on the Gulf Coast is either unaffordable or not worth the trouble. Agents working the Naples market are pushing back hard ...
