Home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro are declining, but the cost of building anything continues to climb. That disconnect, cheaper finished homes, more expensive inputs, is compressing builder profits and creating budget surprises for owners who haven’t priced a project recently, according to Vamsi Emani, Chief Cost Estimator at Aguirre Project Resources (APR) in ...
Ocean City, New Jersey, is a barrier island in Cape May County where generations of families have vacationed, rented, and eventually bought property. The town bills itself as “America’s Greatest Family Resort,” and its dry-town status and family-friendly character have created a buyer pool that renews itself decade after decade, largely from the Philadelphia metro, ...
Most homeowners replace a roof only when forced to, and the material they choose is usually whatever went on last time. But in regions where hurricanes, wildfires, and hailstorms have damaged the same homes repeatedly, that default is breaking down. Metal roofing has grown from roughly 3% to 17% of U.S. residential installations, according to ...
For much of 2023 and 2024, Texas multifamily operators were fighting a war of attrition; new supply flooded Sun Belt markets, concessions became standard practice, and occupancy rates slipped across the board. Now, as that supply wave recedes and short-term loans originated in 2021 and 2022 reach maturity, a different dynamic is emerging: lender-owned assets ...
Nightly rate compression is no longer a temporary correction in the short-term rental market; it’s a structural condition. Competition has intensified, supply has caught up with demand in many markets, and pricing tools alone cannot restore the margins operators enjoyed four or five years ago. The operators pulling ahead now aren’t necessarily the ones with ...
Bergen County has long been one of northern New Jersey’s most competitive residential markets; good schools, proximity to Manhattan, and distinct town-by-town character keep demand high. But affordability constraints and persistently tight inventory are now pushing a growing share of would-be Bergen buyers into Passaic, Essex, Morris, and Union counties, according to Heather Corrigan, a ...
The spare bedroom used to become a nursery, a home office, or a guest room. Increasingly, it’s becoming a podcast studio or a video set, a shift that reflects how content creation has moved from side hustle to income stream for a growing number of homeowners. Taras Legar, Founder / Principal Designer at Leg Art ...
Most housing markets respond to interest rates. When borrowing costs rise, prices soften. When political uncertainty builds, buyer activity slows. In Monmouth County, New Jersey, that logic no longer applies. The county’s residential market is being driven almost entirely by a supply-and-demand imbalance so severe that conventional economic indicators – rates, geopolitical risk, consumer sentiment ...
Most first-time buyers in the Northeast assume new construction is out of reach. In the Capital Region of upstate New York – the sprawling metro area anchored by Albany, Schenectady, and Saratoga – that assumption is being tested by modular home developments priced to compete directly with older existing inventory. The dynamic is straightforward: buyers ...
Home values have climbed steadily in most U.S. markets, but transaction volume remains well below the peaks of 2020 and early 2021. That gap matters more than it might seem: brokerages earn money on deals closing, not on values rising, and when fewer transactions clear, revenue falls even as the cost of running a brokerage ...
For months, publicly traded homebuilders like Lennar and Pulte have held an advantage over individual sellers in slower markets: the ability to offer buyers below-market mortgage rates. In Kitsap County, Washington – a military-anchored peninsula separated from Seattle by Puget Sound – a broker has adapted that mechanism for private resale listings, using rate lock ...
Jersey City has spent the past several years absorbing buyers priced out of Manhattan, drawn by shorter commutes and significantly more space per dollar. But the city is not a single market. Its neighborhoods: downtown, the Heights, Journal Square, are each at different stages of development, attracting different buyer profiles, and responding differently to the ...
Cedar has long been the default choice for exterior wood applications in American residential construction. It’s available, familiar, and relatively affordable. But builders and architects working on high-end homes, particularly full-clad exteriors in mountain regions, are increasingly moving away from domestic species and toward thermally modified alternatives that offer greater dimensional stability and longer warranties. ...
Developers are increasingly betting that buyers will pay coastal prices for water they can’t get to the coast for. Engineered lagoons and machine-made surf breaks have moved from novelty amenity to core sales pitch across landlocked and desert markets – Texas, the desert Southwest, and now southern Utah – with several of the resulting communities ...
For six years, Rochester’s residential real estate market operated under a simple rule: list it, and it sells. Property values climbed roughly 75 to 80 percent since the pandemic began, inventory shrank by half, and homes routinely drew multiple offers within days. That era is ending, not with a crash, but with a split. Homes ...
