The U.S. residential market has been stuck at roughly 4.1 million annualized transactions for four consecutive years, according to Craig McClelland, a partner at McClelland & Hahn Consulting who advises enterprise-scale real estate, proptech, and fintech companies on structural business changes. That figure becomes a structural problem when measured against the infrastructure many brokerages erected ...
In much of the country, residential real estate has shifted toward balance or outright buyer advantage over the past year. Parts of North Jersey haven’t followed that script. Some towns in Passaic, Morris, and Bergen counties are still operating with two to two-and-a-half months of inventory, well below the six months that typically signals equilibrium. ...
Industrial outdoor storage has spent the past few years pulling in more institutional capital than almost any other niche in commercial real estate. The sector is now estimated at roughly $218 billion, up from about $200 billion in 2025, nearly 9% growth in a single year, with transaction volume reaching $14–16 billion in 2025, up ...
Downtown Jersey City sits at a three-month absorption rate for resale condos, and once problem listings are removed (bad layouts, low ceilings, overpriced units), the effective supply drops closer to two months. That’s the backdrop against which a new wave of high-rise condo development is arriving in Hudson County, New Jersey, a building type that ...
The assumption that longer days on market signal a weak housing market doesn’t hold up in Polk County, Florida. Homes there are sitting longer; days on market have climbed from single digits during the pandemic to the 90s, yet properties are still closing at 97% of asking price across most neighborhoods, according to Jen Lay, ...
Small commercial property owners have spent the past few years hearing that insurance is getting harder to secure and more expensive across the board. For strip mall operators, warehouse landlords, and retail building investors, the assumption has been that coverage will only keep tightening. According to Andrew Kowalske, Chief Product Officer at Blitz Insurance, the ...
The challenge facing homeowners trying to sell in North Texas isn’t soft demand; it’s that builders down the street are offering rate buydowns and design credits that no individual seller can easily match. Across Collin County’s fast-growing suburbs, Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, Celina, Melissa, new construction communities continue to expand. Those builders routinely offer incentives worth ...
The Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly known as Section 8, has always had structural demand behind it: roughly 2.2 million low-income households currently receive rental assistance through the program, while only about a quarter of eligible households actually get it due to funding limits, leaving long waiting lists in most major metros. What’s changed more ...
The Coachella Valley real estate market is splitting along price lines. Properties above $1 million are still moving. Below $500,000, activity has slowed noticeably, a dynamic that complicates the conventional wisdom about retirement destinations as uniformly resilient markets. John Gonnello, a Realtor with HomeSmart Professionals in Palm Desert, California, has spent close to 40 years ...
The Austin housing market has shifted far enough toward buyers that seller concessions now appear on virtually every purchase contract crossing a lender’s desk. That alone marks a reversal for a market that, just two and a half to three years ago, required buyers to close in two to three weeks or risk losing a ...
Most conversations about artificial intelligence in real estate focus on the consumer-facing layer: smarter search, better recommendations, automated valuations. The more consequential question is playing out one level deeper: who controls the intelligence that gets built from organized real estate data, and what infrastructure exists to govern that process before it becomes irreversible. That question ...
The conventional wisdom about Houston real estate centers on its sprawling suburban subdivisions and energy-sector wealth. But in 2026, the market’s most active corridors aren’t in the established inner suburbs; they’re in communities like Crosby, Magnolia, Waller, and Dayton, where buyers are trading proximity for acreage, lower flood risk, and significantly more house per dollar ...
Rework consumes an estimated 5 to 12 percent of total project cost on the average commercial build, according to research from the Construction Industry Institute and other industry studies, and design errors and omissions account for roughly a quarter of that figure. On a $50 million project, that’s millions of dollars in avoidable cost, much ...
Months after the Altadena fires, the gap between approved permits and actual construction starts points to a bottleneck that has little to do with city bureaucracy. Homeowners with insurance payouts in hand are still not committing to builders. The reason, increasingly, is not approval delays but pricing: most homeowners rebuilding after a fire cannot get ...
Houston’s housing market sits in an unusual position among major U.S. metros. The fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country has maintained modest positive home price growth while cities like Austin and Dallas have undergone post-pandemic price corrections. But that relative stability masks a growing tension on the ground: resale sellers are struggling to compete with ...
