Most homeowners associate financial risk with their own mortgage. But a growing number of condo and HOA communities face a different kind of exposure – one rooted not in individual borrowing but in collective neglect of reserve funds. The problem is compounding as more communities move away from professional property management and toward self-governance by ...
The Opportunity Zone program was designed to channel investment into operating businesses, tech startups, healthcare companies, service firms that could locate anywhere, including underinvested communities. Instead, more than 95% of the capital has flowed into real estate development. That imbalance is now a defining feature of the program, and the recently enacted 2.0 legislation is ...
The policy conversation around housing affordability tends to focus on institutional investors buying up homes and the cost of credit reports. Neither is where the real pressure sits. The two forces that actually determine whether someone can afford a home – housing supply and the mortgage rate – remain stubbornly resistant to the fixes getting ...
Distress hasn’t disappeared from Chicago’s housing market. Cook County recorded more foreclosure filings than any other county in the country in the first quarter of 2026, and nationwide foreclosure filings were still running double digits higher year-over-year through the middle of the year, according to ATTOM Data Solutions. But rising foreclosure filings don’t automatically translate ...
Across Houston’s suburban corridors, a painful math problem is playing out. Homeowners who bought during the pandemic-era rush, many of them paying $80,000 to $100,000 above what their properties are worth today, are finding that they cannot sell without taking a significant loss, according to Kelvin Louie, who leads KL Integrity Group, a Houston-based real ...
In a market where inventory has loosened and sellers are offering concessions, the expected result would be more transactions. In parts of North Texas, the opposite is happening. Qualified buyers are browsing for months, viewing dozens of homes, and declining to commit, not because they can’t find something, but because they can’t stop wondering whether ...
Stock portfolios get diversified. Bond holdings get diversified. Even alternative investments get spread across categories and geographies. But the single largest asset on most American household balance sheets – the home – sits as a fully concentrated position in one property, in one neighborhood, in one local market. Economists have been documenting the cost of ...
Properly priced homes in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are going under contract within weeks. Overpriced listings are sitting for months before sellers either cut or withdraw entirely. The gap between the two outcomes reveals less about market weakness than about seller psychology still anchored to peak-era comparables, according to Lawrence Resnick, a Realtor with The ...
The pandemic-era housing market in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex created price expectations that, for many sellers, have never recalibrated. In Garland and Rockwall County – two adjacent but structurally different submarkets east of Dallas – inventory has loosened, but transactions remain constrained by a basic disagreement between the two sides of the deal. Sellers remember ...
For years, Indianapolis appeared on national “best places to invest” lists largely because of one simple ratio: buy a house for $100,000, rent it for $1,000. That arithmetic attracted capital from California, New York, and as far away as Canada and Germany. The ratio still draws attention, but the numbers underneath it have shifted. Purchase ...
The conventional wisdom on office real estate has settled into a familiar narrative: remote work gutted demand, lenders want out, and the asset class is in long-term decline. But transaction data from at least one active Southeast brokerage tells a different story, one where the buyers showing up are not institutional investors bottom-fishing for distressed ...
The gap between turnkey and deferred-maintenance properties in Southern California’s coastal markets has always existed, but in Long Beach it is becoming the defining factor in how quickly a home sells, or whether it sells at all. With mortgage rates elevated and affordability compressed, buyers are concentrating their bids on homes that need no work, ...
A year and a half to two years ago, listings in Dearborn Heights, Michigan routinely drew 20 to 30 offers. That kind of frenzy masks how a market actually works, who is buying, what is moving, and where the pressure points are. Now that inventory has increased and competition has cooled, the underlying dynamics of ...
When a couple decides to sell a home in a normal transaction, the process starts with shared intent. Both parties want to sell. They agree on a broker, sign a listing agreement, and move forward. In a divorce, that alignment rarely exists, and in a luxury market where properties routinely trade above seven figures, the ...
The standard approach to pricing a home, pulling comparable sales from the past 180 days, has been a default in residential real estate for years. In Northern Virginia’s current market, that default is becoming a liability. Conditions have shifted fast enough that a comp from March 2026 may have little relevance to what a buyer ...
