On the hillside lots of West Los Angeles and the South Bay, the backyard a homeowner wants and the backyard a site will allow are often two different things. Increasingly, what can be permitted and built on a particular lot shapes the design before aesthetics enter the conversation. In-ground pools and spas show this most ...
Construction’s interest in artificial intelligence has centered on estimating – the step that turns a set of drawings into a price. But an estimate is only as sound as the quantities underneath it. The step that produces those quantities, known as the takeoff, is where much of the industry’s pricing still goes wrong. Measuring walls, ...
Most Austin-area real estate conversations focus on the city proper or its fast-growing northern suburbs. But about 45 minutes northwest, the communities lining the north shore of Lake Travis – Lago Vista, Jonestown, Point Venture – are working through a correction that has lasted far longer than what metro Austin has experienced. With 10 months ...
Property management has a familiar relationship with new technology. A tool arrives with a promise of efficiency, operators adopt it, and the costs surface later: platforms that don’t talk to each other, staff re-entering the same information in two places, workflows that bend around the software instead of the other way around. Artificial intelligence is ...
Most buyers searching for real estate in northern Arizona’s Verde Valley start in Sedona. Increasingly, they end up 25 minutes down the road in Cottonwood – not because they’ve lowered their expectations, but because the math no longer works in the town that first caught their attention. Buyers arriving with budgets near or just under ...
National headlines have labeled Phoenix “the price cut capital” of the country, but the reality on the ground is more fragmented than that label suggests. Depending on the city, the zip code, and the price, sellers in Maricopa and Pinal counties are living in entirely different markets – some still competitive, others flooded with inventory ...
Most vacation-home markets draw a narrow buyer profile – retirees, weekenders, or investors chasing rental yield. The Pocono Mountains region of northeastern Pennsylvania pulls all three at once, plus a growing number of full-time commuters. That breadth is reshaping what buyers want from a property and what sellers need to offer. Suzanne Kasperski, a real ...
For a region where sellers have historically held the advantage, the Asheville, North Carolina metro area is experiencing something unfamiliar: a buyer’s market. Inventory in Buncombe and Henderson County is now more than 60 percent higher than it was a year ago, according to Debbie Hrncir, an agent with Howard Hanna who has worked the ...
Most housing markets are shaped by job growth, commute patterns, and local wages. North Carolina’s High Country – anchored by Boone, Blowing Rock, and Banner Elk in the state’s northwestern mountains – operates on a different set of drivers. Roughly 75% of homes sold in the region are second or third homes, purchased by buyers ...
Most housing markets expand outward when demand rises. Central Oregon cannot. Oregon’s land-use framework defines where developers can build neighborhoods, and those boundaries do not move just because more people want to live in Bend. On one side of a street sits a subdivision; on the other, a five-acre parcel that no developer can turn ...
The U.S. rental market has loosened. The Census Bureau put the national rental vacancy rate at 7.3% in the second quarter of 2026, which works out to roughly 3.5 million vacant units across a rental stock of about 48 million. This spring, two in five Zillow listings offered concessions such as free rent or waived ...
The San Francisco Bay Area has long sorted its residents by income bracket, with each city occupying a familiar rung on the pricing ladder. But in Concord – a city of 127,000 in Contra Costa County – that sorting is loosening, according to Ron Melvin, a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty who lives and works ...
Finding a single-family home under $350,000 in Lombard, a western suburb of Chicago, is now nearly impossible, according to Angie Corcione, who leads The COR Team at Fulton Grace Realty and has spent nearly 30 years in the western suburbs market. That price floor, which not long ago marked a comfortable entry point for first-time ...
Over the past four to five years, developers and governments around the world have announced a wave of mega-scale destination projects – ambitious, visually striking, and backed by significant capital. Now many of them are stalling, shrinking, or disappearing outright because the underlying economics never held up. Ambitious renderings attract attention, but the absence of ...
For years, Casa Grande sat south of the Phoenix metropolitan area as a place most Valley residents associated with outlet shopping and agriculture – not homeownership. That perception is changing, driven by a widening of Interstate 10, a state water designation that clears the way for more than 80,000 new homes across Casa Grande and ...
