A market with rising inventory, softening prices, and motivated sellers would typically favor buyers. In southern Denton County, Texas, buyers who like what they see are choosing to wait anyway, hoping something better comes along, and in the process, creating a stalemate that drags out days on market for listings that should be moving. After ...
The usual story about senior housing markets involves inventory, pricing, and interest rates. In Ocean County, New Jersey, one of the state’s densest concentrations of age-restricted communities, a less visible problem may be shaping the market just as much: the people running the communities themselves. Many of Ocean County’s 55-plus developments are self-managed or governed ...
Six years after the pandemic reshaped how and where people work, Chicago’s commercial interior construction market is showing clear signs of recovery. Downtown foot traffic is up, transit ridership is climbing, and building owners are once again investing in their spaces. For firms like Plan North Construction Services, a Chicago-based general contractor specializing in commercial ...
Finding shared housing in European cities has never been straightforward, but the gap between supply and demand has grown sharply in recent years. In Switzerland, as in many urban markets across the continent, the number of people searching for a room vastly outnumbers those offering one. For Safras Rawfal, who experienced this firsthand while studying ...
Real estate professionals watching companies pour into Florida, Texas, and other business-friendly states may be overestimating how many of the arriving employees will need mortgages. Corporate relocation activity is higher than it has been in decades, but the profile of who moves has shifted in ways that compress the real estate transaction opportunity on both ...
Two years of legislative debate over short-term rental rights on Maui have driven down prices in affected condo complexes by roughly 30% since 2023, according to Evan Harlow, a Realtor and Luxury Real Estate Agent with Maui Elite Property. The properties in question are still legally rentable through 2031. No rights have been revoked. No ...
The North Dallas corridor spent the past year shifting from what agents describe as an even playing field to a clear buyer’s market, with inventory at levels not seen in over 15 years and offers coming in well below asking price. But a wave of corporate relocations scheduled for late 2026 and into 2027 could ...
Military families relocating to the Tampa Bay area are increasingly bypassing neighborhoods near MacDill Air Force Base in favor of surrounding suburbs. The shift is driven by school quality, family-oriented communities, and lower prices per square foot. According to Oleg Shypitsyn, a Real Estate Advisor with LPT Realty’s Military Veteran Team, relocating buyers are evaluating ...
In many parts of the country, new construction has served as a pressure valve for tight housing inventory. In New York’s Capital Region, that dynamic plays out differently. Builders here don’t break ground speculatively. They wait for a buyer to walk in the door first, which means the pipeline of new homes is moving, but ...
Northeast Florida has spent much of the past decade absorbing population growth, tourism pressure, and an aging building stock that increasingly needs attention. For smaller design firms operating in this environment, the challenge is less about chasing volume and more about finding the right clients at the right time. Open City Architecture, a boutique firm ...
Property taxes in Illinois have long been a source of frustration, but the conversation has moved in recent years from quiet grumbling to active pushback. With assessed values climbing alongside a competitive housing market, and tax rates that consistently rank among the highest in the nation, more homeowners are asking whether there is anything they ...
Regional bank consolidation has been reshaping construction lending across the United States for the better part of two years. Still, its effects are playing out with particular intensity in New England. As larger institutions merge and tighten their balance sheets, developers across the region are increasingly turning to private credit providers to keep projects moving. ...
For most investors, agriculture has long existed outside the boundaries of a typical portfolio. It’s an asset class that produces food for billions of people, yet for decades it remained largely inaccessible to anyone outside farming families or large institutional funds. That is gradually changing as platforms open the door to smaller private investors seeking ...
Nearly two years after one of the slowest periods the Miami real estate market has seen in recent memory, conditions are gradually improving. Transaction volume remains below pandemic-era peaks, but agents working at the ground level are noticing cautious momentum building. For those who stayed in the business through the downturn, the current environment is ...
For most of the past decade, real estate agents looking to generate leads online had a fairly predictable playbook: build a presence on Zillow, run some Facebook ads, and hope referrals filled in the gaps. That model is losing effectiveness. As buyers and sellers increasingly turn to AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and Gemini before they ...
