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Steve Marcinuk
12 Jun 2026

Along the coastline of southeastern Connecticut, a quiet but active corner of the commercial real estate market operates largely outside mainstream industry coverage. Working waterfronts – marinas, boat service centers, marine dealerships, and waterfront mixed-use properties – represent a distinct asset class with its own rules, risks, and buyer pool. For those who understand it, ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
12 Jun 2026

The rental market in Upstate South Carolina has been telling a more complicated story than regional growth headlines suggest. While Greenville consistently ranks among the fastest-growing cities in the country, the day-to-day realities of managing rental properties across the region reveal competing pressures: rising rents alongside rising vacancies, an influx of first-time landlords, and tenants ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
12 Jun 2026

The Washington, D.C., metro area real estate market is navigating an unusual combination of pressures in mid-2026. Federal workforce reductions, persistent interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty have combined to create a market that looks and feels different from recent years. For buyers and sellers trying to time their moves, the signals can be confusing, and ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
12 Jun 2026

As summer 2026 gets underway, the residential real estate market in Southern Westchester County shows little sign of the seasonal slowdown that typically follows Memorial Day. Inventory is gradually increasing, but buyer demand continues to outpace supply, keeping conditions firmly in seller territory across the Sound Shore communities of Larchmont, Mamaroneck, and Rye. For Farrah ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
12 Jun 2026

The Central Florida housing market in mid-2026 looks meaningfully different from the pandemic-era frenzy that defined much of the early 2020s. Inventory is moving more steadily, out-of-state buyers remain active, and a growing number of buyers are finally accepting that historically low interest rates are not coming back. But persistent pricing gaps between seller expectations ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
12 Jun 2026

The narrative around South Florida real estate has grown increasingly complicated in recent years. Headlines swing between stories of pandemic-era price surges and more recent warnings of a cooling market. For agents working across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the reality is more nuanced than either storyline suggests, and the timing matters. With new condo regulations ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
11 Jun 2026

Few real estate professionals have the vantage point that comes from navigating a market through multiple complete cycles. Janice Mason, a Luxury Real Estate Advisor with Coastal Properties Group and Forbes Global Properties, has been active in Tampa Bay real estate since 1991. Her perspective spans the pre-Internet era, the 2008 housing collapse, the pandemic ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
11 Jun 2026

The narrative around South Florida real estate has long been one of relentless demand and perpetual sunshine. But in Pembroke Pines, the picture is more layered – particularly within the 55-plus communities that have quietly defined this corner of Broward County for decades. Rising insurance costs, new state mandates requiring structural inspections and fully funded ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
11 Jun 2026

Southwest Florida’s real estate market has spent three years recovering from back-to-back hurricanes while absorbing a wave of younger buyers and contending with a national narrative that often overstates the region’s struggles. For agents working the market daily, the picture is more nuanced – and in some pockets, considerably more encouraging than the broader story ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
10 Jun 2026

The Tampa Bay region has long attracted buyers seeking Florida’s lifestyle at a more accessible price point than its better-known coastal neighbors. But in the communities stretching north and west of Tampa, places like Hudson, New Port Richey, Spring Hill, and Holiday, the post-pandemic correction has been sharper and more prolonged than headline numbers often ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
10 Jun 2026

South Florida’s real estate market has never been easy to read from the outside. National headlines tend to paint it in broad strokes, either a pandemic boomtown or a market cooling under the weight of rising insurance costs and condo legislation. The reality on the ground is considerably more layered, shaped by building-level financial health, ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
10 Jun 2026

Along the western shores of Essex County, New York, Lake Champlain’s waterfront communities – particularly Willsboro and Essex – are drawing a growing wave of buyers from New York City, Connecticut, Boston, and even Canada. They’re chasing something increasingly hard to find: a genuine seasonal retreat with limited inventory and a strong sense of place. ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
10 Jun 2026

The Manhattan and Brooklyn residential real estate markets have always operated by their own rules. With a property mix that is more than 80% co-ops and condominiums, a regulatory landscape unlike almost anywhere else in the country, and buyer behavior increasingly shaped by interest rate swings and economic uncertainty, these markets demand a level of ...