A metropolitan area of 2.23 million people should have a deeper housing market than what Columbus, Ohio is showing right now. According to Central Ohio MLS data cited by Barbara Gale of the Gale Group at Keller Williams Consultants Realty, only 6,098 listings are active across the entire Columbus metro, a figure that falls well ...
Winning a bidding war in the Chicago metro area no longer means buying a home. A growing number of deals are falling apart during the home inspection, not because homes have major defects, but because sellers fielding multiple offers have no incentive to negotiate repairs or credits, according to Alex MacLagan, owner of MacLagan Home ...
Existing-home sales slid to roughly 3.98 million at a seasonally adjusted annual rate this fall – a 14-month low – as 30-year mortgage rates hovered near 7% and inventory climbed to about 4.9 months’ supply. For buyers, that combination cuts two ways: financing costs more, but the market has slowed enough to give them time ...
Sausalito has long been known as an artist colony turned waterfront enclave, a town where boats were built during World War II and a bohemian culture took root afterward. But the buyer pool in this small Marin County community is changing. Alongside empty-nesters downsizing from larger suburban homes, a newer cohort is emerging: young tech ...
A three-bedroom ranch in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, recently sold for $214,000 with a monthly payment of around $1,200. A comparable home in Raleigh, similar size, similar condition, would have listed closer to $320,000 with a payment near $2,200. That $1,000-a-month gap between two cities separated by roughly an hour of highway is defining where ...
For years, townhouses in central New Jersey served as a natural entry point for buyers priced out of single-family homes. That math is changing. Rising association fees, new mortgage review requirements for townhouse purchases, and a broader shift in buyer sentiment are creating a split, one where the housing type that was supposed to be ...
Salt Lake City is in the middle of a sustained growth cycle; corporate relocations, new professional sports franchises, Olympic preparation for 2032, and expanding university campuses are all drawing people and capital into the metro. But the valley where most of this activity is concentrated has a physical constraint that is becoming harder to ignore: ...
Plainfield, Illinois, about 40 minutes southwest of Chicago, spent the last two decades building itself into a family-oriented suburb with good schools, highway access, and prices well below neighboring Naperville. That growth phase worked. Families moved in, raised children, and put down roots. Now many of those original homeowners are entering retirement, and their homes ...
In a city with enough inventory to give buyers real leverage, the segment of the Houston housing market that should be busiest, homes priced between $300,000 and $600,000, is among the slowest to move. Properties below $300,000 are attracting first-time and value-oriented buyers, and listings above $500,000 continue to draw move-up purchasers with less rate ...
Most small mountain towns in the American West have a straightforward real estate story: pandemic-era demand inflated prices, and now those prices are correcting. Taos County, New Mexico, is not following that pattern. Per-square-foot prices there are still climbing, according to Karen Todd, a real estate professional with The Dragonfly Group at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices ...
A declining median price usually signals a cooling market. In Northeast Dallas, the story is more complicated. The number of homes selling in 2026 has actually increased compared to 2024 and 2025, according to Cindy Dunnican of The Dunnican Team at Coldwell Banker Apex, who has worked the Northeast Dallas market since 1998. But the ...
Large builders in Delaware call their homes “affordable” when prices start at $300,000 to $350,000. For workers earning 40 to 80 percent of the area median income, roughly $35,000 to $60,000 a year in Delaware, those numbers don’t work, even with down payment assistance attached. The gap between what programs label affordable and what service-industry ...
Homeowners who bought during the 2022–2023 building boom in parts of southern Dallas-Fort Worth are discovering an uncomfortable reality: the new homes going up next door are priced at or below what they paid. For sellers who need to exit, the math often doesn’t work. Some are coming to the table with cash beyond their ...
Williamson County, Tennessee, one of the Nashville metro’s most sought-after suburban markets, has not seen the inventory correction or price decline affecting other parts of Middle Tennessee. But stability has not meant ease. The market has entered a phase where pricing precision and property condition separate homes that sell within weeks from those that sit ...
For the past several years, private equity has poured into HVAC, plumbing, and electrical businesses, pushing valuations higher and making the trades one of the most active corners of the lower middle market. That wave has not receded, but it has changed character. Buyers are still showing up, just not for every business that comes ...
