Philadelphia’s residential market has entered a period where the margin for error on listing price has narrowed considerably. Properties priced at market value and presented well are still moving within days. Properties priced even slightly above what the market will bear are sitting, and the longer they sit, the harder they become to sell. That ...
In a metro area long defined by the stability of federal employment, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is splitting along lines that track closely with buyer mobility. Single-family homes in the District’s upper northwest neighborhoods are still selling quickly. Condos in historically strong areas like Dupont Circle and Logan Circle are sitting. And roughly ...
Homeowners across San Antonio and much of Texas are discovering that what worked two years ago no longer applies. Inventory in the metro has climbed sharply, new listings have surged, active supply has pushed past 10,000 in Bexar County, and homes are sitting well beyond the pace sellers grew used to during the post-pandemic run-up. ...
Philadelphia’s residential market has long been known for its relative price stability, modest gains in good years, modest declines in bad ones. But that evenness is masking a widening gap between two buyer pools operating under very different conditions. Homes priced between $700,000 and above a million dollars are moving faster than properties in the ...
In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...
For most of the past decade, buyers in New York City’s outer boroughs focused first on finding a home they could afford, then figured out how to pay for it. In Queens, that sequence is reversing, according to Jonathan Ettricks, a Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty who works across Queens, Brooklyn, the ...
Most housing developers treat infrastructure as a line item. For the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona, the second-largest land-based tribe in the United States, with a reservation roughly the size of Connecticut, infrastructure regularly consumes up to 50% of total project costs. That figure reshapes every assumption about what it costs to build affordable ...
Sourcing materials for a $50 million construction project typically takes two to three months. For billion-dollar developments, that timeline stretches to six months. Architects must specify thousands of individual products, from facade panels to door handles, then email dozens or hundreds of suppliers, compare specifications manually, and negotiate pricing through email chains, PDF spec sheets, ...
For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...
For years, the national conversation about real estate migration has centered on Sun Belt destinations. A different pattern is forming in western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh’s combination of affordable housing, healthcare employment, and a growing tech sector is pulling buyers from states like Utah, Nevada, and California, not as a temporary relocation trend, but as a deliberate ...
Chicago’s south suburban housing market presents an unusual tension: demand remains steady, appreciation runs between 3 and 5 percent annually, and inventory stays tight across price points. Yet within that same market, a growing number of homeowners are being forced to sell, not because values have dropped, but because property tax increases have made their ...
San Antonio’s housing market has tilted firmly in favor of buyers. Homes are taking several months to sell, concession requests are standard, and builders are offering discounts as high as $40,000 to clear inventory. But the properties lingering longest aren’t necessarily overpriced. In many cases, the problem is simpler and more fixable than sellers expect: ...
The north Dallas suburbs have long attracted affluent families willing to pay a premium for large lots, top-rated schools, and proximity to a major metro. But in the communities of Fairview, Lucas, and Parker, a cluster of towns in central Collin County, Texas, a gap in buyer behavior is creating a soft spot in the ...
For the past several years, Chicago’s South Side dominated new construction activity in the city’s multi-unit investment market. That momentum is now shifting west, and the catalyst is a single infrastructure project large enough to redirect capital flows across the city. The 1901 Project, a multi-year, $7 billion development planned around the United Center on ...
Raw land has spent most of the last few years as a quiet inflation hedge, a finite, tangible asset that investors treat as reliable protection against inflation because the cost of land tends to rise alongside the cost of everything else. Rural land prices in particular held firm through 2025 and into 2026, with no ...
