A luxury home priced above $1 million in the Reno-Tahoe region can sell quickly or sit for months, and the difference has little to do with location or square footage. According to Laura Kirsch, who leads the Kirsch Real Estate Team at Marmot Properties in Reno, the dividing line is condition: homes that have been ...
The VA loan requires no down payment, no private mortgage insurance, and offers competitive rates. But in competitive suburban markets where homes attract multiple offers quickly, the structural constraints of VA financing put buyers at a disadvantage before they submit an offer. In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where inventory moves fast and cash offers are common ...
In a buyer’s market, the listings that sit longest usually look like a market’s weakest assets. In Rockwall, Texas – a lakeside community on Lake Ray Hubbard about 25 miles northeast of Dallas – some of them have become a practical entry point for investors. The same slowdown that leaves Rockwall’s newer tract subdivisions lingering ...
Growth and market health are not the same thing, and Brunswick County, North Carolina, shows the difference. The county keeps adding residents at one of the fastest rates in the country: its population grew 4.7% between 2024 and 2025, the fastest pace in North Carolina and sixth-fastest nationally, adding nearly 8,000 people. Yet the coastal ...
For Brian Rudderow, the case against single-family wholesaling came down to what the work cost him relative to what it paid. His wholesale margins have thinned, seller expectations remain high, and squatter-occupied properties have added a problem no spreadsheet captures: occupants who stretch timelines, raise the risk, and can consume two months of work for ...
Most of the country’s housing markets have cooled since the pandemic boom. Bradford County, Pennsylvania, has not. More than six years after the pandemic reshuffled housing demand, sellers there still hold the advantage, because the county’s market runs on its own timeline rather than the nation’s. “We are still in a seller’s market and we ...
When Cambridge removed single-family zoning citywide, headlines split predictably between housing breakthrough and neighborhood teardown. Neither version captures what Ed Feijo, a luxury real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Realty and Team Partner at Gail Roberts who has focused on Cambridge for more than two decades, is seeing on the ground. Development activity has accelerated, ...
Small landlords have held up better than the market around them. Larger investors have pulled back from single-family housing over the past few years, but owners with fewer than 10 purchases have kept buying. According to Realtor.com, they accounted for about 63% of investor home purchases in 2025, the highest concentration in more than 15 ...
For the better part of five or six years, sellers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, had the upper hand. Inventory was tight, offers came in fast, and negotiations were brief. That era appears to be ending. Homes are coming off the market unsold at rates the city hasn’t seen in some time, buyers are negotiating ...
Most conversations about housing affordability focus on price. In rural northwest Pennsylvania, the barrier is often the house itself. Much of the region’s housing stock was built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and these homes frequently fail to meet the minimum property standards required by VA, FHA, and USDA loan programs. That mismatch ...
Most national conversations about housing affordability assume entry-level and mid-range homes move quickly while luxury inventory lingers. In the Mount Pleasant and barrier island submarkets around Charleston, South Carolina, that pattern is inverted. Homes listed between $1 million and $2 million are selling briskly, while properties in the $300,000 to $700,000 range – the segment ...
Inventory levels in northern Chester County have improved on paper. But the homes coming to market are not matching what buyers actually need – and the gap between well-priced, move-in-ready properties and everything else is widening into two distinct markets operating side by side. The tri-county area spanning Chester, Montgomery, and Berks counties has seen ...
In most small cities struggling with housing affordability, the playbook is familiar: release publicly owned land, offer incentives, and wait for private developers to build. In Covington, Kentucky – a city of 40,000 directly across the Ohio River from Cincinnati – that approach ran into a basic math problem. New construction on infill lots costs ...
Homes priced between $200,000 and $400,000 in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley are selling within the first week, often with competing bids, according to Zack Nebbaki, a 13-year real estate agent at eXp Realty who works primarily with listings and investor buyers in the region. Above $400,000, properties are lingering – and sellers who haven’t adjusted their ...
Lackawanna County just completed its first property tax reassessment in 68 years, and some homeowners in and around Scranton are reconsidering their options. According to Julissa Contreras, a bilingual agent with LUXE Homes Real Estate who has worked the Scranton market for nearly six years, the reassessment is one factor contributing to a noticeable rise ...
