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 ...
At $20,000 a week and up, a villa listing is never really the product. What’s actually being sold is certainty: that the pool is heated, the beach isn’t buried in seaweed, the generator works when the power grid doesn’t. That certainty is becoming harder to find as luxury travel grows, which is why more high-net-worth ...
As housing markets across the Sun Belt have cycled through sharp run-ups and subsequent corrections since 2020, the Chicagoland market has followed a notably different path. While cities like Phoenix, Nashville, and Tampa drew waves of remote workers and saw prices surge well beyond sustainable levels, Chicago absorbed post-pandemic demand more gradually, producing steady price ...
Ocean County Real Estate Holds Its Appeal Even as Buyers Adjust to a Higher-Cost Market New Jersey’s Ocean County has long attracted buyers seeking a practical alternative to the high costs of the New York metropolitan area. With relatively low property taxes, convenient access to commutes to both New York City and Philadelphia, and proximity ...
Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, a 26-mile stretch of shoreline known as 30A has quietly attracted a different kind of wealth. What was once a regional drive-to destination for families from Atlanta, Nashville, and Birmingham has become a legitimate luxury investment market, with properties now trading at values comparable to Palm Beach or Aspen. For Bob ...
Most real estate organizations do not have a crisis management plan. And of those that do, many have never tested it. That is the candid assessment of Edward Segal, a crisis management consultant, author, and Forbes Leadership Strategies Senior Contributor who spent more than a decade leading two major realtor associations in California. His observation ...
After years of frenzied seller conditions, Palm Beach County’s residential market has settled into a more measured rhythm, one that rewards preparation, penalizes neglect, and increasingly favors buyers who know how to negotiate. Rising inventory, tighter insurance requirements, and a post-pandemic recalibration of buyer expectations have combined to produce a market that looks far more ...
