In most U.S. housing markets, the conversation in late 2026 centers on rising inventory and price adjustments. In Westwood, Massachusetts, a commuter town roughly 30 minutes west of Boston, neither condition applies. The town currently has about 20 homes listed for sale, a figure that has held relatively steady for years, according to Tammy DeWolfe, ...
Missoula’s real estate market has more inventory than it has had in five years, yet correctly priced homes are still selling within a week, sometimes with multiple offers. The gap between those outcomes and the listings that sit for months comes down to a single variable that has nothing to do with interest rates, staging, ...
Sellers in Houston typically expect to cut their listing price 5 to 6 percent just to generate interest, according to Kurt Peterson, a real estate agent with World Wide Realty based in Texas. But a subset of transactions is producing the opposite result – homes closing above market value, with sellers netting proceeds they did ...
Fewer homes are changing hands in California right now, but the number of fights over the ones that do is not falling with them. Purchase and sale disputes, title fraud, and fire-related rebuilding conflicts are all landing on litigation desks with regularity, according to Zach Schorr, founder of Schorr Law, a Los Angeles litigation firm ...
The Chicago metropolitan area has spent the past two years doing something its coastal counterparts have not: appreciating. While markets in New York and Los Angeles have undergone price corrections, according to Sean Zhu of Frog City Realty LLC, housing values across the Chicago region have continued climbing, a dynamic pulling both relocating families and ...
Buyers in Chicago’s western suburbs are competing aggressively for homes, yet overpriced properties sit and stagnate. Sellers hold leverage, yet many refuse to list because they cannot find their own next home. The result, according to Chris Pequet, a broker with Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty who has sold real estate in this market for more ...
Less than two months of housing supply across the far northwest suburbs of Chicago would normally suggest a seller’s market across the board. But the inventory shortage is masking a sharp divide: roughly a quarter of listings are absorbing nearly all buyer energy, while the rest accumulate days on market and price cuts. That split, ...
Closed sales in the Philadelphia metro area have dropped by about 3 percent, according to recent local data. But 20 miles northeast in Bucks County, closed sales are up roughly two to two and a quarter percent. According to Hernan Alvarado, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Focus who works both Philadelphia’s urban core and ...
A $77,000 mortgage and a $500,000 mortgage require roughly the same amount of processing, underwriting, and closing work. But only one generates enough revenue to keep a loan officer’s pipeline economically viable. That gap, between the labor a small loan demands and the compensation it produces, is one of the less-discussed structural barriers to homeownership ...
The conventional image of coworking expansion involves planting flags in as many cities as possible. For operators managing multiple flexible workspace locations across Florida, Texas, and Georgia, the math points in a different direction: density within a market matters more than breadth across markets. Kevin Priddy leads Priddy Spaces, a holding company operating 12 coworking ...
Over the past two years, cities and states have passed roughly 250 zoning rule changes and nearly 180 state-level housing laws aimed at loosening the restrictions that once made it illegal to build more than one home on a lot. The stated goal is to chip away at the “missing middle,” the housing stock between ...
In a wobbly economy, small cost differences start to matter. In Pittsburgh, the gap between city and suburban tax rates has become large enough to redirect buyer behavior, and agents working across Allegheny County are watching demand shift accordingly. The city of Pittsburgh levies a 3% local income tax and a 5% transfer tax on ...
For years, real estate professionals have treated search engine optimization as the primary way to attract online leads. Build a website, optimize for keywords, maintain an IDX feed, and wait for Google to do its work. That playbook is now incomplete. A growing share of consumer queries, particularly the kind that begin with “who’s the ...
A town of 32,000 people should not have trouble keeping homes on the market. But in Pekin, Illinois, a community about 20 minutes from Peoria, only 67 residential listings were active as of September 2026. In a typical year, that number would sit between 180 and 200. A year and a half ago, it dropped ...
A home on Chicago’s West Side that went under contract in 30 to 40 days three years ago now takes two to three months, according to Esther Gonzalez, a listing agent with Solaris Enterprises Inc. (doing business as Solaris Real Estate). The properties haven’t changed. Neither have the asking prices. What changed is the cost ...
