For decades, mortgage policy has treated down payments as a safeguard against default. The logic was intuitive: borrowers with more equity have more to lose, and those who go underwater will walk away. But a growing body of research suggests that assumption is wrong, and that the down payment requirement may be the single largest ...
The conventional wisdom about Orlando’s real estate market, that it’s either cooling off or holding steady, misses what’s actually happening at the neighborhood level. In Lake Nona, a master-planned community in southeast Orlando developed by Tavistock, the market is not moving as one uniform whole. Builder incentives are drawing some buyers toward new construction, while ...
The commercial real estate investment world has long operated on a simple asymmetry: large institutional firms like Blackstone and KKR can review hundreds of deals because they employ dozens of analysts, while smaller partnerships, two or three principals with limited staff, review far fewer, limiting their shot at finding the best opportunities. That gap is ...
Most real estate investors think of RV parks as campground-adjacent assets with modest per-site economics. But a small segment of the market, deeded motor coach resort lots catering exclusively to Class A coaches, operates on a different plane entirely. These properties range from $20,000 for a bare concrete pad to $600,000 for a lot with ...
The conventional wisdom in residential real estate, wait for rates to fall before buying, may be exactly backward for veterans and military buyers with access to VA financing. While much of the market sits frozen, waiting for relief, a different logic is playing out among borrowers who can access rates meaningfully below conventional levels and ...
The Phoenix metro area has earned a reputation for softness in 2026, but individual submarkets tell a different story. In the East Valley, spanning Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, Queen Creek, and San Tan Valley, the constraint is not a lack of buyers. It is a pricing standoff between sellers anchored to 2021-era expectations and buyers squeezed ...
Central New York’s housing market is being reshaped by a single infrastructure project. The Micron chip fabrication facility under construction in Onondaga County has tightened inventory so severely that buyers are pushing 20 miles or more into surrounding counties to find available homes, creating a ripple effect that has doubled rents in some areas over ...
A single rental property reclassified from residential to commercial in Tennessee does not just change a label on a tax roll; it triggers a 60% increase in the property tax assessment. In Rutherford County, the state’s fastest-growing county with nearly 400,000 residents and $81 billion in assessed real estate, that reclassification is now being imposed ...
Los Angeles multifamily investors are sitting on the sidelines in large numbers, frustrated by local politics and rising operating costs. But the same regulatory environment discouraging existing owners is creating a specific kind of opportunity, one that hinges not on what a building produces today, but on what can be added to it. The shift ...
Over $112 billion has flowed into Opportunity Zones since the program’s creation, yet participation remains a fraction of what the program allows. Now that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has made Opportunity Zones permanent, the gap between available capital and actual deployment raises a practical question: what is keeping developers and investors on the ...
In most major U.S. metros, luxury residential prices have either recovered from pandemic-era disruptions or pushed past their 2019 peaks. In downtown Chicago, several of the city’s most invested-in neighborhoods, Gold Coast, Streeterville, Magnificent Mile, and parts of River North, remain flat to down over the past five years. That gap between Chicago’s trajectory and ...
The youth sports tourism industry has grown large enough to anchor entire mixed-use developments, not just stadiums or standalone facilities, but full districts of hotels, retail, restaurants, and multifamily housing built around tournament-capable venues. In Lebanon, Ohio, a development group is betting that a field sports facility focused on soccer and lacrosse can serve as ...
In Baltimore City, a property that sat vacant for 25 years with no roof and trees growing inside can become a fully rehabbed home selling to a buyer relocating from California or D.C. That transition is happening block by block, driven by coordination between developers, community associations, and city and state agencies that channels funding ...
A property that sits on the market too long in the Chicago suburbs doesn’t just lose momentum; it loses credibility with buyers. Listings that expire without a sale carry a stigma, and relisting at the same or higher price rarely solves the underlying problem. But agents working the Berwyn corridor and surrounding towns are finding ...
The New York metro area’s brokerage landscape is in the middle of a consolidation wave that hasn’t fully registered in national headlines. Small independent firms, many still operating out of storefronts in suburban towns, are finding it increasingly difficult to compete on technology, training, and compliance infrastructure against larger operations. According to Joe Moshe, founder ...
