Sacramento’s reputation as a value alternative to the Bay Area helped fuel years of inbound migration and rising prices. Now, with that migration wave largely absorbed and economic uncertainty keeping both buyers and sellers cautious, price reductions are becoming routine – and no neighborhood, however popular, is exempt. Jim Anderson, an agent with Windermere Signature ...
Chesterfield County, just south of Richmond, Virginia, doesn’t generate the kind of attention that faster-moving East Coast markets attract. But the area is in the middle of a residential building cycle that is unusually large for a market its size – and so far, local demand appears to be absorbing it without the oversupply problems ...
When a buyer purchases a house, the fundamental question is already answered: a home exists on the property, and its permitted uses are largely established. When that same buyer purchases vacant land in rural Northwest Florida, almost nothing is settled. Zoning restrictions, septic requirements, flood zones, wetlands, and building eligibility all need to be verified ...
Two large-scale municipal bets are converging in Rochester, New York: the city is replacing a mid-century expressway loop that cut downtown off from surrounding neighborhoods, and it is overhauling its entire zoning code and map to better match how properties are actually used. The first effort has already produced visible results. The second is now ...
Property management operators have been making the same request of the software market for years: put everything in one place. They want fewer logins, fewer vendors, and fewer places where data gets stranded. The preference shows up in industry research. In a 2026 Property Management Benchmark Report, a vendor-produced survey, 45% of operators said they ...
South of Wichita, Kansas, the obstacle to closing a sale has moved from the list price to the buyer’s wallet. Mortgage rates in the sevens have shrunk what buyers can borrow and left them with less cash to bring to closing. In towns like Belle Plaine, Mulvane, and Oxford, sellers increasingly make up the difference: ...
Inventory on the Metro East side of St. Louis has nearly doubled in the past year, climbing from roughly 1.6 months of supply to between 2.3 and 2.5 months, according to Jean Lewis, who has worked the Metro East market for 29 years with Jean Lewis Homes at Keller Williams Pinnacle. Yet well-priced homes in ...
The DFW suburbs have spent years absorbing population growth and new construction at a pace few metro areas can match. But in Burleson, a city in Johnson County about 20 minutes south of downtown Fort Worth, the market is splitting along a clear price line. Homes priced under $300,000 draw steady showing traffic, according to ...
Orange County, California, has long been treated as a single housing market in national coverage. But a widening gap between condos and detached homes is reshaping how properties move – and what they sell for – in communities like Rancho Santa Margarita, a master-planned city in the county’s southern interior. The split is not driven ...
A sudden rise in mortgage rates has not landed evenly across Hampton Roads, Virginia. Over three weeks to a month, rates climbed almost a full percentage point, according to Bubba Hutchison, who leads Hutchison & Co. at RE/MAX Connect in Yorktown. Freddie Mac’s weekly survey tracked the same climb: the average 30-year fixed rate rose ...
For most of the past two decades, the conventional playbook for condominium buyers in San Francisco followed a predictable arc: buy a studio, sell in five to seven years, move up to a one-bedroom, repeat. Appreciation was reliable enough that buyers could treat each purchase as a stepping stone. That assumption no longer holds, according ...
Harford County, Maryland, never gave back its pandemic-era gains. Prices in the rural county 30 minutes north of Baltimore rose slowly and without a dip from 2020 until about May of this year, according to Lee Tessier, who leads the Lee Tessier Team of eXp Realty in Bel Air. Over the same stretch, he says, ...
Data center construction is pushing smaller buyers to the back of the line for sand, gravel, and stone. Wherever large campuses go up, they claim local supply before anyone else places an order. When a quarry commits its stock to one of those projects, the homeowner building a pool or the small developer pouring a ...
Brokers tend to talk about MLS fragmentation as a tax on growth – the cost of joining one more system every time a team pushes into new territory. For the brokerages large enough to pay their way around it, fragmentation also works as a competitive barrier against everyone who can’t. Close to 500 MLSs still ...
