The prevailing narrative about Austin, Texas, real estate in 2026 is that it’s a buyer’s market. National coverage has emphasized cooling prices, rising inventory, and a correction from pandemic-era peaks. But in West Austin, the cluster of communities including Bee Cave, Lakeway, Westlake, and Spicewood, the picture is considerably more fragmented. Depending on the neighborhood ...
The conventional narrative about Los Angeles housing centers on scarcity and rising costs. But on the rental side, the story has reversed, and most coverage has not caught up. According to Jesse Sasomsup, Founder & President of Earnest Homes, a residential property management firm operating in Los Angeles since 2015, rents across the city have ...
In a city where 95 to 98 percent of residential transactions involve homes roughly a century old, new construction doesn’t need to do much to stand out. But a small group of Chicago builders is pushing well past that low bar – delivering all-electric, high-performance homes into neighborhoods with significant vacant land, and finding that ...
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex added over a million residents in the last decade, more than any other metro area in the United States, according to Yaron Yashar, a Realtor with Fathom Realty who leads the Dallas Homes Group. But population growth alone has not insulated the housing market from inventory buildup. In August 2026, DFW ...
The appeal of building multifamily housing in fast-growing Sun Belt metros is obvious: job creation, population growth, and strong absorption fundamentals draw capital in waves. What gets less attention is the compounding operational stress that hits once dozens of developers enter the same market simultaneously and then, driven by lending cycles, start their projects within ...
The typical Austin homebuyer profile has shifted. While the city’s reputation as a tech magnet still holds, a growing segment of the market is driven not by young professionals chasing career growth but by empty nesters and retirees assembling households under one roof, buying homes large enough to accommodate adult children and grandchildren who aren’t ...
Some sellers in the Chattanooga metro are still anchoring their expectations to peak post-pandemic pricing, while today’s buyers have grown far more disciplined and value-conscious. The result is a market where correctly priced homes still move, but overpriced listings accumulate days on market until sellers accept a reality they could have acknowledged from the start. ...
Most housing markets follow interest rates, inventory cycles, or seasonal weather patterns. In Weber and Davis County, Utah, the dominant variable is simpler: when school starts and when it ends. In a region defined by large families and strong ties to local school systems, real estate activity compresses around the academic calendar in ways that ...
The mortgage industry’s cost structure has a built-in exclusion mechanism. The Mortgage Bankers Association estimated the average cost to originate a mortgage loan in 2024 at approximately $9,000 per loan once labor, technology, compliance, and overhead are counted, and other industry benchmarking puts the figure even higher, with credit unions reporting a per-loan average closer ...
The Washington, D.C. metro housing market has long benefited from a structural floor most American cities lack: a permanent federal employment base, a growing tech sector, and a steady pipeline of military and government-adjacent relocations. But that stability hasn’t insulated the region from a growing tension between what sellers believe their homes are worth and ...
In most markets, active inventory represents a fraction of recent sales. In Conroe, Texas, one of six cities within Montgomery County, there are currently 1,860 active properties on the market while only 2,275 sold over the past six months. That near-parity between supply and absorption tells a clear story about where this north-Houston-area market sits ...
The U.S. residential market has been stuck at roughly 4.1 million annualized transactions for four consecutive years, according to Craig McClelland, a partner at McClelland & Hahn Consulting who advises enterprise-scale real estate, proptech, and fintech companies on structural business changes. That figure becomes a structural problem when measured against the infrastructure many brokerages erected ...
In much of the country, residential real estate has shifted toward balance or outright buyer advantage over the past year. Parts of North Jersey haven’t followed that script. Some towns in Passaic, Morris, and Bergen counties are still operating with two to two-and-a-half months of inventory, well below the six months that typically signals equilibrium. ...
Industrial outdoor storage has spent the past few years pulling in more institutional capital than almost any other niche in commercial real estate. The sector is now estimated at roughly $218 billion, up from about $200 billion in 2025, nearly 9% growth in a single year, with transaction volume reaching $14–16 billion in 2025, up ...
Downtown Jersey City sits at a three-month absorption rate for resale condos, and once problem listings are removed (bad layouts, low ceilings, overpriced units), the effective supply drops closer to two months. That’s the backdrop against which a new wave of high-rise condo development is arriving in Hudson County, New Jersey, a building type that ...
