Some of the most qualified home buyers in Southern California aren’t shopping for homes right now. They’re renting. According to Carly Zamani, founder and broker of zRE Group in Laguna Niguel, California, many homeowners who sold in the past three to four years are now leasing while they wait for mortgage rates to come down. ...
Inventory in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has been building for months, and homes are sitting far longer than many sellers anticipated. Average days on market in some parts of Dallas proper have stretched to around five months, according to brokers working the area. Yet buyer activity remains muted, held back by interest rate sensitivity, indecision, ...
The average home in Billings, Montana, now costs around $385,000, and in the view of Damian Forrester, who leads Forrester Group Real Estate, brokered by eXp Realty of Montana, a buyer needs something close to two household incomes to purchase one. New construction starts around $450,000 and climbs from there, putting it out of reach ...
Most real estate coverage focuses on markets where prices are the main barrier to homeownership. In Chester, a small town in southern Illinois’s Randolph County, the average home price sits around $138,000, according to Robin Bert, a broker with Worth Clark Realty who has sold in the area for ten years. The barrier is not ...
El Segundo, California, sits just south of Los Angeles International Airport – a municipality of roughly 17,000 residents in a single zip code. The city has adopted mixed-use and residential overlays meant to open the door to new housing, but little has been built under them. Interest rates climbed almost as soon as the city ...
Multifamily sponsors who underwrote three-to-five-year holds are refinancing and extending rather than selling into a market that won’t deliver the exits they projected. Lenders have largely gone along. Through 2024 and 2025, modifying and extending loans to push maturities out was the default response to the refinancing squeeze, and many of those extended loans are ...
Foreclosure activity has been climbing nationally for more than a year. ATTOM Data Solutions reported twelve consecutive months of year-over-year increases in national foreclosure filings as of early 2026, even as levels remain well below historic norms. Georgia is one of the states where that climb has been sharpest: ATTOM’s mid-year 2026 report put Georgia ...
Across much of the San Francisco Bay Area, the homes that once served as the first rung for young professionals are struggling to find buyers. In East Bay cities like Hayward, Fremont, Newark, Pleasanton, Dublin, and Livermore, prices are falling month over month, and the decline hasn’t stopped yet. Townhomes and condos are taking the ...
The Pocono Mountains real estate market is not one market. It is several, running at different speeds and serving different buyers – and the gap between them is widening in ways that matter for investors trying to deploy capital in the region. In the gated communities around Tobyhanna – specifically Pocono Country Place and Pocono ...
A county of 30,000 residents doesn’t typically land distribution centers from AutoZone, Amazon, FedEx, and Target in the span of a few years. But New Kent County, Virginia – a largely rural stretch between Richmond and Williamsburg along Interstate 64 – has done exactly that, and the infrastructure demands are catching up fast. A $104 ...
South Weber, Utah, sits in a canyon between Layton and Ogden along the Wasatch Front, with a population of about 8,200 and roughly 2,400 housing units. By most measures, it is a small market. But it faces a structural constraint most growing Utah communities do not share: the town is approaching its buildable limit, with ...
Alameda, California, sits less than ten miles from downtown San Francisco, connected to Oakland by bridges and a tunnel. It has roughly 80,000 residents, some of the oldest housing stock in the state, and school ratings that draw families priced out of San Francisco’s lottery-based system. Yet for a city this close to one of ...
A lender paying a full-time processor $30,000 to $40,000 a year bears that cost whether the company closes five loans in a month or fifty. That math has become harder to justify industry-wide. According to Mortgage Bankers Association data, average production profit per loan sat at just 25 basis points in the second quarter of ...
Tracy, California sits roughly an hour from San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento – a position that has long made it a magnet for Bay Area commuters seeking more house for less money. But in 2026, that calculus has grown more complicated. Inventory is climbing, homes are averaging about 45 days on the market, according ...
For most of the past six years, sellers in New Lenox – a southwest suburb of Chicago with strong schools and relatively affordable housing – could list a home with loose pricing and still attract multiple offers within days. That dynamic is changing, according to Tyler Burlison, a listing-focused agent with eXp Realty who has ...
