When sellers offer buyers a credit for an aging HVAC or water heater rather than replacing the system outright, they often believe they are making the financially conservative choice. According to Kathy Sokolic, Co-Founder and Realtor at Mueller Residential Group with Realty Austin | Compass, there is a smarter path, and the reason has more ...
Most acquisition models for hotels are built on assumptions that hold across a wide range of American markets: labor costs that escalate on a predictable line, commodity inputs priced against national indices, and a supply chain that delivers on a schedule a general contractor can plan around. Those assumptions are reasonable in most places. In ...
When a Phoenix, Arizona business owner does not like the numbers coming back from a bid, the instinct is often to go out and collect a few more. Mike Marden, a registered architect and licensed general contractor and founder of WDS, a Phoenix-based integrated design-build firm, says that instinct usually backfires, and the extra round ...
Maplewood, NJ, and its sister town of South Orange, NJ, are heading into the fall with prices and demand still running well ahead of last year, according to the weekly market data tracked by Mark Slade Homes. Mark Slade has built his own way of reading these markets, drawing upon one of his two degrees in ...
For all the search tools in real estate, most still expect a buyer or agent to type filters into a form. One new construction platform is testing a different front door: a conversation. Search by Talking, in English or Spanish Builders Update, a national database for new construction, has built a tool it calls Home ...
For a home watch operator covering dozens of properties across a wide territory, the order in which houses get visited each day is not a small detail. It can be the difference between a smooth schedule and a frustrating one. HomeLedger, the company behind the home watch platform Watch Tower, has been studying exactly where ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 31, 2026 – CHORD Real Estate has announced the third annual Invest Panama Summit, scheduled for January 14 through January 17, 2027, in Panama City, Panama. Registration is now open at chordrealestate.com/investpanamasummit. The summit is a four-day guided experience that brings prospective buyers and investors directly to Panama’s real estate market. The ...
*Photo credit: Sonja Zinke Most buyers who come to the Litchfield Hills, Hudson Valley, and Southern Berkshires arrive with a specific idea of what they are purchasing. A weekend property. A place to decompress. Somewhere the children can run outside, and the city can feel, briefly, very far away. What many of them do not ...
The acquisition of Varsity on K expands HH Group’s presence in Washington, D.C., advances its strategy of investing in supply-constrained, university-anchored markets, and pushes the firm’s assets under management past the $1 billion milestone. SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug., 2026 – HH Group, a vertically integrated private equity real estate firm specializing in U.S. student housing ...
Cautious buyers waiting for rates to fall before entering the Beaverton market may be optimizing for the wrong variable, and that mistake could cost them when conditions shift, according to Carey Hughes, Principal Broker at Carey Hughes Homes. The lesson is easier to see when Beaverton is read against a hot market like the Bay ...
The international real estate conversation has expanded considerably in recent years. Buyers who once focused exclusively on domestic markets are increasingly curious about what ownership looks like elsewhere – not as a replacement for anything they already have, but as an addition to it. Four markets appear consistently in those conversations, and each one serves ...
New thekaufmanco.com marks the completion of a year-long effort to bring Daniel Kaufman’s real estate, workforce housing, and venture investments into a single integrated platform LOS ANGELES, CA, September, 2026 — Kaufman & Company, the permanent capital holding company founded and led by Daniel Kaufman, today announced the full launch of its platform with the ...
In a market where investors value certainty, some ground-up developers are championing a more flexible approach to exit timing – arguing that staying responsive to market conditions, rather than committing to a fixed date, is what ultimately protects and grows investor capital. Dusten Hendrickson, Founder & President of Mailbox Money Real Estate & Private Equity, ...
In title operations, the pace of automation deployment can shape how a client relationship grows. Two projects from TrueFocus Automation‘s history illustrate the point, according to Jimmy Lewis: one involving a large amount of e-recording volume, the other a compressed title plant build with a firm deadline. In both cases, the time between discovery and ...
With buyer options at their highest levels in years, sellers in Marion County, Florida, who price their homes thoughtfully are finding a real advantage in today’s market. Well-positioned listings capture attention quickly, while thoughtful pricing sends buyers a clear, confident signal about a home’s value. Bobby Mathews, Team Leader for BluSkye Group at RE/MAX Foxfire, ...
