For the past three years, buying a home on Florida’s Gulf Coast has come with a hidden cost that shows up long after the purchase contract is signed: insurance. Carriers pulled out of ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for m...
For the past several years, the story coming out of Florida’s coastal real estate market has been one of insurance chaos, carriers fleeing the state, premiums doubling or tripling in a...
Selling a home in a market flooded with new construction is hard enough. Selling one when the builders down the street are offering sub-5% interest rates and covering closing costs is harder...
Investors looking at upstate New York’s Catskill area as an alternative to the expensive downstate market are arriving with one set of assumptions and finding a different set of facts....
State housing laws written to ease California’s homelessness crisis were never designed for a town that lost two-thirds of its buildings in a single fire. But that is exactly where the...
Permit dashboards and rebuild tallies have become a way for outside observers to measure how well California’s fire-hit communities are recovering. But the people living within those n...
A house on the water in New Jersey used to be out of reach for most buyers. That is changing. Waterfront properties that were selling for $600,000 a year ago are now moving closer to $375,00...
There is a specific kind of buyer that Queens’ new development has not been serving well. They already live in the borough. They have been renting in Long Island City or Astoria for th...
A 29-acre waterfront development has not yet broken ground in Flushing, Queens. Rezoning is still being sorted out. The timeline between phases has not been finalized. And yet, investors who...
In most housing markets, buyers pay for square footage, finishes, and floor plans. In Silicon Valley’s highest-demand towns, the land itself, the lot, the location, the neighborhood, i...
Most people shopping for a home in Brooklyn watch one number above all others: the price per square foot. It shows up on every listing, it’s easy to compare, and it feels like a reliab...
A quieter quarter can be deceiving. Experts working in Bergen County, New Jersey, are pushing back against a narrative circulating among buyers: that the pendulum has finally swung in their ...
Most buyers who lose a bidding war assume they were outbid on price. In the Hudson Valley right now, that is often not the full story. Agents working the market say the buyers who keep strik...
For decades, waterfront properties on Lake Champlain barely changed hands. Families held onto their cottages for generations, and the idea of selling was almost unthinkable. But rising prope...
