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 the state in large numbers, leaving many coastal homeowners with limited options and sharply higher premiums. What experts working in these markets ...
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 much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
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 single year, and buyers walking away from deals because the numbers no longer made sense. That period is now ending. Legislative reforms passed in ...
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 still. That is the situation resale sellers in Clermont, Florida, are facing right now, and agents working the area say the sellers who ...
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. The pitch makes sense on paper, lower prices, lower taxes, proximity to New York City. But agents working the market say the gap between what ...
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 they are being applied now, and the results will reshape what Altadena looks like for decades, in ways most displaced residents never agreed to and ...
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 numbers say the comparisons are being misread, and that the most important story is not in the totals at all. As of early June 2026, Altadena had issued ...
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 three or four years, they know the neighborhood, and now they want to buy something larger – a three-bedroom, enough space for ...
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 follow this market closely are already pricing the project into their decisions, which means buyers who have not heard of it may be entering the ...
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, is what actually holds and builds value. The house on top is almost secondary. Dana Carmel, founder of Dana Carmel Group at Represent Realty, a boutique brokerage serving ...
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 reliable way to judge value. But after 25 years of selling real estate across Brooklyn’s neighborhoods, Rudolph Saint Walker says that ...
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 favor and that patient, aggressive negotiation will get them a deal. The reality, according to veteran observers, is that buyers who act on that assumption ...
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 striking out are frequently making the same structural mistakes in how they put together an offer, and fixing those mistakes ...
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 property values have pushed assessed values and tax bills so high that some long-time owners can no longer justify holding on. The very strength of the market is ...
