Affluent families are changing how they buy luxury real estate in the Florida Keys, focusing on properties that serve as shared family assets rather than individual investments to be passed down later. This new approach is reshaping what qualifies as a trophy property, how deals are structured, and which homes command the highest prices, according ...
Florida’s luxury real estate market is facing a new obstacle that is disrupting deals even after contracts are signed: skyrocketing insurance costs. According to Brian Fairweather, Global Real Estate Advisor at ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, insurance premiums are now derailing sales that would have closed smoothly in previous years, especially for waterfront properties in South ...
Monroe County’s zoning restrictions are forcing vacation-rental investors in the Florida Keys to revise income projections as consumer spending patterns shift and regulatory hurdles grow more challenging to ignore. The surge of vacation rental investment that swept the Keys during the pandemic was built on assumptions that no longer hold, according to Michaela Walters, Broker ...
Charleston’s coastal real estate market is exposing buyers to thousands of dollars in unnecessary insurance costs due to a gap in local risk knowledge, according to a longtime specialist who says national insurance providers routinely overcharge by relying on broad risk assumptions rather than property-level details. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
While much of the United States has moved into buyer-friendly territory, Bergen County stands out as an exception. Despite rising inventory and lower transaction volumes, this part of Northern New Jersey continues to favor sellers, a dynamic that runs counter to national headlines. Across most U.S. markets, well-established patterns hold: higher interest rates usually lead ...
Charleston’s historic real estate market is operating under conditions that diverge from broader national trends. While luxury housing markets in other cities have seen prices fluctuate with interest rates and economic uncertainty, Charleston’s historic properties are holding their value and rarely appraise below the contract price. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
Despite advances in water recycling technology and growing concerns about water scarcity, the residential construction industry has been slow to adopt graywater recycling. According to Melissa Lubitz, Director of Business Development at Hydraloop, the biggest obstacle is not safety or performance, but reluctance among plumbers and other trades to install unfamiliar systems. “We deal very ...
Florida has introduced a financial incentive structure for water-conservation technology that is reshaping the economics of residential development and may give the state an edge over other high-growth markets. The combination of density credits and tax incentives is making gray water recycling systems financially attractive to developers, overcoming the construction industry’s usual reluctance to adopt ...
In real estate, the standard response to a slowdown is to cut expenses as transaction volume falls. But according to Montreal-based team leader Joëlle Bitar, who manages over 100 active listings, this strategy keeps most brokers from ever reaching the top of the industry. Bitar, who leads a 25-person team and ranks among the top ...
Aggressive financing and bundled perks from production builders are creating a growing problem in mid-market residential real estate, trapping recent buyers in homes they cannot resell at market value. According to one Pensacola-area agent, this challenge is especially acute in the $300,000 to $400,000 segment, where production builders dominate, and their incentives distort the normal ...
Sergio Sciortino, a broker associate with Keller Williams Village Square Realty who has worked in Bergen County for over 25 years, says the buyer mix at open houses and in transactions has returned to pre-pandemic norms, despite continued media reports of ongoing urban migration. “I read those headlines too, and I saw all that, and ...
Insurance underwriting standards have become powerful gatekeepers in coastal Florida real estate, forcing homeowners to replace functioning building components to meet requirements that often have little to do with the property’s actual condition. Kathy Batterton, team leader of The Kathy Batterton Team in Pensacola, says her team’s recent experience shows how insurance carriers now control ...
The expansion of rent control and vacancy stabilization regulations in New York City over the past five years has triggered a capital outflow that is shifting where institutional real estate investors allocate capital, according to Aaron Manoucheri, co-founder of multifamily operator Manoucheri Brothers. Manoucheri reports that both investors and owners are redirecting capital away from ...
Media headlines calling Cape Coral the worst housing market in America have sparked concern. Still, local real estate leader James Sommers, Team Leader at James Sommers Team, says these narratives overlook key facts about how the market is actually functioning. Instead of a collapse, Sommers sees Cape Coral returning to pre-pandemic sales activity, with transactions ...
A steady migration is redrawing the real estate landscape in secondary markets like Pensacola, as more buyers leave established neighborhoods and city centers in favor of rural properties with acreage. Local real estate professionals say this shift is not just a matter of lifestyle preference but is systematically altering demand patterns and development boundaries across ...
