Homeowners in Lake Nona, Florida, who purchased between 2021 and 2023 and then refinanced to pull out equity are now discovering they cannot sell without writing a check at closing. The pattern is still small in scale, but it carries echoes of a much larger crisis, and it is already showing up in closed transactions. ...
Converting a parcel from general commercial zoning to a mixed-use planned unit development in Lebanon, Ohio, took less effort than getting a routine construction permit in a larger city nearby. That speed gap between small municipalities and major metros has direct consequences for homeowners and buyers near rezoned corridors; the commercial character of a neighborhood ...
In most housing markets, the question “what did that house sell for?” anchors every negotiation. Buyers pull comps, sellers cite recent closings, and both sides argue over which sale best reflects current value. But in North Texas, a nondisclosure state where sold prices never appear on public records, that anchor barely exists. As of mid-2026, ...
The instinct for most real estate investors is to follow the crowd, buy where population is growing, where demand is rising, where prices are climbing. On Long Island, that instinct may be exactly wrong. The areas gaining residents have already priced in the demand, while areas losing population may offer entry points that generate better ...
By September 28, 2026, Florida must submit its recommended list of Opportunity Zone census tracts to the U.S. Treasury, according to Frances Kern Mennone, Managing Director of Industry Consultants & Advisors at FBT Gibbons, an AmLaw 200 law firm with offices in Cincinnati and Naples. Once finalized, the map stays fixed for a full decade. ...
In most residential markets, agents anticipate demand by watching school calendars, interest rate movements, or seasonal migration patterns. In Eldorado, New Mexico, none of those signals apply. The buyer pool consists almost entirely of empty nesters and retirees making discretionary lifestyle moves. These are people who defer purchases indefinitely until they’re personally ready, then act ...
The pandemic-era suburban boom that pushed buyers into the far reaches of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro is unwinding. Properties in outer markets are struggling to attract buyers while demand reconcentrates closer to established urban nodes, according to Yaron Yashar, a Realtor at Fathom Realty who works primarily in the north DFW corridor. For investors who ...
Jersey City’s downtown condo market reports a three-month absorption rate, but according to Patrick Southern, Team Leader at SERHANT (Properties by Southern), roughly one-third of that inventory cannot compete with new construction – leaving an effective supply closer to two months for buyers seeking quality units. The Three-Month Number Overstates What’s Available A three-month absorption ...
Markets that experienced extreme pandemic-era appreciation are not snapping back to equilibrium. In Montgomery County, Texas, the reset is structural, slow-moving, and widely misunderstood by investors expecting a quick rebound. The Scale of the Problem When real estate markets began softening in 2023, many observers framed it as a temporary cooling period before the next ...
When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled into the deal as though it were incidental. At firms specializing in industrial outdoor storage, analysts argue this is a mispricing. The land itself generates ...
When buyers relocate to a mid-size city like Chattanooga, they choose a home based on price, lot size, and proximity to restaurants or schools. Traffic rarely makes the short list – the whole appeal of a smaller market is that you leave gridlock behind. But in a city growing as fast as Chattanooga, the highway ...
Lenders lose money on small mortgages. That single economic fact prices out the buyers who can least afford to be priced out – not through bias, but through arithmetic that treats a $100,000 loan the same as a $500,000 one in processing costs. According to Pavan Agarwal, President & CEO of Sun West Mortgage Company, ...
The conventional wisdom about empty nesters is simple: the kids leave, you sell the big house, you move somewhere smaller. In the Austin market right now, the opposite is happening. Retirees and late-career buyers are purchasing larger homes on the city’s outskirts – not to fill rooms with furniture, but to bring adult children and ...
In the D.C. metro area this summer, homes are sitting longer than they did a year ago. Many sellers instinctively slash the asking price. But that reflex may be costing them money. Time on market is not always a pricing problem. Sometimes the issue is presentation, timing, or simply the pace at which the right ...
When property taxes rise sharply in a market where rents cannot keep pace, landlords do not simply absorb the cost. They sell. In Montgomery County, Texas, that pattern is accelerating. It is creating a ripple effect: renters are displaced, the market floods with additional inventory, and buyers gain leverage. Maria Borrego, a Realtor with 20 ...
