Perspectives

Residential transactions in Bergen County, New Jersey are being limited by a long-term shortage of homes for sale, not by interest rates, according to local agents who say national housing c...

In Bergen County, buyers who delay homeownership while waiting for lower interest rates or more inventory may miss out on approximately 9% annual home price appreciation. According to Cathy ...

Investors targeting northern New Jersey should focus on small multifamily residential properties in commuter rail towns, according to Cathy Banu, team leader of the Cathy Banu Real Estate Te...

A fragmented underwriting system creates persistent delays as regional processing centers struggle with national deal volume. The Small Business Administration (SBA) loan process is contribu...

Strategic underpricing is now the norm in Long Island’s real estate market, turning the asking price into a marketing device rather than a true indicator of what sellers expect to receive....

Minneapolis eliminated single-family zoning citywide, allowing duplexes and triplexes in neighborhoods previously limited to detached homes. This change led to more construction and kept ren...

Florida’s ongoing construction boom has created a labor market in which skilled subcontractors wield more power than builders or clients, and a shortage of experienced tradespeople has bec...

Multi-family properties can offer a faster, more accessible path to homeownership than single-family homes. Still, most buyers are unaware of this option, according to Tameeka Williams, a re...

The Canadian housing market is not a single, unified system — it is a collection of distinct local markets shaped by varying supply and demand, policy decisions, and migration patterns. Ye...

Long Island landlords face a significant financial risk: eviction timelines in New York can extend from 12 to 18 months. During that period, property owners may receive no rental income whil...

Real estate investors often focus on market timing and interest rates. However, Kerie Choiniere, a real estate agent with Venture Real Estate and an active investor in distressed properties...

Real estate agents in Connecticut’s fix-and-flip market are increasingly competing on operational and financial expertise rather than sales ability alone. Some agents are providing investo...

Rising regulatory and compliance costs have pushed the per-unit price of subsidized affordable housing above that of market-rate projects, according to Marc Norman, Associate Dean at NYU Sch...

For years, Litchfield County in northwestern Connecticut was a well-kept secret – a place where New Yorkers retreated on Friday afternoons and left by Sunday evening. That dynamic has ...

Jeff Biebuyck of Frontgate Real Estate on Surviving the Slow Seasons Real estate is one of the few careers where you can feel like a top performer and financially stretched in the same morni...