Low mortgage rates from prior years are trapping homeowners in place and fueling a severe inventory shortage in desirable suburban housing markets. Ellen Gonik, a realtor with Coldwell Banker Realty who has worked in Essex County, New Jersey, for 17 years, says this “rate lock-in” effect is preventing the normal turnover of homes, creating ripple ...
Homebuyers relocating to northern New Jersey often arrive with a list of must-haves: top-ranked schools, reasonable commute times to employment centers, diverse communities, and manageable property taxes. But Ellen Gonik, a Coldwell Banker Realty agent with 17 years of experience in Essex County, says buyers quickly learn they cannot meet all of these priorities at ...
Bobby Mathews, team leader at BluSkye Group with RE/MAX Foxfire in Ocala, Florida, says that in retirement-heavy real estate markets, buyer psychology has a more substantial influence on sales than interest rates or Federal Reserve policy. “Sixty percent of the contracts that we have on 55 and over communities are cash contracts,” Mathews says. In ...
The common belief that retirees move once into a 55-and-over community and stay for good is inaccurate, according to Bobby Mathews, team leader at BluSkye Group with RE/MAX Foxfire in Ocala, Florida. Instead, a significant number of retirees relocate multiple times within the same region, often moving between different 55-and-over communities as their real lifestyle ...
The affordable housing crisis in America is not primarily caused by construction costs or financing availability, according to Doug Ressler, Manager of Business Intelligence at Yardi Matrix. Ressler contends that outdated zoning laws are the main obstacle, a reality that many policymakers and developers avoid addressing directly. “The biggest inhibition to manufactured housing is the ...
Florida’s residential real estate market operates on a foundation that sets it apart from much of the country, according to Joe Murphy, team leader of the Joe Murphy Team and a veteran who has closed more than 1,400 homes in 23 years. The distinction is not just about climate or lifestyle, it’s about how buyers ...
A critical financing bottleneck is threatening the progress of affordable housing developments in Florida, according to a leading construction lender. The problem is not construction costs or a lack of demand, but a disconnect between how construction lenders and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) underwrite the same projects—specifically regarding property tax treatment under Florida’s Live Local Act. ...
The affordable housing crisis in many secondary markets is worsening unexpectedly: condos and townhomes, once reliable entry points for first-time buyers, are becoming unaffordable due to rising monthly costs unrelated to the purchase price. Koby Bishop, a broker associate with The Group Real Estate in Northern Colorado, reports that surging insurance rates on attached units ...
Nearly half of all new construction buyers in Miami’s luxury real estate market are international, according to Uri Sefchovich, a realtor with Coldwell Banker who focuses on properties above $1 million. This surge marks a decisive shift in how global capital is flowing into Miami, moving beyond the usual seasonal or vacation-home trends. International Buyers ...
A sharp divide has emerged in Florida’s residential real estate market, creating an opening for investors willing to look past surface flaws. Joe Murphy, a team leader who closed 82 transactions in 2025 and has sold over 1,400 homes in his 23-year career, sees a growing gap between what retail buyers want and where real ...
Local data from Northern Colorado reveals a real estate market that has consistently outperformed national averages in both appreciation and resilience, contradicting the volatile narrative often presented by national media. This divergence is creating mispricing opportunities for buyers and investors who understand the region’s unique risk profile. Koby Bishop, a broker associate with The Group ...
Uri Sefchovich, a luxury real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Miami, warns that investors seeking distressed properties and high rental returns are relying on outdated assumptions that no longer apply in today’s market. Distressed Inventory Has Disappeared Miami’s residential market no longer offers the distressed inventory that defined previous investment cycles. Sefchovich states that ...
The real estate industry faces a critical decision point about artificial intelligence that will shape which agents succeed in 2026 and beyond, according to Jeff Quintin, CEO of The Quintin Group. While some agents see AI as a threat to their jobs and others expect it to offer easy shortcuts, Quintin says both views miss ...
Veteran broker Jeff Quintin, CEO of The Quintin Group, says the real estate team model is undergoing a structural change that challenges long-standing assumptions about how agents grow their businesses. After decades of building a top-producing local team, Quintin now operates two parallel organizations with distinctly different approaches — and the newer, digital network is ...
The short-term rental investment surge that defined much of the pandemic-era real estate market has ended in coastal Florida, according to a local agent monitoring the trend. The primary reason is not regulation or oversupply alone, but a decline in returns as property prices have outpaced rental income growth. “We’re seeing fewer Airbnbs. The market ...
