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Coldwell Banker in Miami, warns that investors seeking distressed properties and high rental returns are relying on outdated assumptions that no longer apply in today’s market.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 ...
In markets with active new development, builders have a structural advantage over individual home sellers, according to Florida Realtor Zach DiFilippo of Coldwell Banker Premier Properties in St. Augustine. DiFilippo points to the vertical integration of builder operations — where construction companies typically own the lender and the title company — as a key reason ...
Insurance has become a frequent obstacle in Florida real estate transactions. Still, one agent argues that deals collapse mainly when agents fail to anticipate and address insurance issues early, rather than because insurance is inherently unmanageable. “It’s easy for a deal to fall apart because of insurance if you don’t know what you’re doing,” says ...
Investor demand for South Florida condominiums has sharply declined as the economics of ownership no longer support positive cash flow, according to Melissa Galada, a realtor with RJM Real Estate Corp who specializes in the Boca Raton and Delray Beach markets. Galada reports that properties which would have attracted immediate investor interest two or three ...
The New York City office market has changed dramatically in the past two years, driven by more than just return-to-office mandates or the rise of hybrid work. A decisive trend is now determining which buildings succeed and which struggle: tenants with lease flexibility are actively moving to higher-quality buildings and better neighborhoods, often for rents ...
The 2024 hurricane season has heightened concerns about the risk to Florida real estate. Still, the pattern of actual damage tells a more specific story, according to Jose Cardenas, principal at Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. The majority of flood-damaged homes were older, single-story structures built decades before current building codes, not modern construction. “Most of ...
The debate over return-to-office policies has centered on mandates and compliance, but beneath the surface, companies are rethinking the purpose of their office space. Michael Rait, Founder and President of BR Design Associates, says businesses are no longer treating offices simply as places where work is done. Instead, they are redesigning them to support specific ...
Over the past 18 months, the balance of power in commercial real estate leasing has shifted, according to Michael Rait, Founder and President of BR Design Associates. Landlords, responding to tighter supply and steady demand, are no longer simply offering cash allowances for tenant improvements. Instead, they are providing more substantial, standardized build-out packages—often categorized ...
South Florida’s real estate market has cooled sharply from the pandemic-driven surge of 2021-2022, but many homeowners have yet to adjust their expectations. Melissa Galada, a realtor with RJM Real Estate Corp who has served the Boca Raton and Delray Beach markets since 1999, says that sellers who bought during the boom are now the ...
The Phoenix metropolitan area must prepare for an influx of 1.1 million new residents over the next 15 years, a challenge that is already forcing developers, investors, and policymakers to rethink how and where the region can grow. According to Tom Johnston, Executive Director of the WP Carey Center for Real Estate and Finance at ...
Mom-and-pop landlords who built up portfolios of single-family rental homes over decades are discovering their properties are worth far less than anticipated, as institutional buyers focus on income streams rather than individual home values. Tom Johnston, Executive Director of the WP Carey Center for Real Estate and Finance at Arizona State University, says the single-family ...
