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High-net-worth buyers are increasingly purchasing Florida luxury real estate through financial intermediaries, often without plans to live in the homes. The shift is reshaping pricing strategies, marketing, and negotiation dynamics across the state’s top luxury markets. The Intermediary Takeover A new model is emerging in Florida’s luxury real estate scene, according to Chris Anthony, senior ...
Manufactured housing is gaining traction as an institutional asset class, according to Gene Kim, who leads manufactured housing origination at Ascent Developer Solutions. Kim and other industry professionals cite improved product quality and the need for affordable housing as key reasons factory-built homes are attracting institutional investors and dedicated lenders. Kim describes the affordability gap ...
Developers are actively acquiring single-story warehouses south of the Queensborough Bridge and plan to replace them with five- to seven-story residential buildings. This strategy is creating a new arbitrage opportunity in Queens as rezoning unlocks higher-value residential development on former industrial sites. A growing group of investors is targeting industrial properties in Queens for residential ...
Sophisticated buyers who once treated contamination as a manageable cost are now walking away from industrial properties with environmental issues, sharply narrowing what qualifies as investable in Northern Brooklyn. Environmental due diligence has shifted from a routine step to a decisive filter for Brooklyn’s industrial investors. Eitan Hakami, a licensed associate broker at Greiner-Maltz Real ...
Jersey City investors are confronting a costly reality: extended holding periods are eroding profits at a pace few anticipated when they structured their deals. As properties linger unsold for months, the ongoing expenses of interest, taxes, insurance, and utilities are cutting deeply into returns—often more than any price correction. Sandy Cuevas, a realtor with Weichert ...
After years of soaring construction expenses, Kansas City developers are finally seeing some relief. Labor costs are easing as contractors, faced with fewer projects over the past year, are more willing to negotiate. However, material prices remain unpredictable, and tariffs could quickly erase any savings, making the current window for affordable building both narrow and ...
Higher acquisition costs in New York often deter out-of-state investors. Still, these buyers may be overlooking the long-term returns that set New York’s outer-borough markets apart, according to Patrick Dominique, a realtor at One Stop Agency who works with investors across Queens, Nassau County, and Brooklyn. Many investors compare New York’s entry prices to those ...
Real estate development has long been out of reach for all but the largest institutional investors, primarily due to a single structural constraint: illiquidity. When an institution commits capital to a multi-year development project, the funds are tied up until the building is completed and sold, often for four years or more. During this period, ...
The investment landscape in Northern New Jersey real estate has shifted significantly over the last 18 months, according to Artur Tyszka, co-lead of the Tyszka Team at Keller Williams in Wayne. While inventory remains tight and prices continue to rise, the traditional formula of buying, renovating, and selling properties no longer guarantees strong returns. Investor ...
A wave of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) originated during the pandemic is about to reset, setting up a surge of forced transactions in Manhattan’s real estate market. According to Jared Antin, executive director at Brown Harris Stevens, this shift will drive sales activity in New York regardless of buyers’ views on prices or Federal Reserve policy. ...
Senior housing projects built over the past three to four years are becoming a significant source of risk in the sector, as many are failing to lease up as projected and now face refinancing challenges with the maturity of their initial bridge loans, according to Nachum Soroka, Vice President of the Healthcare Group at Eastern ...
Healthcare real estate, particularly skilled nursing facilities, is attracting new capital as lenders recognize a deposit advantage that multifamily and office properties cannot match, according to Nachum Soroka, Vice President of the Healthcare Group at Eastern Union. Regional banks, debt funds, and alternative life insurance companies are increasingly interested in senior housing. This is driven ...
Rental prices in the Hudson Valley have compressed so close to mortgage payments that prospective tenants are increasingly saving for down payments instead of renting, according to Christina Wilger, a licensed real estate salesperson with RE/MAX Benchmark Realty Group. The Hudson Valley rental market has entered a period of stagnation, diverging from the region’s generally ...
Miami’s rental market saw unprecedented demand last summer. Properties leased within days, rents rose almost every month, and investors scrambled to acquire assets. But over the past five months, rental rates have eased, luxury condos are taking longer to lease, and some investors who bought at the peak are reconsidering their approach. Joseph Hunike, COO ...
Building code compliance is creating sharply different investment outcomes for coastal properties, even when those homes sit just feet apart. Edward Freeman Jr., Managing Partner at The Freeman Group, says the key factor is whether a property is built above or below the base flood elevation. This technical detail can mean the difference between paying ...
