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Short-term rental income sounds like a straightforward way to offset a vacation home’s carrying costs. In Palm Desert’s private golf communities, the reality is more layered, shaped by permission, timing, and upkeep in ways that aren’t obvious from a listing price alone. One Palm Desert golf community allows short-term rentals, including Airbnb and VRBO. In ...
Las Vegas looks like a short-term rental goldmine on paper. Millions of visitors, a 24/7 entertainment economy, no state income tax. But investors who show up expecting to buy a property and list it on Airbnb are running into a wall of regulations that most outsiders never see coming. The city’s investor-friendly reputation masks a ...
The classic house-flip playbook – buy cheap, renovate fast, sell high – depends on a market where buyers are plentiful and willing to pay premiums for move-in-ready homes. In the Santa Clarita Valley right now, that condition does not exist. With buyer traffic thin and homes sitting longer than they have in years, some local ...
If you own a vacation rental property on Florida’s 30A and manage it yourself from out of state, the regulatory environment in 2026 may be working against you more than you realize. Property managers operating in Walton County describe a compliance landscape designed to rein in bad actors, but one that functionally penalizes any owner ...
Few real estate markets in the Northeast tell a more layered story than Newburgh, New York. Situated on the Hudson River about 90 minutes north of Manhattan, this small city of roughly 30,000 people has spent decades navigating the consequences of mid-20th century urban planning decisions that left entire neighborhoods hollowed out. Today, it sits ...
If you are shopping for a home or investment property in Los Angeles in 2026, you may have noticed something about the available inventory: a growing share of it was not built from scratch. It was converted. Former industrial buildings turned into lofts. Old warehouses now housing creative offices. Structures that once served manufacturing repurposed ...
For a brief window when mortgage rates hovered near 3 percent, buying a vacation rental condo on Maui was straightforward math. Borrow cheap money for 30 years, collect nightly rental income that comfortably exceeded carrying costs, and build equity in a place you could visit a couple of weeks a year. The numbers worked on ...
Along the shores of Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake in upstate New York, real estate operates on a different frequency than the surrounding region. While much of the Southern Tier has settled into steady, modest appreciation, lakefront properties continue to draw bidding wars, sell above asking price, and attract buyers paying cash. For investors eyeing ...
For decades, buying a rental property in the San Francisco Bay Area looked like a sure thing. Prices climbed, rents rose, and a two- or four-unit building could generate income while appreciating steadily. That calculus no longer holds. Expanding rent control laws and tenant protections have made multi-unit rental investing in parts of Silicon Valley ...
When buyers relocate to the Buffalo area, they tend to gravitate toward the same well-known suburbs: Amherst, Williamsville, and the established neighborhoods of North Buffalo. Grand Island, sitting on a river island accessible only by bridge, gets overlooked by people who did not grow up near it. Agents who work the area say that oversight ...
Multifamily properties in Northern New Jersey are selling fast and well above asking price. That activity looks like a clear signal to investors, but agents working the market argue that the bidding intensity is outrunning the fundamentals for buyers who need to finance, and that the gap between what these properties are selling for and ...
The purchase prices look almost too good to be true. In Newburgh, New York, a small Hudson Valley city of roughly 30,000 people spanning three square miles, properties can be listed for figures that would barely cover a parking spot in Manhattan. Investors who spot those numbers on a spreadsheet often assume the hard part ...
Buying a vacation rental property on Marco Island sounds straightforward: a resort island that swells from 17,000 year-round residents to more than 60,000 during peak season, with a steady stream of visitors who need somewhere to stay. The demand case is obvious. What’s less obvious, and what catches investors off guard, is that some of ...
US buyers shopping for a second home or investment property abroad have historically gravitated toward the familiar: a beach condo in Mexico, a pied-à-terre in Europe, a vacation property in the Caribbean. But brokers working in international new development sales are seeing demand land in less expected places, and Costa Rica’s luxury resort corridor is ...
Albany, New York does not show up on most national lists of hot real estate markets. It lacks the name recognition of Boston or the scale of New York City. But investors who have been priced out of those larger metros are increasingly looking at the Capital Region, and agents working the market say the ...
