Pasco County, Florida, has a reputation problem. For years, people who knew the Tampa Bay area thought of it as farmland, aging homes, and not much else. That picture is nearly a decade old, but it persists, and for buyers still acting on it, the gap between perception and reality is closing in ways that ...
A ballot measure arriving in November 2026 could do more to change Central Florida’s housing market than any interest rate move in recent memory. Real estate professionals in the region are watching it closely, and some argue that buyers who understand what is at stake will be better positioned than those who don’t. Lisa Foor, ...
Ask someone from Tampa or Clearwater about Pasco County, and the answer has historically been predictable: old, rural, farmland, nothing going on. According to Cory Byrd, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker F.I. Grey & Son Residential, Inc., who grew up in the Tampa-Clearwater area before relocating to Pasco, that perception was once grounded in reality ...
Sussex County, Delaware, is frequently cited as one of the most tax-friendly places to live in the United States. Property taxes are among the lowest in the nation, and the overall cost of living compares favorably to neighboring states like New Jersey and Maryland. Yet according to Dustin Parker, Founder and CEO of The Parker ...
Florida’s new condo inspection and reserve laws were supposed to make buyers more cautious. On the Sarasota barrier islands, they have done something more complicated: they have pushed prices down and flooded the market with inventory, but buyers who know how to navigate the new rules are finding deals that would have been impossible two ...
The conventional explanation for why so few homes are for sale right now is that sellers are trapped by their mortgages. They locked in rates of 2.9 or 3 percent during the pandemic years, the story goes, and they refuse to trade those rates for today’s 6.5 percent. That explanation is not wrong, but real ...
Not every Boston suburb that rezoned for new apartments will actually get them. The towns that treated a recent state mandate as a genuine opportunity are already attracting developers. The ones that found ways to comply while limiting real change technically are likely to stay largely the same, and that distinction matters if you are ...
Finding a rental in South Florida has always been competitive. But the barrier to getting approved has risen in ways that catch prospective tenants off guard, and the standards being applied in 2026 are stricter than what most people moving to the area are prepared for. Brokers working the South Florida rental market are flagging ...
Buyers priced out of South Florida’s coastal markets are increasingly looking inland, and agents working rural Marion County say the migration is real and still building. The pattern is driven by a widening affordability gap: as South Florida home prices rose steeply during and after the pandemic, ownership moved out of reach for buyers who ...
Most buyers shopping for a condo in South Florida zero in on location first – the zip code, the view, the proximity to the water. But brokers active in the Miami market argue that buyers are focusing on the wrong variable. In a market where conditions vary sharply from one building to the next, the ...
Sarasota looks straightforward from a distance: warm weather, beaches, a real downtown, prices that still undercut Tampa and St. Pete. For buyers relocating from out of state, the value case seems obvious. What agents on the ground keep finding, though, is that the costs most likely to derail those purchases never appear in the listing ...
Most people thinking about Orlando real estate are focused on the suburbs, the master-planned communities, the new construction corridors, the areas that boomed when remote workers flooded in from the Northeast. Downtown Orlando has largely been left out of that conversation. The urban core has struggled, and investors have been reluctant to commit capital to ...
Florida’s insurance market has scared off plenty of would-be buyers in recent years, and Naples is no exception. Stories of skyrocketing premiums and dropped policies have created a widespread belief that insuring a home on the Gulf Coast is either unaffordable or not worth the trouble. Agents working the Naples market are pushing back hard ...
A few years ago, making an offer on a Florida condo meant reviewing the listing, scheduling a showing, and negotiating a price. Today, buyers are asking for the association’s budget, the latest financial statements, and a structural integrity report – before they even submit an offer. That change is real and accelerating, according to Denis ...
