The story of people leaving big cities for Montana took hold during the early 2020s and became familiar shorthand for a certain kind of relocation. What is less understood from outside the s...
The balance of power in Northern Colorado’s housing market has tilted toward buyers, and sellers are feeling it. Buyers are arriving at the table more prepared than ever, and what they...
When a housing market loses its outside buyers, prices feel it. That is the situation unfolding in Topanga Canyon right now, where a series of disruptions over the past two years has filtere...
First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hop...
Thousands of people relocate to Florida every year without a clear picture of what owning a home there actually costs, and the gap between expectation and reality can be expensive. The stick...
Scroll through any real estate site in South Florida right now, and you will see a growing number of properties flagged as pre-foreclosure or carrying a lis pendens notice, a legal filing in...
The East Bay housing market is not one market right now; it is two, and they are behaving like strangers. At the high end, buyers with strong stock portfolios are spending freely, pushing sa...
If you’re a buyer in the Boston area counting on new housing supply to bring prices down or at least slow their climb, the wait may be longer than you think. The reason has less to do ...
In a county with roughly 1.9 million taxable parcels, the vast majority of homeowners never challenge their assessed value. Property tax attorneys in the Chicago area say that inaction is fa...
If you own an older home in the Jacksonville or St. Augustine area and are thinking about a major renovation – expanding for a growing family, adapting for aging in place, or updating a pr...
In New York’s Capital Region, a growing number of home buyers are making a choice that would seem counterintuitive in most markets: voluntarily signing up for an eight- to ten-month wa...
When a housing market softens, the instinct is to blame prices. Sellers priced too high. Buyers can’t afford current levels. Cut the price, move the home. But agents working the Fort P...
In most housing markets, the home that sold down the street gives you a reasonable sense of what yours might fetch. In Greater Boston right now, that logic has broken down. Two nearly identi...
A year or two ago, almost anything listed in Jupiter or Palm Beach Gardens sold fast. Today, agents working those zip codes describe a market that has split cleanly in two: turnkey homes sti...
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,...
