Extreme inventory scarcity is producing a behavioral change among buyers in Wayne, New Jersey, one that is altering negotiating dynamics, lowering purchase standards, and exposing newer agents to a market they are not equipped to navigate. There is a well-documented economic story behind Passaic County’s housing crunch: too few homes, too many buyers, and interest ...
While housing markets across the country have cooled under the weight of elevated interest rates and rising inventory, Vermont’s residential market continues to appreciate. The state’s constrained supply and quality-of-life-driven buyer base are producing outcomes that diverge from nearly every national trend and that gap appears to be widening. Vermont Buyers Aren’t Chasing Rates, They’re ...
New homes are going up across Monmouth County, New Jersey, but they are not putting a dent in the area’s persistent housing shortage. Kyle Golden, a Realtor at CENTURY 21 Thomson & Co., says the county’s supply problem is not a temporary market cycle but a permanent land constraint that new construction cannot meaningfully overcome, ...
Most American cities follow a predictable economic distribution. Santa Fe, according to one long-tenure market observer, does not, and that structural anomaly has direct consequences for who can buy, who gets priced out, and why the upper tier of the market keeps expanding. An Inverted Distribution Chris Webster, CEO and publisher of Leading Estates of ...
The mortgage rate lock narrative has become a catch-all explanation for tight inventory, but on-the-ground evidence suggests it applies to a far narrower slice of the market than conventional wisdom assumes. The rate-lock story has become one of the most repeated explanations in residential real estate: millions of homeowners are sitting on 2.5% and 3% ...
Hurricane Sandy’s rebuild cycle didn’t just repair a coastal market — it replaced it with a fundamentally different one, and the effects on pricing, inventory, and investment opportunity are still unfolding more than a decade later. When Hurricane Sandy struck the New Jersey Shore in 2012, it left behind a landscape of damaged and destroyed ...
In competitive markets where homes sell in under a week, and buyers routinely bid above asking price, a friction point is emerging that neither buyers nor sellers can fully control: the appraisal. According to Paula Koontz, Team Lead and Realtor at The Koontz Team, Keller Williams Classic Properties Realty, appraisal shortfalls are becoming one of ...
As major carriers exit California’s market and the FAIR Plan becomes the default for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, the gap between insurance payouts and actual reconstruction costs has widened into a structural crisis for disaster recovery. California’s insurance market has been deteriorating for nearly a decade, according to Kevin Cox, CEO and founder of ...
Buyers’ appetite for major renovation projects in Manhattan’s luxury townhouse market has narrowed sharply, as project timelines and contractor costs have stretched far beyond what buyers are willing to absorb. The calculus around buying a townhouse in need of significant work has changed dramatically. What was once considered a straightforward value-add opportunity has become a ...
Rising property taxes in Vermont are compounding an already severe affordability crisis, creating a two-sided squeeze that is pricing young buyers out of ownership while forcing landlords to raise rents — leaving an entire generation with no affordable path in either direction. A Crisis Within a Crisis The national conversation about housing affordability tends to ...
With 361 residential sales above $10 million recorded in 2025, South Florida’s ultra-luxury segment is running at roughly twice the pace of five years ago — and the buyer profile bears little resemblance to the speculative market that collapsed in 2008. The “Bubble” Narrative Outside South Florida, the reaction to Miami-area luxury prices is often ...
Everyone assumes the most desirable, move-in-ready homes in Florida are flying off the market. And sometimes they are. But a quieter pattern is emerging — one where dated, overlooked, and inherited properties are finding buyers faster than many polished listings, and where sellers who expected top dollar are watching their homes sit for months. Rising ...
There’s a reason real estate investors keep running into the same problem in Rockland County, New York: there’s almost nothing left to buy at a bargain. The county is small, nearly fully developed, and packed with buyers who want to live there, not flip it. That dynamic has created one of the most persistently competitive ...
If you own a rental property in Phoenix — or you’re thinking about buying one — the market today looks very different from even a year ago. Rents are down in some neighborhoods, vacancies are up, and landlords are offering concessions to fill units. But the picture varies depending on where you are and what ...
Drive through almost any downtown in America right now, and you’ll spot them — big office buildings with dark windows, empty parking garages, and “For Lease” signs that have been up for years. What’s surprising is what’s happening inside some of them. Architects and developers are turning these forgotten towers into apartments, schools, and condos ...
