Residential Real Estate

The pitch sounds irresistible: buy a condo near the coast, furnish it, find a tenant who stays three to six months, and collect rent while you do almost nothing. That story circulates widely...

The wood-frame, stucco-clad homes that dominate Southern California residential construction burned by the thousands last year. Concrete does not burn. The technology that once made concrete...

In parts of the eastern Coachella Valley, parcels that look like obvious development opportunities on paper are worth far less than their location suggests – because they cannot be connect...

Younger home buyers have more information at their fingertips than any generation before them. But in the Coachella Valley’s eastern communities, that information – particularly inst...

Unincorporated land with minimal zoning restrictions, relatively affordable lots, and a creative culture that celebrates architectural experimentation, on paper, the Southern California high...

The instinct when relocating is to buy immediately, lock in a home, plant roots, get settled. In the Dallas-Fort Worth market right now, the smarter move for out-of-state buyers is the oppos...

In some of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods, the person bidding against you for an older home is not another family. It is an investor who plans to tear the house down and build ...

Many first-time buyers in New Jersey delay purchasing for years because they believe they need 20 percent down. According to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who se...

Across Los Angeles County, the conversation around housing affordability has settled into a familiar shape: rents keep climbing, and the leap to homeownership feels further out of reach with...

Most first-time home buyers in the East Bay focus on one number: the purchase price. But in a market where home prices remain well above national averages, the monthly payment, and specifica...

Mountain real estate in Colorado’s Summit County has long carried a reputation as a stable store of value: limited land, world-class ski resorts, and steady demand from wealthy second-...

The model homes dotting Austin’s northern suburbs come with rate buy-downs, closing cost credits, and move-in-ready kitchens. But the purchase price often hides at least three costs th...

In some of the most desirable neighborhoods in Concord and Salisbury, North Carolina, homes are sitting on the market, not because they’re overpriced, but because the buyers who want t...

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, sha...

In a market where well-maintained homes attract offers within days of listing, a different category of property is quietly stacking up unsold in Ocean County, New Jersey: houses that need wo...