South Florida’s residential market has shifted into a buyer’s market, but many sellers have yet to adjust their pricing expectations. Fiona Barone, a REALTOR® with eXp Realty who closed 98 units in the region in 2025, says sellers are still anchored to valuations set during the pandemic’s peak, resulting in longer listing times and stagnant ...
New financing rules and soaring insurance costs are contributing to a steep downturn in South Florida’s resale condominium market, representing a departure from typical cycles and contributing to a valuation crisis that cuts across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. South Florida’s condominium market has seen a 27 percent drop in valuations, according to Fiona ...
Ryan Homes’ entry into Wayne County, Ohio, marked the first time a national builder had launched a large-scale development in the area. Over 21 months, the community sold 91 lots and quickly moved into a second phase, with 17 additional lots already sold. Despite the rapid sales, the influx of new homes has not eased ...
The real estate industry often assumes that buyers can walk through vacant properties and imagine their future lives there. Fiorenza Bilak, Founder and CEO of Stage The Space, LLC, argues this assumption is fundamentally flawed. “Statistically, 83% of the entire world does not have imagination,” Bilak says. “When 83% of your potential buyers are walking ...
New York State is changing its approach to housing affordability, shifting from direct price controls to removing barriers to new construction. According to Jared Antin, Executive Director at Brown Harris Stevens, this marks a significant departure from years of policy focused on regulating what landlords can charge, in favor of addressing the underlying housing shortage. ...
A new wave of migration is reshaping the New York metropolitan real estate market as buyers priced out of Queens increasingly move east to Long Island. Lower home prices and steady demand are fueling what some agents predict could become the nation’s most competitive market by 2026. Grace Folias, owner and team lead at The ...
The deal analysis activity tracked on residential investment platforms reveals clear patterns in where investors direct their attention — and where they do not, according to Abhi Bharatham, co-founder of the comping platform Bricked AI. Most analyses focus on single-family homes and land, with a heavy emphasis on distressed properties priced under $300,000. But Bharatham ...
Affluent families are changing how they buy luxury real estate in the Florida Keys, focusing on properties that serve as shared family assets rather than individual investments to be passed down later. This new approach is reshaping what qualifies as a trophy property, how deals are structured, and which homes command the highest prices, according ...
Florida’s luxury real estate market is facing a new obstacle that is disrupting deals even after contracts are signed: skyrocketing insurance costs. According to Brian Fairweather, Global Real Estate Advisor at ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, insurance premiums are now derailing sales that would have closed smoothly in previous years, especially for waterfront properties in South ...
Real estate agents are increasingly stepping into the role of financial educator, routinely explaining basic mortgage concepts that many buyers lack before entering the market. Amy Marinello, principal broker at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Professional Realty in Northeast Ohio, says this gap in financial understanding has become a consistent feature of transactions rather than an occasional ...
Charleston’s coastal real estate market is exposing buyers to thousands of dollars in unnecessary insurance costs due to a gap in local risk knowledge, according to a longtime specialist who says national insurance providers routinely overcharge by relying on broad risk assumptions rather than property-level details. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
While much of the United States has moved into buyer-friendly territory, Bergen County stands out as an exception. Despite rising inventory and lower transaction volumes, this part of Northern New Jersey continues to favor sellers, a dynamic that runs counter to national headlines. Across most U.S. markets, well-established patterns hold: higher interest rates usually lead ...
Charleston’s historic real estate market is operating under conditions that diverge from broader national trends. While luxury housing markets in other cities have seen prices fluctuate with interest rates and economic uncertainty, Charleston’s historic properties are holding their value and rarely appraise below the contract price. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
Florida has introduced a financial incentive structure for water-conservation technology that is reshaping the economics of residential development and may give the state an edge over other high-growth markets. The combination of density credits and tax incentives is making gray water recycling systems financially attractive to developers, overcoming the construction industry’s usual reluctance to adopt ...
Aggressive financing and bundled perks from production builders are creating a growing problem in mid-market residential real estate, trapping recent buyers in homes they cannot resell at market value. According to one Pensacola-area agent, this challenge is especially acute in the $300,000 to $400,000 segment, where production builders dominate, and their incentives distort the normal ...
