Let Us Help:1 (855) CREW-123
KeyCrew Journal Logo
Rudi Davis
17 Oct 2025

A striking shift is occurring in Atlanta’s urban housing market, according to staging expert Topher Fuller of Linden Creek. The city’s younger buyers are driving demand for stark, minimalist designs that challenge traditional staging approaches. “They love the brutalist and minimalist styles,” Fuller says of Gen Z buyers. “We’re seeing a lot of that, like ...

Rudi Davis
15 Oct 2025

Military families relocating to Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base are increasingly looking 45 minutes north to Hernando County, where housing costs can be cut nearly in half, according to local military relocation specialist Victoria Perez of Tropic Shores Realty. “You can find a beautiful home between three and $400,000 in Hernando County. You could even ...

Rudi Davis
15 Oct 2025

Churches across Southern California are discovering an unexpected solution to their challenges: their own parking lots and unused land. According to Martin Porter, Founder and CEO of Logos Faith Development, this real estate represents an opportunity to simultaneously address multiple community needs while securing their own financial future. “Churches want to be a part of ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

Housing costs have reached unprecedented levels of unaffordability, with today’s buyers facing a dramatically different market than previous generations, according to real estate entrepreneur Kent Keirsey, Co-Founder of Acre Homes. “In the 1970s if you’re going to go buy a home, you would spend on average, the average home price was 1.9 times the average ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

The trend toward delayed homeownership could have serious societal implications beyond just housing markets, according to Kent Keirsey, Co-Founder of Acre Homes, who points to research showing broad benefits of property ownership. “People that own their homes, they’re more likely to vote, they’re more likely to invest in communities. They’re certainly more likely to take ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

Looking ahead, Gerke believes this renovation opportunity could become increasingly attractive as limited land availability continues to constrain new luxury development in the most desirable areas. The key, she suggests, is finding buyers willing to see past dated finishes to recognize the potential value in these properties. While many luxury home buyers in Northeast Florida’s ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

The Alexandria rental market is experiencing an unexpected surge in competition, with smaller units emerging as particularly hot commodities, according to local real estate expert Hope Peele of the Peele Group at Corcoran McEnearney. “Rentals right now are actually surprisingly very competitive,” Peele says. “We’re seeing applicants apply to multiple places just because landlords are ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

Julie Schechter, Partner at Fox Rothschild, warns that many New York City building boards are dangerously underestimating the timeline needed to meet 2030 climate mobilization requirements, potentially setting themselves up for financial strain and compliance challenges. The False Comfort of 2030 “Boards sitting on their hands saying ‘the next regulation deadline is 2030, we’ve got ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

Sacramento real estate veteran Johnny Jennings is challenging conventional wisdom about real estate decision-making, advocating for an ‘even if’ approach rather than the traditional ‘what if’ mindset that he says leaves buyers vulnerable in uncertain markets. The Even-If Framework “Don’t make decisions based on what if, what if prices go down, what if interest rates ...

Rudi Davis
07 Oct 2025

The path to success in today’s real estate market lies in viewing other agents as potential partners rather than rivals, according to veteran East Bay broker Debbi DiMaggio of Corcoran Icon Properties, who says relationship-building has been key to her 35-year career. The Power of Professional Networks “Real estate agents are colleagues, not competitors,” DiMaggio ...

Rudi Davis
06 Oct 2025

Sacramento real estate leader Johnny Jennings says the traditional ‘three P’s’ approach to selling homes, ‘put a sign in the yard, put it on MLS, and pray,’ is failing sellers in today’s market, leading his team to develop an aggressive proactive marketing strategy that’s changing how properties are sold. Beyond Passive Marketing “We take it ...

Rudi Davis
06 Oct 2025

A Texas developer is challenging traditional measures of master-planned community success, arguing that human-centric metrics may be better indicators of long-term value than conventional financial benchmarks. “Traditional developers measure by price per front foot, average sales price, or absorption rates,” says Mike Miller, Executive Vice President of Real Estate at Red Oak Development Group. “We ...

Rudi Davis
06 Oct 2025

The expectations of luxury home buyers in the East Bay have fundamentally shifted, according to veteran real estate broker Debbi DiMaggio of Corcoran Icon Properties, who says today’s buyers want both Instagram-worthy aesthetics and completely updated infrastructure, a combination rarely found in the area’s historic housing stock. The New Buyer Profile “The new buyer profile ...

Rudi Davis
06 Oct 2025

Suburban master-planned communities need a radical rethink to serve today’s diverse homebuyers, according to Mike Miller, Executive Vice President of Real Estate at Red Oak Development Group, who argues the industry remains stubbornly focused on outdated housing models. “80% of the home buyer pool out there is actually not your traditional nuclear family,” Miller says, ...

Rudi Davis
06 Oct 2025

The luxury real estate market has shifted decisively in buyers’ favor, according to Atlanta broker Keianna Williams, who says traditional marketing approaches are no longer sufficient for moving high-end properties. Market Shift Demands New Strategies “I definitely believe it’s a buyer’s market, the luxury market. It’s one of those areas in real estate where the ...