The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...
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Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...
When buyers from high-cost cities start looking for affordable alternatives, they tend to focus on price. What many underweight, and what real estate professionals working in Birmingham say matters more, is the question of what actually drives the local economy and whether that foundation is likely to hold. Gene Darden, a broker and team leader ...
Across the Southeast, two real estate markets are moving in different directions. Birmingham, Alabama, is absorbing steady demand from corporate relocations and cost-conscious buyers leaving expensive coastal metros. Meanwhile, Florida’s Emerald Coast is working through a surplus of inventory built up during the pandemic years, with prices declining and early signs of renewed investor interest ...
The real estate industry has long struggled with a high failure rate, with nearly 90% of agents leaving the business. For Ricky Carruth, now Chief Housing Analyst at RLTYco and Chief Ambassador of the American Real Estate Association, statistic reflects a deeper issue in how agents are trained to succeed. After losing everything during the ...
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Reliable broadband is now reaching the rural areas around Ocala, and that shift is opening one of Florida’s most affordable and spacious housing markets to remote workers. The change is beginning to reshape which buyers seriously consider rural acreage and horse farm properties. A New Possibility for Remote Workers Remote workers relocating to Central Florida ...
Relocating buyers – especially retirees moving to a new market – often arrive with a clear picture of what they want. That picture can become even stronger with the right guidance, according to Bobby Mathews, Team Leader at BluSkye Group with RE/MAX Foxfire in Ocala, Florida, and the agent’s job is to surface what the ...
Buyers and sellers in Austin, TX have spent the last few years watching home prices adjust after the pandemic-era run-up. Now many of them are asking the same question: is the correction finished, and what does that mean for their next move? According to Kathy Sokolic, co-founder of Mueller Residential Group, the answer depends on ...
Most people buying, selling, or investing in New York real estate now ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini about their deal before they ever speak to a lawyer. According to Alexander Paykin, Esq., founder of Paykin Law, that now describes the majority of clients who come to his firm. Many arrive with an AI-generated strategy already ...
In most Texas housing markets right now, buyers have leverage they have not enjoyed in years. Inventory is up, prices are softening, and seller concessions – credits toward closing costs or interest-rate buydowns – have become a common negotiating tool. But in the luxury corridors west of Dallas, that playbook stops working above a certain ...
In parts of the Midwest where the housing market still favors sellers, a split is emerging that has less to do with location than with condition. Two houses can sit side by side in the same neighborhood, built around the same time, and sell at noticeably different prices. The difference, according to Jean Lewis, who ...
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