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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Borrowers shopping for a mortgage tend to compare interest rates first, treating the lowest number as the best deal. But that instinct can backfire when a lower rate requires thousands of dollars in upfront fees to secure – fees that many homeowners never recoup before they sell. Sam Verma, who founded Cohivra, Inc., a mortgage ...
Tracy, California, has built its housing market on a simple bargain: drive an hour to a Bay Area job, get twice the house for half the price. But that bargain is under pressure. Interest rates have climbed, the broader economy has softened, and the rising cost of gasoline and diesel has made long commutes harder ...
Buyers evaluate a home based on what exists right now – the school down the road, the fire station response time, the condition of the nearest interchange. But in fast-growing small counties, what the local government is building today may matter more to long-term property values than anything visible on a drive-through. In New Kent ...
In a city where home values climbed sharply during the pandemic, some Austin agents are now telling sellers to stay off the market. The advice runs against the industry’s transactional incentives, but the logic is direct: in several Austin price ranges, the buyer pool has thinned enough that listing now risks closing below purchase price. ...
A self-employed borrower whose business deposits fifty thousand dollars a month can look, on a conventional mortgage application, like someone earning three thousand. That gap between actual cash flow and qualifying income is pushing business owners in the Chicago area out of the mortgage market entirely – not because they lack the money, but because ...
The path to a first home in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs has always required compromise. But the gap between what younger buyers want and what they can actually afford has stretched to a point where many are simply not buying, according to Karen Wydra, a 25-year residential agent with Ebby Halliday working the Garland and ...
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