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Most commercial real estate investors still treat Arkansas as a flyover state. The numbers suggest otherwise: office, retail, and industrial properties across the state are running at 3 to 6% vacancy across most asset classes, according to Bryce Richardson, president of commercial sales at Brick Real Estate in Faulkner County, Arkansas. National office vacancy hovered ...
Commercial real estate investors typically pay a premium for stabilized properties: fully renovated, fully leased, and requiring no immediate capital expenditure. In central Arkansas, that logic has flipped. Properties that need work are moving faster than those that don’t, according to Bryce Richardson, president of commercial sales at Brick Real Estate in Faulkner County, Arkansas, ...
Most renters in Little Rock are waiting for mortgage rates to drop before they consider buying. What they are not calculating is what that wait is actually costing them every month. Jerry Larkowski, Managing Broker at ESQ. Realty Group, LLC in Little Rock, is a dual-licensed attorney and broker who works with both first-time buyers ...
Northwest Arkansas gets the headlines. Central Arkansas has the infrastructure, the inventory, and the math. Northwest Arkansas reportedly adds more than 200 new residents per week. Anchored by Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. Hunt Transport, the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers corridor appears on nearly every “top markets to watch” list in the country. Growth-rate rankings love it. Investors ...
While most real estate professionals focus on interest rate predictions and inventory shortages, Jerry Larkowski sees a different dynamic on the horizon: a massive wave of commercial real estate debt about to come due, and he believes savvy investors who understand the landscape will find significant opportunities over the next 18 months. Larkowski, Executive Broker/REALTOR® ...
Original reporting from other Arkansas markets on the KeyCrew network.
First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hoping conditions will ease soon may be waiting a long time. Emily Walter, executive broker and team lead at The Emily Walter Team under RE/MAX Elite, has ...
Arkansas rarely makes headlines in national real estate conversations, but in Conway, a mid-sized city about 30 miles north of Little Rock, the dynamics playing out offer a clear window into challenges facing supply-constrained markets across the country. With buildable land nearly exhausted, insurance costs climbing, and an estimated housing deficit of nearly 1,000 units, ...
California’s housing market highlights the challenges first-time homebuyers face. In the 1990s, Josh Lewis, owner of BuyWise Mortgage and host of The Educated Home Buyer podcast, closed his first purchase loan for a $40,000 condominium in Anaheim. Today, similar properties sell for $700,000 to $900,000. This price increase has forced mortgage professionals like Lewis to ...
The Arkansas River Valley isn’t the kind of place that shows up in national real estate headlines. Clarksville, the region’s commercial hub, has a population of around 9,500. Johnson County, which surrounds it, is home to roughly 40,000 to 50,000 people. Homes sell in the low-to-mid six figures. Everyone knows everyone. Matthew Hurst has been ...
The real estate market in Conway, Arkansas, illustrates the challenges and adjustments now facing fast-growing communities across the country. As one of Arkansas’s most active housing markets, Conway has experienced a noticeable slowdown, with buyers and sellers adapting to new realities after years of rapid growth. Richard Henley, broker at ERA TEAM Real Estate and ...
Younger buyers are delaying homeownership longer than prior generations, creating ripple effects that threaten market stability in growing mid-size cities. In Conway, Arkansas, one of the state’s fastest-growing cities, first-time buyers once made up nearly half of all home sales. Over the past 18 months, that share has dropped sharply, according to Richard Henley, broker ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...
The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...
In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...
For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...
The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...
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