When 60 to 70 percent of buyers in a market are spending accumulated real estate wealth rather than current earnings, the market operates by different rules than national economic indicators suggest. In Santa Barbara, that disconnect between price levels and income-based affordability is not a temporary distortion – it is the market’s defining feature, according ...
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Investors are supposed to dominate the market for distressed and estate properties. They have the cash, the contractor networks, and the tolerance for risk that families typically lack. In Oakland’s East Bay market, that assumption does not hold, according to Delores Johnson, an independent broker who has worked Oakland real estate for 24 years. Probate ...
The economics of building new homes in Southern California have shifted in ways that aren’t visible from a listing page. Development costs for turning raw land into finished lots have more than doubled over the past two decades in parts of the Inland Empire – from roughly $55,000–$60,000 per lot to $110,000–$115,000 – while home ...
The San Francisco Bay Area has long sorted its residents by income bracket, with each city occupying a familiar rung on the pricing ladder. But in Concord – a city of 127,000 in Contra Costa County – that sorting is loosening, according to Ron Melvin, a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty who lives and works ...
For years, luxury buyers in the hills around Los Angeles prioritized views, acreage, and privacy. Insurance was a line item, not a deciding factor. That era appears to be ending. In the West Valley and surrounding fire-prone areas, insurance costs have climbed so steeply – and coverage has become so difficult to secure – that ...
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Small homebuilders in the Raleigh metro area are losing ground at the bottom of the market, and the reason is cost, not demand. Large national homebuilders have a cost advantage that no small operator can match: the purchasing power that comes with building hundreds or thousands of homes a year. For a 15-home-a-year operation competing ...
Buyers in Georgetown, Texas, and across Williamson County have plenty of new construction to choose from right now. According to Realtor Tanya Kerr of T Kerr Property Group, builder incentives are giving new homes a clear edge over many resale listings, but buyers need to look past the advertised monthly payment before deciding. Many buyers ...
Buyers moving to Williamson County usually face the same early decision: Georgetown, Round Rock or Liberty Hill? Realtor Tanya Kerr of T Kerr Property Group in Georgetown, Texas, says Houston is currently the largest source of in-state relocation buyers to the area, while California leads among out-of-state buyers. Their reasons differ. Houston buyers are mostly ...
Six months ago, most data center site conversations in Kansas City started with power and price. Today, says Logan Freeman, managing broker at Midwest CRE Advisors in Overland Park, Kansas, the first question is usually about policy. Since June, a state executive order, a public rejection from Kansas City planners, a wave of local ballot ...
Most data center headlines in Kansas City are about hyperscale. Google leased the entire 920,400-square-foot Building VII at the I-49 Industrial Center in south Kansas City, Missouri, for a hyperscale data center, with move-in expected in January 2027, according to Newmark Zimmer’s third-quarter industrial report. Logan Freeman, managing broker at Midwest CRE Advisors in Overland ...
Narek Arakelyan, Secretary-General of FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation, will attend the 4th International MLS Forum, November 16-17, 2026, at Raffles Istanbul in Istanbul, Türkiye, with a FIABCI delegation. FIABCI’s work with the Global Data Exchange (GDX) is a central focus of this year’s Forum. FIABCI World President Lily Chang will speak at the ...
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