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The national conversation about housing being “stuck” does not map neatly onto every local market. In Tahoe-Truckee, according to Christy Morrison, broker and owner of Home and Slate Real Estate, the divide is more specific: homes in strong locations that have been well maintained are moving, while properties that were overpriced at the start of ...

A common refrain among prospective homebuyers in Southern California is that they have been “priced out.” In San Diego County, that belief is often wrong – not because prices are low, but because assistance programs are far more generous, and far more broadly available, than most buyers realize. According to Angel Ramirez, a real estate ...

Inventory in the South Bay beach cities of Los Angeles County is higher than it was a year ago, according to Susan Murphy, who has spent two decades running the Hoffman Murphy Real Estate Team out of Hermosa Beach, California. That would normally suggest softening conditions and more leverage for buyers. But the additional supply ...

The combination of snow load, seismic, wildfire, and energy requirements means every new home is a luxury product by default – and the market is adjusting accordingly New construction in most mountain resort towns is expensive. In Truckee and North Lake Tahoe, California, the cost of code compliance alone prices out all but the luxury ...

Most cash offers in Marin County don’t come from tech workers carrying suitcases of stock-sale proceeds. They come from parents funding a child’s purchase, or from buyers drawing on personal IRA accounts and securing conventional lending afterward. The distinction matters because the popular narrative – that the Bay Area’s cash-heavy markets are simply a function ...

Some of the most qualified home buyers in Southern California aren’t shopping for homes right now. They’re renting. According to Carly Zamani, founder and broker of zRE Group in Laguna Niguel, California, many homeowners who sold in the past three to four years are now leasing while they wait for mortgage rates to come down. ...

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 ...

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