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In most housing markets, a small shift in mortgage rates changes a monthly payment by a manageable amount. In Orange County, California, where typical purchase prices run well above a million dollars, that same quarter-point shift moves payments by hundreds of dollars a month. According to Jordan Bennett, team lead of Jordan Bennett & Associates ...
Orange County’s residential real estate market has held its value through cycles that punished other Sun Belt markets. But beneath that headline stability, a structural split is forming between single-family homes and condominiums, two segments that used to move in rough tandem. Well-priced single-family listings still draw multiple offers and sell above asking. Condos, meanwhile, ...
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The gap between turnkey and deferred-maintenance properties in Southern California’s coastal markets has always existed, but in Long Beach it is becoming the defining factor in how quickly a home sells, or whether it sells at all. With mortgage rates elevated and affordability compressed, buyers are concentrating their bids on homes that need no work, ...
Among Southern California’s beach communities, Long Beach occupies an unusual position. While comparable coastal neighborhoods in Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach, or Laguna Beach price most buyers out at $3 million to $10 million for homes near the water, Long Beach still offers beach-adjacent properties in the $1.5 million to $2.5 million range, according to Rick ...
Original reporting from other California markets on the KeyCrew network.
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. ...
El Segundo, California, sits just south of Los Angeles International Airport – a municipality of roughly 17,000 residents in a single zip code. The city has adopted mixed-use and residential overlays meant to open the door to new housing, but little has been built under them. Interest rates climbed almost as soon as the city ...
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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 ...
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