Cape Coral, Florida, spent much of 2024 and early 2025 working through one of the more significant price corrections in the country following the COVID-era boom. Insurance headlines, hurricane recovery costs, and national builders scaling back incentives all contributed to a difficult environment for the region. Yet for some mid-sized builders willing to stay disciplined ...
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After nearly two years of falling prices driven by Hurricane Ian, rising insurance costs, and higher interest rates, Cape Coral’s housing market has found its floor. Prices corrected roughly 18.5% from their pandemic peak before stabilizing in mid-2025, according to Jeffrey Kershner, President and CEO of SunLife Homes, a regional builder completing around 210 homes ...
Southwest Florida’s housing market has cooled significantly since the pandemic-era boom. In communities like Lehigh Acres and Cape Coral, rising inventory, higher interest rates, and layered costs have handed buyers more leverage while forcing sellers to cut prices and offer concessions. For buyers and sellers alike, the ground-level reality is more complex than regional statistics ...
In Florida’s Cape Coral, a 1978 ranch with brown siding sits next to a brand-new build with gray modern finishes. Both are priced similarly, but the new construction is very likely the one that will sell first. The reason comes down, at least partly, to supply. Cape Coral’s vast inventory of buildable lots — roughly ...
Media headlines calling Cape Coral the worst housing market in America have sparked concern. Still, local real estate leader James Sommers, Team Leader at James Sommers Team, says these narratives overlook key facts about how the market is actually functioning. Instead of a collapse, Sommers sees Cape Coral returning to pre-pandemic sales activity, with transactions ...
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While luxury condos and Class A multifamily properties dominate Miami’s real estate headlines, a different investment strategy is generating stronger returns for investors in the region. Lawrence Resnick is a Realtor at The Paz Group who focuses on commercial and multifamily transactions across Miami-Dade and Broward County. He says the properties producing the best yields ...
Focusing each showing day on a manageable number of properties helps clients make their strongest decisions at the most critical moment of the purchase process. How Focused Showings Support Better Decisions In residential real estate, the instinct to show buyers as many properties as possible is deeply ingrained. More options signal thoroughness, and a packed ...
A pending ballot measure could meaningfully lower property tax obligations for Florida homeowners, strengthening the state’s financial appeal for out-of-state buyers already considering a move. A Tax Story Worth Sharing Florida’s reputation as a low-tax destination rests on one well-known fact: the state has no income tax. That advantage has fueled migration for years, particularly ...
Demand in northern New Jersey does not soften evenly. It softens at the edges first, according to Julia Gaffney, team lead of Elevate Real Estate Group at Keller Williams Prosperity Realty. Counties closest to New York City remain fiercely competitive, but further out, in Sussex and western Passaic County, inventory is climbing, open houses are ...
Ultra-luxury real estate has kept outperforming the broader housing market: luxury properties outperformed the broader housing market in 2025 and are expected to maintain that momentum as wealth creation, buyer demographics, and global mobility continue to reshape demand. South Florida alone recorded 361 residential property sales above $10 million in 2025, the highest total since ...
Six months ago, Vero Beach’s barrier island market was still absorbing a pricing correction that had brought values 20 to 30 percent off their peaks. That correction has now translated into transaction volume that few coastal Florida markets are matching. Single-family closings in the 32963 zip code rose 27.9 percent in the first seven months ...
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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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