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Heather Hook
18 Sep 2026

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 ...

Heather Hook
18 Sep 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jun 2026

The narrative around Florida’s coastal real estate has been dominated by alarm in recent years, rising insurance costs, hurricane damage, condo assessment crises, and departing residents. But on the ground in Pinellas County, the picture is more layered than the headlines suggest. For investors and buyers paying attention, the current moment in Tampa Bay’s beach ...

KeyCrew
15 Jul 2024

Times like these require Technology like This! LivePad featured on Think Bigger Real Estate LivePad inventor discusses how this client-first PropTech innovation helps both homebuyers and real estate agents adjust to the impending paradigm shift. LivePad provides an Unforgettable experience for home buyers!”— Stephanie Peck, Pex Realty Group CLEARWATER, FL, USA, July 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ ...

Heading into 2025, analysts were nearly unanimous: falling interest rates and growing inventory would finally hand first-time buyers their moment. Starter homes under $300,000 would move fast. The entry-level market would boom. It did — just not where anyone expected. Site-built starter homes are sitting. Meanwhile, manufactured housing communities in Phoenix and Largo, Florida are ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Sep 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
03 Sep 2026

By September 28, 2026, Florida must submit its recommended list of Opportunity Zone census tracts to the U.S. Treasury, according to Frances Kern Mennone, Managing Director of Industry Consultants & Advisors at FBT Gibbons, an AmLaw 200 law firm with offices in Cincinnati and Naples. Once finalized, the map stays fixed for a full decade. ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
02 Sep 2026

The conventional wisdom about Orlando’s real estate market, that it’s either cooling off or holding steady, misses what’s actually happening at the neighborhood level. In Lake Nona, a master-planned community in southeast Orlando developed by Tavistock, the market is not moving as one uniform whole. Builder incentives are drawing some buyers toward new construction, while ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
26 Aug 2026

Across Polk County, Florida, days on market have stretched into the 90s and sellers are granting concessions on the majority of transactions. The surface data looks soft. But below $200,000, according to Jen Lay, team leader and listing specialist at The Lay Group with eXp Realty in Lakeland, the market operates under entirely different conditions ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
09 Sep 2026

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, ...

Steve Marcinuk
09 Sep 2026

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jul 2026

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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