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Alejandra Rodriguez
06 Jul 2026

After years of frenzied seller conditions, Palm Beach County’s residential market has settled into a more measured rhythm, one that rewards preparation, penalizes neglect, and increasingly favors buyers who know how to negotiate. Rising inventory, tighter insurance requirements, and a post-pandemic recalibration of buyer expectations have combined to produce a market that looks far more ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
04 Jun 2026

The Palm Beach County real estate market in mid-2026 looks notably different from the frenzied pandemic years. Inventory levels are rising, buyers are more cautious, and condo valuations are still working through the aftermath of new state reserve regulations. For agents who specialize in the 55-plus community, the result is a market that rewards precision ...

A quiet shift is playing out in Palm Beach County: buyers who can comfortably afford Boca Raton are choosing Delray Beach instead. The reasons say less about Boca’s decline than about what affluent buyers now prioritize, and where the remaining value sits in South Florida’s luxury market. Ruth Valles, a realtor with Beachfront Properties Real ...

If you’ve been shopping for a home in one of South Florida’s active adult communities lately, you may have noticed something strange. Some listings disappear in days. Others sit for weeks with barely a showing. The difference doesn’t always track with price or size. The split comes down to building type and the financial obligations ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
01 Jun 2026

After years of pandemic-driven demand and rapidly rising prices, Florida’s real estate market has entered a more measured phase. In Palm Beach County, that cooling is evident in longer days on market, price reductions across several submarkets, and buyers taking their time. For agents working this market daily, the ground-level picture is more nuanced than ...

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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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