The advertised price on a new construction home in Ocala often bears little resemblance to what a buyer actually spends by the time they move in. According to Bobby at RE/MAX Foxfire, a Real Estate Professional with nearly 25 years in the industry, the gap between a builder’s base price and a buyer’s total out-of-pocket ...
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Buyers priced out of South Florida’s coastal markets are increasingly looking inland, and agents working rural Marion County say the migration is real and still building. The pattern is driven by a widening affordability gap: as South Florida home prices rose steeply during and after the pandemic, ownership moved out of reach for buyers who ...
In a real estate environment shaped by elevated interest rates, inflation, and post-pandemic corrections, rural markets are often overlooked. Yet in Marion County, Florida, a quieter but telling story is unfolding, one that offers a useful perspective for investors and professionals watching how smaller, affordable markets absorb economic pressure differently than their urban counterparts. Marion ...
Most buyers start with a home. Square footage, number of bedrooms, kitchen layout. Bobby Mathews starts somewhere else entirely. Mathews is a Broker Associate at RE/MAX Foxfire in Ocala, Florida, and has spent 25 years helping buyers navigate one of the most active 55-plus markets in the country. His view is that in retirement communities, ...
Central Florida’s housing market is caught between cautious buyers, stubborn seller expectations, and insurance costs that quietly eliminate deals before they close. Against this backdrop, a growing number of buyers are turning to an option that has long carried an undeserved stigma: manufactured homes placed on owned land. Jennifer Daniell, broker and owner of J&T ...
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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 ...
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. ...
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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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