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The luxury vacation-home market along Florida’s 30A corridor is splitting into two distinct tiers. Newer, well-built homes in desirable communities are commanding strong prices and attracting buyers quickly. Older homes that need work are sitting. The divergence is reshaping how buyers, sellers, and agents approach a stretch of coastline where every purchase is discretionary. Richard ...
If you own a vacation rental property on Florida’s 30A and manage it yourself from out of state, the regulatory environment in 2026 may be working against you more than you realize. Property managers operating in Walton County describe a compliance landscape designed to rein in bad actors, but one that functionally penalizes any owner ...
Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, a 26-mile stretch of shoreline known as 30A has quietly attracted a different kind of wealth. What was once a regional drive-to destination for families from Atlanta, Nashville, and Birmingham has become a legitimate luxury investment market, with properties now trading at values comparable to Palm Beach or Aspen. For Bob ...
Across the Southeast, two real estate markets are moving in different directions. Birmingham, Alabama, is absorbing steady demand from corporate relocations and cost-conscious buyers leaving expensive coastal metros. Meanwhile, Florida’s Emerald Coast is working through a surplus of inventory built up during the pandemic years, with prices declining and early signs of renewed investor interest ...
Original reporting from other Florida markets on the KeyCrew network.
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. ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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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