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Steve Marcinuk
23 May 2026

The Pensacola, Florida, real estate market occupies an unusual position heading into mid-2026. While national headlines focus on affordability pressures and rate-driven hesitation, this Gulf Coast city benefits from a permanent military presence, steady vacation demand, and a growing population of buyers priced out of the rental market. For agents working here daily, the ground-level ...

Steve Marcinuk
27 Mar 2026

Every real estate market comes with a built-in excuse. Rates are too high. Inventory is too low. The rules just changed. It’s easy to look outward when business is hard — but the agents who build lasting careers never do. Across five decades of shifting markets, the ones who last share one trait: they stopped ...

Heather Hook
13 Mar 2026

In a recent Beyond the Build podcast conversation, Florida West EDA’s Chris Platé reveals the site selection process, infrastructure priorities, and strategic focus areas positioning Escambia County for transformational growth. Chris Platé didn’t come to Pensacola as a tourist. After nearly 30 years leading economic development initiatives responsible for over 7,000 manufacturing jobs and $5 ...

Heather Hook
27 Feb 2026

In a recent Beyond the Build podcast conversation, Jennifer Conoley reveals how Florida’s Great Northwest leverages military talent pipelines and strategic collaboration to attract aerospace and maritime investments When Jennifer Conoley became President and CEO of Florida’s Great Northwest in March 2020, she took on an unusual challenge: coordinating economic development across 13 counties stretching ...

Aggressive financing and bundled perks from production builders are creating a growing problem in mid-market residential real estate, trapping recent buyers in homes they cannot resell at market value. According to one Pensacola-area agent, this challenge is especially acute in the $300,000 to $400,000 segment, where production builders dominate, and their incentives distort the normal ...

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Janine Rodrigues
22 Oct 2026

Reliable broadband is now reaching the rural areas around Ocala, and that shift is opening one of Florida’s most affordable and spacious housing markets to remote workers. The change is beginning to reshape which buyers seriously consider rural acreage and horse farm properties. A New Possibility for Remote Workers Remote workers relocating to Central Florida ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
22 Oct 2026

Buyers considering waterfront property anywhere in Florida tend to treat insurance as a dealbreaker before they have priced it. Along the Gulf Coast’s barrier islands, agents say the difference between an alarming quote and a manageable one often comes down to something surprisingly simple: whether the buyer contacts a national carrier or a local insurer ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
21 Oct 2026

Buyers assume a barrier island in hurricane-prone Southwest Florida must be one of the most expensive places to insure a home. On at least one island near Placida, Florida, the opposite may be closer to the truth – and the reason comes down to elevation and flood zone classification, not marketing. Robin Madden, owner of ...

Heather Hook
21 Oct 2026

The pandemic-era self-storage construction boom created a distinctive opportunity in secondary and tertiary markets: a fresh supply of newer facilities whose performance depends closely on how well their scale aligns with the local population. According to Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers, a pattern he has encountered repeatedly involves 100,000 square feet of ...

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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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