In much of coastal Florida, rising insurance costs and storm damage have slowed buyer activity and left damaged properties sitting unrepaired. In Sarasota County, something different is happening: nearly half of all transactions are cash, according to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX Alliance Group in Sarasota, who has worked the market ...
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Florida’s insurance costs have become one of the loudest reasons people cite for avoiding the state’s housing market. The concern is real – premiums have climbed sharply, and flood zone designations have made some properties genuinely difficult to insure at any reasonable price. But builders and contractors working in the market point to a distinction ...
Out-of-town buyers who purchased older barrier-island homes during the COVID boom are discovering that renovation costs and flood-compliance requirements make their properties nearly impossible to improve economically. Florida’s barrier islands have long attracted buyers drawn to waterfront access and established neighborhoods. But a federal regulation that many buyers overlook is reshaping the economics of older ...
Sarasota looks straightforward from a distance: warm weather, beaches, a real downtown, prices that still undercut Tampa and St. Pete. For buyers relocating from out of state, the value case seems obvious. What agents on the ground keep finding, though, is that the costs most likely to derail those purchases never appear in the listing ...
Florida’s coastal luxury market has faced a complicated few years. Between hurricane disruptions, rising insurance costs, and a broader correction from pandemic-era price spikes, many observers have painted a bleak picture for markets like Sarasota. But on the ground, the reality is more layered than the headlines suggest, particularly on the barrier islands, where a ...
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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 ...
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