In parts of the Midwest where the housing market still favors sellers, a split is emerging that has less to do with location than with condition. Two houses can sit side by side in the same neighborhood, built around the same time, and sell at noticeably different prices. The difference, according to Jean Lewis, who ...
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In small towns where the housing stock is old and buyers are stretching to qualify, a deal’s success often depends on whether the seller is willing to pitch in on repairs. In Chester, Illinois, a Randolph County town where most homes were built decades ago and new construction is scarce, that willingness is now the ...
Rising home prices are often blamed on mortgage rates. In Chicago’s western suburbs, the bigger driver is a shortage of homes for sale. Buyers there have spent roughly two years competing for a limited supply of listings, according to Chris Pequet, a broker with Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty. Pequet has worked mainly in the area’s ...
Inventory on the Metro East side of St. Louis has nearly doubled in the past year, climbing from roughly 1.6 months of supply to between 2.3 and 2.5 months, according to Jean Lewis, who has worked the Metro East market for 29 years with Jean Lewis Homes at Keller Williams Pinnacle. Yet well-priced homes in ...
A decade ago, first-time buyers in Chicago’s southwest suburbs were often younger and willing to fix up a home in exchange for a lower price. That buyer has largely disappeared. Ellen Williams is a residential agent with Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group in downtown Plainfield, Illinois. She says today’s first-time buyers are noticeably older and ...
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Growth and market health are not the same thing, and Brunswick County, North Carolina, shows the difference. The county keeps adding residents at one of the fastest rates in the country: its population grew 4.7% between 2024 and 2025, the fastest pace in North Carolina and sixth-fastest nationally, adding nearly 8,000 people. Yet the coastal ...
For Brian Rudderow, the case against single-family wholesaling came down to what the work cost him relative to what it paid. His wholesale margins have thinned, seller expectations remain high, and squatter-occupied properties have added a problem no spreadsheet captures: occupants who stretch timelines, raise the risk, and can consume two months of work for ...
Most of the country’s housing markets have cooled since the pandemic boom. Bradford County, Pennsylvania, has not. More than six years after the pandemic reshuffled housing demand, sellers there still hold the advantage, because the county’s market runs on its own timeline rather than the nation’s. “We are still in a seller’s market and we ...
For years, luxury buyers in the hills around Los Angeles prioritized views, acreage, and privacy. Insurance was a line item, not a deciding factor. That era appears to be ending. In the West Valley and surrounding fire-prone areas, insurance costs have climbed so steeply – and coverage has become so difficult to secure – that ...
When Cambridge removed single-family zoning citywide, headlines split predictably between housing breakthrough and neighborhood teardown. Neither version captures what Ed Feijo, a luxury real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Realty and Team Partner at Gail Roberts who has focused on Cambridge for more than two decades, is seeing on the ground. Development activity has accelerated, ...
Small landlords have held up better than the market around them. Larger investors have pulled back from single-family housing over the past few years, but owners with fewer than 10 purchases have kept buying. According to Realtor.com, they accounted for about 63% of investor home purchases in 2025, the highest concentration in more than 15 ...
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