In New Orleans, insurance costs are high, and homes are old. As Richard Hébert puts it, every house has “had a termite walking through it as a resident at one point.” Many sellers respond by playing down a home’s problems. Hébert, a luxury real estate advisor with Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty in New Orleans, says ...
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Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...

Ask a New Orleans resident where the next up-and-coming neighborhood is, and you’ll likely get several different answers. Still, a handful of areas across the metro are drawing increasing attention at open houses, among investors, and from locals seeking value. These are the places where new development, business openings, and a sense of renewed energy ...

M Square Commercial’s Brittany Megrath on how rising costs are reshaping retail development strategy Commercial real estate developers face a straightforward problem in 2025: land costs, construction expenses, and capital access all increased simultaneously while single-tenant economics became increasingly challenging. The solution emerging across multiple markets involves splitting costs between two tenants rather than one, ...

Stephen Keighery’s journey from scaling an Australian tech company to revolutionizing distressed property investment in Louisiana reveals how systems thinking can humanize an industry – and rebuild communities one house at a time. Most real estate investors see distressed properties as transactions. Stephen Keighery sees them as complex human problems waiting for systematic solutions. This ...

A former tech company founder who successfully scaled and took public an Australian marketplace platform is applying those same growth principles to build a rapidly expanding real estate operation across the American South. The Scalability Blueprint “The trick to scale was to start to make yourself redundant,” says Stephen Keighery, Founder of Home Buyer Louisiana, ...

Stephen Keighery began his career far from the bayous of Louisiana. Originally from Australia, he was a founding partner at hipages Group, a two-sided marketplace that connected contractors with homeowners. That early experience in tech laid the groundwork for a striking pivot. Today, as the founder of Home Buyer Louisiana, Keighery is applying his marketplace ...
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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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