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The story of people leaving big cities for Montana took hold during the early 2020s and became familiar shorthand for a certain kind of relocation. What is less understood from outside the state is that the profile of who is arriving in Whitefish has continued to change even as the headline narrative has stayed the ...
The pandemic-era real estate frenzy that swept mountain and resort communities across the American West has largely subsided, and markets like Whitefish, Montana, are now navigating a more measured reality. After years of rapid price appreciation, multiple-offer situations, and record-low days on market, buyers and sellers in Flathead County are recalibrating expectations on both sides ...
Short-term rental (STR) investors are stepping back from residential properties in resort markets as acquisition costs have risen faster than rental income, fundamentally changing the buyer landscape in destinations like Whitefish, Montana. During the pandemic, STR investment drove a surge in buyer activity in resort areas. That thesis of buying properties to generate high rental ...
Experienced buyers in Montana’s Flathead Valley are changing their approach to real estate. Rather than rushing to compete, they are becoming more selective and patient — a clear sign that the urgency of the pandemic-era resort market has faded. In Whitefish, the buyers who know the market best are slowing down. Sonja Burgard, a realtor ...
Montana’s Flathead Valley, once defined by rapid growth and uncertainty during the pandemic, is settling into a more stable and predictable real estate environment. The shift from frenzied buying and price surges to a balanced market is reshaping how buyers and sellers approach transactions in this resort region near Glacier National Park. Sonja Burgard, a ...
Original reporting from other Montana markets on the KeyCrew network.
Many sidelined home buyers share the same strategy: wait for interest rates to fall, then buy. That plan assumes the market will hold still while they wait. In Missoula, Montana, Zach Gratton and Chris Funston of GFG Real Estate argue that assumption is wrong. Buyers waiting for lower monthly payments may face higher prices and ...
The average home in Billings, Montana, now costs around $385,000, and in the view of Damian Forrester, who leads Forrester Group Real Estate, brokered by eXp Realty of Montana, a buyer needs something close to two household incomes to purchase one. New construction starts around $450,000 and climbs from there, putting it out of reach ...
Missoula’s real estate market has more inventory than it has had in five years, yet correctly priced homes are still selling within a week, sometimes with multiple offers. The gap between those outcomes and the listings that sit for months comes down to a single variable that has nothing to do with interest rates, staging, ...
The pace of real estate in Western Montana has slowed noticeably after years of rapid sales and bidding wars. Homes and land that once sold within days are now lingering on the market, sellers are more open to negotiation, and buyers finally have the leverage to make careful decisions. For anyone waiting to buy rural ...
Every year, more Americans trade city life for land, livestock, and a quieter kind of independence. The desire is genuine — but so are the consequences of getting it wrong. Buyers who don’t understand what rural self-sufficiency actually demands can find themselves overextended on a property they can’t maintain, in a location farther from services ...
Supply chain disruptions that began during the pandemic continue to affect rural real estate markets in Western Montana, with brokers reporting ongoing difficulties securing building materials and reliable labor. These persistent challenges are extending project timelines and complicating deals across residential, commercial, and agricultural real estate. Theresa Lunn, Owner and Managing Broker at United Country ...
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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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