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Two hours north of New York City, the Catskills and Hudson Valley real estate markets are navigating a quieter chapter after several years of intense activity. The pandemic-era rush that turned small upstate towns into competitive sellers’ markets has given way to a more measured pace, shaped by persistent inventory shortages, elevated interest rates, and ...
Investors looking at upstate New York’s Catskill area as an alternative to the expensive downstate market are arriving with one set of assumptions and finding a different set of facts. The pitch makes sense on paper, lower prices, lower taxes, proximity to New York City. But agents working the market say the gap between what ...
Nearly six years after the pandemic reshaped where Americans choose to live, the Hudson Valley real estate market shows little sign of cooling. Inventory remains thin, prices keep climbing, and buyers from New York City continue arriving in steady numbers. Yet beneath that surface-level strength, a more complex picture is emerging – one in which ...
The Catskills have always had a certain pull – mountain air, open space, a slower pace of life, just two hours from Manhattan. But beyond its lifestyle appeal, this region has quietly become a serious destination for small investors looking to invest in real estate outside expensive city markets. With the post-pandemic frenzy now faded ...
Two hours north of New York City, the Catskill Mountains real estate market is settling into a slower, more deliberate pace. The frenzy of pandemic-era buying has faded, and for agents who have worked this region through multiple cycles, the current conditions feel both familiar and instructive. Elizabeth Alfeld, a broker with Keller Williams Realty ...
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Most small markets have a dominant property type. Angola, a village in Erie County near the southern shore of Lake Erie, has village homes, rural properties with acreage, manufactured homes, and lakefront houses all packed into a radius small enough that a buyer can tour four completely different housing categories in a single afternoon. That ...
Two large-scale municipal bets are converging in Rochester, New York: the city is replacing a mid-century expressway loop that cut downtown off from surrounding neighborhoods, and it is overhauling its entire zoning code and map to better match how properties are actually used. The first effort has already produced visible results. The second is now ...
Most housing markets describe low inventory as a supply problem. In Hartsdale, a small community in lower Westchester County about 30 minutes north of Manhattan by train, the shortage is a turnover problem, according to Rey Hollingsworth Falu, broker at Hollingsworth Real Estate Group. Homeowners who locked in mortgage rates between 2.5% and 3% during ...
New York City’s housing conversation centers on building more. In South Brooklyn, a less visible shift is adding to the complexity of the situation: the small, family-owned landlords who provided the most stable rental housing in these neighborhoods are selling off their properties. What replaces them is not more housing but a different kind of ...
Home buyers in the Jamestown, New York, area are running into an unexpected obstacle in 2026 – and it is not the home inspection. It is the appraisal. According to Heather Shea-Canaley, a licensed real estate agent with ERA Team VP Real Estate in the Jamestown and Chautauqua County area, appraisers have grown noticeably more ...
Six months ago, homes in and around Jamestown, New York were moving fast regardless of price. That’s no longer the case. A clear divide has emerged: properties listed under $150,000 are still attracting quick offers, while homes above that threshold, including rural listings with acreage that would have sold rapidly earlier this year, are sitting ...
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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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