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Roughly one-third of residential inventory in Manhattan does not sell on its initial listing and instead cycles through multiple brokers, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder and CEO of City Sphere Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Afanasyev attributes the pattern primarily to sellers pricing properties above what the market will ...

Manhattan relocators and first-time buyers are closing on properties in Queens and neighboring boroughs at prices that contradict the assumption that homeownership in New York City is out of reach. That’s true, but only when buyers look past the city’s most expensive zip codes. Most people outside New York City assume buying a home there ...

Buying a home in New York City has long meant one thing financially: go to a bank, get a mortgage, close the deal. But in Queens, a different kind of listing is appearing more often – one where the seller, not a bank, holds the debt. For buyers struggling to qualify for traditional loans while ...

The assumption that New York City homeownership requires seven figures or generational wealth is so entrenched that many buyers never bother to look. But in the outer boroughs, entry-level properties are closing right now at prices that contradict that narrative entirely. Jonathan Ettricks, a Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty, works across Queens, ...

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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