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 ...
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Low inventory in Greater Rochester has created a common assumption among homeowners: list the house, sit back, and let offers roll in. But agents working the market daily say that thinking is costing sellers real money. Matthew Sharman, team leader of The Sharman Team at Real Broker LLC and one of the top-producing agents in ...
The Greater Rochester, Western New York, and Finger Lakes region rarely makes national real estate headlines. Yet for investors, relocating families, and second-home buyers, this stretch of upstate New York offers opportunities that few markets can match, from lakefront luxury to affordable commuter towns, historic village homes to newly built communities. Understanding it, however, requires ...
Twenty years ago, downtown Rochester faced a stark reality: empty office buildings, little foot traffic, and a struggling urban core. Today, the city boasts 10,000 residential units where there were once just 1,200— a shift that is quietly reshaping commercial real estate across upstate New York. Mercedes Brien, a commercial broker with Yaman Commercial and ...
Mercedes Brien, president of the New York State Commercial Association of Realtors and a commercial broker with Yaman Commercial, says out-of-state investors regularly pass on upstate New York commercial real estate because of the state’s reputation for high taxes, often without understanding what those taxes fund or how they support the fundamentals that make properties ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Second-home buyers searching in Lake Placid, New York, often assume that a higher price means a slower sale. Recent market data tells a different story. According to Chase Jermano of Tina Leonard Real Estate, LLC, two price bands in Lake Placid are moving within weeks, while the ranges on either side of them 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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