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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 ...
Original reporting from other New York markets on the KeyCrew network.
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 ...
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, ...
For most of the past decade, buyers in New York City’s outer boroughs focused first on finding a home they could afford, then figured out how to pay for it. In Queens, that sequence is reversing, according to Jonathan Ettricks, a Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty who works across Queens, Brooklyn, the ...
The New York metro area’s brokerage landscape is in the middle of a consolidation wave that hasn’t fully registered in national headlines. Small independent firms, many still operating out of storefronts in suburban towns, are finding it increasingly difficult to compete on technology, training, and compliance infrastructure against larger operations. According to Joe Moshe, founder ...
In lower Westchester County, New York, the supply-demand imbalance that defined the pandemic-era housing market has not corrected. At the million-dollar price point in White Plains, the county’s urban center, homes are moving in nine to twelve days. The driver is not speculation or pandemic migration. It is a structural relationship between Manhattan’s cost of ...
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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 ...
The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...
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